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Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4161.01

Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
After successfully completing the environmental action fellowship during Field Work term, students will review the fellowship experience and what they learned.  Class time will be spent helping each student prepare for a high level presention on their individual fellowship.  There will be continued focus on sharpening advocacy skills and learning about and discussing

Environmental Action Post Fellowship Class — APA4246.01

Instructor: Judith Enck
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Credits: 1
This class is open to students who have participated in  the Endeavor Foundation's Environmental Action Fellowship.  The class will focus on the experiences each student had during their placement, what skills were enhanced, how to build on the new skills and how the cohort of students can learn from each others experiences. There will also be public policy

Environmental Aesthetics — PHI4250.01

Instructor: Karen Gover
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Credits: 2
***Time Change*** Environmental Aesthetics is a relatively new sub-field in philosophical aesthetics, though it has roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. In this course we will take a broad look at the different topics that fall under the heading of Environmental Aesthetics: the aesthetics of everyday life, the picturesque, earth art, and the relation of aesthetics to

Environmental and Geological Field Methods — ES4127.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: WE 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 2

Earth and Environmental Science work begins with making observations of natural phenomena and collecting quantitative field data. This course will teach the basic methodologies used by scientists to collect and analyze field data. This will include how to make and record careful observations of landscapes and Earth materials, how to

Environmental Chemistry — CHE2128.01

Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
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Credits: 4
Are you interested in environmental issues, but never got around to taking chemistry? Do you wonder why PFOA is transported by water, what the effect of drugs in wastewater is, or if frog mutations are pesticide related? To understand these and many other environmental questions, you need to know some chemistry. This introductory class is for people who want to learn

Environmental Ethics — PHI2103.01

Instructor: Paul Voice
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Credits: 4
What ethical responsibilities do individuals have towards the environment? What does environmental justice require of national and international institutions? This course examines the philosophical issues and arguments that underlie these questions. Our complex relationship to the environment, as nature, as resource, and as shared world, invites questions concerning our ethical

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: David De Simone
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Credits: 4
This course will focus on the planets internal and surficial processes and how they both affect humans and are impacted by humans. The scope of environmental geology is broad and represents applied geology in a very practical sense. A basic understanding of minerals, rocks the modern plate tectonics paradigm is the foundation for appreciating internal processes and such

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time: MO,TH 10:00am-11:50am
Credits: 4

Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will include: earth

Environmental Geology — ES2102.01

Instructor: Timothy Schroeder
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 4
Earthʹs life‐supporting environmental systems are controlled by a complex interplay between geologic and biological processes acting both on the surface and deep within the planetary interior. This course will explore how earth materials and physical processes contribute to a healthy environment, and how humans impact geologic processes. Topics covered will

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
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Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and the problems will only get worse as populations grow. This course is a broad survey of hydrology, the study of the distribution, movement, and quality of water. Students will be

Environmental Hydrology — ES4105.01

Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
Fresh water is perhaps the world’s scarcest and most critical resource. Giant engineering projects are built to control water distribution, wars and legal battles are fought over who controls water, and across the world people face real concerns about the safety of their water. Problems will only become worse as populations grow and the climate changes. This course is a

Environmental Political Theory — POL4240.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm?  These questions are best grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Environmental Political Theory — ENV4240.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Environmental Political Theory — SCT4153.01

Instructor: John Hultgren
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Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. In cultivating this

Environmental Political Theory: Climate, Coronavirus, and the Commons — POL4258.02

Instructor: John Hultgren
Days & Time:
Credits: 4
What is nature? Who gets to speak for nature? What is the institutional arrangement, political economic system, and form of political community best suited to cultivating a more sustainable relationship with the more-than-human realm? These questions are most effectively grappled with by putting political theory into conversation with environmental studies. The first half of

Environmental Studies Advanced Work Seminar — Canceled

Instructor: Tim Schroeder John Hultgren
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Credits: 1
This advanced work seminar offers students the opportunity to receive feedback on culminating/advanced work studying environmental problems. This course is ideal for two types of students: (1) 8th term students who are completing senior work in a particular discipline group (e.g. Science or Society, Culture, and Thought) but would benefit from having feedback from both

Envisioning Information: Mapping Complexity — MOD2139.03

Instructor: susan sgorbati
Days & Time: TBA
Credits: 1
This Module explores how complex systems can be mapped visually. Often, non-linear structures are difficult to see and understand. They happen at different levels and at different scales. These classes will be devoted to learning the skills of visual mapping. Certain websites will be investigated, such as bubbl.org, visualcomplexity.com and informationisbeautiful.org. Books by

Epistemic Justice — PHI2162.01

Instructor: Catherine McKeen
Days & Time: TU,FR 10:30am-12:20pm
Credits: 2

How does one’s social positionality affect one’s status as a knower? Who is heard? Who is believed? This seven-week course is focused on questions of justice and power in relation to knowledge. We will engage with recent work in social epistemology—philosophical theories of belief and knowledge—with an emphasis on feminist epistemologies, anti-racist epistemologies, and

Essays of Walter Benjamin — VA4235.02

Instructor: Anne Thompson
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Credits: 2
The works of German philosopher and cultural theorist Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) endure as sources of fascination, inspiration and critical reflection across disciplines. With a focus on his significance for artists and curators, this seminar looks at selections from Benjamin’s famous and lesser-known writing, from his seminal essay “The Work of Art in the Age of