Associate Professor of English Onno Oerlemans and Associate Professor of Biology Pat Reynolds organized a panel on "Interdisciplinary Teaching on the Adirondacks" at a symposium on "Nature and Culture in the Northern Forest." The symposium was sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment and held June 4-6 in Crawford Notch, N.H. They were joined by three others working on interdisciplinary teaching on the Adirondacks:
Ernest Williams, the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Biology, was panel chair and discussed, "Interdisciplinarity vs. multidisciplinarity in teaching and learning about the Adirondacks."
Michael Wilson (SUNY Potsdam): "Beyond Bewilderment: Designing an Environmental Studies Program Suited to the Character of the Adirondacks as a Cultural Landscape." Phil Terrie (Bowling Green State University) was panel respondent.
Reynolds discussed "Teaching Adirondack Science in an Interdisciplinary Context: Integrative Trails," and Oerlemans' topic was Literature in the Wilderness: Adirondack Writing in an Interdisciplinary Context."
Oerlemans, Reynolds and Williams all teach in the interdisciplinary Hamilton College Sophomore Seminar, "Forever Wild: The Cultural and Natural Histories of the Adirondack Park."
