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1.00 Credits
Participate in a project-based, hands-on engineering project in a team-based environment. Gain exposure to sensing, actuation, and control techniques and components in the process of developing a robotic system or subsystem. Prerequisite: Instructor permission required.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the two-fold 21st Century challenges of the use and conservation of electric energy, and the sustainable generation of electric energy, primarily through the use of photovoltaic cells. The course includes a study of issues relating to the environment, economics, politics, and societal impact. Although physical and mathematical studies and analyses are a part of the course, no background in these areas is required beyond algebra. The course has no prerequisites.
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1.00 Credits
Workshop to develop aspects of the Solar Decathlon entry. May include design, communication, construction, research, analysis, planning, documentation, fundraising, and other activities. Students will meet together to share information, brainstorm, collaborate, and make decisions, and will also work independently or in small teams in focused areas. Open to all interested students, all majors, 1 unit. May be taken multiple times. Offered each quarter during the duration of the contest.
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4.00 Credits
What happens to the things we dont want? This class follows the path of our waste products as they are burnt, decomposed, landfilled, treated, recycled, reused, dumped on minority communities, or shipped abroad. Building on basic chemical and biological principles, and using the scientific method to guide us, we will explore the fates of organic and non-organic detritus, and search for sustainable solutions to waste problems. (4 units)
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0.00 Credits
Capstone is a guided group and individual research course that each year is aimed at a different environmental topic of global significance. Past topics have included the regulation of biotechnology, using ecosystem services to create financial incentives for conservation, the social equity and biological effectiveness of private land conservation, and the national choices facing China with respect to agricultural policy. The course begins with lectures so that students gain a foundational background for the quarters research topic. Students write individual papers, group papers, give oral presentations, and develop project management skills. Some students pursue their research after the course, even to the point of publication. (5 units) NCX
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5.00 Credits
Introduction to the U.S. legal systems approach to environmental protection. Topics include the roles of legislatures and environmental agencies at the federal, state, and local levels; the independent role of the judiciary in establishing environmental law; and specific statutes, such as the Clean Air Act. Students evaluate questions of federalism, uses of economic incentives, and relationships between environmental protection and economic growth. (5 units)
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5.00 Credits
This course will engage environmental governance in the last half century and cover several social science research approaches. Learners will deepen their familiarity with the comparative method and sharpen their ability to critically evaluate a studys main argument and evidence as we discuss the social and institutional dimensions of environmental change. Part one reviews major environmental legislation in the US, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and policy responses to global warming. In part two, learners step back to interrogate the political ecology, science, and struggles over meaning and representation that underpin the politics of environmental policy change. The final section examines the rise of global environmental governance highlighting the roles of non-profit-organizations, civil societies and corporate firms. A concluding discussion identifies avenues for civic engagement, bottom-up accountability, and environmental citizenship. Learners will gain insight into the policy making processes through simulation games, reading and research, develop tools to assess policy outcomes, and find strategies to identify political opportunities.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a continuation of ENVS 11A (Culture and Ideas I: Nature and Imagination) and is only open to students enrolled in that course during the previous quarter. Enrollment in ENVS 12A is automatic for students taking the first part of the sequence.
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0.00 Credits
The goal of agroecology is to reduce the negative environmental impact of farming, while meeting the food needs of the world. Course examines current agricultural practices and evaluates alternative methods, including organic farming, agroforestry, and applications of agricultural biotechnology. The special problems of agriculture in the developing world are discussed. Laboratory 30 hours. Prerequisite: BIOL 24.
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5.00 Credits
Solar energy is more than just PV arrays on a roof. Learn about different types of photovoltaic (PV) technologies as well as passive solar design, and concentrated solar thermal (making power at the level of a conventional power plant!). Find out the key technological, environmental, and economic issues and what it would take to employ solar energy to greatly decrease our reliability on fossil fuels. Students will use the Western U.S. as a case study.
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