Dr. Dieringer recently traveled to Sweden to learn about eco-municipalities, a topic she wants to bring back to enhance her dialectics class, Hon 240: Florida’s Future — Climate Change at Home. Here is what she wrote: Sweden is so much more than meatballs, Ikea, and red, fish-shaped gummy candy. Unlike the U.S., Sweden embraces climateContinue reading “Travel Abroad: Dr. Dieringer’s Swedish Education”
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On-Campus Activities: Wiffle Ball
While it’s true that Honors Students spend the last two weeks of the semester studying, working on projects, and generally avoiding sleeping, sometimes they come outside to touch grass and participate in events that the on-campus activities committee organizes. This year, that event was a Wiffle Ball tournament that will go down in human historyContinue reading “On-Campus Activities: Wiffle Ball”
Excursion: Tampa Bay History Museum
The HEC off-campus events subcommittee organized an excursion to the Tampa Bay History Center, where students were able to learn more about Tampa Bay’s history from the Seminole Native Americans and the arrival of the European explorers in the 1500s to contemporary Florida today.