Winter 2020

Anthropology

ANTH 5: Introductory Biological Anthropology

An introductory course in human evolutionary biology. Natural selection and its genetic basis are used to highlight a variety of human traits. The fossil record is addressed, but the course takes more of an “adaptationist” than a paleontological perspective.

ANTH 7: Introductory Biosocial Anthropology

An introduction to our evolved, universal human nature, the evolution of the human mind, and how they shape behavior, social life, and culture. Topics include friendship, mate choice, incest avoidance, cooperation, revenge, status, jealousy, emotions, group formation, and intergroup aggression.

ANTH 121: Human Evolution

The nature and results of the evolutionary processes responsible for the formation and differentiation of human populations.

ANTH 130: International Development and Population Health

Considers the distribution and determinants of well being in human populations, with an emphasis on low-income nations and the actions of the international development sector. Focus is placed on cultural/social determinants of health, including issues of gender equality. Takes a critical perspective on the tools used to measure population health and the design and evaluation of development policy and interventions.

ANTH 131CA: California Indians

Investigation of the diversity of California Indian societies at the beginning of European colonization, including social organization, economy, material culture, and ideology. Also considered are origins and historic changes. Emphasis is placed on central and southern California.

ANTH 135: Modern Mexican Culture

The impact of dependency, industrialization, urbanization, technology, and modern communications on Mexican society in the Twentieth Century. Examination of recent sociocultural contemporary urban and rural communities, class structure, value orientations, ethnic minorities, and national integration.

ANTH 171: Evolutionary Medicine

Applies evolutionary principles to understanding human health and disease past and present. Topics include host/parasite co- evolution, aging and senescence, influence of human migration and culture on disease patterns, and evolutionary origins of “diseases of civilization.”

ANTH 186Z: Lab Course in Zooarchaeology

Study of archaeological faunal remains, including field/lab methodology, the reconstruction of ancient environment and the subsistence, spatial and temporal analysis, quantitative methods, and taxonomy. Divided between lecture, discussion, and labwork, involving identification of zooarchaeological remains.

Art

ART 7c: Introduction to Contemporary Practice: Spatial Studies

The study of spatial art in many forms, including material, interactive and dynamic digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions.

ART 106W: Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture

Develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art.

Architecture/Art History

ARTHI 6H: Survey: Arts of the Ancient Americas

An introduction to select art traditions from Mesoamerica to Andean South America. Examines architecture, ceramics, sculpture, painting and other classes of material culture for their meaning and function within sociopolitical, religious, and economic contexts.

ARTHI 6J: Survey: Contemporary Architecture

Global survey of architectural production in the twenty-first century. Emphasis on form and technology, as well as economic, sociopolitical context. Explores built form at a variety of scales (buildings, cities, virtual spaces), as well as the concept of a “contemporary.”

ARTHI 121D: African-American Art and the African Legacy

Examination of the three centuries of African-American art in North America, the Carribean, and Brazil, stressing the African legacy. Colonial metalwork and pottery, folk or outsider genres, and mainstream nineteenth-and twentieth-century work are among traditions studied.

ARTHI 132J: Modern Art of the Arab World

Explores modern and contemporary art, artists and art movements of the Arab world from nineteenth century to the present.

ARTHI 136Y: Modern Architecture in Southern California, c. 1890s-Present

Critically analyzes the changing definitions of modern architecture in Southern California from the 1890s to the present, focusing on the work of architects like Greene and Greene, R.M. Schindler, and R. Neutra, as well as the Case Study Houses.

ARTHI 143E: Adaptive Reuse and Art

Most public places, buildings, galleries, and museums are transformed to varying degrees over the course of their history. This lecture explores how contemporary architects and artists rethought and repurposed historic structures.

ARTHI 186B: Seminar in Ancient Greek and Roman Art/Architecture

Advanced studies in Ancient Greek and Roman archaeology and architecture. Emphasis on classical heritage of Asia Minor (Turkey). Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.

ARTHI 186N: Seminar in African Art

Advanced studies in African art. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.

Black Studies

BL ST 1: Introduction to African-American Studies

Explores historical and current social conditions of black people in the United States. Topics include slavery, emancipation, reconstruction and urban black migration, with particular consideration given to the black church and the black family as bearers and creators of African-American culture.

BL ST 3: Introduction to African Studies

A survey of the subject matter, themes, and methods of African Studies. While briefly surveying the prehistory and early states of Africa, the course focuses on the culture and society of the colonial and independence eras.

BL ST 14: History of Jazz

A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the African-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.

BL ST 49A: Survey of African History

Prehistory to c. 1800. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on organization of production, state formation, African civilizations and identities, science and technology, beliefs and knowledge systems, Africa’s interaction with the world economy, such as through enslavement and slave trades. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.

BL ST 126: Comparative Black Literatures

Using a social constructionist approach to race, this course examines the multiple ways in which racial discourses operate in global literary cultures. It emphasizes that blackness need not be a homogeneous concept in order to continue to be a powerful agent in the postmodern world.

BL ST 137E: Sociology of the Black Experience

Sociological overview of the experiences of Blacks in the United States from slavery to the present. Sociological analysis of the changing historical significance of Black poverty, the Black family, and the Black worker in the United States will be presented.

BL ST 154: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

This course investigates environmental injustice—that some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with environmental hazards—and environmental racism—that a high coincidence exists between the location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities, even when they are predominantly middle class.

 

Chican@ Studies

CH ST 1B: Introduction to Chicano/a Studies

Introduction to the historical and contemporary development of the Chicano/a community. Course is interdisciplinary in nature. Focuses by quarter on A. history, B. gender, and C. culture.

CH ST 1089: Indigenous People and the Nation State in the Americas

The changing relationship between indigenous people and the state. Compare the differences and similarities between indigenous peoples’ mobilizations in the cases of Canada, USA, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Bolivia and Mexico.

CH ST 124: Introduction to Chicana/o and Latina/o Public Art

Explores examples of public and site-specific artwork created by Chicano/Latino artists challenging museum and gallery spaces. The history of displacement and marginalization traditionally suffered by Chicano/Latino communities had lead these artists to create public art as a form of decolonization.

CH ST 148: Chicana Art and Feminism

An overview of contemporary Chicana art and feminist theory from the late 1960s to the present placed within the context of the Chicano movement and other historical events.

CH ST 167: Chicana Feminisms

Different feminisms have contributed significantly to contemporary political thought. In this course, students survey the historical development and primary issues of Chicana Feminism, including its practices of political intervention, major writings, and comparisons to other influential feminisms.

CH ST 168E: History of the Chicano Movement

History of the Chicano Movement. An examination of the Chicano movement in the United States from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Topics will include the student movement, the farmworker movement, the Plande Aztlan, the Raza Unida Party, Chicana feminists, the anti-war movement, and Chicanostudies.

Classics

CLASS 40: Greek Mythology

Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in which these myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.

CLASS 165: Greek Painting

Examines the art of painting and its social context in Greek antiquity, including monumental wall painting, vase painting, and the relationship between these and other media from prehistory to the Hellenistic period.

CLASS 120: Pompeii

A study of the history, buildings, and people of Pompeii, a city buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.

Comparative Lit

C 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.

C LIT 171: Post-Colonial Cultures

Study of fiction from the Caribbean, West Africa, and the Maghreb. Born of the conflict between and hybridization of widely differing cultural traditions, this course provides insights into the vibrancy of contemporary post-colonial societies, the ongoing legacy of colonialism, and the meaning of multiculturalism. In English.

C LIT 186IR: Ideology and Representation

How do representations of the “enemy” or of terrible accidents, during a conflict or massive disaster and in their aftermath, influence our attitudes toward that conflict or disaster? An examination of the images of the opponent or massive disasters in literature, film and journalism. Special emphasis on Eastern Europe

Earth Science

EARTH 2: Introduction to Physical Geology

Introduction to the science of the Earth; properties and processes of its surface and interior, including plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, glaciation, mountain building, formation of rocks, minerals, and the structural basis of landforms. Lab and lecture.

EARTH 4: Introduction to Oceanography

An introduction to oceanography covering the major physical, chemical, and geological features of the oceans, their role in earth history, and potential use as a natural resource.

EARTH 7: Dinosaurs

The origin and diversification of dinosaurs, including birds. Survey of evolutionary relationships within the group, and between the major groups of vertebrates. Broad introduction including anatomy, geography, climate, and vertebrate contemporaries.

EARTH 10: Antarctica

The interrelations of the physical and biological environments on the continent Antarctica; Antarctica as an earth system. Included are studies of tectonic history, global warming, ozone depletion, mineral resources, and the history of scientific exploration of the continent.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

EARTH 30: The History of Life

Examination of the geological and biological processes affecting the evolution of life on Earth from 3.8 billion years ago to the present. Strong emphasis on the nature of the “scientific method” as a way of understanding natural history.

EARTH 107: Climate Change: Lessons from the Past

Introduction to the fundamental forces that shape and modulate the Earth’s climate. Learning about climate forcings (solar insolation, albedo, greenhouse effect, ocean circulation) will provide a scientific basis to understand past, current, and future climate changes.

EARTH 121: Principles of Evolution

A foundation course concerning the mechanisms of evolution at micro- and macroevolutionary levels, and interpretation of the resulting patterns of adaptation and organic diversity.

East Asian Studies

EACS 4A: East Asian Traditions: Pre-modern

An introduction to the social structures, institutions, systems of thought and belief, and the arts and entertainments of China and Japan during the pre-modern period.

EACS 5: Introduction to Buddhism

The historical and cross-cultural exploration of Buddhism through the examination of basic texts, institutions, and practices of diverse Buddhist traditions.

EACS 14: Environment and Power in Japan

What is the relationship between forms of power and environmental health in Japan? How do traditional values and practices influence contemporary ecologies? Traces the history of environmentalism and applies social science theories to assess contemporary environmental issues in Japan.

English

ENGL 23: The Climate Crisis: What It Is and What Each of Us Can Do About It

Employing a cultural approach, this course explores why our climate is changing and what each of us can do about it. Considers issues such as housing, transportation, diet, consumer products, as well as different forms of climate activism.

ENGL 102: English and American Literature from 1650-1789

“The World Turned Upside Down” This lecture-course on British and American literature of the long 18th century (1660s-1790s) will focus on cultural representations of authorship and authority in the years from the English Civil Wars through the American War of Independence — a century-plus of revolution and (re)creation. We’ll be reading plays, poems, prose, and fiction by Aphra Behn, Benjamin Franklin, John Milton, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and Phillis Wheatley, the first Gothic novel and the Declaration of Independence, to see how these texts map out national and transatlantic conversations. In weekly discussion sections, you’ll talk and write about the works and reflect on your own writing.

ENGL/ENV S 122CC: The Rhetoric of Climate Change

In this course, we will be critically reading a variety of contemporary texts that deal with the issue of climate change. In the process, we will be honing our skills as critical, active readers. One of the keys to effective reading, regardless of whether the text at hand is a Victorian novel or content on a website, is that the process be active. When reading for pleasure, it is perfectly fine to enter into an imaginative world and just enjoy your time there. However, in reading critically – which is, or at least should be, an essential skill taught in university literature departments – it is necessary to carefully consider what an author and text are doing. Authors have enormous power, as they can, one word at a time, influence each step of a reader’s experience of a text. In this sense, an author is like a guide walking you through what may be unknown territory. They not only decide what you see (and don’t) and when you see it, they are also in a position to influence how you see it though their careful representations. The more skillful the author, the more power they have over the representation and hence also over the reader. (Note that for our purposes a “text” can be a written work, a photograph or painting, a film or video, a musical composition, or a range of additional creations and that any of these can be “read” in our sense of being actively studied.)

ENGL 122FC: Cli-Fi – Fictions of Climate Change

Literature has always explored the nature of the world, both how it is and how it could be. Since cataclysmic climate change of human causation now threatens the environment worldwide, we see that what were once apocalyptic or dystopian fictions of a drowned, blazing, or even “dead” world are becoming reality, the stuff of daily life around the planet. Cli-Fi describes an important and passionate genre seen in fiction, film, and media that gives images and narratives to global climate change, as well as a way of reading, thinking, and acting on this reality in the world. Cli-Fi, in other words, creates new stories to illuminate, warn, and inspire us to recognize the present and respond to the future.

ENGL 122FE: Fantasy and Ecology

This course explores how fantasy literature and film imagines the life we share with others, human and nonhuman. Focusing on modern and contemporary works from Britain and beyond, we will consider how fantasy looks beyond what seems most obvious and ordinary and allows for different ways of relating to the world in which we live. We will also examine fantasy’s concern to create beings and ecosystems that do not exist in this world. After exploring the pastoral landscapes and lively beings of several works of classical fantasy, we will ask how more recent works engage complex issues such as climate change by interweaving fantasy, science fiction, fairytales, horror, and other genres. As well as drawing on the scholarly field of literature and the environment, this course will consider the potential meanings of the concepts of fantasy, imagination, and the real.

ENGL 128MM: Native and Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit Memoir

This course will explore the genre of memoir and creative non-fiction produced by Indigenous Women, Queer, Trans, and Two-Spirit writers, including an expansive understanding of the memoir genre to include documentary film, poetry, autobiography, theoretical work, non-fiction essays, comics, and testimonials. Assigned texts will include foundational Indigenous writers in English such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Maria Campbell, Deborah Miranda, Joy Harjo, and Ma-Nee Chacaby as well as newer writers such as Terese Mailhot and Janet Mock. Students will engage in theoretical literary analysis, complete a research paper, and will have an opportunity to develop their own creative writing skills. The course will culminate a class publication / zine of student creative work.

