Summer 2015

Anthropology 111: Anthro of Food

Critical survey of different anthropological approaches of food production and consumption: biological implications of diet; relations between agricultural forms and political systems; the meanings of feasting; cooking, class and gender; food and national identity.

Anthropology 127: Hunters & Gatherers

What do Pygmies, Aborigines, and Eskimos have in common? What is the relationship between nature and culture in these simple societies? These questions and others will be examined through case studies and cross-cultural comparisons.

Comparative Lit 35: The Making of the Modern World

Description and analysis of decisive events contributing to the world we are inhabiting. Various themes presented: City planning, war and industrial warfare, technology and media-technology, ideologies of modernity, and modern master theories.

English 122LE – Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment

Environmental survey of Western literature that explores the often-ignored literary history of the natural world.

English 122NE: Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across cultures. Course explores changing expressions of our changing relations to the world we live in, with emphasis on cultural movements (films, literature, newspapers, etc.) that have affected contemporary American experience.

Environmental Studies 100: Environmental Ecology

A study of principles of ecology and their implications for analyzing environmental problems. Focus on understanding the processes controlling the dynamics of populations, communities and ecosystems. Specific examples emphasize the application of these concepts to the management of natural resources.

Environmental Studies 112: World Population, Policies, and the Environment

History of global population growth, with emphasis on developing nations. Its socio-economic effects on a society and factors behind migration. Different views of Malthus, Marx, Boserup, and others and governmental policies to check rapid population growth will also be discussed.

Environmental Studies 115: Energy and the Environment

Focus on learning how to use energy efficiently in accordance with the laws of thermodynamics and in harmony with the environment. Topics include the nature of energy and the fundamentals for a sustainable environmental energy policy.

Environmental Studies 122LE – Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment

Environmental survey of Western literature that explores the often-ignored literary history of the natural world.

Environmental Studies 122NE: Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across cultures. Course explores changing expressions of our changing relations to the world we live in, with emphasis on cultural movements (films, literature, newspapers, etc.) that have affected contemporary American experience.

Environmental Studies 147: Air Quality and the Environment

Types, sources, effects, and control of air pollution. Topics include gaseous pollutants particulates, toxic contaminants, atmospheric dispersion, photochemical smog, acid rain control measures, the clean air act and regulatory trends, indoor air.

Environmental Studies 160: American Environmental Literature

Assesses contributions of literary texts to American environmental movements. Examines influences of writers such as Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Edward Abbey upon environmental perceptions, values, and attitudes in american cultural history and upon rhetorics and politics of contemporary environmental debates.

Environmental Studies 183: Film of the Natural and Human Environment

Course presents a series of popular films and professional documentaries representing a range of trends, images, and issues associated with the natural and human environments. Visual images and critical thinking skills are combined to enhance understanding of environmental issues presented by the media.

Environmental Studies 188: The Ethics of Human-Environment Relations

Survey of contemporary environmental ethics, focusing on both philosophical and applied issues. Topics include anthropocentrism and its alternatives, the role of science and aesthetics, multicultural perspectives and the problem of relativism, and the conflict between radical and reformist environmentalism.

Geography 3A: Oceans and Atmosphere

Introduction to the oceans and atmosphere and their role in the Earth’s climate and its weather patterns. Focus on the flows of solar energy through the ocean and atmosphere systems. Human impacts of the Earth’s climate are also introduced.

Geography 3B: Land, Water, and Life

Study of the interactions among water, landforms, soil, and vegetation that create and modify the surface of the Earth. Impacts of physical environment on human societies and humans as agents of environmental change.

Geography 5: People, Place, and Environment

Survey of spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and interaction with the Earth’s biophysical systems. Sample topics include human spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural environment.

Geography 8: Living with Global Warming

Overview of global warming and climate change processes. Description of complex relationships between scientific, technological, economic, social, political, and historical facets of global warming and climate change. Introduction to the concept and practice of climate modeling.

Writing 109ES: Writing for Environmental Studies

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing for environmental studies, both academic and professional. Attention to research methods, design of papers, development of graphics, stylistic clarity, and editing strategies.

