Augsburg University River Semester

12/01/2023

Water Strider I in open salt water. We exited the river in New Orleans and are on lake Pontchatrain.

11/09/2023

A few photos from our journey from Vicksburg to Baton Rouge. We will be departing for New Orleans on November 10th and will post some photos from that stretch as well

03/23/2022

Applications for the next River Semester expedition are now being accepted! https://studyabroad.augsburg.edu/index.cfm?FuseAction=Programs.ViewProgramAngular&id=53291
Scholarships available for paid student research and travel funds through a Mellon Foundation grant too! It's never too early to start planning for next year.

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03/04/2022

Excited for our new partnership with the Associated Colleges of the Midwest! https://acm.edu/students/off-campus-study-programs/river-semester-100-days-on-the-mississippi/ It will be great to have some of those students and faculty on the next trip!

Photo: Augsburg University, used with permission Travel from the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico as part of this distinctive educational expedition. Advance your undergraduate studies with a customized curriculum built around environmental justice and social change in the M...

12/03/2021

See what the students on the 2021 expedition have been recording in the Expedition Log, now updated through th end of November.

A record of the 2021 River Semester Expedition (beginning May 1, with the boat-building project) November 30: Day 95 Today was another layover in New Orleans. In the early morning, half of our crew went on a drive with Joe to the end of the road at Mardi Gras Pass. They got to explore around the ...

11/30/2021

Excited to share this new offering from the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, including the course curated by the River Semester's Joe Underhill

Exciting news: a new format is released on our research platform -
Explore new modes of learning in the !

The Courses offer curated pathways by invited teachers and learners, theorists and practitioners through existing material and newly commissioned research, using a collectively produced, multi-pathway approach.

The inaugural Anthropocene Curriculum course, ON CURRICULA, invites readers to consider what it means to develop a curriculum in or for the Anthropocene: Should we question the contexts in which knowledge is produced, and how they shape its form and value?

The first pathway, composed by the AC team, surveys the key elements that might forge new and experimental curricula, as well as other digital initiatives that reinvent and inspire practices of navigating the conditions of our current epoch. Artist-researcher Jamie Allen considers the new forms of “planetary intimacy” that emerge as notions of distance and proximity are transformed. Traveling the braided channels of the Mississippi River, political scientist and environmental educator Joe Underhill proposes that we must translate the often unnecessarily complicated jargon of Anthropocene discourse in order to better engage with marginalized and socially divided communities. And as an act of resistance, and to create space for resolutions in these unprecedented times, artist-archivist Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski evokes practices of rest and slowness amid the “Anthropocene hurry.”

0 ON CURRICULA with contributions by the AC Team, Jamie Allen, Joe Underhill and Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski
https://www.anthropocene-curriculum.org/courses/on-curricula

Dive into the courses and find more information on:
http://anthropocene-curriculum.org/courses

09/03/2021

The fourth River Semester launches today! Follow our progress on the Expedition Log.

A record of the 2021 River Semester Expedition, starting with the building of the new catamarans. Day 5: September 1 Happy September! Today started off with silliness. We showed up to the marina singing tunes and dressed as the characters from Wes Anderson’s “The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.....

04/23/2021

Here's the first installment of the vlog on building the new river catamarans: working on the design and testing the scale model. As a wise river rat once said, "Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats."

We will be documenting the construction of the new boats for the River Semester. This shows some of the initial design and tests with the scale model.

03/11/2021

Our new logo: the Tree of Life in the shape of the Mississippi River watershed. Mni Wiconi. Water is life!

01/05/2021

An intriguing and mysterious view of the Mississippi from Isabelle Carbonell, from the 2019 Anthropocene River Journey. What new encounters will we have on the 2021 expedition?

Mississippi Multiverse Over the last one hundred years, the Lower Mississippi River has transitioned from a site once dominated by plantations to one ruled by petrochemicals. Rivers are fractal connectors, tying together entire continents, civilization...