Sophomore Western Immersion

As a sophomore, you’ll spend three days at our Mountain Campus immersed in the Western experience. Weaving together the disciplines of science, literature, history and art, you’ll see firsthand how the Western landscape has shaped the people, the history and culture of the region.

You’ll participate in three all-day academic blocks using the outdoors as your classroom. One of the blocks is an all-day ecology and nature writing seminar that explores the relationship between Colorado’s life zones and descriptive writing. You will travel from forest to treeline and then venture into the rugged high-alpine tundra learning along the way how life adapts to survive in this unforgiving environment. You’ll separate to find quiet places where you can take in your surroundings, reflect upon what you’ve learned and record it in your field journal using drawings, prose and poetry.