Spring 2015

ANTH 129MG, Behavioral Ecology of Hunter Gatherers

A thorough introduction using a behavioral ecology approach to the diversity of behaviors found among foragers in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia, and Australia. Topics include: diet and subsistence, mating, demography, social behavior, mobility and settlement patterns, gender, indigenous rights, and conservation.

ANTH 130C, Global Food Systems and Human Food Security

Examines history of global food systems and its impacts on ecosystems, ecologies, and human nutrition and food security. How agricultural, capture fisheries, and aquacultural industries were integrated into the global food system. Provides information to make more informed decisions about consuming these products.

ANTH 166FP, Small-Scale Food Production

Biological, ecological, social, and economic principles of small-scale food production and their practical applications. Includes each student cultivating a garden plot; lab exercises, field trips to local farms and gardens.

ANTH 168, Ethnology in Rural California: Transformations in Agriculture, Farm Labor, and Rural Communities

Provides a systematic review of research by anthropologists and other social scientists on the development of agriculture and its effects on rural society. Special emphasis is given to the settlement of immigrant farm workers and the formation of new communities.

ANTH 184, Settlement Pattern Analysis in Archaeology

How the arrangement of archaeological sites across the landscape indicates aspects of human culture, including subsistence strategies and socio-political complexity. Methods of obtaining and interpreting settlement data.

ARTHI 136J, Landscape of Colonialism

Examination of architecture, urbanism and the land scape of British and French colonialism between 1600 and 1950. Introduction to the different forms of colonialism, colonial ideology and the architecture of colonial encounter in North America, Asia, Africa and Australia.

BL ST 129, The Urban Dilemma

Examines the evolution of African-American urban communities. Focuses on theoretical and historiographical debates including: social organization; conditions; daily life; culture; social movements; sustainable development; and class, gender, race relations. Analysis of current policy debates and community initiatives.

EACS 141, Environmental Justice in Asia

Applies environmental justice, a tool for addressing social and ethnic/racial inequality in environmental conditions, to analysis of Asia. Contrasts mainstream environmental and sustainability models with the justice-based approach to analyze how local communities devise solutions for environmental crises.

ECON 115, Environmental Economics

Provides a rigorous treatment of environment economics. Topics include welfare analysis, ethical dimensions of economic criteria for protecting the environment, measuring the demand for environmental goods, property rights, economic incentives, including marketable permits and emission fees, and regulating risk.

ED 136, Green Works – Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability

A multi-disciplinary class examining the interplay of technology, society, science, and history. Investigate green technologies in an interactive class format designed to encourage discussion and debate. Innovative science and social science labs provide hands-on learning.

ENGL 22, Literature and the Environment

Beginning with “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, one of the West’s earliest texts, this course surveys nearly 5000 years of literature in order to explore the literary history of the relationship we have with our planet, as well as to better understand our current environmental beliefs.

ENGL 122AP, Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment – Imagining Asia and the Pacific

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.

ENGL 122NE, Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across cultures. Course explores changing expressions of our changing relations to the world we live in, with emphasis on cultural movements (films, literature, newspapers, etc.) that have affected contemporary American experience.

ENV S 3, Introduction to the Social and Cultural Environment

An introduction to the relationship of societies and the environment from prehistorical times to the present. The course is global in perspective, and includes history, literature, philosophy, economics, science, and culture as evidence for examining the human social environment.

ENV S 122NE, Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment

Perceptions of nature have changed throughout history and vary across cultures. Course explores changing expressions of our changing relations to the world we live in, with emphasis on cultural movements (films, literature, newspapers, etc.) that have affected contemporary American experience.

ENV S 130C, Global Food Systems and Human Food Security

Examines history of global food system and its impacts on ecosystems, ecologies, and human nutrition and food security. How agricultural, capture fisheries, and aquacultural industries were integrated into the global food system. Provides information to make more informed decisions about consuming these products.

ENV S 136, Green Works – Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability

A multi-disciplinary class examining the interplay of technology, society, science, and history. Investigate green technologies in an interactive class format designed to encourage discussion and debate. Innovative science and social science labs provide hands-on learning.

