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This paper is designed to reflect upon the ideas we have discussed throughout our class.
发布时间：2025-08-14
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Course Reflection Presentation/Paper
Length: aim for 1750 words
Due: Completed Version due Sunday April 26 by 11:59pm EST
Learning Objectives
This paper is designed to reflect upon the ideas we have discussed throughout our class.
By writing this paper, we will practice our reflection, planning, drafting, analysis and writing skills.
Project Description
Based on our conversations about ecotheory, the ecological thought, the mesh, and other ideas we have discussed in class, and using Brian Teare’s example of the en plein air drift, this assignment asks you to take an unplanned walk around campus, the nearby area, or around where you live and conspicuously examine your environment, looking for its explicit and implicit connections and manifestations of nature, ecology, the ecological thought and the mesh, in order to consider how nature and ecology begin to appear when we start to look for them.
Specifically:
● go on a drift
● take notes as you go
● take photos as you go
● consider how “Nature” appears when you start to look for it
● think about your own and society’s larger dependence on “nature” (I.E. water, electricity, garbage, etc.)
● In what ways does the mesh and the ecological thought appear when you are
conspicuously looking for it? What happens when we start to see the mesh in our thinking?
● What other connections can you make by conspicuously observing your surroundings (related to Nature or otherwise)? Or, what questions about connections are raised for you? (for example, where things come from or where things go)
● think big and think small
Crowd-sourced course themes and ideas to consider or discuss:
● human impact on nature
○ influence of economics on ecological decisions
○ how people have changed ecosystems
● history of land and environment
● considering your place within ecology and knowledge of environment
● presence of water
● possibility of recovery
● uniqueness or novelty of nonhumans
● balance between humans and nature
● hope vs. apocalypse
● mindset/emotion of thinking about environment and climate change
● scale of climate change: personal vs. societal
● ecological justice
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After you have gone on your drift
● write a short recap based on your excursion (enough to talk about in a 5 min presentation)
● discuss the above questions, and any other thoughts or insights you come up with
● describe and discuss your experience of setting out to write the prompt and your process of composition to the class
● connect any part of this process/experience to specific things we have discussed in class
● Put together a short presentation (approximately 10 slides) OR write an approximately 4 page paper based on your drift, your notes, your photos, and your text
