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With 23\u00a0departments offering over 200\u00a0unique undergraduate courses that address issues in the environmental humanities (and still\u00a0more on the way), UC Santa Barbara has an embarrassment of riches in the field. If there is a downside, it is that such an array can make choosing courses a little daunting. The below list of courses should help in sifting through the options. See also Featured Courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Either scroll down or jump to an individual department’s offerings.<\/p>\n

Alternate: View by Quarter<\/a><\/p>\n

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Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n

Art<\/a><\/p>\n

Architectural History<\/a><\/p>\n

Black Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Chican@ Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Classics<\/a><\/p>\n

Comparative Literature<\/a><\/p>\n

College of Creative Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth Science<\/a><\/p>\n

East Asian Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Economics<\/a><\/p>\n

English<\/a><\/p>\n

Environmental Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Feminist Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Film & Media Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Geography<\/a><\/p>\n

Germanic Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Global Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

History<\/a><\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Political Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Religious Studies<\/a><\/p>\n

Sociology<\/a><\/p>\n

Theater and Dance<\/a><\/p>\n

Writing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

Anthropology<\/strong><\/p>\n

ANTHRO 7: Introductory Biosocial Anthropology<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 103, Human-Wildlife Interactions<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 104H, People, Poverty, and Environment in Central America<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis of the interrelated social, demographic, economic, political, and environmental crises occurring in Central America from an anthropological\u00a0perspective. Emphasis on the evolution of contemporary problems, current conditions and future prospects for the region.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 110, Technology and Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Theories of technological evolution and innovation. Meanings of technology. The social and cultural impact of technology on our everyday lives, including automobile culture, industrial farming, the telephone, and technologies of the body.<\/p>\n

ANTHORO 111: Anthropology of Food\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 115, Language, Culture, and Place<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 117, Borders and Borderlands<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The theoretical concept of \u201cborderlands\u201d examined through a discussion of the societies, economics and cultures that form on geopolitical borders. The\u00a0Mexico-U.S. border will be discussed in detail<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 122, Anthropology of World Systems<\/em><\/p>\n

Focuses on the penetration and impact of global capitalist economy (national and multinational) upon local level third world societies, communities, and groups. A world system perspective is taken and anthropological case studies are presented from Asia, Africa, and Latin America.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 127, Hunters and Gatherers<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ANTHRO 129MG, Behavioral Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers<\/em><\/p>\n

A thorough introduction using a behavioral ecology approach to the diversity of behaviors found among foragers in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia,\u00a0and Australia. Topics include: diet and subsistence, mating, demography, social behavior, mobility and settlement patterns, gender, indigenous rights, and\u00a0conservation.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 130A, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines human dimensions of global environmental change in developing countries from an interdisciplinary and social science perspective. Compares and\u00a0contrasts alternative conceptual and analytical models of dynamic, interrelated human-environmental systems and presents recent approaches to understanding\u00a0risk, vulnerability, resilience, and disasters.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 130B, Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Focus on the contradictions between international tourism as an economic development strategy and environmental conservation efforts, especially in an era\u00a0of climate change. One major objective is to help students make more informed decisions about their own tourist experiences.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 130C, Global Food Systems and Human Food Security<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines history of global food systems and its impacts on ecosystems, ecologies, and human nutrition and food security. How agricultural, capture\u00a0fisheries, and aquacultural industries were integrated into the global food system. Provides information to make more informed decisions about consuming\u00a0these products.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 131CA: California Indians<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 147, Water and Society<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Covers the longstanding debate over the relation between irrigation and state formation, as well as current developments in the study of water and society.\u00a0Emphasis is placed on people living in arid and semi-arid environments.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 148, Ecological Anthropology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Focuses on the complex and dynamic interactions between human beings and their physical environment. Examines ecological thinking in anthropology and the\u00a0various theoretical approaches within the discipline that have developed from the coalescence of natural and social sciences.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 149, World Agriculture, Food, and Population<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Evolution, current status, and alternative futures of agriculture, food, and population worldwide. Achieving environmentally, socially, and economically\u00a0sustainable food systems; soil, water, crops, energy, and labor; diversity, stability, and ecosystems management; farmer and scientist knowledge and\u00a0collaboration; common property management.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 152, Environmental Anthropology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines human behaviors and perceptions of the environment across time and in different settings.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 160, Cultural Ecology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ranging from moose hunters to rice farmers, cultures seem tremendously diverse, yet cultural forms do show clear patterns. The relationship of these\u00a0patterns to the natural and social environment will be examined.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 161: Evolutionary Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cdiseases of civilization.”<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 166, Climate Change in Prehistory<\/em><\/p>\n

Survey of the impact of short- and long-term climate change on human prehistory from the later Ice Age to the Medieval Warm Period (c. A.D. 1000). Course\u00a0surveys the relationships between climate and changing human societies.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 166BT, Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture<\/em><\/p>\n

Social, cultural, ethical, biological, and environmental issues surrounding biotechnology (BT) and the food system. Includes theory and method of BT;\u00a0scientific, social and political control of BT; effect of BT on genetic diversity, small-scale farmers, the environment, food supply, consumer health.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 166FP, Small-Scale Food Production<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ANTHRO 168, Ethnology in Rural California: Transformation in Agriculture, Farm Labor, and Rural Communities<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ANTHRO 176B: The American West<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 180A: Osteology<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ANTHRO 184, Settlement Pattern Analysis in Archaeology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

How the arrangement of archaeological sites across the landscape indicates aspects of human culture, including subsistence strategies and socio-political complexity. Methods of obtaining and interpreting settlement data.<\/em><\/p>\n

ANTHRO 185, Human Environmental Rights<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to human environmental rights. Examines the expansion of human rights to include human environmental rights, abuses of human environmental\u00a0rights, associated social conflicts, and emergent social movements including environmental justice and transnational advocacy networks.<\/p>\n

Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

ART 7C, Intro to Contemporary Practice II: Spatial Studies<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The study of spatial art in all forms, including material, interactive and dynamic digital. Studio assignments are combined with related critical theory,\u00a0historical practice, current strategies and new evolutions.<\/p>\n

ART 106, Advanced Spatial Practices<\/em><\/p>\n

Advanced study of new forms and spatial practices. Individual projects may encompass formal sculptural practices as well as investigations that engage new\u00a0and alternative technologies such as data-driven forms, alternative architectures, interactive media, cyber\/nano\/neuro\/bio forms and virtual environments.\u00a0Course content detailed in syllabus each quarter.<\/p>\n

ART 106W: Introduction to 2D\/3D Visualizations in Architechture<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ART 120EL: Environmnt\/Lndscape<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Art and Architecture History<\/strong><\/p>\n

ARTHI 5A, Introduction to Architecture and Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0construction methods, discipline-specific terminology, design strategies, and interpretative concepts. Students must keep a visual, architectural journal.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 6F Survey: Architecture and Planning<\/em><\/p>\n

A selective and chronological survey of architecture and urban design in social and historical context. Individual buildings and urban plans from the past\u00a0to the present will be used as examples.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 6J: Survey: Contemporary Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201ccontemporary.”<\/p>\n

ARTHI 117C, Nineteenth-Century British Art and Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 121A, American Art from Revolution to Civil War: 1700-1860<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Painting, sculpture, architecture and decorative arts in the original 13 colonies, through the formation of the United States, to the crisis of the Civil\u00a0War. Particular attention paid to environmental and social issues.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 121B, Reconstruction, Renaissance, and Realism in American Art, 1860-1900<\/em><\/p>\n

Painting and human-made environments from the onset of the Civil War to just before World War II, tracing the role of art in the rise of modern, corporate\u00a0America.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 132A, Mediterranean Cities<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

An exploration of the most important Medieval cities of the Mediterranean world, their urban forms, layout, architecture, and physical patterns. Venice,\u00a0Cairo, and Baghdad will be among the cities discussed.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 132J: Modern Arab Art<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores modern and contemporary art, artists and art movements of the Arab world from nineteenth century to the present.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 134E, The Art of the Chinese Landscape<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u00a0the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D.221) and ends with contemporary artists of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 134K: Chinese Calligraphy<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136A, Nineteenth-Century Architecture<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of architecture and planning beginning with eighteenth-century architectural trends in Europe and concluding with late nineteenth-century\u00a0efforts to reform the city. Exploration of the culture of nineteenth-century modernity through architecture and urban design centered around the themes of\u00a0industrialization, colonialism, and the idea of landscape. The scope is global.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136B, Twentieth-Century Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of architecture from 1900 to the present. Examination of modern and post-modern architecture and city planning in its social, political, and\u00a0artistic context. The scope is global.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136C, Architecture of the United States<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

