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3.00 Credits
Introduces the study of how landscape structure affects the processes that determine the abundance and distribution of organisms. Students analyze spatial patterning as it relates to ecological systems and resource conservation. Students use quantitative and modeling tools to facilitate understanding of spatial processes, resource conservation, and ecosystem management. Cross-listed as LAR 514.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the flora of Western Pennsylvania and Allegheny County is the basis of this course. Students learn native plant identification and plant families. Students also learn to compare native to non-native species and discuss the medicinal, food, and, and horticultural uses of natives through field trips and in-class activities. Cross-listed as LAR 518.
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3.00 Credits
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the theory and practice of environmental policies. The course focuses on the political and economic factors contributing to the success and failure of present environmental policies. Topics include the roles of government and the market in causing environmental problems, analysis of proposed means for resolving those problems, and the application of economic and political analyses to selected environmental issues. Cross-listed as POL 425. Prerequisite(s): One of the following courses: POL 101, ECN 101, ECN 102, or ENV 116, or permission of instructor.
Prerequisite:
ECN101 OR ECN102 OR ENV116 OR POL101
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4.00 Credits
This course is an advanced study of the chemical principles underlying common environmental problems. It aims to deepen the student's knowledge of chemistry and its role in the environment and to show the power of chemistry as a tool to help us comprehend the changing world around us. Cross-listed CHM 443. Prerequisite: A 300-level ENV course or permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the issues of ecology and identity as part of the development of American literary culture. The development of an ecological imperative and the patterns of "nature" consciousness will be explored as they rise, grow and change. Questions of the relationship between nature and culture will be the main focus of the course, including the developing ideology of ecology as a response to the growth of mechanical culture and the rapid loss of wilderness. Cross-listed as ENG 443. Prerequisite: A 300-level ENV or ENG course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Through close reading of poetry and prose, students will explore the relationship between wilderness and literature - both representations of the natural world and what Stanley Kunitz calls "your wilderness...the untamed self that you pretend doesn't exist, all that chaos locked behind the closet door, those memories yammering in the dark." Writers examined include: Anne Carson, Mark Doty, Kathleen Hill, and Virginia Wolf. Cross-listed as ENG 446. Prerequisite: any 300-level ENG or ENV course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of environmental fiction ranging from Jack London's The Call of the Wild to Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres, this course attends in specific to the representation of nature and environment in 20th-Century novels and other cultural texts (e.g., Bambi or The Emerald Forest). Students will consider how such representations interrogate, critque, or reinforce contemporary constructions of the environment. Special attention will be given to the questions of history, gender, and "what counts" (e.g., urban versus wilderness) as the environment. Cross-listed as ENG 447. Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level English course or permission of instructor or any 300-level ENV or ENG course or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Study of soils as natural bodies, media for plant growth, and ecosystem components. Topics include soil morphology and characteristics, composition, formation, conservation, and soil erosion. Physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils are related to the production of plants, the functioning of hydrologic and nutrient cycles, and the protection of environmental qulaity. Cross-listed as LNS 551 Prerequisite(s): ENV 129 or equivalent, or permission of instructor.
Prerequisite:
ENV129
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3.00 Credits
This course brings together theoretical, nonfictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. Students will examine how diverse ecofeminist writers problematize, resituate, and reclaim the woman/nature paradigm - a construct historically based in patriarchal culture. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment (ranging from the traditional to the radical) can help students rethink and reimagine their relationship to the Earth. Cross-listed as ENG 452.
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3.00 Credits
This course brings together theoretical, nonfictional, and fictional approaches to the study of women and the environment. Students will examine how diverse ecofeminist writers problematize, resituate, and reclaim the woman/nature paradigm--a construct historically based in patriarchal culture. This course focuses particularly on how representations of women and environment (ranging from the traditional to the radical) can help students rethink and reimagine their relationship to the Earth. Cross-listed as ENV 452.
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