ENGL 134NA: The Body as Archive: Indigeneity, Felt Theory, and Decolonial Ways of Knowing

This course finds its origins the work of queer Chumash/Esselen poet and scholar Deborah A. Miranda who declares “my body is an archive”. What does it mean to physically inhabit a difficult or silenced history? How does it feel to have your body or your ancestors’ bodies and stories collected by institutions? How is trauma lived and passed down through the body? What do our feelings, senses, and living in our bodies teach us that cannot be learned through the mind alone? How does language itself create and contain archives of cultural knowledge and relationships? Miranda’s work invites us to engage in Indigenous ways of knowing and feminist inquiry into the issue of historical trauma through narratives of embodied, lived experiences of subjection and survivace. We will explore the relationship between documents and objects and the emotions, senses, and affective knowledges of living peoples related to them by critically examining archival logics, archival methods, and theorizations of the archive. This is a course designed to shift disciplinary perspective. Course materials will cover a broad interdisciplinary terrain from literature, performance, poetry, and visual arts/film to legal, historical, and cultural studies. Much of this is short form and will be available through Gauchospace. We will be reading a few book length works (novels, theory, and memoirs) by authors such as Deborah A. Miranda, Saidiya Hartman, Dian Million, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Guest lectures will include field experts and visiting artists who are part of the syllabus.

ENGL 165 EM: Pre-Modern Post-Human

The concept of the “post-human” arose in the fields of science fiction and philosophy to describe a person or being that reconceives or otherwise goes beyond the human and is commonly associated with the current digital age. But centuries before the rise of post-humanism, the early modern period contemplated and complicated what being “human” means. This course will explore the pre-modern origins of post-humanism—a rich literary world of monsters, chimeras, machines, and “Othered” beings. How did writers in the early modern period define the human? What constituted the “Other” in the early modern period, and how were boundaries established and blurred on the grounds of race, gender, sexuality, species, and other categories and distinctions? We will take a long historical approach through key literary texts to explore the early origins of some of our most pressing current-day investments related to the post-human. Texts we will consider include The Travels of John Mandeville, Sir Walter Raleigh’s The Discovery of Guiana, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Assignments will consist of in-class writing, a mid-term paper and presentation, and a final paper or project.

ENGL 197: The Poetics and Politics of Waste

This seminar studies waste, junk, garbage from both an environmental and a social perspective. Waste is what is produced in excess by consumer culture, and as such needs to be put out of sight, disposed of, or recycled. As such, waste brings to the fore questions of exclusion and marginality. This same logic of exclusion is often referred to people who are considered as disposable by dominant culture. The texts we will read and watch will illustrate this double meaning of waste. We will concentrate on Modernism and dirt, hoarding and decluttering, junk space, environmental contamination, art and waste, abjection and femininity. Texts by Djuna Barnes, Ben Lerner, Elfriede Jelinek, Tommy Orange, Indra Sinha. Films by Agnes Varda, Viktor Muniz, and Ken Loach. Criticism by Italo Calvino and Rem Koolhaas.

Environmental Studies

ENV S 95: Introduction to Ecological Restoration Field Skills

Visit local natural areas to gain hands-on experience in facets of ecological restoration including project planning, site assessment, invasive species management, plant identification and propagation, vegetation and water quality monitoring, and wildlife observation.  Internships available at conclusion of course.

ENV S 96: Introduction to Curation of Natural History Collections

Introduction to curation of natural history collections including vertebrate, plants, algae and lichen. Learn to collect, prepare, catalog, and preserve specimens via lectures, hands-on activities, and field trips. Collection focus changes quarterly. Internships available at conclusion of the course.

ENV S 106: Critical Thinking About Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

An in-depth examination of critical thinking in environmental contexts. Identification of deceptive methods of environmental critique and debate in policy and public matters. Comprehension of approaches to environmental solutions as well as common thinking traps in developing such solutions. Emphasis on reasoning patterns and leverage points of environmental arguments, systems thinking about environmental problems and solutions, exploration of common errors in scientific reasoning, and framing scientific and environmental issues for clarity and effective communication.

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 111: The California Channel Islands

Discussion of biological, geological, ecological, anthropological, and oceanographic characteristics of the Channel Islands area as well as the management and human uses of this region. Emphasis on islands and ocean waters off Southern California.

ENV S 112: World Population, Policies, and Environment

Examines the history of global human population growth, with a specific emphasis on demographic dynamics within developing nations (or the Global South). Will consider the social, economic, and environmental consequences of and the relationships between population trends and human migration. Will analyze governmental policies and how they influence population growth and their myriad and often unintended consequences. Students will be expected to demonstrate familiarity with key theories and methods by scholars like Thomas Malthus, Karl Marx, and Ester Bose.

ENV S 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.

ENV S 116: 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 118: Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment
Industrial Ecology is a philosophical and methodical framework interwoven with concepts in ecology and economics used to aid in understanding of how industrial systems interact with the environment. Capital, energy, and material flows are examined and viewed in cultural context.

ENV S 120B: Advanced Environmental Toxicology

A continuation of Introduction to Environmental Toxicology (ENV S 120A). Using additional case studies such as the decline of Baltic seals, the birth defects caused by thalidomide, and the cancers caused by DES, course explores reproductive and developmental toxicology, teratogenicity, epigenetic effects, carcinogenicity (again), and estrogen effects while examining organic chemistry, chlorinated hydrocarbons, pesticides, solvents, and structure activity relationships.

ENV S 125A: Principles of Environmental Law

An introduction to the history and methodology of law as it relates to human use of the environment. Case studies are used to examine common law, constitutional and modern environmental laws, with an emphasis on current theories and principles.

ENV S 127A: Foundations of Environmental Education

Introduction to the underlying principles to be an environmental educator. Includes understanding the fundamental characteristics and goals of Environmental Education (EE), evolution of the field, instructional methodologies, and how to design, implement, and assess effective EE instruction in a variety of disciplines, including: nature connection, environmental justice, outdoor education, and primary, secondary, and higher education. Course includes presentations by local EE professionals and field trips.

ENV S 130B: Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation

Focus on the contradictions between international tourism as an economic development strategy and environmental conservation efforts, especially in an era of climate change. One major objective is to help students make more informed decisions about their own tourist experiences.

ENV S 135A: Principles of Environmental Planning

Introduction to the history, theory, and trends of urban, regional, and environmental planning in both California and the United States. Field trips to local urban areas.

ENV S 141: Chemistry of Global Change

Examines the fate of fossil fuel carbon dioxide within the context of the global carbon cycle. It will address questions such as: Which reservoirs have adsorbed the emitted fossil fuel carbon dioxide? Why has so little of the emitted carbon dioxide entered the ocean? Why and how will the ocean chemistry change? What are the expected effects on the marine ecosystem? Includes a term paper, problem sets, and in-class exams.

ENV S/GEOG 144: Form, Process, and Human Use of Rivers

Basic understanding of fluvial (river) hydrology. In-depth evaluation of channel form and fluvial processes and impact of human use of rivers.

ENV S 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.

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 155: The Built World: Infrastructure, Power, and the Environment

Introduces students to the built environment from a global perspective and explores the ways in which infrastructural arrangements are shaped by politics, technologies, ecologies, and ideas. Case studies include hydroelectric dams, nuclear power plants, pipelines, electrical grids, undersea cables, roads, bridges, canals, seawalls, and more. Students build on course concepts to research possibilities for ecologically adaptive and resilient cities in the age of climate change.

ENV S 163B: Global Water Resources – Water Management and Policy

Water underpins all aspects of development. In 163A we learned how to evaluate water resource supply and demand. To manage water resources effectively, we also need to understand anthropogenic drivers of change and water policy. This class builds on topics covered in 163A and is a project-based course (independent AND group) that focuses on water tradeoffs and opportunities for management. The class prioritizes science communication skills.

ENV S 165B: Advanced Environmental Impact Analysis

Advanced seminar during which students prepare their own focused environmental impact report on a specific development project. Includes in-depth discussion of baseline, mitigation, impacts, and public comments. Assignments based on research and fieldwork provide reality professional environmental planning experience.

ENV S 174: Environmental Policy and Economics

Introductory course on economic analysis of environmental policy. Topics include market failure, the evaluation of environmental policy, energy sources, population growth, sustainable development, the optimal levels of biodiversity and pollution, and dispute resolution.

ENV S 176: Energy Politics and Policy

Introduces students to the politics and policy of the contemporary global energy system. Covers major public policies and politics related to both the electricity and transportation systems. Students learn energy technologies’ characteristics and understand contemporary political debates over the energy system.

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-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.

ENV S 193GB: Green Building Design and Operation

ENVS 193GB will focus on introducing Green Building tools and practices. Students will learn about organizations currently leading the march in sustainable building design and operations as well as technical audits and analysis performed in order to evaluate a building’s efficiency.

ENV S 191: Natural and Science Education Practicum

Offered in conjunction with CCBER’s Kids in Nature environmental education program, students gain hands-on experience teaching ecology and environmental science while receiving instruction from professionals on topics ranging from science education, teaching strategies, lesson plan development, and public speaking.

Feminist Studies

FEMST 30: Women, Development and Globalization

Examines the impact of development policy and globalization on women’s lives. Emphasis is placed on women’s activism and feminist critiques of neo-liberal measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.

FEMST 146: Women of Color Resisting Violence

This is a study of women of color and other marginalized women’s experiences of psychological, sexual, physical, social, economic and legal violence, and the personal and collective resistance to these forms of violence in intimate relationships and in broader society.

Film and Media Studies

FAMST 133: Film and Media of the Natural and Human Environment

Presents popular films, professional documentaries representing trends, images, and issues associated with natural and human environments. Visual images and critical thinking skills are combined to enhance understanding of media presentation of environmental issues. May be linked to short creative projects.

Geography

GEOG 3: 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.

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 20: Geography of Surfing

Social and physical science concepts manifested in the sport of surfing. Topics include wave generation and forecasting, economics of the surf industry, spatial search, strategic behavior under crowding, territorialism, and the generation/diffusion of regional surf cultures.

GEOG 119: Climatic Change and its Consequences

Mechanisms and processes which produce climate change. Methods for reconstructing paleo-climates. Impacts of past climate change on human societies.

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.

GEOG 152: Health Geography

Geographic approaches to health, disease, and well-being, with an emphasis on health disparities and inequalities. Topics include social determinants of health, migration, the natural and built environment, vaccines, development, and globalization and health.

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.

Global Studies

GLOBL 2: Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes

Examination of contemporary social, economic, political, and environmental change in a global context; the emergence of a global economy and new systems of world order; and the debate over “globalization” and whether or not it is desirable.

GLOBL 120: Global Ideologies and World Order

Deals with conceptions of the world as a unitary political system and how these views come into confrontation with one another. Topics include the nation-state system, political ideologies, international organizations, global conflict, and the emergent civil society.

GLOBL 130: Global Economy and Development

Examines recent theories and perspectives on global political economy and development studies. Topics include, among others, the new global economy, transnational corporations, transnational labor markets, international trade and finance, social and economic development, and North-South relations.

GLOBL 148: Caribbean Women Writers and Migratory Subjects

This course examines the implications of migration and the formation of transnational identity. We will read novels by Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean Women writers who speak to the interlinked relationship between migration, racism, sexism and economic deprivation.

GLOBL 161: Global Environmental Policy and Politics

The evolution of international environmental negotiations, agreements, and organizations, and the role governmental and non-governmental actors are playing in shaping them are examined. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and equitable global sustainable development are among the critical policy challenges considered.

History

HIST 17B: The American People

Sectional crisis through progressivism. A survey of the leading issues in american life from colonial times to the present. The course focuses on politics, cultural development, social conflict, economic life, foreign policy, and influential ideas. Features discussion sections.

HIST 20: Science and the Modern World

Explores how science, technology and/or medicine have helped shape modern societies (roughly 1850-present). Themes include formation of scientific and technical communities, the interactions of science with political and popular culture, and the social context of knowledge production.

HIST 130: Pre-Modern Slavery

Emphasizing slavery’s persistence in the Middle Ages, this course explores the experiences of captives, slaves, and serfs, as well as eunuchs, concubines and slave-soldiers (mamluks) in Western Europe, Byzantium and the Islamic World from 500-1500.

HIST 149AD: Introduction to the History of the African Diaspora

Explores the experiences of Africans and their descendants in the Americas, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean. Looks at ways in which men and women (enslaved and free) negotiated their imposed conditions from the colonial period to the present. Considers the methodological challenges of writing a history of people who did not produce primary sources. Underscores the contribution that people of African-descent have made and the debates that continue shaping the discipline.

Political Science

POL S 176: Energy Politics and Policy

Introduces students to the politics and policy of the contemporary global energy system. Covers major public policies and politics related to both the electricity and transportation systems. Students learn energy technology characteristics and understand contemporary political debates over the energy system.

Religious Studies

RG ST 193B: Religion and Healing in Global Perspective

Comparative and cross-cultural introduction to relationships between religion, science, and healing arts, using selected case studies and stressing alternatives to mainstream western medicine. Attention to underlying religio-philosophical worldviews and to the ways in which they influence healing practices.

Sociology

SOC 118B: Sociology of the Body

The body is not “natural” but reflects larger power regimes. Examines the body as 1) the bearer of symbolic value, 2) a form of “capital”, 3) a representation of the “self” and 4) a site of political activity.

SOC 118CW: Consumption, Waste, and the Environment

Examines the link between consumption, waste, and the environment. Integrates environmental concerns with larger cultural questions about the role that consumption, as a way of life, has come to occupy in our contemporary societies.

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.

Writing

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 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professionals

Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Fall 2019

Anthropology

ANTH 111: Anthropology 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.

ANTH 150: Human Genetics

Introduction to basic principles of genetics and genomics in human evolution. Topics covered include molecular evolution, population genetics, comparative genomics, epigenetics, gene-culture interactions and relevant social and ethical issues.

