EGMT 1520

Professor Clabough teaches In-Consciousness: How We Know Who We Are. This engagement studies wellbeing and stress reduction techniques. This includes controlled breathing, yoga, meditation, sound experiences, and spending time in nature. Each week was a different technique that was practiced on the first class of the week and discussed in a lecture format during the second class. Overall, this was a pretty easy engagement, but it did require more work than the average engagement outside of class. The grading was very easy, but you had to read two scientific articles and practice the technique 5 times each week. This practice took 5-10 minutes each day with a two page reflection at the end of the week. I found this class interesting and was rarely bored. The work was not overwhelming and is very doable for an easy grade, but if you don't want to be doing light work constantly throughout the week, don't take this class.

I highly recommend taking this class to fulfill the empirical engagement! This was definitely the coolest engagement I took all of first year. This class focuses primarily on different kinds of mindfulness. Each week, Professor Clabough focuses on one specific type and on Monday we do an activity based on the mindfulness technique for the week. These were my favorite classes, we went on nature walks, did breathing exercises, yoga, and a sound bath. Wednesday class I will say was more boring as it was just Professor Clabough discussing the type of mindfulness for the week and the reading in addition to some group discussion. However, I think the Monday classes were so interesting that they balanced out. I will note that this class did have work outside class every week. We had to write summaries and questions based on a reading each week but the readings were not too long so I would not say it was too bad.