History of architecture and urban planning: buildings and builders, patrons and occupants, but especially the historical forces and events that transformed\u00a0the landscape. Course subjects include art, design, technology, economics, politics, and social forces.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136H, Housing American Cultures<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of American domestic architecture from the colonial period to the present within a framework of cultural plurality. Examination of the relation\u00a0between ideas of domesticity, residential design, individual, regional, and ethnic choices.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136I, The City in History<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

An historical introduction to the ideas and forms of cities with emphasis on modern urbanism. Examination of social theory to understand the role of\u00a0industrial capitalism and colonialism in shaping the culture of modern cities, the relationship between the city and the country, the phenomena of class,\u00a0race, and ethnic separation.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136J, Landscape of Colonialism<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examination of architecture, urbanism and the landscape of British and French colonialism between 1600 and 1950. Introduction to the different forms of\u00a0colonialism, colonial ideology and the architecture of colonial encounter in North America, Asia, Africa, and Australia.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136O, Sustainable Architecture: History and Aesthetics<\/em><\/p>\n

Course examines history and theory of sustainable and \u201cgreen\u201d architecture since the early twentieth century. Emphasis is placed on the critical analysis\u00a0of a distinct \u201cgreen\u201d architectural aesthetic; the scope is global.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136Q, Deviant Domesticities<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Suburban landscape, single-family detached house and the nuclear family, is both an architectural and a social pattern. Despite its ubiquity in North\u00a0America, it now poses an acute challenge to ecological and economic sustainability.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136S, Contemporary Architecture<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Presents a critical overview of global architecture since 1990 and focuses on three conditions that have changed architectural practice: the impact of\u00a0digital media and computer-aided design and construction, globalization and geo-political shifts, and the environmental crisis.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 136X, Culture of Architecture: Perception and Analysis of the Built Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduces the student to a first-hand experience of the built-environment through perception and analysis of design; understanding historical,\u00a0theoretical, technical and artistic structures that shape and sustain the culture of architecture.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 140E, Landscape Design History<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Explore the significance of landscape design through social, political, and artistic influences and interpret \u201chumanity\u2019s control over Nature\u201d and how this\u00a0affects our views of nature. Discover how and why landscape design canons were formed.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 142D, Gardens, Land, and Landscape in the West<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Special topics in architectural history.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 142E: Architecture, Planning, and Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 143E: Adaptive Reuse<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 186SS, Seminar in Architectural History and Urbanism<\/em><\/p>\n

Advanced studies in architectural history and urbanism. Topics will vary. This course requires weekly readings and discussion, and the writing of a\u00a0research seminar paper.<\/p>\n

ARTHI 186Y, Seminar in Architecture and Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Advanced studies in architecture and environment. Topics vary including active archival research. The course requires weekly readings and discussions, and\u00a0the writing of a research seminar paper.\u201d<\/p>\n

Black Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

BL ST 14: History of Jazz<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BL ST 129, The Urban Dilemma<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BL ST 142: Music in African-American Cultures: USA<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

BL ST 154, Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

This course investigates environmental injustice-that some people, especially poorer people, bear a disproportionate burden of living in communities with\u00a0environmental hazards-and environmental racism-that a high coincidence exists between the location of toxic waste sites and Black and Brown communities,\u00a0even when they are predominantly middle class.<\/p>\n

BL ST 174: From Plantations to Prisons<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Chincan@ Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

CH ST 118: The Scientific Revolution and Non-Western Epistemologies<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

CH ST 149: Body, Culture, and Power<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

CH ST 179A, Race and Environmental Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

Provides an introduction to the topics of environmental inequality and environmental justice. Of particular interest is how race is implicated in the\u00a0unequal exposure of populations to environmental pollution and in the social movements developed to address environmental inequality.<\/p>\n

CH ST 168E: History of the Chicano Movement<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

CH ST 189: Immigration and the US Border<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Classics<\/strong><\/p>\n

CLASS 40 \u2013 Greek Mythology<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to the principal myths of ancient Greece and the ways in which these myths have been understood. Format and readings vary.<\/p>\n

CLASS 155 \u2013 Greek Religion and Identity<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

CLASS 160, Greek Cities and Sanctuaries<\/em><\/p>\n

Surveys the evidence for the primary archaeological sites of the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greek world, with special emphasis on town planning\u00a0and architectural responses to important Greek institutions such as colonization and democracy.<\/p>\n

Comparative Literature<\/strong><\/p>\n

C LIT 35\/GER 35: Making of the Modern World<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

C LIT 36: Global Humanities<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

C LIT 186LS: Literature of the Sea<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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 (C\u00e9saire, 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\u2019s 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).<\/p>\n

CCS<\/strong><\/p>\n

ART CS 125: Sculpture-Related Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

Non-studio emphasis on generation and development of images, ideas, and imagination through field trips, slides, presentations, and videos. Primarily for sculptors.<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 102, Writing Natural History<\/em><\/p>\n

This two-part historical literature and writing course will encourage students to engage with the genre of natural history, which aims to represent the origins and functions of organisms or places. Students will learn about the history of the genre first, then write their own natural history of an organism or location near UCSB.
\nIn the first part of the class, students will read important natural history writings, including Pliny the Elder\u2019s\u00a0Natural History, John Muir\u2019s selected essays, and Charles Darwin\u2019s\u00a0Voyage of the Beagle. They will learn about the political and commercial ramifications of natural history, as well as its aesthetic, inspiring qualities. The first half of the class will encourage students to understand the\u00a0history\u00a0of natural history, so that they may proceed securely to their own studies.
\nDuring the second half of the class, students will write their own natural histories, using information they have gathered throughout the quarter. Students choose an organism or location to observe, and write their own natural history of it, taking their inspiration from the writers we have read in class, and imagining the role natural history can play today. The preservation of threatened environments and the political ramifications of natural history seem particularly relevant in the twenty-first century, especially in light of the recent Gulf oil spill.<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 103, Environmental Media<\/em><\/p>\n

The study and practice of environmental media. Students study the ways and means of how to inform the world on environmental problems and issues, then learn the techniques of writing and shooting DOCUMENTARY media. Students either write a research paper on media and environmental issues (climate change, pollution, population, etc.) or write and\/or make a short documentary video. In-class viewing and discussions of environmental documentaries (Food, Silent Spring, Fuel, An Inconvenient Truth, etc.) and feature films (Erin Brockovich, China Syndrome,\u00a0etc.).<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 110, Travel Writing: Writing Beyond Place<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve ever had an experience that you were dying to share\u2013some trip around the world, a dining excursion, a horrendous moment or one that shook you to your core\u2013then chances are you\u2019re a travel writer. Gone are the days of boring reviews and nose-to-the-air perspectives. With creative nonfiction ever so prolific in popular culture, with websites such as Yelp and Travel Advisor creating an \u201cevery person is a critic\u201d marketplace, the popularity of travel writing has increased exponentially. A good travel writer is one who writes beyond place\u2026 who can take experiences and form them into meaningful stories\u2026 who can create a persona, a voice, a particular point of view from which they see the world. But, of course, there\u2019s more to it than just your point of view. And who are you to have an opinion anyway?
\nIn this course, students will learn techniques for successful travel writing. They will work to create a voice, a perspective, a deliberate niche in the market. Students will read novels and magazines, blogs and opinion pieces and develop the skills to share their experiences. They will write everything from food and hotel reviews to much deeper personal nonfiction centered around place. The market for travel writing is broad and inclusive. It is a viable talent that not only pays the bills, but also comes with many perquisites. Being a \u201ccritic\u201d is only a small part of this course. The larger goal will be to develop as a nonfiction writer, to weave stories of time and place so that the reader feels as if he or she has experienced everything that you have.<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 113, Environmental Media<\/em><\/p>\n