ANTH 152: Environmental Anthropology

Examines the ways that humans interact with, use, and perceive the environment and nature, with a focus on the cultural, political, and economic features of human environment relationships across time and in different parts of the world. Through readings, in-class activities and discussions, field trips, and research projects, students will gain a better understanding of how anthropological theory, research, and applications can be used to address contemporary environment topics and problems.

ANTH 153T: Primate Behavior

An introduction to primatology and the principles of behavioral ecology, using langur, vervet, macaque, baboon, gorilla, and chimpanzee field studies to illustrate theories of foraging, parenting, kinship, sexual selection, incest avoidance, aggression, and dominance. Concludes with applications to human evolution.

ANTH 161: Human Growth

Analyzes human growth and development from an evolutionary and cross-cultural perspective. Life stages from birth to death are considered, and contrasted with other primates. Other topics include brain evolution, fetal programming, sexual dimorphism, senescence, immunity, play, parental care.

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.

ANTH 170: Behavioral Ecology of the Family

Considers diversity in human family structure and family relationships from the perspective of evolutionary anthropology. Topics include: kin selection and detection, sibling competition and family size, childhood and sexual maturity, parent- offspring conflict, sex roles, marriage and inheritance, parental investment strategies.

ARTHI 6K: Islamic Art and Architecture

A survey of Islamic art and architecture.

ARTHI 105P: Medieval Art and Architecture

This course explores the soaring cathedrals, monstrous sculptures, and marvelous images that inspired The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. Beginning with the fourth-century rise of Christian images and ending with the advent of print, it traces how images developed new roles – and reinvented old ones – over the course of the Middle Ages. Investigating architecture, sculpture, and manuscripts in their historical contexts, it asks why medieval objects look the way the do and how viewers saw them.

Architecture/Art History

ARTHI 6A: Art Survey I: Ancient-Medieval Art

History of western art from its origins to the beginnings of the renaissance.

ARTHI 6DW: Art of Japan and Korea

Surveys the arts of Japan and the Korean peninsula from pre-historic to contemporary times. The focus is on the evolving role of the artist within society.

ARTHI 6FL: Survey: Architecture and Planning

A selective and chronological survey of architecture and urban design in social and historical context. Individual buildings and urban plans from the past to the present will be used as examples.

ARTHI 127A: African Art I

The relationship of art to life in sub-Saharan Africa. A cross-cultural survey of types, styles, history, and values of arts ranging from personal decoration to the state festival, stressing Ashanti, Ife, Benin, Yoruba, Cameroon.

ARTHI 130D: Art and Architecture of the Ancient Andes

The architecture, ceramics, textiles, and other classes of material culture of Andean societies from 3000 B.C. to the Conquest examined within their cultural contexts with a focus on sociopolitical organization and cultural traditions.

ARTHI 134H: Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floading World

Japanese paintings and woodblock prints of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, with emphasis on issues of genre and format.

ARTHI 136K: Modern Architecture in Early Twentieth-Century Europe

History of modern architecture in Europe in the early twentieth century. Focuses on movements (for example, Art Nouveau, Futurism, Expressionism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Constructivism) and on individual architects (for example, Le Corbusier, Gropius, Mies van der Rohe.)

ARTHI 186SV: Seminar in Modern Architecture

Advanced studies in modern architecture. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a research seminar paper.

Asian American Studies

AS AM 5: Introduction to Asian American Literature

Selected major themes in literary texts from Asian American communities, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Filipino and Southeast Asian Americans: dislocation/relocation; finding/inventing a usable past; poetics/politics in language; identities/ethnicities.

AS AM 158: Asian American Aesthetics

Questions, arguments and ideas regarding Asian American aesthetics. How can we apply traditional western concepts such as beauty, the sublime, and the imagination when considering Asian American cultural production? Explores the employment of realism, modernism and postmodernism across different genres.

Biology

Black Studies

BL ST 1: Introduction to African-American Studies

Explores historical and current social conditions of black people in the United States. Topics include slavery, emancipation, reconstruction and urban black migration, with particular consideration given to the black church and the black family as bearers and creators of African-American culture.

BL ST 7: Introduction to Caribbean Studies

A survey of the culture and society of the Caribbean. After surveying Amerindian communities and examining the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, focus will be on slavery, emancipation, African and Creole cultures,and the issues accompanying an independent nationhood status.

BL ST 33: Major Workds of African Literatures

An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies.

BL ST 49C: Survey of African History

1945 to present. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on colonialism and decolonization, nationalism and self-liberation, development and neocolonialism, Cold War contexts, as well as African experiences of independence and the everyday in our contemporary, global world. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.

BL ST 117: Slavery and Modernity

Explores the ways in which the ideas and practices of slavery produced modernity in the West. The course goal is to enable students to think critically about two things often kept separate in higher education–slavery and modern America.

BL ST 118: Comparative Rebellion

Examines key events in Brown/Black resistance and rebellion in the U. S. and the Borderlands. Using primary and secondary sources, the course emphasizes parallel rebellions, transnational revolutionary thought, and cross-racial alliances.

BL ST 127: Black Women Writers

Examines the significance of race, class, gender, sexuality, and place as experienced and articulated in the literature of Black women of the African diaspora.

BL ST 131: Race and Public Policy

Provides a theoretical overview of the role of race and ethnicity in local, national, and international public policy debates. Examines critical case studies of several policies: regional development, social welfare, environment, criminal justice, etc. Student policy projects with fieldwork component included.

BL ST 133: Gender and Sexuality in Black Studies

Examines the intersection of gender, sexuality, race, and class in creating disadvantage and advantage. In examining how racism, sexism, and heterosexism shape Black life chances in a 21st century context, this course focuses on systems of oppression that exist within and outside Black communities.

BL ST 161: “Third World” Cinema

Studies representative films from Africa, Asia, and Latin America from the 1950s to the present. Explores the socio-cultural and aesthetic dimensions of these cinemas (which have emerged as the “other” of Hollywood and European cinema).

Chican@ Studies

CH ST 1A: Introduction to Chicano/a Studies

Introduction to the historical and contemporary development of the Chicano/a community. Course is interdisciplinary in nature. Focuses by quarter on A. history, B. gender, and C. culture.

CH ST 113: Ancient Mesoamerica

Broad survey of ancient Mesoamerica (Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Aztec). Investigates these cultures along with factors that have influenced their contemporary interpretation, including the forms of data available and contexts and motivations of the people who have generated them.

CH ST 125A: MeXicana/o(x) Art History (1848–1975)

A look at the body of Chicana/o artistic production, from mid-1960 to the mid-1970’s, through an examination of the historical, aesthetic and philosophical foundations of Chicana/o art theory and practice that evolved out of Mexican and Latin American Modernism. Revisits Mexican modernist ideas on race and gender, culture, identity and nation, revolution and class conflict; and sifts through the Indigenous values and concepts Chicana/os encountered through their study of Mexican history and culture during the mid 1960’s and early 1970’s.

CH ST 151: De-Colonizing Feminism

Surveys contemporary forms of feminist consciousness expressed U.S. women of color. Can U.S. women of color be considered a political class? What relations exist between women of color across race, culture, sex, and class differences?

Classics

CLASS 20A: Ancient Greeks

An introduction to the literature and culture of ancient Greece. The study of literary and material remains will illustrate how the Greeks lived and the values they expressed through literature and the arts. Topics may include the rituals and festivals of Greek religion, the conflict between heroic ideals and democratic ideology, the institutions that shaped public and private life, and the competitive nature of law, drama, athletics and politics.

CLASS 40: Greek Mythology

Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in which these myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.

CLASS 171: Artifact and Text: The Archaeology and Literature of Early Greece

A survey of the archaeological record and literature of early Greece from the Late Bronze Age to the end of the Archaic Age, with special attention paid to the interconnection of artifact and text for our understanding of this period.

Comparative Lit

C LIT 31: Asian Literatures

An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Asia through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on East, South, and Southeast Asia varies.

C LIT 33: African Literatures

An introduction to the diverse literary traditions of Africa through an examination of selected works. Regional focus on North, West, East, Central, and South Africa varies.

C LIT 162: Sexuality and Globalizatios

Examines globalizing cultural politics of sexuality through literature, popular media, subaltern performances, and press discourse from Global South; engages questions of “universalized” LGBTQ identities, Islamic law and sexual rights, militarized masculinities, recognition of transexualities, and queer, anti-racist and feminist globalisms.

C LIT 191/ FR 153D: Fantasy and the Fantastic

Course explores the creation of a space where a fantastic perception of reality developed and thrived, hesitating between the real and the supernatural, in the intermediate space of the unexplained and unexplainable. Works by Balzac, Poe, Stevenson, James, and Borges.

Earth Science

EARTH 4: Introduction to Oceanography

An introduction to oceanography covering the major physical, chemical, and geological features of the oceans, their role in earth history, and potential use as a natural resource.

EARTH 10: Antarctica

The interrelations of the physical and biological environments on the continent Antarctica; Antarctica as an earth system. Included are studies of tectonic history, global warming, ozone depletion, mineral resources, and the history of scientific exploration of the continent.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

EARTH 106: Introduction to Climate Modeling

An introduction to climate models and their application to studies of past, modern, and future climate. Students will learn fundamental modeling concepts, gain experience running several kinds of models, and read/evaluate recent modeling papers. A variety of models will be introduced, with emphasis on atmosphere-ocean General Circulation Models (GCMs) and “simple”(zero-dimensional) models. No previous modeling or programming experience is required.

EARTH 117: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Introduction to the theory of landscape evolution and the study of the processes that create and modify landforms.

EARTH 130: Global Warming

Introduction to the scientific and societal issues surrounding global climate change. Includes introduction to physical climatology, greenhouse effect, climate history, anthropogenic changes, and future predictions. Student discussion and debate on the potential societal scenarios available to mitigate future climate change.

East Asian Studies

CHIN 180QC: Queer, Crip China

Studies the representation of non-normative bodyminds and desires (e.g. disability and homosexuality) in modern Chinese literature and film. Discusses the meanings embedded in Chinese discourses of gender, sexuality, and disability; investigates how these discourses have been appropriated in the construction of a modern Chinese national identity; and connects our specific inquiry into Queer China and Crip China to our general attempt to answer the broader question of how the modern nation-state “China” has been imagined into being over the past century. The approach is interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational.

EACS 21: Zen Buddhism

An introduction to the history and texts of the major lineages of Ch`an Buddhism in China and Zen Buddhism in Japan.

JAPAN 73: Introduction to Japanese Religion: Texts, Contexts, and Representations

A survey of the main authors, themes, and styles of the Japanese religious and philosophical traditions through readings from and analysis of some significant and influential original texts in English translation.

JAPAN 134H: Ukiyo-e: Pictures of the Floading World

Japanese paintings and woodblock prints of the sixteenth through twentieth centuries, with emphasis on issues of genre and format.

English

ENGL 22: Literature and the Environment

This course is a sweeping survey of Western literature and culture from an environmental perspective. In much the same way that feminist critics are interested in literary representations of gender and women, ecological literary and cultural critics (or simply “ecocritics”) explore how our relationship to nature is imagined.  As with changing perceptions of gender, such literary representations are not only generated by particular cultures, they play a significant role in generating those cultures. Thus, if we wish to understand contemporary America’s attitude toward the environment, its literary history is an excellent place to start. While authors such as Thoreau and Wordsworth may first come to mind in this context, literary responses to environmental concerns are often as old as the issues themselves. Deforestation, air pollution, endangered species, wetland loss, animal rights, and rampant consumerism have all been appearing as controversial issues in Western literature for hundreds – and in some cases thousands – of years. Starting with an excerpt from one of the West’s earliest texts, The Myth of Gilgamesh, this course will explore the often-ignored literary and cultural history of the natural world. In addition to being an introduction to literature and the environment, we will also be considering philosophy, history, religion, and culture from an environmental perspective. Thus, this course also provides an introduction to the environmental humanities, including environmental history, eco-philosophy, eco-theology, eco-art history, architecture and the environment, and (through the course’s films) environmental media studies.

ENGL 34: Pan-Latinx Literatures of Transformation

This course surveys a wide range of literary genres by authors from various Latina/o populations: Salvadoran, Guatemalan, Dominican, Chicanx, Puerto Rican, and self-identified mixed-heritage. Texts explore historical and ongoing transformations of Latina/o culture, identity, and politics.

ENGL 104B: British Literature from 1900 to Present

British Literature Since 1900. This course explores the imaginative experiments undertaken by British literary writers across the twentieth century, engaging what are arguably some of most influential works of Anglophone literature. We will examine how literary writers experimented in stories and forms as they sought to grasp urbanization, empire and independence, war, migration, and struggles related to race, gender, and sexuality. While focusing on canonical and emergent literatures often defined as “British,” we will be mindful of the global context in which this literature took form.

ENGL 106A: Writing for Performance

ENGL 128EN: Going Postal: Epistolary Narratives

“Going Postal: Letter-Narratives” looks at creative fictional works that play with the letter’s built-in paradoxes of absence and presence, private and public. We’ll orient ourselves to stories told in letters and stories told about letters, mostly from the 18th century when postal networks and the print marketplace were expanding (Austen, Laclos, Montagu, Pope, Richardson), along with a couple of 20th-c. texts (Davis, Pynchon) that update the genre’s central concerns. Along the way we’ll consider recent critical work on epistolarity and postality. (EMS; lit-in-translation)

ENGL 148RS: Reading with Scientists: How to Export Literature

This course considers an experiment: what would happen if we assigned literature in a science classroom? What questions, for instance, could a well-timed excerpt of Frankenstein help you to explore in an Artificial Intelligence course? Through paired readings of fiction and science, ranging in theme from driverless cars, to bioengineering, to environmental conservation, we will discuss what is to be gained and lost by making literature more mobile. How would such a model of teaching ask us to rethink the lines that we draw between disciplines, or between general education requirements and specialized majors?

