My readings this term have greatly impacted my understanding of my relation to the world around me. I feel the most impactful work we covered in this area would be Braiding Sweetgrass. Coming into this term, I had very little experience with Indigenous authors and I found Robin Wall Kimmerer’s writing style to be very […]
Natalie Gwynn Final Reflection
Final Reflection Jennifer Villagomez-Lopez Out of all the literature classes I have taken this was the most impactful to me. I enjoyed the readings we had in class and the projects we did. We went through the books fairly quickly but that didn’t take away from the importance and the awareness they bring. The movies […]
The readings and viewings that we did this term have impacted the way that I view the world around me. I now have a different view on climate change as well as the protection of sacred lands for Native people. I came into this class without a real firm opinion on any of the topics […]
Prior to attending this course, my knowledge of climate change was limited and I was not fully aware of the events happening in different parts around the world that have already started experiencing the results of climate change. This course brought a new perspective of how I perceive certain issues pertaining to the world from […]
The readings have helped me realize some of the relationships between me and nature that I never really thought about before reading them, such as how I don’t refer to nature as though it is alive and living. I just refer to it as something that is there. Like, if I see a rabbit I […]
How have your readings/viewings this term impacted your understanding of your personal relation to the world around you? And of your understanding of our society’s relation to the natural world? Which primary and secondary sources were the most influential for you? What, according to you, are the most important topics we should be exploring, as […]
My personal relationship to the world around me has changed over the spam of this term. Where I come from there is not much effort on expressing the importance of the environment or spreading awareness of its decline due to human impact. Reading the novels made me realize how much environmentalism there is in peoples […]
Final Reflection
Final Reflection Each of the readings and viewings from this term have had different impacts on my understanding of my personal relation to the world around me but overall I think that they made me more conscious of the impacts that my actions have on the environment, more reflective on what parts I take for […]
