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Course Cost: $900
Non-Refundable Deposit: $100 due April 4
Payment #2: $400 due May 16
Payment #3: $400 due August 2
Course Cost Includes:
Transportation, meals, permits, equipment
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Students should register for the course they wish to take during normal Spring registration.
Students must have at least a 2.0 GPA and be in good disciplinary and financial standing at the college.
B O U N D A R Y W A T E R S
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Website:
Cornell Wilderness Term http://www.cornellcollege.edu/cwt
General Questions Contact:
Jeannie Burns,
Office of International
& Off-Campus Studies jburns@cornellcollege.edu
319-895-4385
Course Questions Contact:
Professor Andy McCollum ,
Biology amccollum@cornellcollege.edu
319-895-4387
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Professor Glenn Freeman,
English gfreeman@cornellcollege.edu
319-895-4224
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Professor Brian Nowak-Thompson,
Environmental Studies bnowakthompson@cornellcollege.edu
319-895-4135
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BIO 321—ENG 350 — ENV 202
Term 1 2011-12

We will examine a broad array of topics including interactions between organisms and the physical environment, life histories, population growth, population genetics and adaptation, interactions between individuals of different species, such as competition, predation and mutualism, community ecology and biogeography.
Our investigation of these topics will include consideration of fundamental ecological theories and mathematical models as well as natural history exercises near the Wilderness Field Station.
Students will gain hands-on experience with many of the plants and animals of both terrestrial and aquatic habitats of the southern boreal forests.
Prerequisites: BIO 141 and 142 and permission of instructor
This course will trace a literary tradition that engages with nature and wilderness. We will explore the ways in which wilderness has existed at the core of an American mythology.
We will explore spiritual, political, and aesthetic relationships with the wild. We will read influential writers such as Aldo Leopold,
Gary Snyder, and Terry Tempest Williams and explore works by people indigenous to the area, the Anishinaabe. At the same time, we will explore more personal relationships with the wild, canoeing, camping, swimming, and enjoying the solitude of the beautiful
Minnesota northwoods.
Prerequisites: Writing-designated course and permission of instructor
This course offers you a different way to see the world! This class studies the chemical properties of water, the pollutants it carries, and the policies in place to help manage this precious resource. We will be exploring the chemistry of lakes, bogs, and wetlands both around the field station and during an extended canoe trip into the Boundary Waters
Canoe Area Wilderness (~5 days). Additional visits to the more civilized town of Ely will help us to understand the challenge of effectively managing water resources. We will also examine the potential impacts of sulfide mining operations that are being developed in the region and how volunteer citizen groups are working to protect the lakes and streams that are being threatened. Join us and discover how chemistry and canoes react!
Prerequisites: ENV 101