Honors 392- Visions of the Land: Cultural Landscapes of the Pacific Northwest
Course Description: "This course examines cultural visions of the regional landscape through space and time. This course will span landscapes from the urban to wilderness, but will always link issues back, sometimes indirectly, to the underlying features (usually geological) of the natural landscape and its natural resources (usually biological)."
After the amazing Honors writing course I took last quarter, this class ended up being a bit of a let down. The class itself wasn't bad and I found the material to be interesting, but the overall lack of structure for the course made the experience much less enjoyable. This class covered a lot of material, ranging from the history of Seattle to the meaning of "wild" and wilderness, and we were constantly jumping between topics. There was very little flow between topics unfortunately, which was annoying since I found most topics interesting but then we'd never build on it. Also, the final project was a group paper--my greatest nemesis. Overall, though, the class wasn't horrible and our group paper ended up being pretty interesting, so I can't complain.
Below is my final group paper for the class, written about the misrepresentation and misconceptions of local Native American art:
Course Description: "This course examines cultural visions of the regional landscape through space and time. This course will span landscapes from the urban to wilderness, but will always link issues back, sometimes indirectly, to the underlying features (usually geological) of the natural landscape and its natural resources (usually biological)."
After the amazing Honors writing course I took last quarter, this class ended up being a bit of a let down. The class itself wasn't bad and I found the material to be interesting, but the overall lack of structure for the course made the experience much less enjoyable. This class covered a lot of material, ranging from the history of Seattle to the meaning of "wild" and wilderness, and we were constantly jumping between topics. There was very little flow between topics unfortunately, which was annoying since I found most topics interesting but then we'd never build on it. Also, the final project was a group paper--my greatest nemesis. Overall, though, the class wasn't horrible and our group paper ended up being pretty interesting, so I can't complain.
Below is my final group paper for the class, written about the misrepresentation and misconceptions of local Native American art: