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Colby College
Program in Environmental Studies Mission Statement
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The mission of the Program in Environmental Studies
is to provide our students with an interdisciplinary, liberal arts
education. We strive to present students with a positive learning
environment that encourages creative, responsible, interdisciplinary
independent thinking.
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We do this through lectures, seminars, laboratories,
and fieldwork as well as through opportunities for collaborative
research, off-campus internships, and study abroad. The Environmental
Studies curriculum provides our students with both breadth and depth
of training in the discipline and emphasizes the relationship between
humans and the environment.
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Faculty and staff associated with the program are
committed to excellence in teaching, student advising, scholarship,
service to the college, and to community outreach. To achieve this
mission, the Environmental Studies program has established the following
goals:
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- To educate our students in the interdisciplinary framework necessary
for understanding and responding to local, regional, and global environmental
challenges;
- To nurture in our students writing, speaking, and problem-solving
skills necessary to identify, describe, and analyze environmental challenges,
and ultimately the ability to analyze and assess the validity of proposed
solutions to these challenges;
- To provide opportunities for our students to engage in independent
or collaborative scholarship on and off campus that enable our students
to apply their academic training in a real life setting;
- To encourage students to integrate their off-campus experiences into
their academic programs;
- To provide an effective and supportive system of student advising;
- To serve as an effective catalyst for change, through our teaching,
scholarship and outreach on campus, and on local, regional, national,
and international levels;
- To assist student environmental organizations on campus;
- To encourage the integration of environmental issues and themes into
courses in all academic divisions, into student research projects, and
into college operations;
- To foster interactions between the College and the community in environmental
matters;
- To develop an active community of alumni across generations that supports
and advises the program and our students; and
- To assess our progress regularly and to adjust our goals appropriately
in the face of change
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