Course Mantra — Mantra of all my courses at UConn. My students chant it.

Honors Program

Honors Core Courses.

My 2-course teaching load is reserved for the the Honors Core Curriculum. These are ERTH 1055 – Geoscience and the American Landscape (3 credits), which I teach each fall semester and ERTH 1000E – The Human Epoch: Living in the Anthropocene (3 credits), which I teach each spring semester.

Honors First Year Seminar

Additionally, I teach Climate Underground, a seminar each fall UNIV 1784 – First Year Seminar (1 credit) to help new students adjust to the fascination and rigor of academic life. Most recently this has been UNIV 1784-009- Climate Underground.

Schoolcraft Portrait — Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. Source Unknown.

Other Roles

Additionally, I’m the Honors Liaison, which means that I’m the administrative point of contact for our Department of Earth Sciences.

Finally, I’m the Honors Advisor for all honors students who are majors. In this capacity, I meet them at least three times per academic year, one in the fall to check in, and once each semester to keep the relationship going and to advise on course selection.

In my teaching, I do not assume that Honors students –currently about 10% of the UConn undergrads– are any smarter than other students. I consider them an identity group that has signed into a learning culture that I can adopt for pedagogy.