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Student Moderator: Angel Aquino, Hillsborough Community College *
Biodiversity and Conservation in the Converting World: A Traveling Honors Seminar in
Suriname, South America
H. Eugene Cline, Albion College
Renee M. Kreger, Albion College
Dean G. McCurdy, Albion College
Over the past four years, we have developed a travelling seminar that allows honors students to
engage in off-campus research projects. We will describe a recent version of the course that
traveled to Suriname, South America, to explore the biodiversity and conservation of coastal and
rainforest ecosystems.
Grand, Gloomy and Peculiar: Mammoth Cave as an Honors Course
David H. Kime, Northern Kentucky University
Sarah N. Williams, Northern Kentucky University *
Mammoth Cave has been silent witness to 4000 years of human history and is now the topic of a
unique, interdisciplinary, field trip based honors course. Students experience the cave firsthand
with current researchers while discussing topics including archaeology, geology, history, popular
culture, and more.
Science and Sustainability
Friday, October 22
2:00 PM – 3:10 PM
Marriott Tower 3rd Floor, Bennie Moten A
Gen, Sci, T&L
Student Moderator: Robert Bruno, University of Arkansas at Little Rock *
Literature, Nature, and Policy: Teaching Sustainability in an Interdisciplinary Honors
Course
Patricia E. Davis, Kennesaw State University
This presentation describes an interdisciplinary, multicultural honors course, “Greening Utopia,”
that employs readings in utopian fiction, environmental science, philosophy, economics, political
science, and religion to help students understand the changes that must be made in social systems
if human beings are to live sustainably, in harmony with nature.
Climate Change: Science and Sustainability in an Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar
Doreen Arcus, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
Juliette Rooney-Varga, University of Massachusetts-Lowell
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