The study and practice of environmental media. Students study the ways and means of how to inform the world on environmental problems and issues, then learn the techniques of writing and shooting documentary, writing environmental blogs, web pages, PSA\u2019s, poetry films, blogs, short films, mashups, webisodes, etc<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 114, Borderlands: Revisions & Reimaginings U.S.-Centered Media and the Transnational Imaginary<\/em><\/p>\n

In this course we will follow the thread of \u201cU.S.-produced\u201d texts as they engage the idea of \u201cborders\u201d \u2013 chiefly after World War II. We will interrogate the sociopolitical and spatial formation of the region produced by the U.S.-Mexico boundary (among other boundaries), examining the imaginative and \u201creal\u201d parts of this border. By focusing on the contradictions associated with border militarization, immigration and environmental racism we will look at media to investigate the ways in which globalization and the flows of people, capital, and ideologies has shaped the borders of the United States. How are borders imagined by the writers\/artists at hand? What is at stake in the reclamation of \u201clost\u201d and \u201cmythical\u201d lands? Lastly, how do the most current of writers and directors re-present some of these issues?<\/p>\n

LIT CCS 114, Contemporary Literature of Food and the Environment: The Politics of Consumption<\/em><\/p>\n

This course combines the disciplines of Food Studies and Environmental Justice. We begin with a simple question: why are the descriptions of one\u2019s physical body so often accompanied by scenes of consumption and incorporation (both of and by subjects)? The ecological cost of America\u2019s overconsumption is a frequent topic in today\u2019s media but it is often exclusively spoken of in terms of meat and oil. To address these issues we will examine visual and written texts of our times and investigate the representations of consumption (of land, peoples, toxins, and capital).<\/p>\n

Earth Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

EARTH 4: Introduction to Oceanography<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EARTH 9: Giant Earthquakes<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EARTH 20, Geological Catastrophes<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EARTH 30: History of Life<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EARTH 105: Earth\u2019s Climate: Past and Present<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>Description and quantitative analysis of climate processes and paleoclimate proxies. Processes include radiation and the Earth\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

EARTH 130, Global Warming \u2013 Science and Society<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

East Asian Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

EACS 4A \u2013 East Asian Traditions: Pre-Modern<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

EACS 5 \u2013 Introduction to Buddhism<\/em><\/p>\n

The historical and cross-cultural exploration of Buddhism through the examination of basic texts, institutions, and practices of diverse Buddhist traditions.<\/p>\n

EACS\u00a0141,\u00a0Environmental Justice in Asia<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines environmental perceptions and practices\u00a0and in East Asian settings.<\/p>\n

Economics<\/strong><\/p>\n

ECON 115, Environmental Economics<\/em><\/p>\n

Provides a rigorous treatment of environmental economics. Topics include welfare analysis, ethical dimensions of economic criteria for protecting the\u00a0environment, measuring the demand for environmental goods, property rights, economic incentives, including marketable permits and emission fees, and\u00a0regulating risk.<\/p>\n

ECON 122, Natural Resource Economics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Microeconomic theory and capital theory applied to problems of conservation and management of natural resources. Analysis of public policy with special emphasis on nonrenewable energy resources, management of forests, deforestation and species extinction, and use of fish and game resources.<\/p>\n

ECON 127, Climate Change<\/em><\/p>\n

Economic and policy issues underlying threat of global climate change, in particular, the role of economics in designing efficient climate policy. Present\u00a0some of the scientific methods in assessing climate change processes. Topics include externalities, taxation, valuation, discounting, and cost-benefit\u00a0analysis.<\/p>\n

English<\/strong><\/p>\n

ENGL 22, Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Beginning with \u201cThe Epic of Gilgamesh\u201d, one of the West\u2019s earliest texts, this course surveys nearly 5000 years of literature in order to explore the\u00a0literary history of the relationship we have with our planet, as well as to better understand our current environmental beliefs.<\/p>\n

ENGL 22S, Seminar on Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Seminar course for a select number of students enrolled in English 22 designed to enrich the large lecture experience for the motivated student. Course\u00a0includes either supplementary reading or more intensive study of the English 22 reading list, as well as supplemental writing.<\/p>\n

ENGL 99,\u00a0The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change<\/em><\/p>\n

See the below description for ENGL 199.<\/p>\n

ENGL 100LE, Honors Seminar: Introduction to Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

A seminar course for a select number of students. Designed to enrich the lecture experience for the motivated student.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122AP, Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment: Imagining Asia and the Pacific<\/em><\/p>\n

This course explores the environment as a site of imagination via the works of literary writers and filmmakers who have tried to take their readers beneath\u00a0the seas, over the ice sheets, across islands and continents and beyond into space.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122CS, Cultural Representations: Cityscapes<\/em><\/p>\n

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such\u00a0topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122CS, Cityscapes: Globalism & Urban Cultures<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar examines different representations of the modern metropolis from the 19th to the 21st century, by turning to literature, cinema, and urban theory. The city and urban life crucially shaped the experience of modernity. From fin de si\u00e8cle Paris to 1920s Berlin, to mid-twentieth century Algiers to contemporary London, New York, Dubai, and L.A., we will study urban space in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, Emile Zola, J.G. Ballard, Hanif Kureishi, Buchi Emecheta, Roland Barthes and Georges Perec, together with current critiques of urbanism (David Harveym Rem Koolhaas, Mike davis, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard, Guy Debord).<\/p>\n

ENGL 122EA: Cultural Representations<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122LE, Cultural Representations: Literature and the Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such\u00a0topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122LS, Cultural Representations: Landscape and the Social Imaginary<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ENGL 122NE, Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A study of literary works, paintings, films, and other representational forms as they influence cultural attitudes. The courses offered will focus on such\u00a0topics as the body, the city, the everyday, the marketplace, and the machine.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122NM, Cultural Representations: Making Up Monsters<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Why do we imagine monsters (aliens, vampires, hermaphrodites, cyborgs, Barney \u2026), and what do monsters have to say about the cultures that imagine them?\u00a0How does the category of the monstrous help us define what\u2019s human? We\u2019ll examine monstrous narratives from Shakespeare\u2019s _The Tempest_ to Shelley\u2019s\u00a0Frankenstein<\/em>\u00a0to David Lynch\u2019s film\u00a0The Elephant Man<\/em>\u00a0and the TV series\u00a0The X-Files<\/em>, with stops in between and beyond.<\/p>\n

ENG122RW: Reading the World<\/em><\/p>\n

In this course, we will be critically reading a variety of contemporary texts that deal with \u201ccontroversial\u201d 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 \u201ccontroversies.\u201d<\/p>\n

ENGL 122SA, Cultural Representations: South Asia in the Popular Media<\/em><\/p>\n

We will examine not only some of the persistent characters, icons, and stories through which we, in the global North \u201cknow\u201d South Asia, but deepen our\u00a0understanding of these by encounters with postcolonial interventions in fiction, non-fiction, film, television, painting, comics, photographs, and\u00a0cookbooks. Whenever possible, texts with a common link will be paired for contrast, enabling us to consider the capture of the same subject in different\u00a0media technologies.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122UM, Cultural Representations: The City As a Way of Life \u2014 Urban Modernity Post 1940<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENGL 122WE, Cultural Representations: Water Imaginations<\/em><\/p>\n

This course will investigate the complex struggles over the environment in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries through the worlds of the\u00a0literary texts and films that have tried to take their readers beneath the seas, over the ice sheets, across deserts, through cities, islands and\u00a0continents and beyond into space. The course will take a specifically literary approach to environmental questions in relation to water and climate change.<\/p>\n

ENGL 133SO: Studies in American Regional Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Courses on American writing associated with particular regions such as the South, the West, New England.<\/p>\n

ENGL 131LE, Studies in American Literature: Literature in the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

This course examines the complex relationship between the environment and representation, looking at literary, photographic, and filmic landscapes of fear, pastoralism, extreme sports, and animal encounters.<\/p>\n

ENGL 134NA, Studies in the Literature of Cultural and Ethnic Communities in the United States: Native American Writers<\/em><\/p>\n

ENGL 162, Milton and Ecology<\/em><\/p>\n

Because air pollution, acid rain, deforestation, endangered species, wetland loss, animal rights, and rampant consumerism were all issues of great concern\u00a0in Renaissance England, in this course we will consider a range of Milton\u2019s works, including\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/em>, against the backdrop of these\u00a0environmental issues.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165AL, Topics in Literature: Artificial Life<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ENGL 165EM, Topics in Literature: What Else is Pastoral?<\/em><\/p>\n

