| Skidmore
College's 1996 Title VI-A Grant galvanized faculty to develop and implement
a new International Affairs curriculum. Building on a tradition of interdisciplinary
education since 1911, our students and faculty now wish to extend this tradition
by lending an international aspect to the natural science curriculum and
by infusing international affairs courses with global environmental content.
We will attain these objectives through intensive cooperation between sister
programs on our campus, International Affairs and Environmental Studies.
If Environmental Studies courses engage students in comparative, international
and global perspectives-- and, if International Affairs courses engage students
in environmental perspectives, students will be better prepared to consider
the causes and consequences of global environmental issues such as depletion
of the ozone layer, deforestation, and climate change. Students will also
be sensitized to the political, economic, social, cultural, legal, technological,
and other contexts within which environmental policy is constructed and
applied from local to international levels of concern. |