Sailing the Chesapeake Bay, Fall 2012
(4.5 credits, English)
Learn and earn credits as you explore the outdoors. This program combines classroom study of the history, ecology, and cultural significance of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed (including central Pennsylvania) with outdoor experiences that will illustrate, supplement, and enhance classroom work. The course work will be devoted to reading accounts of the Chesapeake dating from the seventeenth century, popular treatments of Bay history by writers like James Michener, nature writing by Tom Horton, and considerations of the Bay by novelists and poets like John Barth, Gilbert Byron, and Billy Collins.
Enhancement activities will include exploration by canoe of the Chesapeake Bay watershed in central Pennsylvania; exploration by canoe or kayak of the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers in the Harrisburg area; a weekend of public service arranged through a local watershed advocacy group, such as the ClearWater Conservancy or the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; and a sailing trip on a Bay skipjack. All these activities will be conducted on weekends during the fall semester. As a student in this program, you will become familiar with the Bay and its watershed in both an abstract and an experiential sense.
| Class Meetings for Fall 2012 Course | |
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Every Wednesday of the fall semester from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Classroom: TBD |
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Saturday, September 8
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Paddle on the main stem of the Susquehanna at Harrisburg |
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Thursday, September 27,
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Weekend of sailing and Bay studies at Echo Hill Outdoor School, Worton, Maryland (including trips to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum and the Pickering Creek Audubon Center) |
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Saturday, October 20 |
Paddle on the lower Susquehanna |
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Saturday, November 3 |
West Branch paddle |
*Dates for outings are subject to change