In this course we will be tracing the remarkable mode of pastoral writing from its earliest beginnings to its height in the Renaissance and 18th century, while also considering how it is still very much at work in the world today.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165EM, Topics in Literature: Cities and Literature: London and Boston in the 17th and 18th Centuries<\/em><\/p>\n

This course will investigate the relationship between, on the one hand, historically distinct forms of literature, and, on the other, the production of space into the lived places between the 16th and 18th century. Among our chief lines of investigation will be: How do distinct spaces and performances of literature (whether aural and silent) mediate each other? Can we understand literature, whether written or spoken, as vibrant matter that thrives within the ecological niche provided by the early modern city and town? Just how are the distinct genres and forms of literature (drama, poetry, non-fiction narrative, novel) shaped to urban spaces so they can proliferate as private and public entertainment? What sort of audience practices and experiences do they afford?<\/p>\n

ENG165HN: EcoFictions: The Human\/Non-Human Mesh<\/em><\/p>\n

This small seminar (capped at 15) looks at ways of understanding relations among human and non-human beings.\u00a0As far back as Ovid\u2019s\u00a0Metamorphoses, writers of speculative fiction have been thinking across the boundaries between individual beings, species, even kingdoms\/domains.\u00a0We\u2019ll read a few poems and four novels together: LeGuin\u2019s science-fiction\u00a0The Word for World is Forest;\u00a0When the Killing\u2019s Done, T. C. Boyle\u2019s fictionalization of Santa Barbara Channel Islands a decade and a\u00a0 half ago ecological restoration projects;\u00a0Sinha\u2019s magical-realist\u00a0Animal\u2019s People\u00a0(about the Bhopal disaster);\u00a0Bacigalupi\u2019s dystopian biopunk\u00a0The Wind-Up Girl.\u00a0Along the way we\u2019ll look at how environmental ethicists understand complex interrelations among human and non-human, living and non-living, organic and inorganic entities \u2013 bodies, alliances, and systems made up of strange hybrids.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165IF: Topics in Literature: Imaginary Futures<\/em><\/p>\n

This course examines the literary history of fictitious futures, or to use Frederic Jameson\u2019s phrase, we will mine \u201cthe archaeology of the future,\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165JT, Topics in Literature: Mythopoeic Ecology: J.R.R. Tolkien<\/em><\/p>\n

In this reading-intensive course, we will discuss key works by J. R. R. Tolkien, primarily The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the\u00a0Rings, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King) and selections from the \u201cfeigned history\u201d and mythology found in The Silmarillion.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165LA, Topics in Literature: Literature and Atrocity<\/em><\/p>\n

This course will examine how modern and contemporary literature has engaged with the problem of atrocity. Beginning with the Jewish Holocaust and working\u00a0through apartheid South Africa and the Rwandan genocide, the course will broach such themes as the limits of representation, the work of mourning, ethics\u00a0and the Other and literature as testimony.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165LE, Topics in Literature: Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

In a time of ever worsening ecological crisis, exploitation of resources, and oppression of and violence toward animals, it is important to understand the dominant attitudes we hold toward what we call nature and the species with whom we inhabit the planet. The purpose of this course is to begin asking questions about what nature is and how our understanding of it facilitates its exploitation and about how we relate to animals and why. These questions provide an opportunity for us to rethink some basic assumptions we tacitly hold that have led us to our contemporary apocalyptic moment. We will be reading a variety of literary works\u2014poetry, fiction, philosophy, nature writing, film\u2014to aid us in this project.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165LM, Topics in Literature: Literature and Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n

This course will inquire into the culture of current Western medicine through the reading of literature, including non-fiction essays, fiction (including\u00a0Pat Barker\u2019s The Ghost Road), poetry and drama (including Margaret Edson\u2019s Wit and Tony Kushner\u2019s Angels in America). We will consider the perspectives of\u00a0patients and families as well as those of health care providers.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165LP, Topics in Literature: Literature of the Pacific<\/em><\/p>\n

In this course we will consider alternative forms of storytelling in the Pacific, and how they interact with mass circulated imaginations of this place. We\u00a0will begin with Herman Melville\u2019s Typee, which we will read alongside viewings of episodes of the TV series Lost. We will then proceed into the deep ocean\u00a0to engage with poetry and film about underwater ecologies.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165ME, Topics in Literature: Media Ecology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

ENGL 165MP, Topics in Literature: Renaissance Pastoral<\/em><\/p>\n

Of all the different ways of writing, pastoral may be the most versatile\u2013and most misunderstood and overlooked. Pastoral can be lighthearted fun, scathing,\u00a0subversive, and dangerous political allegory, astonishingly beautiful nature writing, or any number of other forms. In fact, pastoral can take nearly any\u00a0shape: a play, a lyric poem, an epic, a novel, or even a film. In this course we will be tracing this remarkable mode of writing from its earliest\u00a0beginnings to its height in the Renaissance, while also considering how it is still very much at work in the world today.<\/p>\n

ENGL 165NT, Topics in Literature: Nature in Wordsworth, Dickinson, Bishop<\/em><\/p>\n

This course examines representations of the natural in works by these three poets. How does each writer engage the idea of a nature\/culture binary? How\u00a0does each draw differently on conventions for representing nature (pastoral literature, but also tourism, cartography, scientific description)? What were\u00a0the historical and cultural contexts of their ways of framing nature?<\/p>\n

ENGL 19OGE, Postcolonial and Global Ecological Imaginations<\/em><\/p>\n

ENGL 192, Science Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n

This course will offer a selective survey of the themes animating science fiction since WWII. Discussions will engage in questions about how the genre has\u00a0become one of the more influential, intellectually rigorous and pleasurable ways to speculate about the accelerating changes in our world.<\/p>\n

ENG192EF: Science Fiction: Ecofiction<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cstudy of consequences.\u201d 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 \u201cLiterature & Environment\u201d or \u201cLiterature & Cultures of Information\u201d specializations.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Indigenous Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Darwin\u2019s Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Theories of Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

In the first half of this course we will explore how the relationship between human beings and the environment has been imagined in the West. We will be\u00a0considering how these attitudes toward the environment influenced writers such as Theocritus, Virgil, Shakespeare, Milton, Thomson, Wordsworth, Thoreau,\u00a0and so forth. The second half of the course will consider works from modern ecocritics with an eye to directly applying this theory to the reading of\u00a0texts.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Cultural Landscapes in Eighteenth-Century British Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Environmental Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Natural Representations: Wordsworth, Dickinson, and Bishop<\/em><\/p>\n

This class examines representations of the natural world in works by these three poets and asks about the relation of nature and natural phenomena to their\u00a0literary work. Guiding questions: how does each writer respond to the idea of a nature \/ culture dichotomy? How are nature and naturalness coded in their\u00a0writing? How does each engage with existing generic conventions for representing nature, whether these are drawn from polite literature or other systems of\u00a0representation?<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Dickinson and Whitman<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Feeling, Place, Expression<\/em><\/p>\n

Until the post-World War II period, the interdependence of human psychology with our environments was, for the most part, unthought.\u00a0 But the advent of nuclear power forced scientists and humanists alike to think more deliberately about this interdependence.\u00a0 The publication of groundbreaking work on ecology and psychology in the 1970\u2019s, during the First Wave of the contemporary environmental movement, led to what is now a rich interdisciplinary body of work on the subject.\u00a0 This course will introduce you to that body of work, drawing on the work of philosophers (\u201cecosophy\u201d), scientific psychologists, and psychoanalysts (\u201ceco-psychoanalysis\u201d) that now asks us, not just to understand better our \u201cplace\u201d in the environment, but also to understand better the \u201cplace\u201d of the environment within ourselves.\u00a0 Literature, of course, fictional or otherwise, has always understood the evocative power of these emplacements, from Homer\u2019s fascination with the structure of the city of Troy to the lyrics of Siouxsie and the Banshee\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Go to Pluto.\u201d<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Thinking about Animals in Literature & Film<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Thoreau<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar addresses Henry David Thoreau\u2019s major works from the perspectives of literary criticism and cultural history. We will read Thoreau\u2019s Walden in\u00a0its entirety and consider that work as both a literary masterpiece and a telling example of romantic environmentalism. We will also read several of\u00a0Thoreau\u2019s essays, which shed light on his political commitments, his philosophical roots in American Transcendentalism, and his growing sophistication as a\u00a0natural historian.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Writing Nature in 18th Century<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, Cultures of Nature in the 18th Century<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Against the idea that Enlightenment science fatally divided humans from the natural world, this course traces an early-modern history of environmentalism\u00a0and environmental ethics, mostly in British contexts. The course will explore ethical, historical, aesthetic, scientific, ethnographic, and political\u00a0questions in a variety of literary genres while engaging critical perspectives from environmental ethicists \/ ecophilosophers, literary ecocritics, and\u00a0post-colonial theorists.<\/p>\n

