Religion courses currently using the Cowling Arboretum for an outdoor classroom are: RELG 100 American Pilgrimages, RELG 100 Christianity and Colonialism, RELG 100 Religion and the American Landscape, RELG 110 Understanding Religion and RELG 130 Native American Religious Traditions.
Religion Professor Kristin Bloomer teaches a class on The Sacred Body (238) which recently sponsored a visit from Halau Kiawekupono O Ka Ua, a traditional men’s hula dance group, in order to examine different ways that information is passed down through generations using physical expression, like oral histories or dance. The hula group led a master class and a workshop in lei making for students, using traditional Carleton cultural materials — leaves and plants from the Arboretum!
This workshop was a great example of how the Arboretum offers an unexpectedly large range of educational opportunities to students at Carleton.