Dr. Stephen Cernek, Professor of Social Sciences and Humanities
Office: LRC 204   Phone:  x6641     Email: cernek@dwc.edu

Spring 2008 Courses

HI 200 - Technology and Social Change in American History
HI 316 America in the Vietnam Era
ID 408 History and Culture in the American Southwest

Summer 2008 Courses
ID 406 Searching for Yellowstone
HI 308 Lewis and Clark's America

Summer 2008 Travel Courses

A unique option for completing the senior seminar requirement at the College is offered each summer by Professor Stephen Cernek in ID 406, Searching for Yellowstone, a course that provides students with the opportunity to examine current environmental issues in Yellowstone National Park.  After four weeks of pre-travel study on Blackboard, students travel to the Park in June and spend a week in the Yellowstone ecosystem to see first-hand how efforts to manage and preserve the Park's natural resources are shaped by a variety of social, political and economic concerns.  Travel experiences include conversations with naturalists and historians, short hikes with Park rangers, and visits to local museums. Hiking and horseback-riding also give students the opportunity to engage Yellowstone in a personal way. There are also plenty of opportunities to see wolves, grizzly bears, bison and elk, eagles and ospreys, and a rich variety of wildlife, and to view well-know Park landmarks like Old Faithful, the Lamar Valley, Lake Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Click on one of the thumbnails below for a short film showing excerpts from past trips.

The Yellowstone Experience

Hiking		Horseback Riding		Old Faithful		Lamar Valley
Hiking to the summit of Mt. Washburn at an elevation of 10,400 feet.		Student take a horseback ride to Pleasant Valley for an all-you-can eat steak cookout.		Old Faithful is probably the Park's best known feature.		The Lamar Valley is teeming with wildlife and is home to four of Yellowstone's wolf packs.

Summer 2008 Yellowstone Trip

Tentative Travel Dates: June 1-7

Costs: estimated at $750

Travel fee includes all lodging, ground transportation, horseback-riding,

admissions, and all professional fees. Student purchase their own airfare.

COURSE TUITION IS EXTRA.

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in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark

HI 309, Lewis and Clarks' America, is offered each summer by Dr. Cernek to provide students with the opportunity to consider the historic importance of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 by studying their Journals and by traveling a section of their original route through the West.  Pre-travel and post-travel study using Blackboard will complement a week-long adventure that explores a 1200 mile route that begins in Billings, Montana and ends in Missoula, on the Montana-Idaho border. Numerous Lewis and Clark sites will be on the itinerary, with hiking, horseback riding and visits to museums and cultural centers making up other experiential learning activities. Students will also get a chance to visit the Little Big Horn and Big Hole Battlefields, explore an authentic ghost town, and see a working cattle ranch.  Click on either of the links below for a short movie of a past trip.

Exploring the Missouri River		Riding the Lewis and Clark Trail
On the first full day students travel along a section of the Wild and Scenic Missouri River that remains just as Lewis and Clark saw it in 1805.		One of our two days in Dillon, Montana includes a morning horseback ride in country through which Lewis and Clark traveled in 1805 and 1806.

Lewis and Clark 2008 Trip

Tentative Travel Dates: June 22-29

Costs: estimated at $750

includes airfare, all lodging, ground transportation, horseback-riding, steak cookout,

admissions, and all professional fees. Students purchase their own airfare.

COURSE TUITION IS EXTRA.

HOW TO REGISTER

Both of these travel course will be offered in the 2008 summer term.  But is is VERY IMPORTANT that any student who plans on registering for these courses contact Dr. Cernek as soon as possible (ASAP!) since travel planning is completed well before the formal course registration period begins in April.   A nominal travel deposit will be required, and those students who have paid the deposit will get the first choice of the limited number of seats in each course when course registration opens.

Ten (10) student limit for Yellowstone, and seven (7) for Lewis and Clark.

Dr. Cernek can be reached at (cernek@dwc.edu) for questions.

About the Leader: Professor Stephen Cernek has been leading Daniel Webster College students on experiential learning course trips since 1993. Destinations have included New Mexico, Yellowstone, Montana, Southern Utah, Washington, D.C. and New York City, totaling in excess of 180,000 miles in over 35 trips.