{"id":26822,"date":"2025-06-19T19:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T19:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/?page_id=26822"},"modified":"2026-04-13T19:09:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T19:09:05","slug":"putting-earth-into-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/premajor\/first-year\/discovery-core\/autumn-dcx\/putting-earth-into-play","title":{"rendered":"Putting Earth Into Play: Investigating the Impact of Sport on Our Spaces & Places"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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a Discovery Core Experience<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

May be taken as either BCORE 110 (Natural Sciences)<\/strong>, or BCORE 107 (Social Sciences)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>

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About This Course<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Play ball! Sports can be defining. 足彩app哪个是正规的y shape personal lives and friendships, connections within communities, and impact the environment in ways large and small. Maybe you went to the Seahawks parade last year?\u00a0 Or played soccer with some friends over the summer?\u00a0 Are you looking forward to skiing or snowboarding this winter?\u00a0 All of these are important for community building, personal health, and connection to the world around us, but they can have invisible impacts as well. In this course we will explore how resource use in sports and recreation, from water to maintain green fields, to construction of new stadiums, to the use of shared land for outdoor recreation or travel to events all impact our environment. We\u2019ll explore different ways of defining value and impact, considering economics, environment, community, and personal growth and learn about innovators in both technological and social change that will let us stay connected through sport while decreasing negative impacts on the world around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Will We Learn?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 course will be broken into four sections, beginning with an exploration of interdisciplinary thinking and ways to approach a question from different points of view. We\u2019ll ask \u201cwhy sports matter\u201d and consider how we could respond to the question with answers that are personal, economic, cultural, qualitative or quantitative. We\u2019ll talk a bit about learning to learn and how asking good questions is a skill in itself!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll then have three focus units; water quality, climate change, and land use. Each section will include background on key environmental issues, examples of impact and future-looking change, and opportunities to practice skills in research, collaboration, and communication through individual and group projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Will We Learn?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As a first-year Discovery Core course, this is a chance to make a thoughtful entry into college-level course work with guided practice in research, collaboration and communication skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ll work on all of these together as we move through topics:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n