![]() The Wilderness in the Anthropocene seminar provides ACM faculty an opportunity to develop innovative teaching in the areas of interdisciplinary field research and pedagogy. By entering, learning and writing about the Midwest’s one great wilderness - and conversing with those who make their living there - seminar participants will grapple with the question “what is wilderness?” Participants will take part in overlapping interdisciplinary, team-taught modules - in boreal ecology, environmental writing, environmental history, and environmental social science - and will use this experience to augment their classes at their home campuses. Wilderness has not only a biological basis but a long and dynamic history in human thought and art, and is currently a topic of debate for its worth to society. ![]() Others argue that, given the gravity of human impact on the earth, “Nature is dead.” Still, human beings continue to seek out what Thoreau called “the tonic of wildness.” We ask: what places do wilderness, the wild, and nature have in our communities and campuses today? What is the value of wilderness to a liberal arts education? Develop interdisciplinary approaches When every inch of the earth and its climate have been affected by humans, what does “wilderness” mean? Some environmental theorists argue that wilderness itself is a contemporary cultural construction, both a product of modernization and antidote to it. Mollie Oblinger, Associate Professor of ArtĢ017 SAIL Seminar: Wilderness in the AnthropoceneĬoe College Wilderness Field Station, Ely, MN.McKenzie Lamb, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science.Sarah Frohardt-Lane, Assistant Professor of History.Roopali Phadke, Professor of Environmental Studies.Devavani Chatterjea, Associate Professor of Biology. ![]()
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