Summer Field Study 2025: Visit National Parks and Earn Honors Credit!

Join the Summer Field Study course for a unique hybrid Honors Learning Community combining Honors “A Survey of Ecology” BIO 103 and “Environmental Humanities” HUM150.

Join us for a unique hybrid learning community and Honors Core Seminar combining A Survey of Ecology BIO 103 and Environmental Humanities HUM150. In this 8-week course, we’ll take learning on the road for the last 3 weeks of the course! We’ll BioBlitz at national parks—Badlands, Yellowstone, and Theodore Roosevelt—while learning about Native American cultures and histories. If you like nature, camping, and hiking while thinking, this class is for you. Tell your friends and contact either Professor Lesniak tlesniak@oakton.edu or Prof. Staats mstaats@oakton.edu to enroll.

Spots are limited, so don’t delay!

This fulfills the requirement of a Learning Community as well as 6 credits toward the Honors Scholar Designation (see point 10).