Chemistry 361 Trip to St. Louis, Missouri
October 12-13, 2006
Professor Ann Taylor teaches a course in which students learn the advanced biochemical, molecular biology, and genetics techniques used to generate transgenic plants. The trip to St. Louis will play an important role in challenging students to consider the ethical and environmental impact of developing and using these products. The students will obtain two contrasting viewpoints of genetically modified plants by visiting the Danforth Plant Science Center, which has championed the use of genetically modified food products to feed starving nations, and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, which is committed to genetic diversity.
History 350 Trip to Mexico
November 17-25, 2006
Professor Rick Warner will help students explore historical representations of the long history of Mexico City, from the Toltecs through the present. Included will be trips to museums, government buildings, public squares, pre-columbian sites, and visits with practicing Mexican historians and anthropologists.
Economics 277 & Political Science 374 Trip to Brussels, Belgium and Frankfurt, Germany
March 2-10, 2007
Professors Peter Mikek (economics) and Stephen Dyson (political science) will provide for students an opportunity to look actively for information on a research topic. Other goals of the trip include expanding the students' knowledge of the functioning of the European Union institutional structure, monetary policy, and integration of new EU members, and to interact with both EU decision makers and ordinary European citizens. The trip will allow students to gather information about the perceived future of the EU internally, and in the broader region and world from both 'angles.'
Biology 222 Trip to Belize
March 3-10, 2007
Professor Eric Wetzel will take biology students to Belize to study at a unique field station that will provide students with close access to unusual aquatic life. The course designed to provide students with an introduction to the diversity of invertebrate organisms through lectures, reading and discussion of primary literature, student presentations, and laboratory work. Emphasis is placed on structure, functional morphology, physiology, ecology, and evolution.
Art Majors Trip to New York City
March 5-10, 2007
Professors Doug Calisch and Greg Huebner will expose junior and senior majors to the valuable art collections of the New York museums such as the MOMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Harlem Museum of Art, the Craft Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art as well as the galleries of Chelsea, SOHO and Midtown. The group hopes to catch up with Wabash alumni in the arts in NYC. For last year’s junior and senior majors this trip proved to be one of the high points of their Wabash experience.
German 202 Trip to Germany
March 3-10, 2007
Professor Greg Redding ’88 will take students to Germany in order to give them the opportunity to put classroom language skills to real use and to acquire specific content knowledge about German cultural history. The desired outcomes are an actualization of language skills that accelerates student progress toward intermediate oral proficiency, as defined by the ACTFL Guidelines, and the acquisition of specific knowledge about German cultural history that will serve students as they progress through higher-level German courses and through other disciplines on campus.
Classics 212 Trip to Italy
May 7-17, 2007
Led by Professor Jeremy Hartnett ’96, this immersion trip represents the capstone experience of a semester-long course dedicated to the study of Roman urbanism. In tackling these different aspects of urban life, readings, discussion, and lectures will center on four principal case studies: Rome itself, Ostia (the port city of Rome), as well as Pompeii and Herculaneum (two cities buried in the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in AD 79). The trip will supplement Wabash coursework by giving students the opportunity to study, learn about, and present these four cities in person – to examine their architectural remains on-site and to consider the finds recovered from these cities in museums. While in Italy students will share their experiences with the broader campus community through a daily blog; upon their return, students will draw on their experiences in leading discussion groups about Roman urban life in Classics 104 (Roman Art and Archaeology) and by participating in the Celebration of Student Research.