Wild Waters: Introduction

Matt Price

Created: 2018-09-27 Thu 16:29

Welcome to Wild Waters

Instructor: Matt Price
Website: https://wildwaters.github.com
Classroom: WE 52

Why Rivers?

  • environmental importance
  • role in human history
  • Ontario/Canada relevance
  • Immersive Experiential Learning opportunity
  • Personal Interest
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The Prek Chu as model

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About Me

  • historian of science
  • longstanding interest in environment
  • pedagogical experimentation
  • lifelong paddler
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Rivers’ Role in Nature

  • geological: erosion, transport, deposition
  • ecological: guarantor of complexity
  • toxicological: pollutant transport
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Rivers in History

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  • Irrigation
  • Travel
  • Power

River Cultures

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  • Gods & Religions
  • Practices & Daily Life
  • Leisure & Contemporary Veneration

Syllabus

Encountering the Madawaska

  • 2-day camping trip
  • practical skills instruction
  • 1-day trip down the Lower Mad 
  • academic learning activities
  • reflection paper assignment
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Encountering the Madawaska

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U of T Outdoors

  • intensive group experiences
  • embodied experience
  • historical & sociological contexts
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Introductions

  • Pair off (up to 3 groups of 3)
  • year, major(s), etc
  • what draws them to course?
  • anything they learned in an outdoor environment
  • find another pair. introduce other person to that pair
  • 4some answer question: list of up to 3 most important things you would hope to learn from this class
  • find another group, compare notes

Exercise: the Humber

Map of the Humber

With only the knowledge you already bring to the class, and someone new, brainstorm:

  • ecological stressors
  • histories it might have played a part in
  • contemporary cultural significance