Description Learning the Bruce is a capstone, experiential, field course held in Bruce County, Ontario. The Bruce Peninsula is a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve containing the largest continuous forest in southern Ontario and attracts tens of thousands of visitors each year to two national parks. There are a range of environmental, economic, social, and cultural […]
Description The Planning Skills Lab is a co-curricular initiative of the MES Planning Program to enrich Experiential Education and employability prospects for students pursuing careers in urban and regional planning. The Lab consists of weekly workshops with guest alumni and experts who facilitate hands-on sessions on innovative planning methods and tools used in their field. […]
Description Undergraduate students in three BES courses in the Faculty of Environmental Studies will learn about the songbird window collision problem, songbird migration and solutions through their collaboration to install window art, effective for reducing bird deaths, on a set of windows in the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies (HNES) building: ENVS 2122 Community art […]
Description The Las Nubes Program will offer students a richly experiential education living and studying in smallholder farming communities in a southern Costa Rica conservation region, the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor (ASBC). Incorporating courses open to students in the Lassonde School of Engineering’s Environmental Engineering program as well as the Faculty of Health’s Global Health […]
Description The alternative campus tour serves as pedagogical tool to equip and engage students and community members to critically examine conceptions of the campus space and community. The project seeks to select and collect material and stories about different sites of the campus and make them widely available to the campus population and the wider […]
Description The Environmental Studies Internship Program is an experiential education program designed to provide Honours Bachelor of Environmental Studies students with the opportunity to apply their classroom learning in a workplace environment between their 3rd and 4th years of study. Through these internship opportunities, students will gain confidence in field-related knowledge, general employability skills, and […]
Description Involving several Faculties (Environmental Studies, Fine Arts, Education, Health, and LA&PS), this project includes three components: development of a cross-Faculty first- year course integrating art and community engagement; a summer institute encompassing environmental education, equity and the arts; and a collaborative arts initiative in partnership with the new Black Creek Arts Hub and involving […]