Motivation to Teach Social Action:
Connecting students with community projects
Course Description:
This course gives CofC students the opportunity to study, participate in, and observe cross-regional networks of nature-cultures, with an aim toward experiential and service-based learning. The course will investigate past and current causes of the Anthropocene, while exploring how the impacts of this emerging global epoch will impact the resiliency of local communities, including more-than-human assemblages of flora and fauna. Students will gain exposure to practices of "commoning" by visiting an ecovillage, engaging in creek and saltmarsh restoration, and learning about ecotopian bioregional praxis/lifeways. The course is a mix of lectures, experiential learning, videos, and discussions.
Taught By:
Blake Scott
Chair and Associate Professor
International Studies
School of Languages, Cultures, and World Affairs
College of Charleston
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