EV Proficiencies

How I have demonstrated....

• Interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving
  
  • Evidence
  • Reflection
• Understanding my connection to the environment
  
  • Evidence
  • Reflection
• Reading and critically evaluating environmental literature
• Evidence: My final paper for Phil Kannan's Environmental Policy course. See reflection below.
  
• Written Communication
  
  • Evidence: My final paper for Global Environmental policy. See the reflection in the post below.
• Oral Communication
  
  • Evidence: My simulation arguments as Ken Salazar in my Global Environmental Policy course. See the reflection below.
  • Also, my speech for Public Policymaking that dealt with Cronon's "The Trouble with Wilderness" can be viewed here.
• Qualitative Reasoning Skills
  
  • Evidence: My final paper for my ecological economics course, focusing on spatial and temporal equity from an ecological standpoint, took extensive qualitative analysis. Please see the reflection below.
• Quantitative Reasoning Skills
  
  • Evidence
  • Reflection
• Critical Thinking
  
  • Evidence: My final paper on non-point source pollution for my Public Policymaking course. This required critical analysis of many sources, as well as critical thinking on multiple theories studied in class. Please view the reflection below.
• "Field" Skills
  
  • Evidence: My research on pastoralism, collected partially through 10 full days of field interviews in Kenya and Tanzania, can be viewed here, with a reflection below.
• Sense of Place
  
  • Evidence: My final group project for my ecological economics course required an application of theory to an issue very close to home in the Rockies. See the reflection below.