a little late, but still in

I'm Alexandra Greif, and I'm concentrating on Environmental Education and Linguistics (a self-designed major). This concentration is sort of a general outlook on Sustainable Development, Planning and teaching ESL (English as a Second Language). When I first started at ASU, I'd intended on majoring in Elementary education, but... found out that I wanted to explore a few different areas. I decided about two years ago that I wanted to study SD as well as ESL but realized I wouldn't have enough time to complete the SD major and minor in ESL due to spending a semester in Germany. So.... thanks to the help of David Huntley, I created this concentration to prepare me to possibly teach ESL abroad in underdeveloped countries and still do some sort of sustainable work on the side.

My future plans have changed significantly this past year. Instead of wanting to go explore the world, I have tapped back into the desire to teach in public schools. After speaking with a few high school ESL teachers, I'm thinking I would like to get into the school system with either teaching ESL and German (my minor) or kindergarten. It's somewhat of a stretch, but I figured undergraduate education is for studying what you want and graduate is for your career. We'll see. I hope to take a short break from school to work, and then eventually go back for a Masters. But for now, I'm just keeping my fingers crossed and trying to get through this last stretch of school. Yeah for graduation!

Course List:
Intro to Planning - Jana Carp
Planning for Sustainable Communities - Jana Carp
Intro to Sustainable Development - Christof den Biggelaar
Politics, Technology and the Environment - Chuck Smith
Environmental Economics - John Whitehead
Sustainable Development - Jeff Boyer
Agrarian Studies and Rural Development - Jeff Boyer
Second Language Acquisition - Richard McGarry
Structure of Modern English - Richard McGarry
Materials and Methods in TESOL - Richard McGarry

Books:
Second Nature - Michael Pollen (?)
**there are more books I'd like to put on here, but I don't remember the exact titles and authors!