{"id":10314,"date":"2020-12-04T21:33:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2020-12-04T21:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:35:47","slug":"mill-city-times-interviews-professor-joseph-underhill-about-river-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2020\/12\/04\/mill-city-times-interviews-professor-joseph-underhill-about-river-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"Mill City Times interviews Professor Joseph Underhill about River Semester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10319 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Underhill\" width=\"233\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_62-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>Mill City Times recently interviewed Augsburg Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/faculty\/underhil\/\">Joseph Underhill<\/a> about River Semester. Underhill teaches courses in Environmental Politics, International Relations, and Political Methodology, and regularly takes students off campus for experiential and interdisciplinary learning. An experiential education is a hallmark of an Augsburg education and Undehill has been key to helping Augsburg live it out. He has directed the International Relations Program and Model United Nations programs at Augsburg since 1998 and taken students to New Zealand, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Egypt, and Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>For the past fifteen years, Underhill has taken students out on the Mississippi River to study the impact of human activity on the river ecosystem.\u00a0Students in the program earn a full semester of college credits with a customized curriculum focused on environmental justice and social change in the Mississippi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10317 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Underhill\" width=\"194\" height=\"129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/12\/18-0824_22.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>watershed. The River Semester is a regular part of the programming offered by Augsburg University\u2019s\u00a0Center for Global Education and Experience (CGEE).<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview at the <a href=\"http:\/\/millcitytimes.com\/news\/the-mill-city-times-interview-professor-joseph-underhill-aug.html\">Mill City Times website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more details about River Semester, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/river\/\">River Semester site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mill City Times recently interviewed Augsburg Professor Joseph Underhill about River Semester. Underhill teaches courses in Environmental Politics, International Relations, and Political Methodology, and regularly takes students off campus for experiential and interdisciplinary learning. An experiential education is a hallmark of an Augsburg education and Undehill has been key to helping Augsburg live it out. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10327,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions\/10327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}