Name Class Adviser Environmental Concentration Topic: Climate Change For full catalogue copy visit http://catalog.smith.edu/index.php?mode=dept (select Environmental Concentration: Climate Change in drop down menu) Faculty Advisers: Jesse Bellemare, Nathanael Fortune, Elliot Fratkin, Daniel Gardner, Alice Hearst, Danielle Ignace, James Lowenthal, Denise McKahn, Robert Newton, Amy Rhodes, Susan Sayre, Elizabeth Spelman, Gregory White. Coordinator: Joanne Benkley Prospective concentrators should contact Joanne Benkley with questions. Once accepted into the concentration, students should consult with their faculty adviser in choosing their courses and completing their practical experience requirements. Requirements: The Environmental Concentration: Climate Change comprises four components: a gateway course, an academic core, practicum experiences, and a capstone. These include: (1) Gateway Course (choose one) ENV 100, Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field, 1-credit, offered fall 2015 LSS 100, Issues in Landscape Studies, 2-credits, offered spring 2016; (2) Academic Core (four courses) In consultation with their advisors, students will choose four courses from among the many climaterelated courses offered by the Five Colleges (see online catalogue, link above). Chosen courses must span at least two of three divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences and engineering); (3) Practicum Experiences The concentration requires students to pursue two (2) practicum experiences, which can include internships, projects on campus, and volunteer and paid work; (4) Capstone Course ENX 301: Environmental Concentration Capstone: Climate Change This course will be offered during the fall of 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Students wishing to pursue the Environmental Concentration: Climate Change must have clear plans to ensure that they can take this capstone course. Checklist for the Environmental Concentration: Climate Change Declaration of the Concentration submitted to the Registrar’s Office __________ Gateway Course (1 course) Completed (year) ENV 100, Environment and Sustainability: Notes from the Field Offered each fall ___________________________ LSS 100, Landscape, Environment, and Design Offered each spring ___________________________ Academic Core Courses (4 Courses) See courses list; courses must span two of three divisions. Humanities Course (semester completed) __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Natural Sciences and Engineering __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Social Sciences __________________________________________ __________________________________________ Capstone Course (1 course) Completed (year) ENX 301: Environmental Concentration Capstone: Climate Change Offered fall 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 ______________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Practicum experience (2 distinct experiences approved by faculty adviser) Practicum 1- Name of sponsoring organization: ___________________________________ Completed (date) Practical Experience Approval Form __________________________ Supervisor Evaluation Form ________________________ Practicum 2- Name of sponsoring organization: ___________________________________ Completed (date) Practical Experience Approval Form _________________________ Supervisor Evaluation Form _________________________ Concentration reflection workshop Completed (date) Junior year _________________________ Senior year _________________________ Student signature: Adviser signature: Date: _____________________________________ Date: ____________________________________ Seniors: please submit completed this checklist to Joanne Benkley, Center for the Environment, Ecological Design, and Sustainability (CEEDS), Wright Hall 010 by the first week of March your senior year (or the first week of October if you are a January graduate).