Program on the Environment News
PoE hosts Autumn “Meet, Greet, Teach" Event on Interdiciplinary Environmental Teaching
Meet, Greet, Teach is an evening series offering graduate students and postdoctoral fellows with an interest in interdisciplinary, environmental education a chance to interact with faculty from across campus who are willing to share their enthusiasm and their experience. Find out more about "Meet, Greet, Teach" by visiting here. "Meet, Greet, Teach" will be held on November 18th this year.
PoE Alumni Advisory Board Launches Career Skills Workshops:
In Spring 2009 the PoE Alumni Advisory Board launched of a new series of alumni-facilitated Career Skills Workshops . With support and training from the UW Career Center, PoE alumni worked with PoE’s student services staff to develop a Resume and Cover Letter workshop and an Interviewing Skills workshop, each to be delivered twice during autumn and spring quarters. All PoE Post-Capstone Seminar students are required to attend both workshops, during which they apply for an actual job or one of several sample jobs that have recently been open in various sectors in the Seattle area. Small groups of students work with alumni facilitators for individual resume and cover letter reviews and mock interviews.
New Core Course: ENVIR 250 - Methods of Data Collection and Analysis for Environmental Studies
In Winter 2010, PoE will introduce a new 200-level core course to parallel the ENVIR 200 “Environmental Studies: Communication & Information” required core course. This new ENVIR 250 “Environmental Studies: Data Types and Collection Methods” course will also be a required core course.
Designed by PoE’s Social Science Environmental Teaching Fellow, Eunice Blavascunas, and Eric Salathé from the JISAO Climate Impacts Group and Department of Atmospheric Sciences, the course focuses on data, how it is collected, and how it is used. As a survey course, it covers biological, physical, and social science techniques and information types. A key learning goal is to make students aware of the limitations, and possibilities, of data.