ENVS 84.02 Independent Research in Community-Based Natural Resourse Management
This course gives you the opportunity to engage in a term-long research process that involves both your own empirical observations and the academic literature. The two products of this research are a research journal and an annotated bibliography. You will choose a relevant research topic of personal interest before the term begins and will prepare beforehand by gathering articles and information about your topic. During the term you will make observations, talk to people and read and write about your topic. You will develop expertise in that area and be a resource to the group. It will give you one particular lens through which to view your experience of community-based natural resource management in New England. You will choose a more narrow area within the topic to pursue through the academic literature. This will be represented in your research journal and annotated bibliography.