Name Class Standing Term
Ryan Senior Spring 2017
Program Title Project Title Mode
Student-Originated Studies: Commodification Processes and Alternatives Health: Food Cultivation and Early Human Development Undergraduate In Program Individual Learning Contract
Credits Sponsor Name
12 Sarah Williams
Learning Objectives: Activities that will help me to attain this objective: What my sponsor will evaluate:
 I will gain experience in growing/processing herbs and vegetables In the winter I built a greenhouse, a grow-room, a worm bin and compost system, and I began preparing some land for cultivation. This quarter, I will:

-finish preparing the soil

-build a deer fence

-install drip irrigation, transplant the started starts and direct seed others

-research and imitate native environments of medicinal herbs

-harvest herbs to make ointments, extractions and dried teas

I will use The Medicinal Herb Grower and Teaming With Microbes as references

 I will document my work through an ePortfolio on a wordpress website. This will consist of a weekly blog/report, weekly log of hours, bibliography, image gallery, and bibliography.
I will improve skills/confidence in contributing to the reimagining of society as more equitable and beautiful, and in offering alternatives to commodification In the Edible Forest Gardens internship (2 days/wk) I will plant perennial polyculture and annual gardens for free in public and private spaces. I will help operate the Northeast Neighborhood Fruit Tree Project, focusing on distributing local food that would otherwise go to waste, and public workshops on fruit tree care.

I will be a volunteer tutor at CIELO (2 days/wk)

I will read Who Really Feeds the World by Vendana Shiva

 I will document my work through an ePortfolio on a wordpress website. This will consist of a weekly blog/report, weekly log of hours, bibliography, image gallery, and bibliography.

My field supervisors will submit a written evaluation of my work to Sarah by week 10
I will learn natural ways to heal and meet the needs of babies I will make a variety of herbal ointments for a newborn and a postpartum mother, as well as mineral and herbal extractions for labor and postpartum healing/nourishment.

I will take a four week infant massage class wiith Diksha Berebitsky

I will read Fearless Feeding by Jill Castle, Cure Your Child With Food: The Hidden Connection Between Nutrition and Childhood Ailments by Kelly Dorfman, and watch the documentary, Microbirth.
I will document my work through an ePortfolio on a wordpress website. This will consist of a weekly blog/report, weekly log of hours, bibliography, image gallery, and bibliography.

 

 

ILC data:  learning objectives, activities, outcomes (for faculty evaluation and credit award).  Each learning objective must include one question. Each learning activity should clearly describe how the learning objective will be studied – who, what, where, when, how. The learning outcomes are deliverables – what will be produced by the student, and evaluated by faculty, to demonstrate learning about the question posed in the learning objective.