Basic ideas related to the courses that I teach

Vocabulary one of many pages devoted to words you need to know.

Metaphors are crucial to use and interpret.

What methods are and the means we have to test our assumptions.

A new grammar for our experiences may be necessary to develop a sense of what we are doing.

Undergraduate

The classroom is but an entry to engaging the community.

Graduate

Suburban sprawl in south Florida is undermining water supply and quality.

NRDC, 2002.

Number and title of courses:

Regular offerings
ENV - 260	History of Technology
ENV - 380	Environmental History
ENV - 308	Politics of Climate Change
ENV - 343	History of Science
ENV - 105A	Nature along the Coast
ENV - 205K	Environmental Literacy
ENV - 377	Wilderness and the American Mind
ENV - 206	Caribbean Environmental History
MLS - 530	An Emerging Sense of Place
MLS - 547m	Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
MLS - 605	Milestones of Modern Science

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Course Descriptions:

See an organizational scheme for all my courses here: CORE

Attending Class

General remarks on assignments

Doing really well in classes: a suggestion

Learning styles

Grading scale

Writing is a practice that I encourage.

Subject indexes

Ecology, Population, Charles Darwin, Aldo Leopold, History, Nature, Photographs, Science, Technology, Water, Wilderness, Words

Common elements in all my courses:

Learning

Metaphors

Methods

Visual thinking

Varieties of intelligence

Verities

author index.

sample annotated bibliography.

Writing | Interviews | Free Writing

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Vocabulary one of many pages devoted to words you need to know.

Metaphors are crucial to use and interpret.

What methods are and the means we have to test our assumptions.

A new grammar for our experiences may be necessary to develop a sense of what we are doing.