University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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change 01 Through field trips, students take advantage of the opportunity to enrich and extend Field trips offer the chance to connect classroom learning with the raw data of the subject we are studying. Gradu- ate Student Instructor and Ph.D. candidate in American culture Catherine Daligga took her students out into the real world rather than keeping them confined to the class- room. Her American Culture 206 course got field trip expe- rience in downtown Detroit when Daligga took them on her non-traditional city tour. Daligga liked the tour because it not only provided a relevant place and context for bringing the course objec- tives to life, it also allowed for spontaneous learning expe- riences. In particular, Detroit is a place with a hugely complicated reputation, she said. I think it ' s important to show students how scholars and critics have chosen to interpret the city. Like Daligga, many professors used field trips to en- hance their courses. The trips range from on-campus ex- cursions to the Bentley Library or the Museum of Art, to courses that rely entirely on out-of-class experience. Many students looked forward to the field trips and welcomed the change of pace that they offered. Senior English and psychology major Katie Marzolf says, I love a class that takes me away from sitting in a lecture hall. But not all students valued field trips the way Marzolf did. Junior industrial operations major Stephen Fleming recalled, Once I had a class that expected us to go on all kinds of trips on Saturdays and outside of class hours. It was too much time, and a lot of kids dropped it. Some students did not find field trips to be worth the time they took and, likewise, some professors did not fit field trips into their curriculum, but for the devout like Katie Marzolf and Catherine Daligga the field trip made the material worth learning. By Sarah Johnson 70 | Field Trips

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Bathed in sunlight, a student relaxes on the Diag. The nicer weather during the summer allotted plenty of time for outdoor studying - or procrastinating, photo by Abby Johnson Resting from rollerskating, a woman pauses amidst the heat of the Ann Arbor Art Fair. Attracting visitors from all over the surrounding area, the art fair flooded both downtown and campus areas in July, offering students who remained in Ann Arbor an excellent people-watching opportunity between classes, photo by Kristen Starter Academics I 69

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Pulling in a gillnet, Teresa Carrey retrieves a sample early in the morning in the Muskegon Harbor for NRE 306. Because of the environmental impact, only re- searchers and Native Americans were allowed to use gillnets; students studying with professors also had access to the nets, which provided more of a represen- tative sample than other methods, phoio cmrtesy f ' .hiymc Lorn Outside the NOAA station in Muskegon, Michigan, Dr. Ridinsky, an environmental chemistry professor from Grand Valley State University, demonstrates proper methods for seprating micro-organisms from sediment. NRE 306 students lived at the station for one week in May while taking the class, pimio c,mnes -afjarme