ENGL 165PP: Poetry and Painting

ENGL 197: Indigenous Literatures and Ecology

Indigenous peoples have long been imagined as exemplary environmental figures who are “close to nature.” During this course, we will encounter the more complex ways in which writers of differing Indigenous communities narrate their connections to the land, cities, the ocean, the desert, and many life forms, in contexts that include urbanization, climate change, surfing cultures, and incarceration. Along the way, we’ll consider their aesthetic experiments in attuning us to human interrelation with nonhuman beings. Through readings and discussions, we’ll also engage with histories, critical terms, and debates in Indigenous Studies.

Environmental Studies

ENV S 1 – Introduction to the Environmental Humanities

“Environmental Studies” requires insights from many disciplines, including the social as well as biophysical science and the humanities. This introduction offers an overview of the field, examining both our planet and the ways in which we humans depend on it.

ENV S 30: Introduction to Environmental Economics

Economic processes underlie many of the environmental problems facing humanity, but can also play an important role in solving those challenges. This course introduces key theories from micro- and macroeconomics, and applies them to a variety of environmental problems. Topics covered include individual preferences, efficiency, valuation, market failures and policy analysis.

ENV S 50: Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

A unique solutions-oriented introduction to the crisis of climate change, building on the Carbon Neutrality Initiative of the UC system. Topics cover technical, scientific, and social aspects of climate change with the goal of empowering students with the capacities and knowledge to engage with possible solutions for stabilizing the climate. Offered as a hybrid course in which interactive video lectures taught by faculty from across the UC campuses are accompanied by in class discussion and collaborative group projects.

ENV S 95: Introduction to Ecological Restoration Field Skills

Visit local natural areas to gain hands-on experience in facets of ecological restoration including project planning, site assessment, invasive species management, plant identification and propagation, vegetation and water quality monitoring, and wildlife observation.  Internships available at conclusion of course.

ENV S 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.

ENV S 106: Critical Thinking About Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

An in-depth examination of critical thinking in environmental contexts. Identification of deceptive methods of environmental critique and debate in policy and public matters. Comprehension of approaches to environmental solutions as well as common thinking traps in developing such solutions. Emphasis on reasoning patterns and leverage points of environmental arguments, systems thinking about environmental problems and solutions, exploration of common errors in scientific reasoning, and framing scientific and environmental issues for clarity and effective communication.

ENV S 108W: Wildlife in America

Explores the turbulent, contested, and colorful history of human interactions with wild animals in North America from the Pleistocene to the present. Readings will explore historical changes in science, politics, law, management, and cultural ideas about nature.

ENV S 119: Ecology and Management of California Wildlands

Explore ecological processes in California habitats and the challenges of their management through field trips, discussions with land managers, lectures and readings. Focus on regional habitats including specialized habitats such as coastal salt marsh and vernal pools, and more widespread such as oak savanna and chaparral.

ENV S 120A: Introduction to Environmental Toxicology

Uses case studies, such as the poisoning at Minamata, Japan, to introduce the various fields of toxicology (eco-, environmental, biomedical, and epidemiology) and basic toxicological principles as metal and radiation toxicities, transformations, cycling, and transport of metals and radioisotopes in the environment, toxins vs toxicants, routes of exposure, absorption, distribution, target organs, dose, metabolism, sequestration, and excretion, as well as destruction due to atomic bomb blast (Hiroshima) vs. fission reactor explosion (Chernobyl and Fukushima), mutagenicity, and carcinogenicity.

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 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 133: Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

An integration of concepts central to effectively describing biodiversity patterns on our planet and better understanding the dynamics by which wildlife and ecosystems are altered by people. Includes exposure to topics such as extinction dynamics, climate change, and the human dimensions of biodiversity change. Course reviews classical and next-generation tools for conserving nature.

ENV S 134EC: Earth in Crisis

Explores the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism.

ENV S 139: Business and the Environment

Analysis of the practices of environmentally responsible firms and of the drivers of business greening at the level of individual firms, particular industries, and of the economy as a whole.

ENV S 151: Environmental Anthropology

Examines the ways that humans interact with, use, and perceive the environment and nature, with a focus on the cultural, political, and economic features of human environment relationships across time and in different parts of the world. Through readings, in-class activities and discussions, field trips, and research projects, students will gain a better understanding of how anthropological theory, research, and applications can be used to address contemporary environment topics and problems.

ENV S 154: Graphic Information Systems (GIS) for Environmental Applications

Explores how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help environmental researchers and professionals analyze and communicate the spatial patterns underpinning a wide variety of environmental concerns. Introduces students to the basic theory and application of GIS through hands-on application of the technology to environmental questions.

ENV S 163A: Global Water Resources – Water Supply and Demand

Water underpins all aspects of development. To evaluate water resources quantitatively, it is critical to understand water availability and water demand. How much water is there, and how is it distributed in space and time? How much water do humans and the environment need? And, how do these components translate into water scarcity? This course addresses these topics, providing a strong foundation in water resources.

ENV S 165A: Environmental Impact Analysis

Analyzes the historical and theoretical approaches to environmental assessment methodology and procedures for preparing and reviewing environmental impact reports. Explores strengths and weaknesses of current public policy context.

ENV S 171: Ecosystem Processes

An examination of the key processes that regulate ecosystem productivity and function in terrestrial ecosystems. Specific foci include: plant- soil linkages including decomposition and nutrient supply, and the role of above- and below-ground community composition on element cycles.

ENV S 172: Waste Management

Overview of policy, technology, and economic dimensions of managing wastes in the twenty-first century. Covers the emergence of product stewardship, domestic and international recycling, composting of organic materials, conversion of organic materials to renewable energy, waste incineration and land filling.

ENV S 177: Comparative Environmental Politics

Course is structured around the major issues in environmental politics, for example: global warming, nuclear waste, deforestation, and chemical pollution. The roles of economics, technology and social organization are each considered as explanatory variables for understanding environmental problems.

ENV S 178: 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.

ENV S 183: Film, Representation, and the Environment

Introduces students to a series of films representing a range of environmental issues, ideas, and interventions. Topics include energy, water, agriculture, biodiversity, and climate change as well as the ecological impacts of media production and consumption. Special attention is paid to the ways in which film and media affect our imaginations of the world around us and impact our thoughts and actions toward human and non-human environments. Students work collaboratively on creative film projects.

ENV S 190: Colloquium On Current Topics In Environmental Studies

A series of weekly lectures by distinguished guest speakers designed to offer insight into current research and issues in the diverse intellectual fields that constitute environmental studies. Colloquium themes vary quarter to quarter. Regular attendance and a brief written evaluation of each lecture is required.

ENV S 191: Natural and Science Education Practicum

Offered in conjunction with CCBER’s Kids in Nature environmental education program, students gain hands-on experience teaching ecology and environmental science while receiving instruction from professionals on topics ranging from science education, teaching strategies, lesson plan development, and public speaking.

ENV S 193CS:People’s Science: An introduction to “citizen” and community science

Whether the public assists scientists or controls the research, “citizen”/community science (CS) partnerships between the public and professional scientists are growing rapidly, generating new knowledge, and stimulating important discussions about science, power and community. ENVS 193CS introduces CS theory and practices, with hands-on experience in local projects. If you work in environmental justice, climate change, government, non-profits or academia, CS will be part of the job!

ENV S 193PL: America’s Public Lands and Waters – Law and Policy

A one-time course focusing on a special area of interest in environmental studies. ENVS 193PL explores the policies, history, law, science and ethics of public lands and waters at the national, state and local levels, including the examination of past, current and future problems and solutions. Readings, interactive class lectures, guest speakers, and writing assignments study how our vast and significant public lands and waters are managed, created, modified, celebrated, and threatened.

ENV S 193: Toxic Native America

An exploration of the contamination of Native American lands with toxic materials and their effect on Native American culture. Explores the concept of wastelanding and the effects that nuclear weapons development, fossil fuel and mineral extraction, mine abandonment, hazardous waste disposal, and other sources of toxic contamination as well as global climate change have on traditional lifeways of diverse Native American communities.

ENV S 195: Environmental Leadership Incubator

Course combines the theory and practice of leadership, cultivating leadership skills in environmentally-oriented undergraduates and functioning as an incubator for student-initiated group projects focused on positive environmental change. Projects may address campus, community or regional environmental challenges through social activism, technology development, education, policy change, and other means. Requires multiple quarter commitment.

Feminist Studies

FEMST 60: Women of Color

Examination of the interlocking dynamics and politics of gender, race, sexuality, class, and culture in the experience of U.S. women of color. Readings focus on oppositional consciousness and resistance to oppression in the scholarship and literature by women of color.

FEMST 120: Women’s Labors

What is women’s work? How has it changed over time? How is it valued? Explores wage-earning, caregiving, sex work, housework, double days, glass ceilings, and strategies of survival and resistance among American women from various demographic, racial, and ethnic groups.

FEMST 151AC: Sexual Cultures

Seminars focus on the political, social, and cultural dynamics of sexuality in modern society. Offerings may explore sexual representations, economies, laws, identities, performances, literatures, technologies, relationships, communities, and customs in the United States or abroad. Topics may vary.

Film and Media Studies

FAMST 166GG: Green Games

This course puts game studies in conversation with environmental science and media. Explore whether analog and digital games present unique opportunities to engage with ecological crisis and human-environment relations, and work with others to develop your own “green” game prototypes.

FAMST 189CD: Contemporary Documentary

Documentaries are proliferating around the world, as are modes of documentary practice and studies. With screenings including theatrical, web-based, and interactive works from mainstream, alternative, and Indigenous perspectives, readings and discussion probe pressing issues of fact, fiction, and advocacy; and the media production of social spaces.

FAMST 189SW: Sounding the World

This seminar will explore theories, technologies, and practices of sound making and reception, particularly as ways of knowing built and natural environments and multispecies relationships. Introduces work in sound studies, science and technology studies, animal studies, and media art.

Geography

GEOG 2: World Regions

An examination of the interdependency, connectivity and diversity that characterizes world regions. The course explores the interactions of processes of global change with the environmental and social identities of individual landscapes, cities and peoples.

GEOG 3: 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.

GEOG 4: 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.

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 104: Physical Geography of the World’s Oceans

Introduction to the processes which control the circulation of the world’s oceans. Topics include: wind driven circulation, thermohaline circulation, water masses, waves, and tides.

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 111A: Transportation Planning and Modeling

Issues, problems, technologies, policies, plans, programs, and the transportation-environment relationship. Transportation systems simulation, trip-based and activity data collection and modeling. Applications in planning, design and operations. Lab: Critically examine transportation plans and programs; explore and analyze travel surveys.

GEOG 112: Environmental Hydrology

Analysis of the water cycle with emphasis on land-atmosphere interactions, precipitation-runoff, flood, snow melt, and infiltration processes.

GEOG 115A: Remote Sensing of the Environment 1

Introduction to theory and methods of aerial photography and satellite remote sensing for studying Earth’s environment, from natural vegetation to urban areas. Lab develops fundamental skills in the acquisition, interpretation, and analysis of digital remote sensing imagery.

GEOG 131: Mountain Weather and Climate

Overview of orographic weather patterns with focus on orographic precipitation and circulation, mountain waves, cloudiness, snowfall and avalanches, fire weather, air pollution and dispersion. Human impacts on mountain environments and climate change in mountain areas are introduced.

GEOG 132: Coastal Pollution

A survey of the source and fate of pollutants in the coastal ocean, focusing specifically on the physical processes that govern the transport of nutrients, sediment, hydrocarbons, and human pathogens in coastal ecosystems. Material includes readings from scientific papers, grey literature, and news media in order to develop intuition for how transport phenomena frame both pollution issues and solutions.

Global Studies

GLOBL 2: Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes

Examination of contemporary social, economic, political, and environmental change in a global context; the emergence of a global economy and new systems of world order; and the debate over “globalization” and whether or not it is desirable.

GLOBL 130: Global Economy and Development

Examines recent theories and perspectives on global political economy and development studies. Topics include, among others, the new global economy, transnational corporations, transnational labor markets, international trade and finance, social and economic development, and North-South relations.

GLOBL 162: Sexuality and Globalizatios

Examines globalizing cultural politics of sexuality through literature, popular media, subaltern performances, and press discourse from Global South; engages questions of “universalized” LGBTQ identities, Islamic law and sexual rights, militarized masculinities, recognition of transexualities, and queer, anti-racist and feminist globalisms.

GLOBL 172: International Organizations and Global Governance

Analyzes the evolution of and role played by international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations in global governance, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies, World Bank, IMF, WTO, European Commission and global non-governmental organizations and transnational corporations.

History

HIST 49C: Survey of African History

1945 to present. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on colonialism and decolonization, nationalism and self-liberation, development and neocolonialism, Cold War contexts, as well as African experiences of independence and the everyday in our contemporary, global world. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.

HIST 74: Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice in Historical and Global Context

Historical and interdisciplinary perspectives on poverty and inequality globally and in the U.S., tracing structural transformations, shifting modes of thought, policy, and action, dynamics of class, racial, gender, ethnic and geographic stratification, and major theoretical debates from antiquity through the present. Course features guest lectures to introduce students to varied conceptual and methodological approaches to studying poverty and inequality, and draws on readings, discussion, writing, and related assignments to explore issues within a social justice framework.

HIST 172B: Politics and Public Policy in the United States

The interaction of politics and public policy from the revolution to the present, focusing upon the key issues of each era in social, economic, cultural, racial, and other policy areas. A particular concern for the policy-making process, ideology, and the cultural origins of politics.

Political Science

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.

POL S 177: Comparative Environmental Politics

Course is structured around the major issues in environmental politics, for example: global warming, nuclear waste, deforestation, and chemical pollution. The roles of economics, technology and social organization are each considered as explanatory variables for understanding environmental problems.

