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Class number:
3404
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Title: Walking |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Graded |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 3, 2024 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 18, 2024 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: W: 1:30PM-4:10PM, 70VS - SEM |
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Instructor(s): Wickman, Thomas |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
Our semester will be structured around several walks during class time, including along riverfront paths, through city parks, within wildlife sanctuaries during fall bird migration, and on beachside boardwalks in the offseason. Interdisciplinary readings will explore the significance of walking and will prepare students for specific class field trips. Students will have the opportunity to craft a creative nonfiction essay about a park and to design a guided historical walk or nature walk. Themes will include accessibility and disability; birding and wetland conservation; seasonality and climate change; sensory perception; place-based thinking; gendered and racialized dimensions of space and mobility; historical associations of walking with freedom; the collective experience of protest marches; and slow travel. |