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3.00 Credits
This course addresses the critical issue of how environmental costs and environmental benefits are unequally distributed within society on the basis of race, socioeconomic class, and gender. Students will first examine how race, class, and gender affect people's position within society. They will then apply this analysis to how such positioning affects people's share of the world's natural resources, and their access to a safe environment. Students will also learn how different people around the world have responded to the tangible realities of environmental injustice through an in-depth examination of the Environmental Justice Movement. Beginning with study of the history and fundamentals of the movement in the U.S., students will go on to explore how communities outside of the U.S. are fighting against environmental injustice in order to understand both the global scope and the future of the movement as a growing political actor in the world.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on analyses of human attitudes, values, and philosophy towards the natural environment, as well as issues such as the imposition of health risks on humans from their activities. Topics include: historical and cultural roots of the ecological crisis; moral theories used to evaluate the relationships between humans and the environment; moral theories used to evaluate the acceptability of risks imposed on people from human activities; and case studies of the ethical dimensions of actual environmental policies and decisions. The moral theories emphasized will include: utilitarianism, rights based theories, concepts of distributive justice, and deep ecology.
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3.00 Credits
Through this mostly out-of-doors course, students will gain a strong sense of place with nature by learning about animal behavior and tracking, winter plant identification, map and compass use, sensory awakening, hiking, no-trace techniques, and outdoor survival skills. Reading by broad and varied naturalists, ecologists, and environmentalists; nature journaling; student teaching; and group work will be used to prepare students to act responsibly toward our natural environments, and to become practitioners and teachers of environmental stewardship. Two overnight camping trips are mandatory, as is a weekend field trip in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Must meet prerequisite or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the ecology and conservation of terrestrial wildlife, particularly focusing on North American mammals and birds. We explore population dynamics, behavioral ecology and wildlife management and how these ecological concepts are affected by human habitat management. The field-based lab develops and refines natural history skills necessary to census and understand terrestrial wildlife populations in diverse habitat types found in southern Maine.
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0.00 Credits
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0.00 Credits
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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of a topic in the fields of environmental studies. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the course builds upon prior knowledge and skills attained in the Environmental Core Courses. May be taken more than once if topic changes. Third- or fourth-year standing, or permission of instructor, is required.
Fall 2009 Adv Topics: Ecosystem Management Ecosystem management meets the complex challenges of 21st century environmental problems by using holistic systems-based approaches that integrate ecological, social, economic and cultural perspectives. The Gulf of Maine ecosystem, including coastal watersheds, is a living laboratory where the theories, practices and principles of ecosystem management are applied by land use professionals, resource managers, and policy makers working at all levels of government. Students will engage in Gulf of Maine based projects to develop knowledge of the theories and principles that underlie the practice of ecosystem management and expertise in skills for applying an ecosystem approach to watershed and coastal management.
Spring 2010 ENV 398 A: Adv Topics in Environmental Studies:Environmental Communications This course will introduce students to the rapidly growing field of environmental communication which provides interdisciplinary theories and practices that connect ecosystem management, environmental research, public policy deliberation, and participatory decision-making. The practice of environmental communication can overcome barriers to making progress on solving complex environmental problems. This course will introduce students to key theories and methods of environmental communication. Emphasis will be on understanding real world examples of environmental communication as they are applied in the design of effective strategies to achieve a variety of environmental outcomes. Students will engage in research to learn and practice methods of systematic assessment, analysis and evaluation of field situations in the local community where people are engaged in environmental discourse, science translation to management/policy or participatory decision-making. This course provides the knowledge, skills and resources to develop a professional environmental communication toolkit. Students will learn how to design and implement the following types of environmental communication strategies: Community Based Social Marketing, Collaborative Learning, Science Translation and Diffusion of Innovations.
Spring 2010 ENV 398 B: Adv Topics in Environmental Studies:Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology and Conservation This course focuses on the ecology and conservation of terrestrial wildlife, particularly focusing on North American mammals and birds. We explore population dynamics, behavioral ecology, and wildlife management, and how these ecological concepts are affected by human habitat management.
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4.00 Credits
An in-depth study of a topic in the field of environmental studies. Employing an interdisciplinary approach, the course builds upon prior knowledge and skills attained in the Environmental Core Courses. May be taken more than once if topic changes. Third- or fourth-year standing, or permission of instructor, is required.
Spring 2010: Adv Topics in Environmental Studies:Environment, Health and Community Development in East Africa This advanced seminar in Environmental Studies will introduce students to major environmental, development, and health concerns facing the region of East Africa. Through reading, discussion, research, and presentations, students will gain a better understanding of the inextricable connections between these three critical realms in relation to both East African societies and the natural environments on which they depend. The course will culminate with a three-week field lab in Kenya. Through direct experience with community service organizations, international research institutes, Kenyan universities, local communities, and Kenyan families and individuals, students will be able to learn first-hand about the environmental and social issues they will have studied for a semester prior to embarking on their study abroad in Kenya.
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0.00 Credits
An intensive, hands-on accompaniment to the ENV 399 Advanced Topics course. Examples of the lab experience would include field trips to appropriate locations such as local land conservation sites, water treatment plants, legislative sessions, lectures, performances, as well as activities such as wetland identification surveys, biodiversity identification, watershed mapping, photography, creative writing, archival research.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
This course is for advanced majors who may wish to undertake directed research as a special course. A carefully prepared written plan must be presented and approved by faculty. GPA of 3.0 or written permission of faculty sponsor.
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