Hopework-l Mailing List: FYI

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Philosophy camp instructor team:
I will be working as a field ecologist in the Windom area next summer and would love to be available as a resource person if your students do the ee/nature trail thing for Shalom.  If they are looking for "service learning" opportunities, I could probably also use a group of them to help look for spring wildflowers sometime during your stay (or even rare plants). As things now stand I'll probably be living down at Heron Lake, but I have contemplated asking Margaret if Shalom would like a rent-paying ecologist in residence for the summer because the housing arrangement I have has gotten a little slippery.

On another note--we will (hopefully) be sharing space one weekend, the weekend of Father's day, when (if anyone enrolls) I'll be bringing my Hamline University Graduate Liberal Studies "Prairie Sampler" to use th Shalom Hill old building as our home base for two days of field experience. This is an interdisciplinary prairie studies class and Tom Sanders has promised me he will try to corral an Elder to talk with my group and if you haven't made a similar arrangement I don't see why we couldn't join forces. 

I'd happily also take your students on a field trip on any one of the nearby native prairies, most of which I know quite intimately, having worked on them for the last 20 years.  I also have some other great local contacts, though suspect you've built up a body of your own by now.

Just a heads up. I'm writing this from a remote server, so hitting "reply" to Lynn is the only address I have available.

Nancy Sather


>Hopework friends, 
>
>Many of you know that Hopework's weekend folk school experience is also
>available in 2005 as a 6-week, 8-credit U of M Philosophy Camp from May 23
>to June 30. This year's offering combines the themes "education and social
>change" and "lives worth living: questions of self, vocation, and
>community." 
>
>Philosophy Camp's instructional team (John Wallace, Peter Shea, Nance
>Longley and Lynn Englund) is now actively recruiting students. Please share
>information about this unique educational offering with interested friends
>and family. 
>
>We've just updated our Web site, http://philosophycamp.org with information
>for registering students. Prospective students must contact John Wallace
>(walla003 [at] tc.umn.edu), and are strongly encouraged to apply and complete the
>registration process by April 15. Philosophy Camp is limited to 15 students.
>Currently we have 9 seats open with 4 students who intend to register.
>
>Aspects of Philosophy Camp will include:
>
>* Weekly-field experiences in the greater Windom area (includes a $500 field
>  experience stipend for each student).
>
>* Audio/video documentation of the course and field experiences.
>
>* 2-G5 Macintosh computers (with Adobe's Creative Suite software),
>  color printer(s), scanner, digital camera(s), video camera(s), and
>  digital voice recorder(s) available onsite for student use.
>
>* Design and construction of a public display for the Windom community.
>
>* Live blog reporting by students and instructors on the Philosophy
>  Camp experience.
>
>* Volunteer service project at Shalom Hill Farm developing nature
>  trails and/or environmental learning center.
>
>* An inclusive, safe, and close-knit living-learning community of students,
>  instructors, and staff.
>
>Because the courses associated with Philosophy Camp are offered during the
>University of Minnesota's summer session, non-degree students (age 18 and
>up), students from other colleges and universities, and out-state students
>can easily enroll and will all pay the same U of M tuition. Graduate credit
>is also available at graduate tuition rates.
>
>Lynn, Peter, Nance, and John
> 
>
>
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