Some of our course goals: which did you wish to make your own?

 

        Discovery learning

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·            Develop the ability to be alone, to concentrate, to be attentive and aware of elusive information from within and without

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·            Make more balanced use both left and right sides of the brain, both head and heart, etc. 81-4, 203-213

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·            Become more aware of the possibilities of transcending all simplistic dualisms and other linguistic fictions

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·            Be able to balance formtrieb with stofftrieb, awareness of the One as well as the Many, Unity as well as Variety, the Group as well as the Individual, Love and Fear

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·            Increase awareness of unity consciousness within as well as outside your self

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·            Develop your sympathetic imagination

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·            Develop the ability to see a scene from multiple points of view

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·            Autobiography. Road Map. Recollections of youth in nature.

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·            Recovery of mystery, innocence, wonder, energy, etc.

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·            Increased awareness of the interdisciplinary nature of knowledge, especially drawing, painting, digital art, music, architecture, and landscape architecture as reponses to nature

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·            Increased awareness of the international nature of knowledge, as in the ability to appreciate American, British, French, and Japanese responses to nature

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·            Increased awareness of a sense of place

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·            Increased knowledge of nature writing, especially Texas and 19^th c. British literature of nature

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·            Increased awareness of ethical issues involving animals

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·            Acquire some knowledge of the natural history of Texas, the Hill Country, and this campus

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·            Become familiar with use of computers, Mac as well as PC, for peer editing, internet image capturing, etc. and maybe go on to create a multimedia web site

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Become better writers:

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·            especially in terms of creativity, willingness to live with ambiguity, etc. in the first stages of the creative process

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·            realizing that almost all great writing is rewriting

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·            assimilating the new visual rhetoric demanded of us by the popularity of the internet and electronic media

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·            increasing our ability to convey unity consciousness through the cohesiveness of our writing

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·            developing the habit of journaling

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·            developing the ability to be alone, to concentrate, and be aware of elusive information from within and without

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·            finding the best words possible for your purposes

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·            learn how to punctuate: becoming aware of the importance of proofreading, punctuation (especially comma splices, punctuation with quotations and parenthetical documentation, hyphenation of adjectival phrases, use of colon and semicolon), and complete sentences (vs. fragments).

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