The Rainforest Summit Fall 1999

Students in the fall 1999 IDST 2205 Global Issues (section 1) course participated in a mock world summit on the rainforest issue. Students were required to assume a role, write a five-page paper on their role's perspective on the issue, and to participate in an in-class debate. Although I was not involved in teaching this section of the course, I created a web page with a set of resources related to various aspects of the rainforest debate. On the end-of-the-term surveys, students could often elucidate the position their figure took, but could not clearly distinguish the disciplinary perspectives involved in their research into their role.

The Assignment and Rubric for Grading

Streaming Video of the In-Class Debate

Sample Student Papers:

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