ENV S 166FP, Small-Scale Food Production

Biological, ecological, social, and economic principles of small-scale food production and their practical applications. Includes each student cultivating a garden plot; lab exercises, field trips to local farms and gardens.

ENV S 175, Environmental Economics

Provides a rigorous treatment of environmental economics. Topics include welfare analysis, ethical dimensions of economic criteria for protecting the environment, measuring the demand for environmental goods, property rights, economic incentives, including marketable permits and emission fees, and regulating risk.

ENV S 185, Human Environmental Rights

Introduction to human environmental rights. Examines the expansion of human rights to include human environmental rights, abuses of human environmental rights, associated social conflicts, and emergent social movements including environmental justice and transnational advocacy networks.

FLMST 187ND, Narrating Deep Time

Can we tell stories that span 1,000 or 10,000 years? Can an individual’s affect be contextualized not only by her immediate environment but by the epoch in which she lives? What formal techniques—time lapse, montage, allegory—can be used to convey that our creaturely fragility is shared not only with species contemporaneous to us, but with species extinct before we ever knew them?

Perceptions of geological time—what this course will refer to as “deep time”—systematically developed since the mid-1700s, are especially relevant for our contemporary moment defined by environmental crises of long duration. Attempts to predict anthropogenic climate change 100 years into the future; the redefinition of our era as the “Anthropocene,” an epoch in which humans have become a geological force; the production of radioactive waste whose half-life is measured in millennia: these and other environmental dilemmas require a flexible repertoire of narrative tools if we are to comprehend our current and lasting impact on the planet. Yet, as Rob Nixon has noted, “slow violence”—impacts that are temporally and geographically diffuse—is difficult to narrate, not least because of our short attention spans and distraction by the spectacular. This course places the contemporary turn toward “big temporal thinking” within a larger discourse of deep time and attempts to narrate the longue durée.

GEOG 5, People, Place, and Environment

Survey of spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and interaction with the Earth’s biophysical systems. Sample topics include human spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural environment.

GEOG 141A, Population Geography

Various geographic dimensions of human population dynamics: fertility, mortality, and migration. The concepts and language of demography are introduced. The causes and consequences of population dynamics are investigated, including links among population, environment, and development.

GEOG 153C, Environmental Perception and Cognition

Research and theory on human perception and cognition of environments. Topics include spatial perception, spatial learning, knowledge structures, navigation and wayfinding, language and spatial cognition, map use, the spatial skills of special populations, and other issues.

HIST 193F, Food in World History

Explores the cultural, economic, and geopolitical roles of food and drink in world history. Topics include: trade, production, and consumption; global food chains; morality and food reform; identities and body image; scarcity, food scares, and food security.

SOC 126, Urban Society

Problems of the city, (e.g., congestion, homelessness, violence) are examined in light of larger economic and social forces which structure urban life. Through use of slides depicting urban settings, causes and consequences of different ways urban settlements have been organized are considered.

SOC 134CJ, Climate Justice

Overview of the climate change problem and exploration of the meanings of the term “climate justice” as used by scholars and social movement activists to imagine and create a sustainable, equitable, democratic world for future generations.

SOC 134G, Green Movements and Green Parties

Examines how environmental organizations and green political parties are shaping policy formulation on environmental issues in different developed and developing countries, with a focus on the US experience.

WRIT 105S, Writing About Sustainability

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing that address sustainability in interdisciplinary contexts. Students will research, write, and reflect on concepts and practices of sustainability, examining the role of words and images in communicating sustainability ideas to diverse audiences.

WRIT 109ES, Writing for Environmental Studies

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing for environmental studies, both academic and professional. Attention to research methods, design of papers, development of graphics, stylistic clarity, and editing strategies.

Winter 2015

ANTH 130A, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters

Examines human dimensions of global environmental change in developing countries from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Compares and contrasts alternative conceptual and analytical models of dynamic, interrelated human-environmental systems and presents recent approaches to understanding risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disasters.

ANTH 162, Prehistoric Food Production

A history of the process of plant and animal domestication in the Americas, the Near East, Asia, and Africa. Course focuses on the specific biological changes in the major domesticates as well as associated social changes in human life.

