In the geography classroom -- and even in the Zoom classroom -- I like helping students make connections that will help them understand that world in new ways. But nothing compares to being out in that world with students, whether it is walking inside a (mildly) active volcano, in a dugout canoe on the Caribbean coast or riding in a van to Cape Cod.
I have brought that joy of exploration to Discovering Brockton, a first-year seminar that has introduced a lot of students to geographic thinking. Because that course is available only to first-year students, I have been looking for a way to bring a similar experience to a wider audience.
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Details
This course meets every week day during the first two weeks of August, 2022. Students can park at the New Bedford Airport, where we will start each day at 8:30 a.m. sharp with a van ride from the airport through a different part of the city.
Bring a travel mug if you want coffee for the ride -- I will make some for the class every morning. The morning will be spent on some combination of the activities described above. We will return to the airport at 12:30, with light reading or writing assignments for the next day.
This course is available for graduate credit; additional scholarly work will be planned with each graduate student in accordance with their academic and professional goals. In-service teacher may elect to develop lesson plans, for example.
Tuition and all fees: $1,289.75 See BSU Summer for registration and payment details.
GEOG 296 / GEOG 520 New Bedford: Maritime City
A schedule of activities will be described in a separate post as the summer progresses. Meanwhile, earlier posts to this blog include geographic insights about New Bedford that I have been accumulating since we first proposed this course a few years ago. Browse prior posts to get a sense of the city as I tend to think about it.
