Carolyn Finney

Lectures in the first half of the semester were very valuable and involved guest speakers, and the content of readings is also necessary for ENVS students to know. Most of the work in this class revolves around a project through which you're intended to explore your relationship with the environment. While this turned out alright towards the end of the semester, this class was actually pretty stressful for someone who likes to have the details of an assignment written out early and made abundantly clear. It sometimes seemed like we were putting off discussion of it for later.

Lectures in the first half of the semester were very valuable and involved guest speakers, and the content of readings is also necessary for ENVS students to know. Most of the work in this class revolves around a project through which you're intended to explore your relationship with the environment. While this turned out alright tow …Read more

This was honestly one of the easiest courses I've taken at Midd, but what we learned was pretty interesting. Finney is pretty famous in the world of environmental science, so it was cool that she brought in a lot of her friends to guest lecture...most of that was virtual. The class itself was easy, but sometimes it was hard to get through 3 straight hours of a class. We had two assignments...the first was to write a 2 page paper literally about yourself and your experiences with nature, and the second was to make some sort of artistic creation depicting your relationship with an important place.

This was honestly one of the easiest courses I've taken at Midd, but what we learned was pretty interesting. Finney is pretty famous in the world of environmental science, so it was cool that she brought in a lot of her friends to guest lecture...most of that was virtual. The class itself was easy, but sometimes it was hard to get th …Read more

I really loved this course, Carolyn is so wise and so intuitive with her work. The whole semester you work towards one project and there is probably like 5 readings total. The class is almost entirely discussion based. This is not really a course where you will learn about yourself in relation to the environment. There were many moments that me consider other ways of thinking. Overall I loved this course because of the lessons i took away from it.

I really loved this course, Carolyn is so wise and so intuitive with her work. The whole semester you work towards one project and there is probably like 5 readings total. The class is almost entirely discussion based. This is not really a course where you will learn about yourself in relation to the environment. There were many mome …Read more