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3.00 Credits
Students majoring in one of the environmental studies programs may pursue special problems involving independent research on topics not adequately covered by formal course work. Approval for this coursework must be obtained from the Environmental Studies Program director.
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3.00 Credits
K. Hopfensperger This course introduces students to the interactions among the physical environment, the biota, and the flux and distribution of chemical substances in the atmosphere, lithosphere, and biosphere. The course focuses on processes at the scales of individual organisms, functional groups, ecosystems, and the globe. Through active participation, students are able to describe what the field of biogeochemistry encompasses and how it relates to major environmental issues of today, describe where elements originated and how their circulation and ecological relevance relates to their chemistry, and understand several nutrient cycles and how they interact in the air, soil, and terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. The required credit-bearing laboratory session ENST 311L must be taken and passed concurrently with ENST 311. Prerequisite: CHEM 101 or CHEM 111, or permission of instructor.
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0.50 Credits
F. Frey, P. Scull The majority of this 0.50 credit extended study is held in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in southwestern Uganda. The curriculum focuses on infectious disease transmission within and between human and animal populations, national park and wildlife management issues, as well as community health and development within Uganda. Students participate in the following research projects with a diverse array of community leaders: 1) using modern DNA fingerprinting techniques to identify and track disease in habituated Mountain Gorilla groups; 2) using GIS to reconstruct movement patterns of habituated gorilla groups, their interaction with each others, and their contact with people, in order to better understand disease dynamics; and 3) using community health surveys and personal interviews to further explore health impacts of human-gorilla interaction as well as the development of sustainable conservation practices. Ideally, students could come from across the environmental studies majors as well as from the biology and geography majors. Prior research experience is not necessary; however, in order to be eligible, students must register for or have successfully completed one of the following courses: BIOL 330, 341, 364, 491 ( Frey); GEOG 245, 316, 336, 491 (Scull or Kraly).
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3.00 Credits
P. Pinet, R. Turner Public land management is inherently complex. Typically there are multiple interested parties and potentially competing goals such as wilderness preservation, recreational accessibility, and resource exploitation. Also, the management of public lands may rest with several agencies. Management decisions made in pursuit of one goal often have implications for other goals, stakeholders, and management agencies. Complexity theory offers a new perspective for understanding the complicated workings of ecosystems, economies, and political systems. Such complex adaptive systems are characterized by feedback loops, chaos, nonlinear dynamics, self-organization, and emergence. The aims of this course are to apply complexity theory 1) to model qualitatively the intricacies of both natural and human-built systems, 2) to propose and evaluate fresh ecological strategies and management policies for conserving public lands, and 3) to investigate new procedures for mitigating tension among competing interests in the use of public land. The course will include Beyond Colgate field trips. Prerequisites: ENST 100/ CORE 127 and ENST 101, or permission of the instructors.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This project-based, interdisciplinary course examines current environmental issues in the context of community-based learning. Topics for investigation are selected by faculty, usually in conjunction with the campus sustainability coordinator, the Upstate Institute, or directly with local and regional agencies. Students get practical experience working in interdisciplinary teams to examine environmental issues with a goal of developing relevant recommendations. Prerequisites: at least two courses related to environmental studies; ENST 202 and ENST 232 are strongly recommended.
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3.00 Credits
Staff This course examines current environmental issues from a social, ethical, and natural science perspective. The goal is for students from different disciplines to understand interdisciplinary perspectives by interacting and cooperating in data collection and analysis of a specific environmental problem. Topics for investigation are selected by faculty, sometimes in conjunction with local and regional agencies. The course is designed to give students practical experience working in interdisciplinary teams to examine environmental issues with a goal of developing policy-relevant recommendations. The course is project-based; the projects require an interdisciplinary analysis, must connect to real policy issues, should involve real-world examples, and may include interacting with local experts to help students address problems affecting their projects. These projects may address local or regional issues but are not limited to these areas. Prerequisites: ENST 100/CORE 127 and ENST 101 (or their equivalents) and at least three courses from the affiliated department (biology, economics, geography, or geology), or permission of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Staff In this senior seminar, students discuss the relevant literature (from multiple disciplines) and do research on one or more selected environmental issue or issues, chosen by the instructor. Topics will differ from year to year. The goal is to achieve an advanced, interdisciplinary understanding of contemporary environmental issues. Prerequisites: open to senior environmental studies majors and minor, or others by permission of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
L. Caminati, J. Knecht, M. Salazkina, L. Schwarzer This course recognizes that film and mass media can be powerful determinants of ideology, identity, and historical consciousness. It also recognizes the centrality of visual experience to everyday life and questions the consequences of our passive consumption of visual media as both entertainment and information. Students in the course critically engage with visual culture through a structured critique of mass media images and practices, their production, circulation, and impact on human consciousness. The course serves to establish a groundwork of theoretical practices that enables students to approach their visual world with the tools to not just passively look at popular visual media, but to actively work at understanding both the production and reception of mass media images.
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3.00 Credits
This course is crosslisted as RUSS 220. For course description, see "Russian: Course Offerings."
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3.00 Credits
M. Salazkina This course covers some of the key national as well as international film movements, principal directors, and aesthetic concepts by situating them within broader social, political, and cultural contexts. The course proceeds chronologically, but is framed comparatively and dialectically. The class focuses on such issues as the rise of cinematic culture and the medium and their relationship to film form, the industrial-political giving rise to particular film movements, and the growing prominence of different regional and national traditions over and against the commercial dominance of Hollywood. Students develop their analytical, evaluative, and communicative skills through reading, writing, and talking about films made outside the Hollywood tradition. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: FMST 200 or a cinema studies course in the FMST minor, or permission of instructor.
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