In my prior post I caught you up to speed on the happenings of my ENVS 220 class as we concluded our investigation into land use and cover change in the area surrounding Lewis and Clark’s Campus. From there we spent week six workshopping both our draft concentration proposals as well as our draft proposals. We eventually submitted our draft concentration proposals. My proposal was titled “Boundaries: Man-made structures influence migratory patterns and habitat sizes of native wildlife” which will serve as an investigation into how man made structure, whether they’re physical or invisible affect migratory patterns and habitat sizes of the animals that interact with them. There is an important distinction between the physical boundaries, which take the form of highways, dams, and other forms of infrastructure, and the invisible boundaries that take the form of legislation. It is also important to note that I need to tie in the concentration to my current major, which is history, so I will be looking at these structures through a historical lens. This is important to me specifically because in ENVS 160 I studied the effects dams have on native salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest for my final project. The information that I found was quite startling and I wished to pursue this idea further. The scope of that project was far too narrow to be an ENVS concentration so I expanded the scope to more more encompassing as well as making it more applicable on a larger scale. By doing so the scope of my research in the future will no longer be limited to just the Pacific Northwest which will free up a lot of sources for me to use because they take place outside of the Pacific Northwest.
Additionally for my concentration, we had to select a number of classes that we could take at Lewis and Clark to supplement our concentration. For these I chose History 239- Constructing The American Landscape because the creation of the landscape and how it had changed historically is important to note when looking at the american landscape in the present. The next class I chose was HIST 261- Global Environmental History because again, I'm looking at this issue through a historical lens and by taking this class I would be able to cover historical areas that history 239 would not cover. The third class is SOAN 305- Environmental Sociology because another aspect of my concentration is looking into how humans create boundaries for themselves within the context of a society so I feel that this class specifically would help cover this. The last class I chose was ENVS- 350 because it is the highest level ENVS course that I need to take for my minor requirements and would provide me with the tools to explore my concentration more thoroughly. Following our draft proposals we went on fall break and in the most recent class we began our introduction to the Capitalocene which we will be exploring for the foreseeable future.
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