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University of Wyoming

Lamar Landscapes: Focusing on Our Wild Nature
A Residential Adult Learning Experience in Yellowstone National Park
August 18 – 22, 2004

(Lanford Monroe's "Big Country".  This image is part of the JKM Collection and used with the permission of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson WY.)

This four night residential learning experience will take place in Yellowstone National Park, based at the historic Buffalo Ranch Field Campus in Yellowstone’s scenic Lamar Valley. Peaceful and spectacular home to wolves, bears, elk and bison, Lamar Valley is an excellent place to experience and learn about Yellowstone. Participants will gain an intimate sense of place through experiencing the valley’s geologic past, human stories, and abundance of life forms. Course content will be presented through a diversity of classroom and field sessions, with primary emphasis on being out in the resource. The physical experience of simply being in a place of astounding natural beauty can profoundly influence our psyches. Why we feel good in certain environments will be explored from the perspectives of personal experience and sociobiology.

Through a dynamic blending of simple writing and photographic exercises, participants will become keen observers of both external and internal landscapes: What we see and how it makes us feel. Course journals will serve as a tool to capture these dual observations. Participants will create hand-stitched books to chronicle their own personal journey during the course. Images of wildlife and nature by painters and photographers such as Thomas Moran, Lanford Monroe, J.K. Hillers and Jim Brandenburg will heighten our appreciation and serve as inspiration in the creation of our own photographic and sketchbook images.
The Lamar Buffalo Ranch Field Campus provides simple, yet comfortable accommodations in log guest cabins. There is a heated bathhouse with showers and restrooms, and a common building with classrooms and kitchen. Students are expected to bring a sleeping bag and pillow. Most meals will be provided. Participants share space in cabins that include three single beds, a propane heater, and reading lights. The cabins do not have electrical outlets or plumbing.

Program instructors include Ellen Petrick-Underwood, educational consultant who for eight years was the Education Program Manager for the National Park Service in Yellowstone NP; Jane Lavino, National Museum of Wildlife Art (Jackson, WY) Curator of Education; and Norm Bishop, International Wolf Center field representative for the greater Yellowstone region.
Cost: $400.00 per person ($300.00 for graduate students who also register for ADED 5450, see below). Covers program, four nights lodging, entrance into the park, transportation within the park, and meals beginning with breakfast on August 19th.
Program is limited to 25 participants.

Graduate Students: Through March 15th 2004, eight spaces are reserved for graduate students who also intend to register for a two credit hour Summer Course that is a companion component of the program. The course is ADED 5450 Short Course in Adult Education: Residential Learning For Adults in Wilderness Areas; 2 credit hours graded. Tuition for the course is $152.00 per credit hour ($304.00). The course will include 3 two-hour audio conference classes beginning in July and a pre-and post-program meeting with program coordinators.

To make reservations contact Jeanette Skinner, Office Assistant, Department of Adult Learning and Technology, University of Wyoming, Education Building 306, Laramie, WY 82071. Phone: 307-766-3247. Registration is on a first-come, first-served basis and the class is expected to fill quickly.

For additional information visit the department’s website at ed.uwyo.edu/Departments/depalt