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  • ENVS 3600: Environment and Culture

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    A global cross-cultural exploration of human-environment interactions. This course will examine a variety of different technological/economic systems ranging from small-scale foraging and horticultural societies to large-scale, complex and stratified societies. Special themes each semester will address different environmental problems and how they have been solved or not historically and contemporarily. Such themes might address: the origins and contemporary dimensions of the population debate, the role of "values'' in sustainable societies, or controversies between indigenous peoples and environmentalists. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 4010: Selected Environmental Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    An intensive, focused study of an environmental topic such as solid waste management and resource recovery, energy management, environmental law, or environmental communications. Topic to be announced in the Schedule of Classes. This course may be repeated for credit with a second topic. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVS 1100. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 4100: Appropriate Technologies and Sustainability

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    In the light of the debates on sustainability, the course analyzes how technologies and technological systems have interacted with and influenced social change in both industrial countries and the Third World. Criteria for assessing the appropriateness and sustainability of various technologies and technological systems in different settings will be discussed and mini-assessments will be conducted. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVS 1100. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 4200: Internship

    1.00 - 3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    The environmental internship gives students the opportunity to gain practical experience in a particular area of environmental activity, and to work with professionals. Students will gain "hands on'' knowledge and add an important non-academic dimension to their resumes. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of a program advisor. Credits: 1 to 3 hours
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  • ENVS 4300: Environmental Projects

    1.00 - 4.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is designed for students who wish to carry on advanced interdisciplinary work in Environmental Studies under the direction of a faculty member. Work will be geared to a single project in which there is outside investigation, research, and/or workshop experience. Students selecting this course will work on projects especially designed for their programs. They will be asked to identify a problem, outline an investigatory approach, and consider paths to solving the problem. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and approval of a program advisor. Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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  • ENVS 4400: Field Experience

    8.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is a vehicle to provide academic credit for students participating in legitimate off-campus environmental field programs and foreign exchange programs. The course is repeatable for up to eight hours of academic credit. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of a program advisor. Credits: 1 to 4 hours
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  • ENVS 4500: Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    A team-taught, integrated capstone experience involving a semester-long environmental problem-solving/planning simulation. Students will be evaluated in terms of their ability to function individually and with their colleagues in a simulated professional work environment. As the capstone course, this should normally be the last course taken from the program. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVS 3600 or approval of a program advisor. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 5000: Advanced Environmental Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    An intensive, focused study of a current environmental issue. The role of interdisciplinary research in addressing such issues will be explored through examples drawn both from the different disciplinary backgrounds of the students and especially from the current research of the faculty instructor. Course may be repeated under different topics. Topics will be announced in the Schedule of Course Offerings. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Approval of a program advisor. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ES 2000: Introduction to American Education

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is designed to explore some of the major educational issues that have provoked public debate and institutional reform in America. The purpose of the course is to achieve an understanding of these issues and the functions of education through the use of historical, sociological and philosophical concepts. The course provides an opportunity for pre-education students to explore their interest in education and teaching. This course is cross-listed with ED 2000. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ES 3950: School and Society

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is concerned with the nature and direction of American education in its changing social context. The course focuses on major issues affecting the advancement of education in a culturally diverse, democratic society. Course content includes inquiry as to how social, historical, political, philosophical, economic, and legal factors influence educational policy and practice. The role of individuals in the change process in education is examined. An interdisciplinary approach is used. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. This course is cross-listed with ED 3950. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Minimum of 70 earned semester credit hours. Credits: 3 hours
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