Department News
Symposium
Conservation as if People Mattered – Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas Around the Globe and Here at Home
Symposium November 08, 2008
Service Learning in Environmental Studies
Since the Fall of 2000, faculty in eight disciplines have taught a total of twenty-six service learning courses with a combined enrollment of 412 students. Paired with community partners, students have the valuable opportunity of applying learned concepts to real life situations. This past year, six ES courses had service learning components.
Sustainable Awareness and Initiatives
Leading by example, Bowdoin shall integrate environmental awareness and responsibility throughout the College community. Sustainable awareness shall encompass the social causes and consequences of environmental practices in compliance with the common good.
Resources for learning and acting shall be available to the Bowdoin community, including recycling bins, awareness lectures, information centers, and opportunities to become directly involved in environmental protection, such as environmental action committees to advise and monitor activities of the College.
Environmental Studies at Bowdoin reflects the college's recognition that humans must learn to live in harmony with nature and that human activities are dependent upon natural processes. This recognition, coupled with an aspiration to present and future human well-being, provides a critical perspective from which to interpret history, science, politics, law, economy, religion, and the arts. A liberal arts education should promote environmental literacy: an understanding of the world around us - the built and the natural, the local and the global, our role in it, and our effects upon it.
Bowdoin offers a Coordinate Major in Environmental Studies. Students fulfill the requirements for a disciplinary major and also for the ES Coordinate Major. Students choose the combination; Coordinate Majors for the Class of 2001 include Biology/ES, Philosophy/ES, Spanish/ES, Economics/ES, Government/ES, Women's Studies/ES and History/ES. About 45 students per class choose the ES Coordinate Major. Many students integrate off campus study into their major.
For information on the Psi Upsilon Environmental Fellowship >>
Check out the ES Alumni Webpage >>
Maine is a great place to study environmental issues. In addition to a beautiful and ecologically diverse location, Maine also enjoys an environmentally concerned citizenry and a strong network of environmental organizations, both governmental and non-governmental. Many students take advantage of internship and volunteer opportunities, adding a "real world" dimension to their academic program. In addition, many of our classes have a service learning component.
Contact Information
Location: Adams Hall
Program Manager: Eileen Johnson
Phone: (207) 798-7157
Program Assistant: Rosemary Armstrong
Phone: (207) 725-3396
Program Director: Phil Camill
Phone: (207) 721-5149
Program Fax: (207) 725-3989