Religious Studies

RG ST 14: Introduction to Native American Religious Studies

This course is designed as an introduction to the contribution that Native American religions make to the general study of religion. Metaphysical and philosophical aspects of North American native culture. Major concepts of belief systems, religion, and medicine. Theories of balance, harmony, knowledge, power, ritual, and ceremony.

RG ST 190OE: On Experience: Religion, Philosophy, and Art

Explores different constructions of the concept of experience. Examines how experience has been conceptualized as a form of knowledge in the writings of philosophers, pursued as a mean of self-transformation in the religious practice of mystics, and fashioned in the work of artists.

RG ST 190TN: Toxic Native America

An exploration of the contamination of Native American lands with toxic materials and their effect on Native American culture. Explores the concept of wastelanding and the effects that nuclear weapons development, fossil fuel and mineral extraction, mine abandonment, hazardous waste disposal, and other sources of toxic contamination as well as global climate change have on traditional lifeways of diverse Native American communities.

Sociology

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 122GI: Global Inequalities

Examines social inequality from a perspective that takes the global system as the unit of analysis. Topics include: globalization, theories and methods for studying global inequality; spatial inequality, and structures and processes in the generation and persistence of inequalities.

SOC 134EC: Earth in Crisis

Explores the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism.

SOC 185M: Marxist and Critical Social Theory

Study of Marx and related theorists, with links to contemporary debates and conflicts over capitalism and economic inequality.

Writing

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 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professionals

Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Spring 2019

Anthropology

ANTH 5: Introductory Biological Anthropology

An introductory course in human evolutionary biology. Natural selection and its genetic basis are used to highlight a variety of human traits. The fossil record is addressed, but the course takes more of an “adaptationist” than a paleontological perspective.

ANTH 138: Anthropology of Environmental Health

A sociocultural medical anthropological approach to explore how environmental hazards, many of them human-influenced, shape health and illness around the world. Topics include environmental risk and perception, industrial toxics, disasters, environmental justice, and chronic disease.

ANTH 197SM: European Prehistory

Explores the archaeological record of human societies in Europe from the Upper Paleolithic to the Iron Age, a 40,000-year period. Lectures focus on specific sites and questions about culture change. We explore the evidence for subsistence and production, funerary rites, changes in settlement, production of art, symbolism, the role of technology, and emergence of social hierarchies.

Architecture/Art History

ARTHI 6L: History of Games

This course introduces students to the history of games. It is organized chronologically as a global survey. We study games and the social, political, and economic conditions that support them, as well as the interface between the human player and the imagined world of the game. Taking as its premise that games are artifacts of culture, this course focuses on the visual and spatial practice of games in social context.

ARTHI 132I: Art of Empire

Studies the visual culture of different empires, alone or in a comparative fashion. For example, Ottoman and Hapsburg; Ottomoman, Safavid, and Mughal; Mughal and British India; or the earlier empire of the Fatimids, Abbasids, and Umayyads of Syria and Spain.

ARTHI 134E: 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.

ARTHI 136J: Landscape of Colonialism

Examination of architecture, urbanism and the landscape 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.

ARTHI 187W: The House Museum

This seminar studies the political and cultural history of the house museum in the United States, from its antebellum beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present. Explores a variety of issues related to the house museum, including curatorial and design choices, visitor experiences, and the House Museum Movement.

Biology

BIOL CS 25: Walking Biology

Field course introducing students to the ecological communities in Santa Barbara County, including oak woodlands, chaparral, coastal dune, salt marsh, sandy beach, rocky inter-tidal, and stream.

Black Studies

BL ST 5: Blacks & Western Civilization

An interdisciplinary analysis of the effect of Africa on Western civilization, specifically the politics, economics, and cultures of Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.

BL ST 49C: Survey of African History

1945 to present. History 49-A-B-C is a general survey course designed to introduce students to major themes in African history. The course focuses on colonialism and decolonization, nationalism and self-liberation, development and neocolonialism, Cold War contexts, as well as African experiences of independence and the everyday in our contemporary, global world. Weekly discussion sections are an important feature of this course, enabling students to develop and expand upon material presented during lecture.

BL ST 154: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

This course investigates environmental injustice—that some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with environmental hazards—and environmental racism—that a high coincidence exists between the location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities, even when they are predominantly middle class.

Chican@ Studies

CH ST 166: Issues in Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o Politics

Examines various politicized issues relevant to Chicanas/os such as immigrant rights, unauthorized Latina/o residency, Latina/o struggles for LGBT civil rights, English-only movements and nativism, Latina/o political participation, current community and grassroots organizing, and contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o electoral politics, and urban politics.

CH ST 167: Chicana Feminisms

Different feminisms have contributed significantly to contemporary political thought. In this course, students survey the historical development and primary issues of Chicana Feminism, including its practices of political intervention, major writings, and comparisons to other influential feminisms.

Classics

CLASS 40: Greek Mythology

Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in which these myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.

Comparative Lit

C LIT 187WL: Wild Literature in the Urban Landscape

Combines study of ecological writing with service to schools and community centers in Santa Barbara. Through exploration of both local and global ecological challenges, students will conduct weekly workshops combining literature and ecology in order to better understand local issues like drought, erosion and land-use, with an emphasis on eco-industrial histories. The curriculum will serve as an existing approach to environmental education through the lens of literary arts, providing an initial foundation for lesson development elsewhere.

C LIT 191: Fantasy and the Fantastic

Course explores the creation of a space where a fantastic perception of reality developed and thrived, hesitating between the real and the supernatural, in the intermediate space of the unexplained and unexplainable. Works by Balzac, Poe, Stevenson, James, and Borges.

Earth Science

EARTH 4: Introduction to Oceanography

An introduction to oceanography covering the major physical, chemical, and geological features of the oceans, their role in earth history, and potential use as a natural resource.

EARTH 11: Volcanoes and Humans

An introduction to volcanism and its consequences. Origins and physical processes of volcanism; the natural benefits of volcanoes; volcanic hazards and disasters; volcanoes in human history, society, and culture; volcanoes and climate; volcano monitoring and hazard mitigation.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

EARTH 109: Geology of California

Introduction to the geology, geologic history, tectonic evolution, and landscape development of California. A brief survey of California’s petroleum, mineral, geothermal, and water resources.

EARTH 113: Engineering and Environmental Geology

Application of geologic and environmental principles to civil engineering problems. Includes: rock and soil mechanics; landslides; hydrology; earthquakes; and professional practice.

East Asian Studies

EACS 3 – Introduction to Asian Religious Traditions

An introduction to the basic texts, institutions, and practices of the religious traditions of South Asia and East Asia.

EACS 4B: East Asian Traditions: Modern

An introduction to the study of China and Japan in modern times, including the process of modernization, intellectual and political movements, national identity, literature and the arts, and popular culture.

EACS 5 – Introduction to Buddhism

The historical and cross-cultural exploration of Buddhism through the examination of basic texts, institutions, and practices of diverse Buddhist traditions.

EACS 156A: Anthropology of Religion

Anthropological studies of religious practice, including theories of religion. Topics include: ritual and symbolism, religion and economy, religion and political power, gender and religion, religion and media, and globalization of religion. Students will undertake a mini-ethnographic project.

English

ENGL 128AF: Animal Fiction

ENGL 140: Contemporary American Fiction

ENGL 165NT: Wordsworth, Bishop

ENGL 169: 18^thCentury Drama

ENGL 170LM: Literature And Medicine

How are contemporary studies of the mind relevant to language and literature, and vice versa? How have we imagined the mind at different times and in different cultures? Topics vary but focus especially on interdisciplinarity, history of theories of mind, and creativity.

ENGL 192: Science Fiction

The course examines science fiction as a literary genre. Emphasis throughout is upon the nature and development of the genre in its historical and cultural context.

ENGL 197: Upper Division Seminar: Picturing Nature: Photography & Narrative

In this course, students will develop a solid foundation in visual theory and environmental theory, responding through the practice of photography. Readings will be drawn from visual theory, cultural studies, media studies, and the environmental humanities. We will consider visual and narrative conventions of representing nature, and explore ways of breaking these conventions in order to tell fresh and engaging stories. The course will involve fieldtrips to local sites where students will respond to course readings through writing and taking photographs. We will consider historical perspectives on the practice of photography as a technology and an art; students are encouraged to “think” with their camera. Students will engage in weekly peer-review of each other’s photographs and writings, graded on completion and how students see concepts or themes from the week’s readings informing their work. **Students will be expected to bring a camera for use in class, which can be their own or one borrowed from UCSB (phone cameras are acceptable). Course counts for L&E or LCI specializations.

Environmental Studies

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 50: Bending the Curve: Climate Change Solutions

A unique solutions-oriented introduction to the crisis of climate change, building on the Carbon Neutrality Initiative of the UC system. Topics cover technical, scientific, and social aspects of climate change with the goal of empowering students with the capacities and knowledge to engage with possible solutions for stabilizing the climate. Offered as a hybrid course in which interactive video lectures taught by faculty from across the UC campuses are accompanied by in class discussion and collaborative group projects.

ENV S 95: Introduction to Ecological Restoration Field Skills

Visit local natural areas to gain hands-on experience in facets of ecological restoration including project planning, site assessment, invasive species management, plant identification and propagation, vegetation and water quality monitoring, and wildlife observation.  Internships available at conclusion of course.

ENV S 96: Introduction to Curation of Natural History Collections

Introduction to curation of natural history collections including vertebrate, plants, algae and lichen. Learn to collect, prepare, catalog, and preserve specimens via lectures, hands-on activities, and field trips. Collection focus changes quarterly. Internships available at conclusion of the course.

ENV S 103A – Flora and Vegetation of California

An introduction to plant families, species, and communities in California by means of laboratory work and field observations, and including techniques of plant collection and identification. One three-day field trip is required in addition to the regularly scheduled laboratories.

ENV S 105: Solar and Renewable Energy

How solar and renewable energy fits with environmental-energy options in both developed and developing nations. Technologies are studied in terms of their effects on the physical, social, and biological environment. Demonstrations, field trips, and guest lecturers.

ENV S 121: Contaminates of Emerging Concern

There has been an increase in both the number of substances to which consumers are exposed and the awareness of the potential ill effects of these substances. Personal care products, medications, and food additives are coming under increasing scrutiny, and we are aware that they are having unintended effects, but their presence in the environment is largely unregulated. This course takes students through the classes of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs), discussing previously-assigned papers and researching a CEC of their choice from cradle-to-grave.

ENV S 125B: Land Use and Planning Law

An examination of local, state, and federal laws regulating land use and development. Selected problems analyzed through case studies.

ENV S 127B: Advanced Environmental Education and Practicum

Students learn advanced teaching skills, mentoring strategies, and methods of assessing Environmental Education (EE). Course provides the opportunity to implement and evaluate one’s own EE project in a self- selected local organization, school, agency, or other educational setting. Provides real-world teaching experience with support from EE professionals. Students create a portfolio to showcase their community environmentally educational placement.

ENV S 128: Foundations of Ecosystem Restoration

Integrates ecological principles with practical issues involved in ecosystem restoration. Beginning with the challenge of selecting goals and establishing a target trajectory, students evaluate how ecological knowledge can guide restoration and whether sustainable states or trajectories can be achieved.

ENV S 134: Costal Processes and Management

Using representative coastal regimes, students study the major processes at work in our nation’s coastal zones and examine the nature and efficacy of the planning and management programs that have been put in place in these areas.

ENV 135: Advanced Environmental Planning

Advanced seminar applying principles presented in environmental studies 135A to regional and local government planning processes. Field analysis of local planning issues.

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 143: Endangered Species Management

Examination of the protection and management of endangered species through analysis of the state and federal endangered species acts. Topics include biodiversity, speciation and extinction rates, the history of endangered species legislation, and selected species’ case studies.

ENV S 146: Animals in Human Society: Ethical Issues of Animal Use

An exploration of the ethical issues which arise when humans interact with other animals, and an examination of conflicting attitudes toward the value of animal life in such specific areas as food production, recreational activities, research and environmental protection.

ENV S 154: Graphic Information Systems (GIS) for Environmental Applications

Explores how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can help environmental researchers and professionals analyze and communicate the spatial patterns underpinning a wide variety of environmental concerns. Introduces students to the basic theory and application of GIS through hands-on application of the technology to environmental questions.

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 162: Environmental Water Quality

Study of physio-chemical and biological characteristics of natural waters, analysis of water pollution and treatment, water-quality regulations. Laboratory: independent and supervised research of water pollutants and treatment, quantitative analysis of water-quality data and one-day field work.

ENV S 166DC: Diet and Global Climate Change

Course investigates the potential of diet change to mitigate anthropogenic global climate change via production, processing and transport of food, and by improved nutrition and health. The potential for eaters to change diets and policy makers to promote diet change will also be examined.

ENV S 193CP – Conservation Planning

ENVS 193CP explores the knowledge and skillsets needed to protect and maintain biodiversity in the face of global changes to land, water, and climate. Students will become professionally conversant in adaptive management; acquainted with stages and tools for identifying and prioritizing conservation areas; and assessing, planning and implementing conservation projects.

ENV S 193CR: Field Seminar in Community and Personal Resilience

A meaningful introduction to community and personal resilience through collective problem-solving, transformative action, and experiential outdoor education. Topics include ecological crisis, social equity, intersectionality, and regenerative economy, bringing new perspectives, struggles, and voices into dialogue with environmental problems and visions for the future. Particular attention is paid to the inherent knowledge, wisdom, and experience of each student participant, with the goal of deepening personal resilience, environmental action, and community engagement.

ENV S 193EB: Ethnobotany: Human Uses of Plants

Students survey the plants useful to humans, explore their botanical and geographic origins, and investigate their structure and composition that make them important to people. This is a multidisciplinary course touching on many topics, including: plant structure and function, artificial and natural selection, the Neolithic Revolution, genetic diversity, cycles of water, carbon, and nitrogen, GMOs, biodiversity, extinction, methods of agriculture, bioprospecting, Chumash Indian ethnobotany, and global climate change.

