Service Activities, Projects

Integrative Seminar in Environmental Studies

Spring 2008, O'Donnell

 

Overview

For this course, you will spend 20-30 hours engaged in a service activity or project related to your area of interest within environmental studies.  You will work with me to arrange your placement with an institution or group, or to design and plan your independent project. 

 

Your activity or project will define your focus for this seminar and will thus be related to the subtitle of the syllabus that you design. 

 

A List of Available Projects and Activites

The following is list of activities and projects available this semester.  We'll discuss these options in class, and you may have some other ideas in mind as well.

 

Conservation

Appalachian Trail Maintenance with Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club

Shady Valley Nature Conservancy.  Contact: Mcqueen

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy  

 

Recreation

Johnson City Parks and Recreation.  Contact: Brad Jones

Bays Mountain Park in Kingsport. 

Roan Mountain State Park -- gaggen, pat

TVA Public Lands Management Office, w/ Aurora Moldovanyi

 

Political activism and public education

Cherokee Forest Voices

Mountain Justice Summer Spring Break

Southwings (you'll arrange for members of ETSU's community to fly over strip mine sites)

Student groups:  I.C.E. (ETSU's Initiative for Clean Energy), Greenpeace chapter?

 

Independent Projects

Coordinating Earth Day

Curating Jean Rasmussen Exhibit of Coal Mining Photos at the Reece Museum