Salish Sea Curriculum Repository

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• ANTH 235 Cross Cultural Medicine: Global Systems Collapse

  This is a parallel track to ANTH 235, Cross Cultural Medicine that focuses on the health impacts of climate disasters, including trauma, grief and anxiety. Students then have the opportunity to visualize a future when the earth recovers its health. What does that look like? How does it happen?
  

• SALI 201: Intro to the Salish Sea Syllabus (2022)

  SALI syllabus from Spring 2022 at Whatcom Community College
  

• Salish Sea Reflection Journal

  A compendium of maps, resources, syllabus information, and reflection prompts, the Reflection Journal offers students and instructors a guide for sharing learning, questions, and ideas about Salish Sea Studies.
  

• Introduction to the Salish Sea Syllabus (2021 Fall) - WWU

  This place-based, experiential, and multidisciplinary course introduces students to the complex human-environment systems of our shared bioregion, an international inland sea fed by watersheds governed by the United States, Canada, and over 60 Tribes and First Nations. This course invites students to critically examine complex issues in the Salish Sea, and to build meaningful connections across borders, disciplines, and systems to help bring to life an environmentally healthy and just future for the Salish Sea.
  

• Introduction to the Salish Sea Syllabus (2022 Spring) - WWU

  This place-based, experiential, and multidisciplinary course introduces students to the complex human-environment systems of our shared bioregion, an international inland sea fed by watersheds governed by the United States, Canada, and over 60 Tribes and First Nations. This course invites students to critically examine complex issues in the Salish Sea, and to build meaningful connections across borders, disciplines, and systems to help bring to life an environmentally healthy and just future for the Salish Sea.
  

• Introduction to the Salish Sea Syllabus (2021 Spring)

  This hybrid course was co-taught by a historian and an anthropologist. Class meetings were online via Zoom and in person for field trips. The quarter-long project involved working with a Geographic Information System (GIS) specialist to develop a Story Map about the Whatcom Creek Watershed.
  

• Introduction to the Salish Sea Syllabus (online)

  This fully online iteration of the course was co-taught by a historian and a sociologist. The final project was a student-created video about the connection between a course outcome and the Salish Sea Lab (virtual).
  

• SALI Lab Gameboard

  This (virtual) lab component for the Introduction to the Salish Sea course supports students' engagement in independent experiential learning using walks, reading, podcasts, recorded lectures, and tracing local ecology.