ARTHI 134E, The Art of the Chinese Landscape

Chinese approaches to landscape as subject matter in art, with a focus on painting and garden architecture. The course begins with the immortality cult in the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.221) and ends with contemporary artists of the twentieth century.

EACS 103B, Anthropology of Japan

This course examines Japan as depicted in contemporary ethnography. We consider how Japan has been imagined as a distinct culture by exploring gender, religion, family structures, the education system, the environment, management of difference, globalization and domestication, immigration, and modernization.

ENGL 101, English Literature from the Medieval Period to 1650: Neighbors, Human and Nonhuman

This course will investigate humans’ relationship with their neighbors (both those that are also human and those that are not) in the literature of Medieval and Early Modern England. We will approach this issue through three thematic/conceptual paradigms: Ecocriticism, Gender/Sexuality Studies, and Critical Neighbor Studies.

ENGL 122UM, Cultural Representations: The City As a Way of Life – Urban Modernity Post 1940

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.

ENV S 108O, History of the Oceans

Explores how people have experienced, understood, transformed, and attempted to conserve the world’s oceans throughout human history. Interdisciplinary approach includes aspects of science, technology, politics, law, culture, and material biophysical relationships.

ENV S 130A, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters

Examines human dimensions of global environmental change in developing countries from an interdisciplinary social science perspective. Compares and contrasts alternative conceptual and analytical models of dynamic, interrelated human-environmental systems and presents recent approaches to understanding risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disasters.

ENV S 161, Environmental Communications: Contemporary Strategies and Tactics

Surveys strategies and tactics for communicating about the environment and sustainability in various organizational, political, cultural, business, mass media and social media contexts. Students will analyze, evaluate and practice communications methods using a spectrum of communications channels.

ENV S 184, Gender and the Environment

A philosophical, evolutionary, and cross-cultural analysis of the ways women and men may relate differently to their environment resulting in the design of gender-sensitive and sustainable policies for planning and development in both the developing and the developed world.

ENV S 188, The Ethics of Human-Environmental Relations

Survey of contemporary environmental ethics, focusing on both philosophical and applied issues. Topics include anthropocentrism and its alternatives, the role of science and aesthetics, multicultural perspectives and the problem of relativism, and the conflict between radical and reformist environmentalism.

ENV S 189, Religion and Ecology in The Americas

An overview of the growing field of religion and ecology in the Americas. Focus on spiritual traditions and land-based knowledge indigenous to the Western hemisphere.

GEOG 130, The Urban Environment

Environment and climate of cities, suburbs, and other settlements, focusing on the built environment, soils, water, solar radiation, atmosphere, vegetation, and human thermal comfort. Students produce field reports on a range of sites along an urban to exurban gradient.

HIST 109T, Technology in Modern American History

Surveys social history of technology in American life with attention to 19th and 20th centuries. Focuses on history of U.S. industrialization, the place of innovation in U.S. history, and role of technology in intellectual, political, and social life.

HIST 117E, Society and Nature in the Middle Ages

Human-environmental interaction from the fall of Rome to environmental and epidemiological disasters of the fourteenth century. Topics include agricultural impact on the environment, introduction of new animal species to northern Europe, and selective breeding of livestock and plant life.

HIST 178B, American Urban History

A study of the political, economic, social, and intellectual impact of the city upon American history, and the impact of history upon the growth of American urbanization.

INT 94BZ, Genetic Modification of Food Crops

The seminar will explore the implications of genetic modification of our food crops with special emphasis on the application of recombinant DNA technology for crop improvement. The scientific basis of these technologies will be explained at the level of a non-science major. Course materials will include articles from the popular scientific press concerning the dangers and benefits of genetically modified crops. The potential impact of GMO crops (both good and bad) on agriculture in developing countries will also be covered.

INT 94LV, Biotechnology and Society

This course will cover topics including the high cost of drugs, finding a cure for cancer, genetically modified organisms, genetic profiling, gene therapy, cloning, stem cells, forensic biology, biotechnology and global warming, and will conclude with a “field trip” to a research lab.