ENV S 193GB: Green Building Design & Operations

ENVS 193GB will focus on introducing Green Building tools and practices. Students will learn about organizations currently leading the march in sustainable building design and operations as well as technical audits and analysis performed in order to evaluate a building’s efficiency.

ENV S 193PR: Development, Displacement, and the Environment: Local to the Global

ENVS 193PR explores the historical context of policies and actions by international development agencies and governments, reviewing critiques of the systemic weaknesses and failures, and the impacts on and resistance by local communities. Examines ethnographic and other accounts that look at outcomes of development and conservation projects. Discuss work of activists who advocate alternative policies and actions to promote social and environmental justice.

ENV S 195: Environmental Leadership Incubator

Course combines the theory and practice of leadership, cultivating leadership skills in environmentally-oriented undergraduates and functioning as an incubator for student-initiated group projects focused on positive environmental change. Projects may address campus, community or regional environmental challenges through social activism, technology development, education, policy change, and other means. Requires multiple quarter commitment.

Feminist Studies

FEMST 50: Global Feminisms and Social Justice

Historical and contemporary examination of women’s activism around the globe in a variety of struggles, including self-named feminist movements and other movements for social justice.

Film and Media Studies

FAMST 183: Film and Media of the Natural and Human Environment

Presents popular films, professional documentaries representing trends, images, and issues associated with natural and human environments. Visual images and critical thinking skills are combined to enhance understanding of media presentation of environmental issues. May be linked to short creative projects.

Geography

GEOG 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.

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 20: Geography of Surfing

Social and physical science concepts manifested in the sport of surfing. Topics include wave generation and forecasting, economics of the surf industry, spatial search, strategic behavior under crowding, territorialism, and the generation/diffusion of regional surf cultures.

GEOG 113: Polar Environments

An examination of the geography of Arctic and Antarctic environments, including climate, hydrology, cryosphere, oceans, economics, ecosystems, and cultures. A variety of polar issues will be addressed, including improvements in long term monitoring, climate change process studies, modeling and analyses of impacts on ice sheets, sea ice, natural resources, indigenous peoples and society. Much of the course is concerned with the identification of the state of our understanding of past and present interactions of cryosphere and changing environments.

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.

GEOG 155: Geography of Latin America

El Pueblo, a vila, li tenamit: however you call where you live, geography matters. How and why are human and physical patterns inscribed where they are on the Latin American landscape?

GEOG 175, Measuring our Environment

Introduction to measurement and interpretation of physical-environmental data (temperature, humidity, precipitation) and integrated environmental measures (e.g. potential evapotranspiration). Working with micrometeorological towers deployed across an environmental gradient, students develop and test hypothesis using real-time tower data.

GEOG 176C: GIS Design and Applications

Applying GIS theory and techniques to solve problems in land and resource management, utilities, and municipal government. Covers all stages of a GIS project: planning, design, analysis, and presentation. Students collaborate to design, develop, and present a GIS pilot study.

GEOG 190: Location Theory and Modeling

A technical overview of location analysis and modeling in the context of GIScience. Applications associated with emergency service planning, natural resource management, retail site selection, among others, will be relied upon to make connections among models, spatial information and interpretation of findings. Utilization and implementation considerations using GIS and commercial optimization software will be explored.

Global Studies

GLOBL 2: Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes

Examination of contemporary social, economic, political, and environmental change in a global context; the emergence of a global economy and new systems of world order; and the debate over “globalization” and whether or not it is desirable.

GLOBL 104: Global Diasporas and Cultural Change

Globalization of the world’s population through international migrations; the emergence of diasporic cultures and their relationship to the countries of origin; interactions between immigrant/ethnic cultures and the dominant cultures of the host societies; the nature of transnational identities.

GLOBL 130: Global Economy and Development

Examines recent theories and perspectives on global political economy and development studies. Topics include, among others, the new global economy, transnational corporations, transnational labor markets, international trade and finance, social and economic development, and North-South relations.

GLOBL 174: International Organizations and Global Governance

Analyzes the evolution of and role played by international, governmental, and non-governmental organizations in global governance, including the United Nations and its specialized agencies, World Bank, IMF, WTO, European Commission and global non-governmental organizations and transnational corporations.

History

HIST 108W: Wildlife in America

Explores the turbulent, contested, and colorful history of human interactions with wild animals in North America from the Pleistocene to the present. Readings will explore historical changes in science, politics, law, management, and cultural ideas about nature.

the transition from natural philosophy to science. The role of science in Western culture.

HISTR 176T: American Environmental History

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

Political Science

POL S 124: International Organization

The nature and function of international organization, including a study of the United Nations and the European community.

POL S 147: Politics in Developing Countries

A comparative analysis of the political system of a selected number of African, Asian and Middle Eastern countries, with particular development and modernization common to all of them.

Religious Studies

REL ST 190NS: The Novels of Neal Stephenson: Science, Literature, Ethics

Neal Stephenson may be best known for his 1992 novel, Snow Crash, which was inspirational to many pioneers of Silicon Valley. This course explores the interface of the novel with the history of science across the Stephenson’s work. We will ask a number of questions about the power of literary narrative to address the ethical questions raised by the development of technology; and about the power of narrative to not only represent the world but to elaborate new forms of life on the basis of technological advancements.

Sociology

SOC 130SD: The World in 2050

Starting with the current political, economic, cultural, and climate crises of Earth and humanity, we consider alternatives to the present system – sustainable development, regrowth, transition towns, resilience – and our roles in building a far better world by 2050.

SOC 130SG: Sociology of Globalization

Introduction to the sociological study of globalization. Survey of principal theories and debates in globalization studies with a focus on economic, political, and cultural transnational processes, gender/race/class and globalization, transnational social movements, and local-global linkages.

SOC 185DG: Theories of Globalization and Development

Analyzes major trends in development and globalization thinking/policy. Discusses theories in political economy through modernization theory, dependency, alternative development, neoliberalism, human development and post- development. Addresses ongoing debates on globalization, and the rise of Asia and emerging societies.

Writing

WRIT 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professionals

Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Winter 2019

Anthropology

ANTH 7: Introductory Biosocial Anthropology

 An introduction to our evolved, universal human nature, the evolution of the human mind, and how they shape behavior, social life, and culture. Topics include friendship, mate choice, incest avoidance, cooperation, revenge, status, jealousy, emotions, group formation, and intergroup aggression.

ANTH 129MG: Behavior Ecology

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 131CA: California Indians

Investigation of the diversity of California Indian societies at the beginning of European colonization, including social organization, economy, material culture, and ideology. Also considered are origins and historic changes. Emphasis is placed on central and southern California.

ANTH 161: Evolutionary Medicine

Applies evolutionary principles to understanding human health and disease past and present. Topics include host/parasite co- evolution, aging and senescence, influence of human migration and culture on disease patterns, and evolutionary origins of “diseases of civilization.”

ANTH 176B: The American West

The American West as a frontier and as a region, in transit from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific, and from the seventeenth century to the present.

ANTH 180A: Osteology

Designed to teach students in archaeology and physical anthropology the basic skills necessary to identify and analyze the remains of animals recovered from archaeological excavations. Emphasis is placed on laboratory work with actual archaeological collections and testing hypotheses about prehistoric human behavior.

Art

ART 7C: Introduction to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies

The study of spatial art in many forms, including material, interactive and dynamic digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory, historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions.

ART 106W: Introduction to 2D/3D Visualizations in Architecture

Develops skills in reading, interpreting, and visualizing 3D objects and spaces by offering exercises in sketching, perspective, orthographic projections, isometric drawings, and manual rendering practices. Relevant for those interested in history of architecture, sculpture, and such spatial practices as installations and public art.

ART 120EL: Environmnt/Lndscape

 Individual photographic projects organized and conceptualized by students. Proposal for research and development of design and production of body of work with a focus on the environment and landscape.

Architecture/Art History

ARTHI 6F: Survey: Architecture and Planning

A selective and chronological survey of architecture and urban design in social and historical context. Individual buildings and urban plans from the past to the present will be used as examples.

ARTHI 6J: Survey: Contemporary Architecture

Global survey of architectural production in the twenty-first century. Emphasis on form and technology, as well as economic, sociopolitical context. Explores built form at a variety of scales (buildings, cities, virtual spaces), as well as the concept of a “contemporary.”

ARTHI 132J: Modern Arab Art

 Explores modern and contemporary art, artists and art movements of the Arab world from nineteenth century to the present.

ARTHI 134K: Chinese Calligraphy

Examines the different scripts in historical context, surveys significant movements and artists, and considers the ideas, theories and aesthetic principles that have enriched the art of writing to elite status in China.

ARTHI 136I: City in History

An historical introduction to the ideas and forms of cities with emphasis on modern urbanism. Examination of social theory to understand the role of industrial capitalism and colonialism in shaping the culture of modern cities, the relationship between the city and the country, the phenomena of class, race and ethnic separation. 

ARTHI 142E: Architecture, Planning, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris

Paris (and Versailles) from the Sun King to the Revolution, rococo, neoclassicism, origins of urbanism; extensive use of primary texts in translation to study architectural debates in the press and their connection to contemporary political battles.

ARTHI 143E: Adaptive Reuse

Most public places, buildings, galleries, and museums are transformed to varying degrees over the course of their history. This lecture explores how contemporary architects and artists rethought and repurposed historic structures.

Black Studies

BL ST 14: History of Jazz

A survey of the historical origins and development of jazz, beginning with the West African heritage and the African-American folk tradition, and examining the social and cultural context of this twentieth-century music.

BL ST 142: Music in African-American Cultures: USA

Introduction to the music of African-Americans in the U.S.A. from the antebellum era to the present, including folk, religious, popular, and classical music forms. The sociology of Black music in America forms the basis for lectures and discussions.

BL ST 174: From Plantations to Prisons

An introduction to the historical roots of the U.S. penal industry and current policies. Provides a structural understanding of the contemporary prison crisis and questions contemporary notions of crime, punishment, rehabilitation, restoration and justice. Focuses on the unprecedented prison population explosion in terms of race, gender and class.

Chican@ Studies

CH ST 118: The Scientific Revolution and Non-Western Epistemologies

Overview of the Scientific Revolution and its impact both within Western Europe and outside of the Mediterranean region through colonialism. Contrast of resulting “Western” scientific perspective with non-Western epistemologies, principally of the indigenous Western Hemisphere.

CH ST 149: Body, Culture, and Power

Exploration of the construction, imaging and experience of the body in light of modern regimes of power/knowledge. Particular attention is paid tothe work of Michel Foucault on disciplinary technologies, medical practicesof ab/normalization, and the emergence of bio-power.

CH ST 168E: History of the Chicano Movement

History of the Chicano Movement. An examination of the Chicano movement in the United States from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Topics will include the student movement, the farmworker movement, the Plande Aztlan, the Raza Unida Party, Chicana feminists, the anti-war movement, and Chicanostudies.

CH ST 189: Immigration and the US Border

Immigration and the U.S. border. An analysis of the socioeconomic and political factors which have determined and continue to form the basis for the development of United States immigration policies and practices toward Mexico and the U.S.-Mexican border.

Classics

CLASS 40: Greek Mythology

Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in which these myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.

CLASS 155: Greek Religion and Idenity

The ancient Greeks defined themselves through their religion, and this course examines different forms of Greek identity from the standpoint of religious practice and belief. Topics addressed include the role of animal sacrifice, material objects dedicated to the gods, gender and class distinctions among the worshippers, the built environment, athletics, and local myths and variations in practice. By considering ancient evidence through the lens of contemporary theory, we will attempt to reconstruct the richness and diversity of Greek religious experience.

Comparative Lit

C LIT 35/GER 35: 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.

C LIT 36: Global Humanities 

What do literature and critical theory contribute to the reflection on human rights and the analysis of their violation? Inquiry into different ways in which the humanities can re-frame the debate on human rights and act as a social force.

C LIT 186LS: Literature of the Sea

While the ocean has often been represented as an alibi for the development of British maritime empire, it has recently been read as a critical resource for postcolonial writers (Césaire, Danticat, Walcott) for re-evaluating effects of colonial history & expanding our sense of a shared planet. Course examines complicated & imbricated histories of the ocean & imperialism through literatures & travelogues of 19th century & beyond. Begins with Shakespeare’s The Tempest to outline recurring themes in course: mutiny, wars, ships & shipwrecks, the stranger, the savage. Other themes: scale, planetarity vs globalize., catastrophe, passage, sovereignty. Approach informed by contemp. theories of planetarity & oceanic lit (Spivak, Dimock, Glissant).

CCS

ART CS 125: Sculpture-Related Studies

Non-studio emphasis on generation and development of images, ideas, and imagination through field trips, slides, presentations, and videos. Primarily for sculptors.

Earth Science

EARTH 4: Introduction to Oceanography

An introduction to oceanography covering the major physical, chemical, and geological features of the oceans, their role in earth history, and potential use as a natural resource.

EARTH 9: Giant Earthquakes

Study of the character and causes of large earthquakes, the hazards they pose, and how society can prepare for and mitigate their impacts. Historical case studies will illuminate why their slip characteristics and destructive effects vary so widely.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

EARTH 30: History of Life

Examination of the geological and biological processes affecting the evolution of life on Earth from 3.8 billion years ago to the present. Strong emphasis on the nature of the “scientific method” as a way of understanding natural history.

EARTH 105: Earth’s Climate: Past and Present

Description and quantitative analysis of climate processes and paleoclimate proxies. Processes include radiation and the Earth’s energy budget, the influence of orbital cycles, ocean circulation, monsoons, ENSO, and ice sheets. Paleoclimate reconstructions from tectonic-scale to the last millennium, with emphasis on glacial cycles and Plio- Pleistocene climate evolution.

