Natural History: Environmental Education in Costa Rica (ENVS 4120)

Course Code: ENVS 4120

Course Date: February 15, 2025 to February 23, 2025

Course Instructor: Leesa Fawcett

Course Description

Experiencing, appreciating and recognizing the biodiversity of the tropical forests in the Las Nubes area, while considering the community and environmental education of the region is the intention of this course. By studying the beliefs, theories and practices of naturalists (e.g. Darwin, Alexander Skutch and contemporary Costa Rican scholars), we will critically interpret differing historical narratives and images of nature. In the field, with close observation, students will describe and document the lives of mammals, amphibians, birds, plants, and insects in the Las Nubes area, the greater corridor, and its watershed. The over-arching course goal is to continue to build place-based eco-social knowledge and to translate that learning into critical environmental education initiatives and citizen science for the surrounding, interdependent human and more-than human communities.

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The course ran from June 4-13, 2022. The instructor was Dr. Leesa Fawcett from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

Golfo Dulce, Puntarenas, Costa RicLas Nubes EcoCampus, Perez Zeledón, Costa RicaThe course ran from May 21-30, 2019. The instructor was Dr. Leesa Fawcett from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change.

The course ran from June 11-20, 2018. The instructor was Dr. Leesa Fawcett from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. (Photos courtesy of Jessica Buckley).

The course ran from May 31 to June 9, 2017. The instructor was Dr. Leesa Fawcett from the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. (Photos courtesy of Helen Davidko)

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