Course Details

Course offered Summer 2021

HONORS 220 B: Wilderness in the Anthropocene (NSc, W)

HONORS 220 B: Wilderness in the Anthropocene (NSc, W)

SLN 14409 (View UW registration info »)

Timothy Billo (Program on the Environment)
Phone: 206-407-4056
Email: timbillo@uw.edu

Credits: 5
Limit: 5 students

Honors Credit Type

$350 additional course fee req’d
Fee purpose: Field trip
Add Code required
No Freshmen,Sophmrs Period 1 (4/12/2021-5/19/2021)
REQUIRES FACULTY APPROVAL
TIMBILLO@UW.EDU
BACKPACKING TRIP TO OLYMPIC
NATIONAL PARK (DATES TO COME)
SOME ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE COMPLETED
BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER TRIP.

Explores the ways in which landscapes change over time while considering wilderness as a space and an idea. Who benefits and who is marginalized from wilderness? How does wilderness serve humans ecologically and psychologically? How and by whom should wilderness be managed for equitable, ethical, and sustainable outcomes for nature and people? Includes pre-trip readings, lecture, and discussion, up to two weeks in field, and post-trip writing.

 

Check out the course’s blog from 2019 here: https://sites.uw.edu/uwenvir495c2019/2019/07/16/&source=gmail&ust=1619539423724000&usg=AFQjCNGkUd0Fry1itUp9OF2bSYPfGrm0EQ”>https://sites.uw.edu/uwenvir495c2019/2019/07/16/