East Asian Studies

EACS 4A – East Asian Traditions: Pre-Modern

An introduction to the social structures, institutions, systems of thought and belief, and the arts and entertainments of China and Japan during the pre-modern period.

 EACS 5 – Introduction to Buddhism

The historical and cross-cultural exploration of Buddhism through the examination of basic texts, institutions, and practices of diverse Buddhist traditions.

English

ENG122RW: Reading the World

In this course, we will be critically reading a variety of contemporary texts that deal with “controversial” issues, such as climate change and childhood vaccinations, where there is no real controversy at all. Climate change is real. Since 1880, our global climate has warmed by 1.2-1.5 degrees Fahrenheit. With respect to childhood vaccinations, studies involving millions of children have found no verifiable link between vaccinations and conditions like autism. Why then do millions of Americans doubt the truth? This course will explore the role that reading skills play in these “controversies.”

ENGL 133SO: Studies in American Regional Literature

Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as the South, the West, New England.

ENG165HN: EcoFictions: The Human/Non-Human Mesh

This small seminar (capped at 15) looks at ways of understanding relations among human and non-human beings. As far back as Ovid’s Metamorphoses, writers of speculative fiction have been thinking across the boundaries between individual beings, species, even kingdoms/domains. We’ll read a few poems and four novels together: LeGuin’s science-fiction The Word for World is Forest; When the Killing’s Done, T. C. Boyle’s fictionalization of Santa Barbara Channel Islands a decade and a  half ago ecological restoration projects; Sinha’s magical-realist Animal’s People (about the Bhopal disaster); Bacigalupi’s dystopian biopunk The Wind-Up Girl. Along the way we’ll look at how environmental ethicists understand complex interrelations among human and non-human, living and non-living, organic and inorganic entities – bodies, alliances, and systems made up of strange hybrids.

ENG192EF: Science Fiction: Ecofiction

This course will introduce the literary genre of science fiction (SF) and its engagements with the science of ecology. SF writer Frank Herbert famously wrote that ecology is not only the study of the relations between organisms and environment, but also the “study of consequences.” This definition suggests that ecology shares an affinity with the literary genre of science fiction, since both involve the act of speculation, imagining how new technologies, species, or contact with aliens could affect the future of the planet. Focusing on SF from the post-WWII period (1945-present), we will consider shifts in contemporary environmentalism (conservation, sustainability, the Anthropocene) alongside literary texts and their imaginations of both alien ecologies and planetary futures. During the quarter, we will consider topics including cybernetics, species extinction, hierarchy, deep ecology, ecological Marxism, biopolitics, the Anthropocene, the posthuman, gender, race, collectivity, and dystopia. For English Majors, this course counts for either the “Literature & Environment” or “Literature & Cultures of Information” specializations.

Environmental Studies

ENV S 30: Introduction to Environmental Economics 

Economic processes underlie many of the environmental problems facing humanity but can also play an important role in solving those challenges. This course introduces key theories from micro- and macroeconomics and applies them to a variety of environmental problems. Topics covered include individual preferences, efficiency, valuation, market failures and policy analysis. 

ENV S 106: Critical Thinking About Human-Environment Problems and Solutions

An in-depth examination of critical thinking in environmental contexts. Identification of deceptive methods of environmental critique and debate in policy and public matters. Comprehension of approaches to environmental solutions as well as common thinking traps in developing such solutions. Emphasis on reasoning patterns and leverage points of environmental arguments, systems thinking about environmental problems and solutions, exploration of common errors in scientific reasoning, and framing scientific and environmental issues for clarity and effective communication. 

ENV S 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.

ENV S 116: 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 125A: Principles of Environmental Law 

An introduction to the history and methodology of law as it relates to human use of the environment. Case studies are used to examine common law, constitutional and modern environmental laws, with an emphasis on current theories and principles.

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.

ENVS 135A: Principles of Environmental Planning 

Introduction to the history, theory, and trends of urban, regional, and environmental planning in both California and the United States. Field trips to local urban areas.

ENV S 152: Applied Marine Ecology 

Introduction to the application of ecological principles and methods to environmental problems in marine habitats. Focus on problems that are local, regional, and global in scale. Concepts illustrated with case studies.

ENV S 165B: Advanced Environmental Impact Analysis 

Advanced seminar during which students prepare their own focused environmental impact report on a specific development project. Includes in-depth discussion of baseline, mitigation, impacts, and public comments. Assignments based on research and fieldwork provide reality professional environmental planning experience.

ENV S 174: Environmental Policy and Economics 

Introductory course on economic analysis of environmental policy. Topics include market failure, the evaluation of environmental policy, energy sources, population growth, sustainable development, the optimal levels of biodiversity and pollution, and dispute resolution.

ENV S 178: 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.

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 193CE: Circular Economy – Waste Not: New Perspectives on Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling

ENVS 193CE will evaluate the emerging concept of circular systems within the capitalist economy to eliminate the concept of waste and promote more sustainable consumption. Course will examine the theory of a circular economy, the ways in which products and materials could be designed to eliminate waste across the life of products and materials, the systems that could facilitate repair, remanufacture, recovery and recycling and potentially make circular systems possible, and practical applications.

ENV S 193FE: Fire in Western USA Ecosystems 

Investigates the influence and management of fire in the western USA with special emphasis on California ecosystems including chaparral and conifer forest. Discussion will include understanding historic fire regimes and how fire regimes are changing as well as how human management of fire has changed. Participation in Friday and one weekend field trip are required.

ENV S 193GB: Green Building

A new or one-time course focusing on a special area of interest in environmental studies. ENVS 193GB will focus on introducing Green Building tools and practices. Students will learn about organizations currently leading the march in sustainable building design and operations as well as technical audits and analysis performed in order to evaluate a building’s efficiency.

ENV S 193WM: Water Resources Management 

Water underpins all aspects of development. In 193SD we learned how to evaluate water resource supply and demand. To manage water resources effectively, we also need to understand anthropogenic drivers of change and water policy. This class builds on topics covered in 193SD (strongly recommended). This is a project-based course (independent AND group) that focuses on water tradeoffs and opportunities for management; the class prioritizes science communication skills.

Feminist Studies

FEMST 30:Women, Development and Globalization

Examines the impact of development policy and globalization on women’s lives. Emphasis is placed on women’s activism and feminist critiques of neo-liberal measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.

Film and Media Studies

FAMST 166EM: Special Topics in Cultural Studies: Energy, Media, and Culture

Course examines how our dependency on oil shapes modern ways of seeing and being. The course traces the media worlds of oil, from the origins of documentary film to contemporary contemplations of a world after oil.

Geography

GEOG 3A: Ocean/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. 

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 8: 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.

GEOG 119: Climatic Change 

Mechanisms and processes which produce climate change. Methods for reconstructing paleo-climates. Impacts of past climate change on human societies.

GEOG 152: Health Geography 

Geographic approaches to health, disease, and well-being, with an emphasis on health disparities and inequalities. Topics include social determinants of health, migration, the natural and built environment, vaccines, development, and globalization and health.

GEOG 195KG: Smart Green Cities 

Smart Cities promote social and human capital, support a more competitive economy, expand participation in government, increase access to opportunities, and protect natural resources. Smart technology, including self-driving cars, can help us save lives, decrease pollutant emissions, and use resources in a sustainable way. Which technologies are smart, and can they achieve sustainable pathways? Which cities have done this and how? Are Smart Cities sustainable and resilient? This course will answer these questions by examining real-life experiments, review current technologies, and explore future developments using scientific papers, popular press, and online media.

Global Studies

GLOBL 2: Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes

Examination of contemporary social, economic, political, and environmental change in a global context; the emergence of a global economy and new systems of world order; and the debate over “globalization” and whether or not it is desireable.

GLOBL110: Global Culture and Ethics

Explores connections over the last century between global cultural developments and the quest for normative values on a global level. Topics include the communications revolution, cultural ideologies, international migrations and diasporas, the human rights movement, and new cosmopolitanisms.

GLOBL 111: Human Rights and World Order 

This course will analyze theories, patterns, cases, and causes of human rights violations throughout the world. What are the international human rights standards? What remedies are available at the global, national, social, and individual levels?

GLOBL 120: Global Ideologies and World Order

Deals with conceptions of the world as a unitary political system and how these views come into confrontation with one another. Topics include the nation-state system, political ideologies, international organizations, global conflict, and the emergent civil society.

GLOBL 130: Global Economy and Development

 Examines recent theories and perspectives on global political economy and development studies. Topics include, among others, the new global economy, transnational corporations, transnational labor markets, international trade and finance, social and economic development, and North-South relations.

GLOBL 159: Globalization and Culture

 Discusses historical themes, oriental globalization and East- West osmosis, and theoretical perspectives. Topics include the clash of civilizations, McDonaldization, and hybridity narratives; and ethnicity, multiculturalism in different cultural settings, and global multiculture.

GLOBL 161: Global Environmental Policy and Politics 

The evolution of international environmental negotiations, agreements, and organizations, and the role governmental and non-governmental actors are playing in shaping them are examined. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and equitable global sustainable development are among the critical policy challenges considered.

GLOBL 174: Global Perspectives on Environment and Society 

Introduces interdisciplinary approaches to analyzing societal interactions with the environment, and highlights political, economic and cultural processes that shape (and are shaped by) the environment. Topical coverage includes conservation, food, energy, climate, pollution and global industrial production. The class assignments emphasize critical evaluation of specific social-environmental problems and the ideas, policies and practices that people engage in addressing them.

History

HIST 20: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Society

Explores how science, technology and/or medicine have helped shape modern societies (roughly 1850-present). Themes include formation of scientific and technical communities, the interactions of science with political and popular culture, and the social context of knowledge production.

HIST 74: Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice in a Global Context

Historical and interdisciplinary perspectives on poverty and inequality globally and in the U.S., tracing structural transformations, shifting modes of thought, policy, and action, dynamics of class, racial, gender, ethnic and geographic stratification, and major theoretical debates from antiquity through the present. Course features guest lectures to introduce students to varied conceptual and methodological approaches to studying poverty and inequality, and draws on readings, discussion, writing, and related assignments to explore issues within a social justice framework.

HIST 106B: The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800

The history of science in the West from Copernicus to Lavoisier: the transition from medieval, theocentric views of human nature and its operation to secular and mechanistic views in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the transition from natural philosophy to science. The role of science in Western culture.

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 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.

Political Science

POL S 161: US Minority Politics

A comparative study of recent literature on the historical and contemporary political experiences of the four major racial and ethnic minority groups (Blacks/African Americans, American Indians, Latinos/Hispanic Americans, and Asian Americans) and their interactions with the dominant racial group (non-Hispanic white Americans) in the U.S.

POL S 196: Senior Seminar on Nuclear War and International Society

Religious Studies

INT 156BE: Bio-Medical Ethics

 Moral, social, and legal questions surrounding the practice of medicine and related sciences. Topics may include patient’s rights, ethical duties of doctors, stem cell research, end of life care, and physician assisted suicide.

RGST185: Food, Religion, and Culture in the Middle East

Explores the significance of foods in the religious and cultural life of Middle Eastern peoples. Focuses on Jewish, Christian, and Muslim feasting, fasting, and dietary rules. Includes culinary traditions of Arab, Persian, Turkish, and Israeli ethnic groups, and related topics.

RGST193L: Religion and Ecology in America

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

Sociology

SOC 118B: Sociology of the Body 

Explores the phenomenon and experience of activism – the effort by ordinary people to make deep social change – both in the United States and on a global level, with an emphasis on recent and current events.

SOC 130SG: Sociology of Globalization

Introduction to the sociological study of globalization. Survey of principal theories and debates in globalization studies with a focus on economic, political, and cultural transnational processes, gender/race/class and globalization, transnational social movements, and local-global linkages.

SOC 134A: Activism

Explores the phenomenon and experience of activism – the effort by ordinary people to make deep social change – both in the United States and on a global level, with an emphasis on recent and current events.

SOC 185DG: Theories of Globalization and Development

Analyzes major trends in development and globalization thinking/policy. Discusses theories in political economy through modernization theory, dependency, alternative development, neoliberalism, human development and post- development. Addresses ongoing debates on globalization, and the rise of Asia and emerging societies.

Writing

WRIT 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professionals

Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Fall 2017

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.

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 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.

ARTHI 136O: Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics

Course examines history and theory of sustainable and “green” architecture since the early twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the critical analysis of a distinct “green” architectural aesthetic; the scope is global.

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.

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 22S: Seminar on Literature and the Environment

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 22 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 22 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

ENGL 122EA: Cultural Representations, The Rhetoric of Environmental Activism

This course is an experiment. It begins with the assumption that global climate change is real and that its causes are anthropogenic (i.e. human caused). Consequently, solutions will not be just technological, or even mostly so, but will also need to involve profound cultural changes to our beliefs, practices, and styles of life. The difficulty in bringing this about is not only that a broad swathe of Americans are skeptical of climate change, but even if this is acknowledged, the causes and solutions to the problem are being fiercely debated on the public stage. It has also, sadly, become a political issue dividing our nation. This course will carefully look at the rhetoric of these debates.

ENGL 165IF: Topics in Literature: Imaginary Futures

This course examines the literary history of fictitious futures, or to use Frederic Jameson’s phrase, we will mine “the archaeology of the future,” to determine the central concerns of authors and film-makers who imagine, in particular, dystopian visions of the world to come. Beginning with fiction from the end of the Victorian period, we will read several novels, short stories, and consider some films, that provide glimpses of a variety of futures, and consider how they approach respectively the disintegration of the political, social, and natural world.

