Carolyn Finney

Professor Finney is so amazing in the fact that she is so accomodating and understanding of students needs and often shapes lectures based on how the class is feeling and where the conversation is going. She is so connected in the environmental sphere that she invites friends and colleagues to come speak and offer different perspectives of the work that is being done in the world at the intersection of race, class, and the environment!!

Professor Finney is so amazing in the fact that she is so accomodating and understanding of students needs and often shapes lectures based on how the class is feeling and where the conversation is going. She is so connected in the environmental sphere that she invites friends and colleagues to come speak and offer different perspecti …Read more

I took this course because past reviews held this class in very high regard. Those reviews were not wrong in the slightest. Professor Finney is extremely passionate about her teaching and is such a lively, energetic, and wonderful professor to be around. Despite the class being about three hours, her attitude made it not difficult to tolerate, but actually enjoyable. Over the course of the class, you are assigned weekly readings and have to post comments and questions on each reading as homework. In class, we would typically have a guest speaker speaking about their experiences related to the environment, which was always interesting. We only had 2 other "big" assignments, which were an Environmental Autobiography where we write about our relationship with the environment, and then our final presentation, which she encouraged us to be creative and deviate from our "standard presentation," which was actually pretty fun!

I took this course because past reviews held this class in very high regard. Those reviews were not wrong in the slightest. Professor Finney is extremely passionate about her teaching and is such a lively, energetic, and wonderful professor to be around. Despite the class being about three hours, her attitude made it not difficult to …Read more

Fascinating class. Definitely weird and radical but the reading where always thought provoking. oftentimes finney would talk for a really long time and take away from the group discussion but its only because she is so passionate about the work.