🎧 Listen to the city’s stories with your ears
🌊 Walk into the river with your feet
🧪 STEAM micro-credits × sensory environmental learning
📍 Poster exhibition now on
Venue｜Bo’ai Campus, Gongcheng Building, 3rd Floor Corridor
All teachers and students are warmly welcome.
The College of Science’s 2025 academic year micro-credit program, “From Soundscapes to Waterscapes: Opening a Sensory Journey into the Environment,” has successfully concluded. Through two STEAM-integrated micro-courses, students used their ears and footsteps to rediscover the cities and rivers we live with every day.
In “Where Sound Leads: Environmental Acoustics and Urban Landscapes,” students began with the basic principles of sound, then stepped into the campus and surrounding streets to collect soundscapes using recording devices and digital tools. From birdsong and traffic to everyday conversations, they learned, step by step, how to discern environmental information from what is often dismissed as “background noise,” turning sensory impressions into observation and analysis, and rethinking the role of listening in environmental education.
“Ever-Flowing Rivers: River Ecology and Environmental Conservation” was offered in collaboration with Green Bookstore. Students left the classroom to walk along the Green River in Zhong–Yonghe, Wa-Qian Stream (瓦磘溝). Moving from the upstream sections and riverside vegetation to human-made structures, they combined puzzle-solving activities with on-site documentation to understand the historical changes and ecological pressures of urban water environments, and to discuss how everyday actions are closely tied to river conservation. Many students shared that, for the first time, they felt that “a river is not just scenery, but a living system with memory that tells stories.”
Through these two 0.5-credit micro-courses, students gained more than a grade on a transcript—they gained a new pair of ears and a new pair of eyes. They learned to hear the joys and sorrows of the environment in everyday sounds and waters, and to reflect on what they themselves can do for the cities and rivers that surround them.
The course成果 are now presented in a poster exhibition. We invite all teachers and students to visit the 3rd-floor corridor of Gongcheng Building on Bo’ai Campus, pause for a moment, and join us in listening to the stories of the city and the river.