ENGL 197, What is Ecocriticism?<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Content will vary with each instructor. Students will be asked to do a project that acquaints them with some of the resources of the library and results in\u00a0their reading beyond the primary course materials.<\/p>\n

ENGL 199, The Rhetoric of the Anthropocene and Climate Change<\/em><\/p>\n

Scientists have suggested that the earth has recently entered a new geological\u00a0epoch, the Anthropocene, which has been caused by sweeping changes that human\u00a0beings have brought about on the planet, climate change being the most notable.\u00a0The Anthropocene may seem to be something that can only be\u00a0studied by scientists; however, scholars from across the humanities are trying\u00a0to understand the human implications of the Anthropocene, such as how it will\u00a0change our lives, values, and understanding of our place on the planet, as well\u00a0as why so many individuals are currently denying that it and climate change are\u00a0real.<\/p>\n

Environmental Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

ENV S 1, Introduction to Environmental Studies<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cEnvironmental Studies\u201d 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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 3, Introduction to the Social and Culture Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 30: Introduction to Environmental Economics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 103S, History of Surfing<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of surfing from its Polynesian origins to today\u2019s global, commercial, and cultural force, with perspectives from history of politics;\u00a0economics; science and technology; the developing world; sex, ethnicity, gender; popular culture; and special focus on the environment.<\/p>\n

ENV S 106: Critical Thinking About Human-Environment Problems and Solutions<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 107C, The Darwinian Revolution and Modern Biology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines the social and scientific impacts of evolutionary ideas from around 1800 through Charles Darwin, the modern evolutionary synthesis, the birth of\u00a0ecology, and molecular biology.<\/p>\n

ENV S 107E, History of Animal Use in Science<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines history of scientific uses of animals from antiquity to the present. Topics include vivisection, field trials, and the development of drugs and
\nvaccines. Changing ethical ideas about animals, including the relationship between animal rights and environmental ethics, is also considered.<\/p>\n

ENV S 1080, History of the Oceans<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores how people have experienced, understood, transformed, and attempted to conserve the world\u2019s oceans throughout human history. Interdisciplinary approach includes aspects of science, technology, politics, law, culture, and material biophysical relationships.<\/p>\n

ENV S 108W, Wildlife in America<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 115: Energy and the Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 116, Building Sustainable Communities<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines sustainability, communities, and urban systems in a global context. Covers impacts cities have on the environmental systems that support them, and\u00a0explores ways to improve urban systems through technology, policy, and design.<\/p>\n

ENV S 118, Industrial Ecology: Designing for the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 119: Ecology and Management of California Wildlands<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 120: Toxins in the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 122NE: Cultural Representations: Nature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ENV S 122LE, Cultural Representations: Introduction to Literature and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Environmental survey of Western literature that explores the often-ignored literary history of the natural world.<\/p>\n

ENV S 125A, Principles of Environmental Law<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 125B, Land Use and Planning Law<\/em><\/p>\n

An examination of local, state, and federal laws regulating land use and development. Selected problems analyzed through case studies.<\/p>\n

ENV S 127, Concepts of Environmental Education and Practicum<\/em><\/p>\n

Conceptual introduction to Environmental Education (EE) through study and research of EE history, learner characteristics, models of excellence, and professional networks. Students utilize sound educational principles and hands-on experiences to plan, implement, and evaluate a quality EE experience for others.<\/p>\n

ENV S 129, Ecopsychology<\/em><\/p>\n

Course explores the theories and practices of psychologists, educators, and others whose work is focused on the connections between \u201cinner\u201d human nature and \u201couter\u201d nature within which humans experience themselves and the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

ENV S 130A, Coupled Human and Natural Systems: Risks, Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 130B, Global Tourism and Environmental Conservation<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 130C, Global Food Systems and Human Food Security<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 131, International Environmental Law and Politics<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ENV S 135A, Principles of Environmental Planning<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 135B, Advanced Environmental Planning<\/em><\/p>\n

Advanced seminar applying principles presented in environmental studies 135A to regional and local government planning processes. Field analysis of local planning issues.<\/p>\n

ENV S 136, Green Works \u2013 Exploring Technology and the Search for Sustainability<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 146, Animals in Human Society: Ethical Issues of Animal Use<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 147:Air Quality and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 149, World Agriculture, Food, and Population<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Evolution, current status, and alternative futures of agriculture, food, and population worldwide. Achieving environmentally, socially, and economically\u00a0sustainable food systems; soil, water, crops, energy, and labor; diversity, stability and ecosystems management; farmer and scientist knowledge and\u00a0collaboration; common property management.<\/p>\n

ENV S 152: Applied Marine Ecology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 157, The Santa Barbara County Agrifood System<\/em><\/p>\n

This class investigates current agrifood system and potential benefits and costs of localization. Covers theory, data collection, analysis methods, key indicators (greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity, migrant labor, nutrition, community health), policies and actions for change. Students conduct and present research as team.<\/p>\n

ENV S 160, American Environmental Literature<\/em><\/p>\n

Assesses contributions of literary texts to American environmental movements. Examines influences of writers such as Thoreau, Rachel Carson, and Edward\u00a0Abbey upon environmental perceptions, values, and attitudes in American cultural history and upon rhetoric and politics of contemporary environmental\u00a0debates.<\/p>\n

ENV S 161, Environmental Communications: Contemporary Strategies and Tactics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 165A: Environmental Impact Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 165B: Advanced Environmental Impact Analysis<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 166FP, Small-Scale Food Production<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ENV S 166BT, Biotechology, Food, and Agriculture<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Social, cultural, ethical, biological, and environmental issues surrounding biotechnology (BT) and the food system. Includes theory and method of BT;\u00a0scientific, social and political control of BT; effect of BT on genetic diversity, small-scale farmers, the environment, food supply, consumer health.<\/p>\n

ENV S 171BT, Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture<\/em><\/p>\n

Social, cultural, ethical, biological, and environmental issues surrounding biotechnology (BT) and the food system. Includes theory and method of BT; scientific, social and political control of BT; effect of BT on genetic diversity, small-scale farmers, the environment, food supply, consumer health.<\/p>\n

ENV S 172, Waste Management: Product Stewardship, Recycling and Renewable Energy<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 173, American Environmental History<\/em><\/p>\n

Traces the history of American attitudes and behavior toward nature. Focus on wilderness, the conservation movement, and modern forms of environmentalism.<\/p>\n

ENV S 174: Environmental Policy and Economics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 175, Environmental Economics<\/em><\/p>\n

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

ENV S 176A, Water Policy in the West: Linking Science and Environmental and Economic Values<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines water supply and use, the science of water systems and watersheds, key concepts in water policy, and the basics of water law as a fundamental element of the history and context for water policy in the West.<\/p>\n

ENV S 177: Comparative Environmental Politics\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 178, Politics of the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 179, Natural Resource Economics<\/em><\/p>\n

Theory and capital theory applied to problems of conservation and management of natural resources. Analysis of public policy with special emphasis on nonrenewable resources, management of forests, deforestation and species extinction, and use of fish and game resources.<\/p>\n

ENV S 180: Global Environmental Movements\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2019 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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 183, Films and the Natural and Human Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Course presents a series of popular films and professional documentaries representing a range of trends, images, and issues associated with the natural and\u00a0human environments. Visual images and critical thinking skills are combined to enhance understanding of environmental issues presented by the media.<\/p>\n

