ENSC 10433 - A Sense of Place: TCU's Environment

This first-year seminar offers an introduction to field observation, personal journaling, and the domain of Environmental Studies, which includes earth sciences, ecology, environmental history, and environmental literature. Assignments are designed to promote awareness about how an environment is shaped by interaction among cultural and natural processes. The course is centered upon five all-day field trips in the vicinity of Fort Worth. Trips include presentations and exercises conducted by various experts, designed both to showcase individual enthusiasms and to explore how disciplinary knowledge can be integrated into a richer understanding of the local environment. Whenever possible, people with differing expertise, and readings from both scientific and literary sources are used to interpret the same landscape. Students practice describing environments in different modes, in order to cultivate the breadth of perspective required for environmental literacy. Each trip is preceded by a 2-hour evening session to discuss assigned readings, insights from the previous trip, and relevant concepts for the next trip.





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