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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Proactive land use strategies to minimize pollution, protect biodiversity and water and energy resources, and reduce vulnerability to natural hazards. Issues such as smart growth, sustainable transportation, sprawl watershed management, preservation, natural hazard mitigation and green design will be discussed, particularly those relating to the Chicago area. Planning tools such as GIS, economic analysis, environmental impact assessment. Some field trips possible.
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3.00 Credits
Detailed exploration of environmental law and policy in the United States, including legal structures, processes, and constraints, notable successes and failures, role and influence of advocacy and interest groups, and major controversies relating to decentralization, market-based mechanisms, risk-based analysis, environmental justice, and others. Differences in state laws and performance will also be explored.
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3.00 Credits
Investigation of international efforts to address global environmental problems such as deforestation, climate change, ozone depletion, fisheries decline, toxic chemicals, etc., and analysis of their effectiveness. Explores regime theory, evolution of different international regimes and their weaknesses, obstacles to international cooperation, and the role of different actors as promoters of or obstacles to progress. The impact of globalization, North-South divisions, and the role of international organizations such as the United Nations and the World Bank are also examined.
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3.00 Credits
Independent research on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Independent research on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Intensive discussion, study and research on the most essential topics in urban geography; central place theory, urban renewal programs, population and economic development; field work.
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3.00 Credits
Students will explore issues and challenges facing the poorer countries including economic development, resource exploitation, social inequity, and environmental degradation. Many of these problems are quite different from those of the developed world, and they also differ widely between regions of the Third World. Location and spatial arrangements will be explored in detail with current academic literature, from a variety of theoretical perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Supervised field experience (160 work hours) with an agency related to the student's career interest. Prior course work and other experience is evaluated before approval is granted to enroll in the internship. A handout describing the design and reporting requirements is available.
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3.00 Credits
No course description available.
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3.00 Credits
The course provides students with an opportunity to study and reflect on the theories, program models and strategies for teaching high-ability students. New theories of giftedness, research, identification, programming models, and legislation are continuing challenges for those professionals responsible for developing, implementing programs and services for the gifted and talented. At the completion of the experience of translating theory, research, and examples of current programming practices, the graduate student will be a reflective and responsive professional in the critical aspects of programming and services for high-achieving and high-ability students.
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