ENV S 184, Gender and the Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A philosophical, evolutionary, and cross-cultural analysis of the ways women and men may relate differently to their environment resulting in the design of\u00a0gender-sensitive and sustainable policies for planning and development in both the developing and the developed world.<\/p>\n

ENV S 185, Human Environmental Rights<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to human environmental rights. Examines the expansion of human rights to include human environmental rights, abuses of human environmental\u00a0rights, associated social conflicts, and emergent social movements including environmental justice and transnational advocacy networks.<\/p>\n

ENV S 188, Ethics of Human-Environment Relations<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Survey of contemporary environmental ethics, focusing on both philosophical and applied issues. Topics include anthropocentrism and its alternatives, the\u00a0role of science and aesthetics, multicultural perspectives and the problem of relativism, and the conflict between radical and reformist environmentalism.<\/p>\n

ENV S 189, Religion and Ecology in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Focus on spiritual traditions and land based knowledge indigenous to the Western Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

ENV S 193CE: Circular Economy \u2013 Waste Not: New Perspectives on Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 193FE: Fire in Western USA Ecosystems<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

ENV S 193GB: Green Building<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>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\u2019s efficiency.<\/p>\n

ENV S 193WM: Water Resources Management<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Feminist Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

FEMST 30, Women, Development, and Globalization<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines the impact of development policy and globalization on women\u2019s lives. Emphasis is placed on women\u2019s activism and feminist critiques of neo-liberal\u00a0measures intended to rid the third world of poverty.<\/p>\n

Film and Media Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

FLMST 75, Introduction to Environmental Media<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

What are all the ways media and the environment influence, structure and inhabit each other? How are environmental issues figured in documentary and\u00a0feature films, advertising, and the internet? How does media affect the environment, e.g., the problem of e-debris?<\/p>\n

FLMST 182, Introduction to Environmental Media<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Ties the acquisition of critical viewing skills for film to the practice of conceiving and writing short environmental documentaries. Students screen\u00a0narrative films and documentaries, deconstruct them, and use their new proficiency to write their own documentary treatments.<\/p>\n

FLMST 183, Film and Media of the Natural and Human Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Presents popular films, professional documentaries representing trends, images, and issues associated with natural and human environments. Visual images\u00a0and critical thinking skills are combined to enhance understanding of media presentation of environmental issues. May be linked to short creative projects.<\/p>\n

FLMST 187ND, Narrating Deep Time<\/em><\/p>\n

Can we tell stories that span 1,000 or 10,000 years? Can an individual\u2019s affect be contextualized not only by her immediate environment but by the epoch in which she lives? What formal techniques\u2014time lapse, montage, allegory\u2014can be used to convey that our creaturely fragility is shared not only with species contemporaneous to us, but with species extinct before we ever knew them?<\/p>\n

Perceptions of geological time\u2014what this course will refer to as \u201cdeep time\u201d\u2014systematically developed since the mid-1700s, are especially relevant for our contemporary moment defined by environmental crises of long duration. Attempts to predict anthropogenic climate change 100 years into the future; the redefinition of our era as the \u201cAnthropocene,\u201d an epoch in which humans have become a geological force; the production of radioactive waste whose half-life is measured in millennia: these and other environmental dilemmas require a flexible repertoire of narrative tools if we are to comprehend our current and lasting impact on the planet. Yet, as Rob Nixon has noted, \u201cslow violence\u201d\u2014impacts that are temporally and geographically diffuse\u2014is difficult to narrate, not least because of our short attention spans and distraction by the spectacular. This course places the contemporary turn toward \u201cbig temporal thinking\u201d within a larger discourse of deep time and attempts to narrate the\u00a0longue dur\u00e9e<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Geography<\/strong><\/p>\n

GEOG 2, World Regions<\/em><\/p>\n

An examination of the interdependency, connectivity and diversity that characterizes world regions. The course explores the interactions of processes of\u00a0global change with the environmental and social identities of individual landscapes, cities, and peoples.<\/p>\n

GEOG 3A, Oceans and Atmosphere<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to the oceans and atmosphere and their role in the Earth\u2019s climate and its weather patterns. Focus on the flows of solar energy through the\u00a0ocean and atmosphere systems. Human impacts on the Earth\u2019s climate are also introduced.<\/p>\n

GEOG 3B, Land, Water, and Life<\/em><\/p>\n

Study of the interactions among water, landforms, soil, and vegetation that create and modify the surface of the Earth. Impacts of physical environment on\u00a0human societies and humans as agents of environmental change.<\/p>\n

GEOG 5, People, Place, and Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Survey of spatial differentiation and organization of human activity and interaction with the Earth\u2019s biophysical systems. Sample topics include human\u00a0spatial decision-making behavior, migration, population growth, economic development, industrial location, urbanization, and human impacts on the natural\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n

GEOG 7, Energy, Water, and Climate<\/em><\/p>\n

Oil and water are two strategic resources dominating the international scene. This class provides an overview of global distributions of oil and water\u00a0resources and analyzes some of the social, economic, and geopolitical ramifications of these distributions.<\/p>\n

GEOG 8, Living with Global Warming<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Overview of global warming and climate change processes. Description of complex relationships between scientific, technological, economic, social,\u00a0political and historical facets of global warming and climate change. Introduction to the concept and practice of climate modeling.<\/p>\n

GEOG 104, Physical Geography of the World\u2019s Oceans<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to the processes which control the circulation of the world\u2019s oceans. Topics include: wind-driven circulation, thermohaline circulation, water\u00a0masses, waves, and tides.<\/p>\n

GEOG 108, Urban Geography<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to the study of the economic geography of cities and regions and its relation to planning: urbanization, internal structure of cities,\u00a0settlement systems, regional growth and development, migration, transportation, housing.<\/p>\n

GEOG 109, Economic Geography<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to the study of spatial economic theories with applications at the urban, regional, and global scales. Topics include settlement system dynamics and regional development, land economics and land use policies, and regional inequality and poverty.<\/p>\n

GEOG 112, Environmental Hydrology<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis of the water cycle with emphasis on land-atmosphere interactions, precipitation-runoff, flood, snow melt, and infiltration processes.<\/p>\n

GEOG 119, Climatic Change and Its Consequences<\/em><\/p>\n

Mechanisms and processes which produce climate change. Methods for reconstructing paleo-climates. Impacts of past climate change on human societies.<\/p>\n

GEOG 130, The Urban Environment<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Environment and climate of cities, suburbs, and other settlements, focusing on the built environment, soils, water, solar radiation, atmosphere,\u00a0vegetation, and human thermal comfort. Students produce field reports on a range of sites along an urban to exurban gradient.<\/p>\n

GEOG 135S, Intense Mock Environmental Summit<\/em><\/p>\n

Mock summit in which students act as representatives of different countries participating in environmental treaty negotiations. This three-week course immerses students in the topic of global change and its associated policies, mimicking pressures and intensity at real environmental summits.<\/p>\n

GEOG 140, Environmental Impacts in Human History<\/em><\/p>\n

Interactions between human history and the environment are explored. Example topics include early Earth history, long term climate change, the origin of\u00a0agriculture, short term climate change, the origin of importance of disease and invasive species.<\/p>\n

GEOG 141A, Population Geography<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GEOG 152: Health Geography<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GEOG 153C, Environmental Perception and Cognition<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GEOG 161, World Agriculture, Food, and Population<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GEOG 171BT, Biotechnology, Food, and Agriculture<\/em><\/p>\n

Social, cultural, ethical, biological, and environmental issues surrounding biotechnology (BT) and food systems. Includes theory and method of BT; scientific, social, and political control of BT; effect of BT on genetic diversity, small-scale farmers, environment, food supply, consumer health.<\/p>\n

GEOG 171FP, Small-Scale Food Production<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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

GEOG 175, Measuring our Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Introduction to measurement and interpretation of physical-environmental data (temperature, humidity, precipitation) and integrated environmental measures\u00a0(e.g. potential evapotranspiration). Working with micrometeorological towers deployed across an environmental gradient, students develop and test\u00a0hypothesis using real-time tower data.<\/p>\n

GEOG 182, Global Cities in the Information Age<\/em><\/p>\n

Study of the economic, social, and political networks that link together cities of global importance. Specializations and roles of global cities in the information age economy. Examination of individual cities at the top tiers of the global urban hierarchy.<\/p>\n

