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Students enjoy a break outside Cummings Arts
Center during the biennial conference. (Left to right: Scott
Epstein, Lindsay Kravitz, Daisy Small and Vetri Nathan)
The Goodwin-Niering Center Certificate Program is designed
to enhance the undergraduate experience with a strong concentration
on environmental issues. Available to students in any major, it enables
those who are ready for an additional academic challenge to cultivate
their interest in environmental topics through coursework, an internship
or research experience, and a senior integrative project. It is appealing
to those who wish to blend their interest in the environment with a
non-science major, and will be of particular interest to students planning
careers in environmental policy, law, economics or education. The Center’s goals in creating this opportunity are to educate
an ever-greater number of students about fundamental contemporary environmental
issues and to encourage the integration of environmental themes into
teaching and scholarship across the liberal arts curriculum.
Program Goals:
• Objectively assess and effectively marshal information to understand contemporary environmental problems – assessed with critiques of books, report on an environmental conference, and senior project report.
• Integrate information and concepts about environmental issues from different disciplines and perspectives to achieve a creative and innovative synthesis – assessed with report on an environmental conference and senior project report.
• Understand connections among components of complex environmental systems – assessed with critiques of books, report on an environmental conference, and senior project.
• Develop effective presentations that have high levels of rigor and clarity, and that facilitate dialogue among faculty and students - assessed with oral presentations on internship and senior project.
• Draw connections between practical and theoretical learning – assessed with written and oral reports on internships.
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