FYEC - FYEC 177-178 Three Gorges Dam

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Randolph-Macon College

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China's Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric project in the world, bringing electricity to a growing economy, opening central China to navigation, and providing flood control for millions of people downstream. However, it requires millions of Chinese to leave ancestral homes, submerges important cultural sites, and disrupts the ecology of the longest river in Asia. Is the dam worth the cost? In this course we will examine how the people and the fish of the Three Gorges area lived before the dam, and the changes the dam brings. We will look for connections between the people and the fish and will consider what is gained, lost, and retained as the reservoir fills and the river is changed forever. The course will culminate with a project that assimilates this information to answer the question, "What are the parallels between what is happening to the fish and what is happening to the people, and what does this teach us about our own, industrialized lives?" Area of Knowledge requirements met: natural science course with lab under the Natural and Mathematical Science area, and one Philosophy course under the Civilizations area. Crossarea requirement met: one course in non-Western culture. Counts on the EVST major as a substitute for EVST 105. Four hours each semester. Mr. Gowan, Mr. Huff.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rmc.edu

Phone Number:

(804) 752-7200

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Four-one-four plan

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