EDUCATION
Collaborative Team Teaching
Faculty affiliated with the Institute create new structures for teaching and connections among ideas that integrate scientific knowledge with the understanding and skills of the humanities. These connections and integrations help students become leaders in an increasingly complex and rapidly changing cultural and technical world. The Institute guides students and colleagues to:
- reach decisions in the face of uncertainty and rapid change
- use the skills of moral reasoning to draw conclusions from facts and values
- understand the cultural and historical contexts of decisions and the drivers of human behaviors
- think critically about the implications of knowledge and policies
- appreciate the aesthetic and spiritual foundations of human actions
- speak and write clear and cogent narratives about how we should meet the allied social and environmental challenges of the future
Additionally, the Environmental Humanities Initiative:
- Offers two courses in the OSU Honors College called Environmental Leadership I and Environmental Leadership II in 2010-2011
- Offers a spring 2011 course team-taught by Mark Hixon (Zoology) and Deanna Kingston (Anthropology) on the “Wisdom of the Oceans”
- Encourages and facilitates interdisciplinary team teaching in undergraduate curricula
- Explores partnerships with other institutions doing complementary work
