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4.00 Credits
A survey of poetry, fiction and nonfiction across centuries and cultures. We will examine the philosophies that underpin ideas of nature, culture and "the wild"; and examine the nature and place of creative literature in addressing environmental issues. Cross Listed With: ENGL - 235
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4.00 Credits
This course provides students with two types of mathematical tools for environmental problem solving: estimating tools and statistical tools. Students will learn how to characterize environmental problems with mathematical relationships, find necessary data and make assumptions, and estimate quantitative answers. We will use statistical tools to gather meaning from environmental data, by examining data patterns (distributions), determining relationships among data (correlations), and checking data quality. The course will address such problems as water contamination, toxic waste, noise pollution, air emissions, and climate change. Cross Listed With: ENVS - 250
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4.00 Credits
This course explores illness due to environmental pollution. An overview of sociological perspectives on health and illness is followed by examination of the role of scientific knowledge and other social factors in identifying, treating, and preventing environmental illness. Cross Listed With: SOC - 319
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4.00 Credits
This course explores how characteristics of human societies influence human uses of, and our relationship to, the environment. Topics include: the roles of science and technology, government, the economy, and culture in shaping human impacts on the environment; the environmental movement; and environmental justice. Cross Listed With: SOC - 320
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4.00 Credits
Introduction to the environmental history of Africa from 1800 to the present. Topics examined include Africa's physical environment, role of natural resources in the development of African societies, demography, agriculture, desertification, deforestation, conservation, famine, and economic development. Offered every other Spring. Cross Listed With: HIST - 342
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4.00 Credits
Study of the politics of ethnicity and nationalism in the contemporary world and ramifications for state sovereignty, international cooperation and security. Case studies from a wide variety of settings (i.e., South-Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Canada, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, Yugoslavia) will be used to illustrate conceptual and empirical issues. Offered every other year. Cross Listed With: POLS - 360
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4.00 Credits
Explores the religious underpinnings of contemporary attitudes and practices concerning the environment. Both historical and contemporary understandings of nature as expressed in various religious traditions. Offered intermittently. Cross Listed With: THEOL - 361
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4.00 Credits
This course examines some of the major factors that contribute to urban development in post-industrial and newly industrializing countries. It will cover issues of de-industrialization, labor and capital mobility, immigration, the logic of spatial location, metropolitanization, and the growth and political economy of global cities. Offered in Spring. Cross Listed With: SOC - 360
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4.00 Credits
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the various processes, participants, and institutions that surround the making and implementing of environmental policy. It combines lectures, case studies, and some "hands-on" exercises to illustrate how these elements interact. Cross Listed With: POLS - 366
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4.00 Credits
This course examines how environmental "goods"-like clean air and water-and environmental "bads"-like hazardous waste and industrial pollution-come to be unequally distributed in societies, often along lines of race, class, and gender. Cross Listed With: SOC - 367
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