University of Utah Courses Archive

Join us for the Ecology of Residency course! Now in it’s ninth year, this exciting and challenging course has become a core experience for many Environmental Humanities graduate students. Guided by award-winning author Terry Tempest Williams, this course includes field excursions, intense writing, enlightening group discussions, and powerful sessions with guest speakers set against some of the wildest places in the West.

Students earn 3 credit-hours through completion of an intensive nine-day course. Participants are selected through a competitive application process that includes a 750-word statement of what “Ecology of Residency” means to them, and an online application.

Applications for the 2013 course will be due on May 6, 2013.

For more information: http://www.hum.utah.edu/eh/?pageId=1115

Course Overview: ENVST 5000

Dates: October 3-6

The Environmental and Sustainability Studies Program offers a broad interdisciplinary education.  Students are required to take classes from many different departments and colleges across campus.  This provides students with a great deal of breadth, and exposes them to a multitude of ideas, theories, methodologies, and perspectives.  The great pedagogical challenge for such programs is to provide coherence and an over-arching framework for that diverse learning experience.

The objective of the capstone course is to meet that challenge.  The course will emphasize and critique prevailing theories and models of environmental and sustainability issues, and apply what they have learned in other courses using these models.  Students will also have an opportunity to collectively brainstorm and network as to how to apply concepts and theories and discuss their relevance to their education, their role as responsible citizens, and the job market.  Finally students will complete a project that utilizes their conceptual skills and what they have learned in their courses.

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Exaltation in the Valley is for graduate students in the University of Utah’s Creative Writing Program. It is a “by invitation only” writer’s colony. For information contact Jackie Osherow at j.osherow@hum.utah.edu.