Kelly Thomsen

A piece on Sewanee students’ sense of place for Dr. David Haskell‘s Environmental and Biological Nonfiction class at Sewanee.

For my open-ended experiment, I chose to interview four seniors about their favorite place on campus. I wanted to come to understand how Sewanee’s Domain affects its students. It’s rare for a university to have space like this – a whole thirteen thousand acres, much of it undeveloped and intended for student use. “The Domain” is the affectionate term that many use to describe the University’s space, academic as well as natural. Sewanee is a unique school, and I attempted to gauge how much of this uniqueness comes from the campus itself. I chose to interview four seniors, to look back with them over their Sewanee experience and tease out the ways that Domain has impacted each of them. I asked them all four questions about the place and their experience with it, marked on the map, and I put it all together in an attempt to understand this beautiful, mysterious place where we live.

Read more: https://enst250.wordpress.com/reflections-on-the-domain/.