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MAP Faculty Statement
Every MAP student is required to incorporate an awareness of and sensitivity to the environmental and cultural contexts in which learning and the application of learning occur. Consideration of these overlapping and complementing issues is a major commitment of Prescott College as an institution and a community of learners and practitioners. The ecological aspect of this value system begins with our immediate physical, social, and cultural surroundings and expands outward to include every aspect of the natural world of which we are a part. Socio-cultural considerations include every distinction among humans in society from the socially-constructed race, gender, and class to physical, emotional, and spiritual issues and orientations. Students are expected to develop and demonstrate their awareness of and sensitivity to these diverse dimensions of natural experience through course design, frequent reference in their writings, and consideration of environmental responsibility and social justice in their programs and practice. Every study packet and written or oral presentation should contain some reference to these concerns about personal responsibility and action.
These literacies should be addressed throughout the program. Specifically, students must address these literacies in study plans, study packets, presentations, and eot summaries as well as in the thesis.
Students and, where appropriate, advisors should:
- review these concerns and how they are relevant to one's study in the cover letter, scholarly writing, or something else of each study packet;
- include reference to these issues in the End-of-Term Summary, in both the narrative evaluations and the personal assessment;
- develop specific courses, practica, or research projects that address these issues, or include social and ecological concerns as factors to be examined in papers exploring other issues;
- engage in volunteer positions or service activities to be reported on in study packets and eot summaries;
- include these as criteria to be considered and reported on in reviews of practica and internships;
- incorporate reference to these literacies in the thesis plan and thesis;
- and consider the importance of these areas in all academic and personal areas of our lives.
Samples of ways in which some students have addressed social and ecological literacies are available here:
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Last updated February 17, 2005.
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