GEOG 185A, Geography Planning and Policy Making<\/em><\/p>\n

Relevance of geographic knowledge and skills to aspects of planning and policy making. Includes review of core concepts in decision making, planning theory, systems analysis, information systems, urban and regional modeling, forecasting, impact analysis, implementation of decisions, planning policies.<\/p>\n

GEOG 185D, Urban and Environmental System Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n

Applications of operations research techniques and decision analysis in structuring approaches to urban and environmental problems. Examples are drawn from\u00a0problems in facility location, regional models, transportation and other networks, utility corridors and similar problems.<\/p>\n

GEOG 195KG: Smart Green Cities<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Germanic Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

GER 179A,\u00a0Revolutions: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud<\/em><\/p>\n

This class is\u00a0focused on close reading of English translations of the original texts from the pivotal German authors Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, alongside which for guidance we will be reading and discussing crucial texts from literary criticism, critical social theory, and modern philosophy. Reading these texts will teach us a lot about reading, interpreting, and writing about any other text\u2014for example literature, fiction, history, and finally society and social, institutional practices treated as social texts. Substantive discussions will also revolve around my work at the United Nations and within the Climate Justice Movement. What are the implications of these authors in the arena of climate change policy, politics, and ethics?<\/p>\n

Global Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

GLOBL 2: <\/em>Global Socioeconomic and Political Processes<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GLOBL110: Global Culture and Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 111: Human Rights and World Order<\/em><\/p>\n

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?<\/p>\n

GLOBL 120: Global Ideologies and World Order<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 130: Global Economy and Development<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 159: Globalization and Culture<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 161, Global Environmental Policy and Politics<\/em><\/p>\n

The evolution of international environmental negotiations, agreements, and organizations, and the role governmental and non-governmental actors are playing\u00a0in shaping them are examined. Climate change, biodiversity conservation, and equitable global sustainable development are among the critical policy\u00a0challenges considered.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 167, Global Cities and Transnational Urbanism<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores the constitution of spaces and habitats of urban class structures, built forms, and kinds of expressive life at the intersection of global\u00a0processes, governance formations and social movements. In particular, the focus is on mega-cities of the global south, as hubs of transnational commerce,\u00a0ideology, culture, and power.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 171, Global Environmental Law and Policy<\/em><\/p>\n

A focus on global environmental problems in our time, particularly climate change and its impact on resource scarcity, human security, energy geopolitics,\u00a0and democracy in an unevenly structured world system, including the search for world order solutions.<\/p>\n

GLOBL 174: Global Perspectives on Environment and Society<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

HIST 20, Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern Society<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 74: Poverty,\u00a0Inequality and Social Justice in a Global Context<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 105A, The Atomic Age<\/em><\/p>\n

The history of military uses of nuclear energy and the attendant problems. Topics included: Manhattan project, decision to use the bomb, legislation, AEC, arms race, testing, fallout, civil defense, disarmament efforts, foreign programs, espionage.<\/p>\n

HIST 106B: The Scientific Revolution 1500-1800<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 107C, The Darwinian Revolution and Modern Biology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines the social and scientific impacts of evolutionary ideas from around 1800 through Charles Darwin, the modern evolutionary synthesis, the birth of ecology, and molecular biology. Focus is on America and Western Europe.<\/p>\n

HIST 107E, History of Animal Use in Science<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines history of scientific uses of animals from antiquity to the present. Topics include vivisection, field trials, and the development of drugs and vaccines. Changing ethical ideas about animals, including the relationship between animal rights and environmental ethics, is also considered.<\/p>\n

HIST 107G, History of Global Environmental Problems<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Survey of global environmental problems from antiquity to the present. Topics include demography, agriculture, climate change, disease, and storage of toxic waste.<\/p>\n

HIST 107P, Proseminar on Darwinism and Its Social Implications<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Evolution, natural selection, religion, teleology, social darwinism, using the writings of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, and William Graham Sumner.<\/p>\n

HIST 107R, History of Ecological Restoration<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

An examination through case studies of ecological restoration from a historical perspective featuring the intersection between the historian and the restoration process. Consideration of the definition of natural and cultural resources and historical artifacts.<\/p>\n

HIST 108O, History of the Oceans<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores how people have experienced, understood, transformed, and attempted to conserve the world\u2019s oceans throughout human history. Interdisciplinary approach includes aspects of science, technology, politics, law, culture, and material biophysical relationships.<\/p>\n

HIST 108W, Wildlife in America<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 109, Science and Technology in America<\/em><\/p>\n

Science and technology in American intellectual, cultural, religious, and political life with focus on 19th\/20th centuries. Examples include rise of scientific enterprise and infrastructure; technology and America\u2019s economic growth; American research styles; science and the military; space program; environmentalism; biotechnology.<\/p>\n

HIST 109T, Technology in Modern American History<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 117E. Society and Nature in the Middle Ages<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 148AU, African Urban History: From the Ancient City State to the Contemporary Metropolis<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

HIST 173T, American Environmental History<\/em><\/p>\n

Traces the history of American attitudes and behavior toward nature. Focus on wilderness, the conservation movement, and modern forms of environmentalism.<\/p>\n

HIST 178B, American Urban History<\/em><\/p>\n

A study of the political, economic, social, and intellectual impact of the city upon American history, and the impact of history upon the growth of American urbanization.<\/p>\n

HIST 193F, Food in World History<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores the cultural, economic, and geopolitical roles of food and drink in world history. Topics include: trade, production, and consumption; global food\u00a0chains; morality and food reform; identities and body image; scarcity, food scares, and food security.<\/p>\n

Interdisciplinary<\/strong><\/p>\n

INT 84JC, Drinking Water for the 21st Century<\/em><\/p>\n

The demand for drinking and irrigation water has soared in recent years creating supply problems globally. The 20th century solution, dam building, has lost its place among planners. New solutions, including conservation, recycling wastewater, and managed aquifer recharge, have become primary methods for meeting the new demand. This class will examine a recent book by Charles Fishman, \u201cThe Big Thirst,\u201d that lays out this problem well and offers a solution.<\/p>\n

INT 91, Interdisciplinary Issues in Aquatic Sciences and Policy<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A seminar-style course examining biological, environmental, political, and economic issues in aquatic topics, including oceanography, marine pharmacology\u00a0and biotechnology, coastal geology and coastal processes, fisheries, and ocean policy.<\/p>\n

INT 94CE: What\u2019s Up with Global Climate Change?<\/em><\/p>\n

A description of the state of the climate system, its natural and human-induced variability; the impacts of human activities, the predicted long-term changes and impacts and those that are already observed; a presentation and an analysis of the Kyoto protocol and other actions that are proposed or could be taken to limit human-induced greenhouse gases emissions into the atmosphere. The class will be a combination of lectures and active participation by students in the form of software simulations, classroom presentations, student collaboration and discussion on possible climate remediation actions.<\/p>\n

INT 94BZ, Genetic Modification of Food Crops<\/em><\/p>\n

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

INT 94HU, Food and Religion<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar is an introduction to the study of religion based on the role food plays in myths and rituals. Attention will be given to the place of food in religions of hunting and gathering people, ancient civilizations, India, and in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.<\/p>\n

INT 94JS, A Walk in the Woods<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar will introduce students new to UCSB and the Santa Barbara area to the landscape and flora of the Santa Ynez Mountains. These mountains provide a spectacular backdrop, reaching just over 4,000 feet in elevation, and yet few UCSB students take advantage of the incredible recreational and natural history opportunities they offer. This all-day seminar will begin with a stop at the Santa Barbara Botanical Garden to introduce students to some of the plants we will see on our hike. We will then drive to the Tunnel trailhead and begin our hike. One focus of the hike will be to monitor changes in plant communities, landscapes, and the geological substrate as we ascend.<\/p>\n

INT 94LV, Biotechnology and Society<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cfield trip\u201d to a research lab.<\/p>\n

INT 940S, Climate Justice for Beginners<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

