Teaching
When I teach my main goals are for students to see the world a bit differently than before, and to help develop their critical thinking and writing skills. Currently, I teach four different courses.
GES 102: Introduction to Human Geography
GES 328: Environmental Policy
GES 436: Global Environmental Change
GES 428: Environmental Science in Conservation Policy
This last class (GES 428) roughly follows a template for a class on socio-technical controversies designed by Bruno Latour and colleagues. Students collaborate in groups to produce a website that illustrates an unsettled scientific controversy. Below are selected websites from past classes.
Colony Collapse Disorder
Golden Rice
Wolf De-listing
Forest Carbon Sequestration
GM Foods
Corn vs. Switchgrass Ethanol
Geoengineering
Rewilding North America
Fracking
GES 102: Introduction to Human Geography
GES 328: Environmental Policy
GES 436: Global Environmental Change
GES 428: Environmental Science in Conservation Policy
This last class (GES 428) roughly follows a template for a class on socio-technical controversies designed by Bruno Latour and colleagues. Students collaborate in groups to produce a website that illustrates an unsettled scientific controversy. Below are selected websites from past classes.
Colony Collapse Disorder
Golden Rice
Wolf De-listing
Forest Carbon Sequestration
GM Foods
Corn vs. Switchgrass Ethanol
Geoengineering
Rewilding North America
Fracking