INT 94NX, How Animals See

The suspicion that the visual worlds other animals inhabit may be very different from those we enjoy is of long standing; for example, in 370 BCE, Plato raised the following question: are you quite certain that the several colors appear to a dog or to any animal whatever as they appear to you??  Recent years have seen a dramatic expansion in our understanding of the biological machinery that allows various animals to see, of how these diverse capacities allow them to succeed, and of how vision evolved. In this seminar will examine these issues with the goal of providing an appreciation for the enormous variations in visual worlds available across the animal kingdom.

INT 94OS, Climate Justice for Beginners

This seminar will explore alternative ways to analyze and confront the planetary climate crisis, including how to understand the crisis, the global climate justice movements that are seeking solutions, the prospects of mounting successful climate justice campaigns both in the United States and globally, and strategies for organizing such movements.

INT 94QU, Waste

Waste, in modern societies, appears as a nuisance, a problem needing solution. Depending on its form and circumstance, trash is something to be discarded, removed, treated, collected, destroyed, concealed, recycled, managed and above all controlled. From sewage to garbage to e-waste, this course considers the historical, cultural, and technological dimensions of rubbish.

INT 94QW, The Environmental Movement in Germany: Why did the German Greens Become the Most Successful Environmental Party in the World?

In this seminar we will start by studying how Germans conceived of “nature” from the Romantic period of the early 1800s through industrialization and World War I to the Nazi period. After discussing “How green were the Nazis?” we will investigate the origins of the postwar environmental movement in the 1960s, the founding of the German Green Party in 1979, and its success winning seats in the national parliament in 1983.  What personalities, topics and events contributed to its early success? What problems did it have to overcome before it became part of a national governing coalition from 1998 to 2005? For this period we will examine election posters and speeches, and biographies of prominent individuals to see what made the party able to create a core constituency of voters.

INTAL 148X, Cities of Italy

A close-up look at the great texts, histories, and cultures of Italian cities such as Rome, Venice, Florence, Ferrara, and Naples. In English.

LAIS, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the History and Societies of Latin America and Iberia

Issues central to the study of Latin America and Iberia across the social sciences and history. Topics include nationalism, revolution, politics and the state, economic development and international relations, labor, popular culture, race, gender, religion, migration, environment, imperialism, and colonialism.

Pol S 175, Politics of the Environment

Analysis of environmental policy issues and their treatment in the political process. Discussion of the interplay of substantive issues, ideology, institutions, and private groups in the development, management, protection, and preservation of natural resources and the natural environment.

RG ST 183, Religion and Ecology in the Americas

An overview of the growing field of religion and ecology in the Americas. Focus on spiritual traditions and land-based knowledge indigenous to the western hemisphere.

SOC 105E, Environmental Sociology

Traces the history of environmentalism and applies social science theories, concepts, and methods to analyze critical contemporary environmental issues and societal responses to them.

SOC 126, Urban Society

Problems of the city, (e.g., congestion, homelessness, violence) are examined in light of larger economic and social forces which structure urban life. Through use of slides depicting urban settings, causes and consequences of different ways urban settlements have been organized are considered.

WRIT 105S, Writing About Sustainability

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing that address sustainability in interdisciplinary contexts. Students will research, write, and reflect on concepts and practices of sustainability, examining the role of words and images in communicating sustainability ideas to diverse audiences.

Fall 2014

ANTH 115, Language, Culture, and Place

Focuses on the dialectical interplay between humans and the environment and how people use language to classify, make sense of, and attribute moral and symbolic meaning to places and landscapes.

ANTH 149, World Agriculture, Food, and Population

Evolution, current status, and alternative futures of agriculture, food, and population worldwide. Achieving environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable food systems; soil, water, crops, energy, and labor; diversity, stability, and ecosystems management; farmer and scientist knowledge and collaboration; common property management.

ANTH 155, Prehistory of California and the Great Basin

A survey of the prehistory of California and the Great Basin, which includes principally the states of Nevada and Utah. Consideration is also given to how archaeologists construct regional cultural developments and attempt to explain prehistoric cultural change.