INT 94PD: Understanding the Global Energy and Climate Systems to best invest in our Future<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Desires for energy independence for both economic and political reasons and plans to mitigate climate change are influencing the design of the US energy policy for the upcoming decades.\u00a0 The choices made now will impact many aspects of our lives, and more importantly our future economic growth and environmental wellbeing. These decisions will require a population with a solid knowledge and understanding of the various options available and their potential consequences. The knowledge of the technical details of some of those options is also crucial for individuals to make personal decisions of energy type to use or the efficiency solutions to adapt and even to invest in the energy future.<\/p>\n

INT 94PF, Tales of the City<\/em><\/p>\n

The city is the key space of modernity, at the same time a place of excitement and narcosis, crowds and solitude.\u00a0 In this seminar we will read texts that represent the city and urban experience in all its complexity and contradictions. The readings include texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Rhys, Emile Zola, Virginia Woolf, Raymond Carver. Through the readings we will discuss the figure of the flaneur, the spectacle, consumerism, and the presence of women in public space.<\/p>\n

INT 94QB, Imaging and Imagining Sea Level Rise<\/em><\/p>\n

How do different communities from the populations of sinking islands to the residents of coastal California experience, visually represent, and respond to sea level rise?\u00a0 In conjunction with this year\u2019s Critical Issues in America theme of sea level rise, students will meet as a group and attend film screenings, guest lectures, and other special events.<\/p>\n

INT 94QE, Mono Lake, Owens Valley, and LA\u2019s Water Supply<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar will introduce the history of the LA water supply starting with the construction of the LA Aqueduct, followed by a discussion of the Mono Lake \u2018public trust\u2019 court case and efforts to increase water reuse in the basin.\u00a0 The class will include a 3-day field trip (Early Friday to Late Sunday) to Mono Basin to exam the aqueduct and tour Mono Lake.\u00a0 We will stay at the UC reserve station, SNARL.<\/p>\n

INT 94QS, Eating for Earth: Our Diets and Global Climate Change<\/em><\/p>\n

This seminar explores the relationship between our food choices and global climate change by answering the questions: What determines the greenhouse gas emissions of our food? How can we make informed food choices that minimize greenhouse gas emissions? How can we encourage changes in attitudes, behaviors and policies to support more climate friendly food choices? What are other effects will change to a more climate friendly diet have?\u00a0The seminar will include field trips to nearby agrifood sites. There will be discussion of assigned readings and written assignments.<\/p>\n

INT 94QU, Waste<\/em><\/p>\n

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

INT 94QW, The Environmental Movement in Germany: Why did the German Greens Become the Most Sucessful Environmental Party in the World?<\/em><\/p>\n

In this seminar we will start by studying how Germans conceived of \u201cnature\u201d from the Romantic period of the early 1800s through industrialization and World War I to the Nazi period. After discussing \u201cHow green were the Nazis?\u201d we will investigate the origins of the postwar environmental movement in the 1960s, the founding of the German Green Party in 1979, and its success winning seats in the national parliament in 1983.\u00a0 What personalities, topics and events contributed to its early success? What problems did it have to overcome before it became part of a national governing coalition from 1998 to 2005? For this period we will examine election posters and speeches, and biographies of prominent individuals to see what made the party able to create a core constituency of voters.<\/p>\n

INT 156BE: Bio-Medical Ethics<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

INT 156EE, Environmental Ethics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Environmental Ethics probes questions of duty and policy regarding human impact on the natural world. Topics such as climate change, sustainable economics,\u00a0population explosion, and the standing of non-human animals are examined from various perspectives.<\/p>\n

INT 185AB, Ancient Borderlands<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Seminar hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and focused on selected topics, texts, theories, and\/or methods in the humanities. See IHC\u00a0website (www.ihc.ucsb.edu) for current listings.<\/p>\n

INT 185HE, History and Ecological Restoration<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Seminar hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and focused on selected topics, texts, theories, and\/or methods in the humanities. See IHC\u00a0website (www.ihc.ucsb.edu) for current listings<\/p>\n

Political Science<\/strong><\/p>\n

POL S 161: US Minority Politics<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

POLI SCI 175, Politics of the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis of environmental policy issues and their treatment in the political process. Discussion of the interplay of substantive issues, ideology,\u00a0institutions, and private groups in the development, management, protection, and preservation of natural resources and the natural environment.<\/p>\n

POLI SCI 177, Comparative Environmental Politics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Course is structured around the major issues in environmental politics, for example: global warming, nuclear waste, deforestation, and chemical pollution.\u00a0The roles of economics, technology and social organization are each considered as explanatory variables for understanding environmental problems.<\/p>\n

POL S 196: Senior Seminar on Nuclear War and International Society<\/em><\/p>\n

Religious Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n

RG ST 128C, The Sacred Geography of the Ancient Mediterranean World<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

A survey of religious sites in paganism, early Christianity, ancient Judaism, and early Islam. After general introduction to the sites, theoretical\u00a0approaches to sacred space and ritual, and research methods for archaeological materials, students produce research papers and oral presentations on\u00a0individual sites.<\/p>\n

RG ST 128D, The Transformation of the Late Antique City<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines the transition of eastern Mediterranean society from the pagan Roman empire to Christian late antiquity and the early Islamic period, with a\u00a0special focus on the reuse of civic space, monumental programs, and ritual practices.<\/p>\n

RG ST 156EE, Environmental Ethics<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Environmental Ethics probes questions of duty and policy regarding human impact on the natural world. Topics such as climate change, sustainable economics,\u00a0population explosion, and the standing of non-human animals are examined from various perspectives.<\/p>\n

RGST185: Food, Religion, and Culture in the Middle East<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

RG ST 193, Religion and Ecology in the Americas<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

An overview of the growing field of religion and ecology in the Americas. Focus on spiritual traditions and landbased knowledge indigenous to the Western\u00a0Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

Sociology<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOC 105E, Environmental Sociology<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Traces the history of environmentalism and applies social science theories, concepts, and methods to analyze critical contemporary environmental issues and\u00a0societal responses to them.<\/p>\n

SOC 118CW, Consumption, Waste, and the Environment<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines the link between consumption, waste, and the environment. Integrates environmental concerns with larger cultural questions about the role that\u00a0consumption, as a way of life, has come to occupy in our contemporary societies.<\/p>\n

SOC 126, Urban Society<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

SOC 126U, Sociology of the Urban Underclass<\/em><\/p>\n

This course examines conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives on class, poverty, and race, and will allow a critical assessment of the social and political implications of the growing congruity between urban poverty and race.<\/p>\n

SOC 130SG: Sociology of Globalization<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

SOC 134A: Activism<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

SOC 134CJ, Climate Justice<\/em><\/p>\n

Overview of the climate change problem and exploration of the meanings of the term \u201cclimate justice\u201d as used by scholars and social movement activists to imagine and create a sustainable, equitable, democratic world for future generations.<\/p>\n

SOC 134EC, Earth in Crisis<\/em><\/p>\n

Explores the causes and consequences of climate change on a global scale, covering the state of the science in layman\u2019s terms, the current and future\u00a0social impacts of climate change, the global negotiations process, and climate justice activism.<\/p>\n

SOC 134G, Green Movements and Green Parties<\/em><\/p>\n

Examines how environmental organizations and green political parties are shaping policy formulation on environmental issues in different developed and\u00a0developing countries, with a focus on the US experience.<\/p>\n

SOC 185DG: Theories of Globalization and Development<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Theatre and Dance<\/strong><\/p>\n

THDANCE 151D, Environmental Choreography<\/em><\/p>\n

A process-oriented study of scoring, designing, and performing dance works in natural landscapes.<\/p>\n

Writing Program<\/strong><\/p>\n

WRIT 105S, Writing About Sustainability<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis and practice of various forms of writing that address sustainability in interdisciplinary contexts. Students will research, write, and reflect on\u00a0concepts and practices of sustainability, examining the role of words and images in communicating sustainability ideas to diverse audiences.<\/p>\n

WRIT 105SW, Science Writing for the Public<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Focus on analyzing, practicing, and applying strategies for communicating scientific concepts, research projects, and findings with non-specialist\u00a0audiences. Students will employ both traditional and new media forms of communicating scientific knowledge.<\/p>\n

WRIT 107EP: Writing for Environmental Professions\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

WRIT 109ES, Writing for Environmental Studies<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Analysis and practice of various forms of academic and professional writing for and in the disciplines.<\/p>\n

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