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Environmental Science
(EVS) 612

Leadership Week

A Coastal Institute IGERT Project Class
Intersession 2007 (January 15 - January 20)
3 credits of lecture and lab

Meeting Times and Locations:
M - R : 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Spruce Cabin, URI's Alton Jones Campus
Monday evening dinner with Dr. Agnes Doody
Friday 9:30 a.m. to Saturday 1:00 p.m. at SKLT's Barn in Matunuck

Monday, 15 January
Spruce Cabin

Retool Your Reasoning

Preparation

Course Syllabus
A Rulebook for Arguments
(pp xi - 52) and (pp 71 - 78)
Editorial pages of a good newspaper and/or news magazine
* Bring nice clothing for evening event, Dinner with Dr. Doody

Focus

Critical reading skills
Argument analysis and creation
The potholes of grammar and syntax
The potholes of etiquette

Content
and
Activities

Review of informal arguments
Formal argument analysis (formulas and fallacies)
Assessment of technique in parsing out written passages
Exploration of common errors of usage and style in writing
Application of analysis skills to short case

Evening social event
5:30 - 6:30 cocktails, followed by dinner at 6:30 - 8:30ish

Tuesday, 16 January
Spruce Cabin
Refracting the Lens of Bias

Preparation

Review A Rulebook for Arguments
Pence, The Tuskegee Syphilis Study
"Bad Blood: A Case Study of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study"
Intercultural Communication website
Monochronic and Polychronic Cultures

Focus

The challenges of intercultural communication
The power of taboos
Ethics and inequity in science and society

Content
and
Activities

How to identify context in communicating across cultures
Discussion of operative taboos in our culture
More logic
Analysis/implications of Tuskegee Syphilis Study
Further questions about race, socioeconomics, culture and inequity

Wednesday, 17 January
Spruce Cabin
Environmental Justice and Social Equity

Preparation

Figueroa and Mills, Environmental Justice
Rolston, Environmental Ethics: Values in and Duties to the Natural World

Focus

Justice in environment and society
Local and global environmental justice
Ethical norms: Culture vs. Nature

Content
and
Activities

Application of intercultural theories to a current issue
Relationship of intercultural theory and social equity
Ecosystem approaches to ethics
More logic

Thursday, 18 January
Spruce Cabin
Art, Culture, Conflict

Preparation

Getting to Yes
Foster, The Narrative and the Ambient in Environmental Aesthetics

Focus

The role of mediation in resolving conflict
Nonverbal communication
Aesthetic and cultural factors in environmental value

Content
and
Activities

Using argument techniques in articulating positions
Application of mediation techniques to direct conflict
Analysis of nonverbal cues in conflict
Framing environmental values individually and collectively

Friday, 19 January
SK Land Trust Barn
Matunuck

Leadership, Collectivity and Communication

Preparation

Review Getting to Yes
Review everything else

Focus

Leadership styles and group communication
Humanistic tools in environmental contexts
Project overview (guest facilitators: Co-5 cohort)

Content
and
Activities

Review skills and issues of the week
Exercises to develop team identity (guest facilitator, Dr. Gene Knott)
Prepare for Saturday project event

Saturday, 20 January
SK Land Trust Barn
Matunuck

CIIP Trainees' Project Presentation

Preparation

TBD!

Focus

TBD!

Content
and
Activities

TBD!

 

The TBD or "to be determined" label is applied because you will have a major say in how this day plays out.

At the conclusion of the week each student is required to post to the CIIP blog summarizing his/her assessment of the week and the final exercise as it applies to:
1) individual goals, and
2) the overall CIIP goals.