ARTHI 5A, Introduction to Architecture and Environment

Architecture is an act of place-making with which man has intertwined ever closer his world with the natural one. The course discusses basic architectural construction methods, discipline-specific terminology, design strategies, and interpretative concepts. Students must keep a visual, architectural journal.

ARTHI 142D, Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West: Renaissance to 1900

Changing nature of garden and landscape design from the Renaissance to NYC’s Central Park, studied as a function of the changing functions and status of land during the long passage from feudalism to industrial capitalism.

BL ST 129, The Urban Dilemma

Examines the evolution of African-American urban communities. Focuses on theoretical and historiographical debates including: social organization; conditions; daily life; culture; social movements; sustainable development; and class, gender, race relations. Analysis of current policy debates and community initiatives.

C Lit 126, Voyages to the Unknown

The impact of the voyages of discovery on late 15th and 16th century Europe. Readings on real and imaginary voyages: Columbus, Cartier, Lery, More, Rabelais, Montaigne.

C Lit 154, Science Fiction in Eastern Europe

The genre of science fiction and its development in literature and film in the various cultures of eastern europe. Topics include utopia, dystopia, technology, the “mad” scientist, etc. Taught in English.

ENGL 122CS, Cultural Representations: Cityscapes

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.

ENGL 197, Upper-Division Seminary: Feeling, Place, Expression

Until the post-World War II period, the interdependence of human psychology with our environments was, for the most part, unthought.  But the advent of nuclear power forced scientists and humanists alike to think more deliberately about this interdependence.  The publication of groundbreaking work on ecology and psychology in the 1970’s, during the First Wave of the contemporary environmental movement, led to what is now a rich interdisciplinary body of work on the subject.  This course will introduce you to that body of work, drawing on the work of philosophers (“ecosophy”), scientific psychologists, and psychoanalysts (“eco-psychoanalysis”) that now asks us, not just to understand better our “place” in the environment, but also to understand better the “place” of the environment within ourselves.

ENV S 116, Building Sustainable Communities

Examines sustainability, communities, and urban systems in a global context. Covers impacts cities have on the environmental systems that support them, and explores ways to improve urban systems through technology, policy, and design.

ENV S 129, Ecopsychology

Course explores the theories and practices of psychologists, educators, and others whose work is focused on the connections between “inner” human nature and “outer” nature within which humans experience themselves and the rest of the world.

ENV S 131, International Environmental Law and Politics

An examination of the actors and institutions of international environmental law and politics, with an emphasis on explaining patterns of success and failure in addressing global environmental problems.

ENV S 149, World Agriculture, Food, and Population

Evolution, current status, and alternative futures of agriculture, food and population worldwide. Achieving environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable food systems; soil, water, crops, energy and labor; diversity, stability and ecosystems management; farmer and scientist knowledge and collaboration; common property management.

ENV S 173, American Environmental History

Traces the history of American attitudes and behavior toward nature. Focus on wilderness, the conservation movement, and modern forms of environmentalism.

GEOG 5, People, Place, and Environment

Survey of spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and interaction with the Earth’s biophysical systems. Sample topics include human spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural environment.

GEOG 108, Urban Geography

Introduction to the study of the economic geography of cities and regions and its relation to planning: urbanization, internal structure of cities, settlement systems, regional growth and development, migration, transportation, housing.

GEOG 161, World Agriculture, Food, and Population

Evolution, current status, and alternative futures of agriculture, food and population worldwide. Achieving environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable food systems; soil, water, crops, energy and labor; diversity, stability and ecosystems management; farmer and scientist knowledge and collaboration; common property management.

HIST 178A, American Urban History

A study of the political, economic, social, and intellectual impact of the city upon American history, and the impact of history upon the growth of American urbanization.

RG ST 156EE, Environmental Ethics

Environmental Ethics probes questions of duty and policy regarding human impact on the natural world. Topics such as climate change, sustainable economics, population explosion, and the standing of non-human animals are examined from various perspectives.

WRIT 109ES, Writing for Environmental Studies

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing for environmental studies, both academic and professional. Attention to research methods, design of papers, development of graphics, stylistic clarity, and editing strategies.