ENV S 108W: Wildlife in America

Explores the turbulent, contested, and colorful history of human interactions with wild animals in North America from the Pleistocene to the present. Readings will explore historical changes in science, politics, law, management, and cultural ideas about nature.

ENV S 118: Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment

Industrial Ecology is a philosophical and methodical framework interwoven with concepts in ecology and economics used to aid in understanding of how industrial systems interact with the environment. Capital, energy, and material flows are examined and viewed in cultural context.

ENV S 119: Ecology and Management of California Wildlands

Explore ecological processes in California habitats and the challenges of their management through field trips, discussions with land managers, lectures and readings. Focus on regional habitats including specialized habitats such as coastal salt marsh and vernal pools, and more widespread such as oak savanna and chaparral.

ENV S 120: Toxins in the Environment

Effects and implications for the future of introducing toxins into the biosphere. Examination of physiological and biochemical effects and the mechanisms of action of the potential toxins. Discussion of methodological approaches and legal ramifications of studies in environmental toxicology.

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 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 146: Animals in Human Society

An exploration of the ethical issues which arise when humans interact with other animals, and an examination of conflicting attitudes toward the value of animal life in such specific areas as food production, recreational activities, research and environmental protection.

ENV S 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.

ENV S 165A: Environmental Impact Analysis

Analyzes the historical and theoretical approaches to environmental assessment methodology and procedures for preparing and reviewing environmental impact reports. Explores strengths and weaknesses of current public policy context.

ENV S 172: Waste Management: Product Stewardship, Recycling and Renewable Energy

Overview of policy, technology, and economic dimensions of managing wastes in the twenty-first century. Covers the emergence of product stewardship, domestic and international recycling, composting of organic materials, conversion of organic materials to renewable energy, waste incineration and land filling.

ENV S 172: Waste Management: Product Stewardship, Recycling and Renewable Energy

Overview of policy, technology, and economic dimensions of managing wastes in the twenty-first century. Covers the emergence of product stewardship, domestic and international recycling, composting of organic materials, conversion of organic materials to renewable energy, waste incineration and land filling.

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.

ENV S 177: Comparative Environmental Politics

Course is structured around the major issues in environmental politics, for example: global warming, nuclear waste, deforestation, and chemical pollution. The roles of economics, technology and social organization are each considered as explanatory variables for understanding environmental problems.

ENV S 180: Global Environmental Movements

Examines historical and contemporary environmental and human rights movements around the world. Subject matter includes: policy- driven/reformist environmental movements, radical underground and militant movements, indigenous peoples’ movements, environmental movements in the Global South, and coalitions and transnational advocacy networks focused on confronting climate change and resource extraction associated with industrial agriculture, mining, timber harvesting, hydroelectric dam construction, fracking, oil and tar sands, and the international hazardous waste trade. Students Learn theories and concepts from the social sciences and environmental humanities.

EARTH 20:Geological Catastrophes

 Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

EARTH 130: Global Warming – Science and Society

Introduction to the scientific and societal issues surrounding global climate change. Includes introduction to physical climatology, greenhouse effect, climate history, anthropogenic changes, and future predictions. Student discussion and debate on the potential societal scenarios available to mitigate future climate change.

GEOG 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.

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.

HIST 173T: American Environmental History

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

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 nonhuman animals are examined from various perspectives.

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.

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 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professions

 Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Summer 2017

ANTH 111: Anthropology 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.

ANTH 125: Anthropology of Gender

The cross-cultural study of gender from a feminist perspective. Topics may include gender and nature, gender and the division of labor, gender and kinship, gender and subjectivity, gender and sexuality, gender and the state, gender and knowledge/discourse.

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 136C: Architecture of the United States

History of architecture and urban planning: buildings and builders, patrons and occupants, but especially the historical forces and events that transformed the landscape. Course subjects include art, design, technology, economics, politics, and social forces.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

ENGL 122CC: Cultural Representation – Rhetoric of Climate Change

Examines the debate around climate change and climate science. We will examine rhetorics and utilize literary methodologies to investigate their imagined futures. We will read texts that urge us to take climate change seriously as well as analyze some of the tropes most frequently used in denial literature. The goal is not only to understand the implicit narrativzation of climate change, but to assess how humanistic methodologies can contribute to these debates and contribute to imagining different futures.

ENV S 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.

ENV S 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.

ENV S 122CC: Cultural Representations – The Rhetoric of Climate Change

 Course examines the debate around climate change and climate science. We Will examine rhetorics and utilize literary methodologies to investigate their imagined futures. We will read texts that urge us to take climate change seriously as well as analyze some of the tropes most frequently used in denial literature. The goal is not only to understand the implicit narrativization of climate change, but to assess how humanistic methodologies can contribute to these debates and contribute to imagining different futures.

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 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.

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 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.

ENV S 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.

GEOG 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.

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 W 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.

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.

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.

Spring 2017

ANTH 103: Human- Wildlife Interactions

Survey of human-wildlife interactions (e.g., bushmeat, pet trade, crop-raiding). Students examine cascading effects on wildlife, landscapes, and human populations, as well as mitigating approaches relating to our changing perceptions of wildlife and nature.

ANTH 152: Environmental Anthropology

 Examines the ways that humans interact with, use, and perceive the environment and nature, with a focus on the cultural, political, and economic features of human environment relationships across time and in different parts of the world. Through readings, in-class activities and discussions, field trips, and research projects, students will gain a better understanding of how anthropological theory, research, and applications can be used to address contemporary environment topics and problems.

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.

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.

BL ST 154: Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice

This course investigates environmental injustice—that some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with environmental hazards—and environmental racism—that a high coincidence exists between the location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities, even when they are predominantly middle class.

C 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.

EARTH 20: Geological Catastrophes

Course deals with geologic catastrophes, e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, and landslides. Students will learn the basic physical causes of these naturally occurring events and discuss the consequences.

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 122EE: Cultural Representations

 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 122FC: Cultural Representations

 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 122ME: Cultural Representations

 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 3: Introduction to the Social and Cultural Environment

 An introduction to the relationship of societies and the environment from prehistoric 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 127B: Advanced Environmental Education and Practicum

Students learn advanced teaching skills, mentoring strategies, and methods of assessing Environmental Education (EE). Course provides the opportunity to implement and evaluate one’s own EE project in a self- selected local organization, school, agency, or other educational setting. Provides real-world teaching experience with support from EE professionals. Students create a portfolio to showcase their community environmentally educational placement.

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 aquaculture 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 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.

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.

ENV S 193WL: Wild Literature in the Urban Landscape

 A new or one-time course focusing on a special area of interest in environmental studies. ENVS 193WL combines the study of ecological writing with service to Santa Barbara schools and community centers. Through exploration of local and global ecological challenges, students conduct weekly workshops combining literature and ecology in order to better understand local issues like drought, erosion and land-use, with an emphasis on eco-industrial histories. An approach to environmental education through the lens of literary arts.

GEOG 3B: Land, Water & 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

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 145: Society and Hazards

Presents geographic approaches to the study of environmental hazards, exploring the evolution of theory and key concepts, causal processes, trends and patterns in the spatial distribution of vulnerability and hazard impacts, and the challenge of management and adaptation.

GEOG 150: Geography in the United States

 Intensive study of the physical and cultural processes that have shaped and are shaping the landscapes of the United States.

GEOG 185B: Environmental Issues and Location Decision Making

 Introduction to decision-making techniques with regard to land use allocation and planning. Emphasizes addressing conflicts involving environmental concerns and multiple objectives. Examples include water resources development, corridor location (rights-of-way), preservation of endangered species, and power plant siting.

HIST 177E: 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.

LAIS 101: 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.

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.

SOC 134F: Future of Globalization: Global Change, Futurology, and the Social Sciences

What will the world of the future look like? This course focuses on the capacity of the social sciences to predict. Many authors believe that predictions in this field are impossible. Others have detected observable paths to the future.

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 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professions

Analysis and practice of professional writing in addressing environmental topics such as water management, carbon neutrality, or sustainability. Attention to research methods, audience analysis, document design, conciseness, collaboration, and editing strategies.

Winter 2017

ANTH 123: Feeding Ecology of Primates and Humans

Foraging and feeding patterns in primates with some discussion of human patterns. Topics include digestive physiology; measurement of energy flows and food availability; foraging theory; and the evolutionary context of human diets.

ARTHI 117C: Nineteenth-Century British Art and Culture

An interdisciplinary study of British art and culture in the nineteenth century. Topics may include: Romantic landscape painting and poetry; art and the Industrial Revolution; London and Victorian images of the city; images of childhood; Romanticism in Britain; and more.

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 122EA: Cultural Representations

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 122PW: Cultural Representations

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 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.

ENV S 127A: Foundations of Environmental Education

Introduction to the underlying principles to be an environmental educator. Includes understanding the fundamental characteristics and goals of Environmental Education (EE), evolution of the field, instructional methodologies, and how to design, implement, and assess effective EE instruction in a variety of disciplines, including: nature connection, environmental justice, outdoor education, and primary, secondary, and higher education. Course includes presentations by local EE professionals and field trips.

ENV S 135A: Principles of Environmental Planning

Introduction to the history, theory, and trends of urban, regional, and environmental planning in both California and the United States. Field trips to local urban areas.

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 166DC: Diet and Global Climate Change

Course investigates the potential of diet change to mitigate anthropogenic global climate change via production, processing and transport of food, and by improved nutrition and health. The potential for eaters to change diets and policy makers to promote diet change will also be examined.

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.

ENV S 193PJ: Power, Justice, and the Environment

A new or one-time course focusing on a special area of interest in environmental studies. ENVS 193PJ will introduce students to the theoretical and historical foundations of environmental racism and environmental inequality. We will examine the social scientific evidence concerning these phenomena and the efforts by various stakeholders to address them. We will consider the social forces that create environmental inequalities so that we may understand their causes, consequences, and the possibilities for achieving environmental justice.

FEMST 30: Women, Development, and Globalization

Examines the impact of development policy and globalization on women’s lives. Emphasis is placed on women’s activism and feminist critiques of neoliberal measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.

GEOG 3A: Ocean 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.

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 119: Climate Change and Its Consequences

Mechanisms and processes which produce climate change. Methods for reconstructing paleo-climates. Impacts of past climate change on human societies.

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.

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.

GLOBL 161:Global Environmental Policy and Politics

The evolution of international environmental negotiations, agreements, and organizations, and the role governmental and non-governmental actors are playing in shaping them are examined. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and equitable global sustainable development are among the critical policy challenges considered.

HIST 104A: Science and Religion: Conflict or Collaboration?

Broad historical survey of the dynamic relationship shared between science and religion across Europe and America. Topics include the philosophy of science, the religious implications of the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, evolutionary theory, climate change, stem-cell research, and neurosciences.

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..

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 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.

POL SCI 177: Comparative Environmental Politics

Course is structured around the major issues in environmental politics, for example: global warming, nuclear waste, deforestation, and chemical pollution. The roles of economics, technology and social organization are each considered as explanatory variables for understanding environmental problems.

RG ST 193: 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 188CW: Consumption, Waste, and the Environment

Examines the link between consumption, waste, and the environment. Integrates environmental concerns with larger cultural questions about the role that consumption, as a way of life, has come to occupy in our contemporary societies.

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.

Spring 2016

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.

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 22S: Seminar on Literature and the Environment

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 22 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 22 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.

ENGL 122CS: Cultural Representations: The City

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 122LE: Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment

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

ENV S 108W: Wildlife in America

Explores the turbulent, contested, and colorful history of human interactions with wild animals in North America from the Pleistocene to the present. Readings will explore historical changes in science, politics, law, management, and cultural ideas about nature.

ENV S 118: Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment

Industrial Ecology is a philosophical and methodical framework interwoven with concepts in ecology and economics used to aid in understanding of how industrial systems interact with the environment. Capital, energy, and material flows are examined and viewed in cultural context.

ENV S 119: Ecology and Management of California Wildlands

Explore ecological processes in California habitats and the challenges of their management through field trips, discussions with land managers, lectures and readings. Focus on regional habitats including specialized habitats such as coastal salt marsh and vernal pools, and more widespread such as oak savanna and chaparral.

ENV S 120: Toxics in the Environment

Effects and implications for the future of introducing toxins into the biosphere. Examination of physiological and biochemical effects and the mechanisms of action of the potential toxins. Discussion of methodological approaches and legal ramifications of studies in environmental toxicology.

ENV S 122LE: Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment

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

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 134EC: Earth in Crisis

Explores the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism.

ENV S 172: Waste Management: Product Stewardship, Recycling and Renewable Energy

Overview of policy, technology, and economic dimensions of managing wastes in the twenty-first century. Covers the emergence of product stewardship, domestic and international recycling, composting of organic materials, conversion of organic materials to renewable energy, waste incineration and land filling.

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 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.

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.

HIST 20: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Society

Explores how science, technology and/or medicine have helped shape modern societies (roughly 1850-present). Themes include formation of scientific and technical communities, the interactions of science with political and popular culture, and the social context of knowledge production.

HIST 108W: Wildlife in America

Explores the turbulent, contested, and colorful history of human interactions with wild animals in North America from the Pleistocene to the present. Readings will explore historical changes in science, politics, law, management, and cultural ideas about nature.

HIST 148AU: African Urban History: From the Ancient City State to the Contemporary Metropolis

The changing meaning of African urbanity from historical case studies and more contemporary cityscapes through particular themes, such as statecraft, ideology, production, political economies of wealth and poverty, cultural performativity, politics and hegemony, labor migrancy and the rural-urban nexus.

HIST 173T: American Environmental History

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

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.

SOC 118CW: Consumption, Waste, and the Environment

Examines the link between consumption, waste, and the environment. Integrates environmental concerns with larger cultural questions about the role that consumption, as a way of life, has come to occupy in our contemporary societies.

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 134EC: Earth in Crisis

Explores the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman’s terms, the current and future social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism.

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.