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2.00 Credits
This field studies course focuses on the proposed tar sands strip mine on the East Tavaputs Plateau, the first such mine in the United States. We will learn about the environmental and economic impacts of tar sands, visit the site at PR Springs, and meet activists involved with the project.
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1.00 Credits
The Colorado River, the dams that span it, and the reservoirs created by those dams lie at the heart of water issues in the American West. This field study will look at 2 of the iconic dams on the Colorado, The Glen Canyon Dam, and the Hoover Dam. Prior to the field portion of the trip, we will examine the history of the dams, the symbolism and controversies that have surrounded them, and the ecological and cultural legacies. During the field portion of this class we will visit the two dams and meet with people involved in the operation of the dams and the political debates surrounding them. Following classroom preparation, research, and reading, students will be required to participate in a three-day field session, March 24-26.
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2.00 Credits
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Henry David Thoreau. In these linked courses we will examine what it means to live deliberately. We will read works by authors who went to the woods, the desert, or the mountains to examine their lives and the world around them more carefully. And we will write of our own experiences in the natural world and in a small community living together. This is a field course co-listed with ENVI 301: Field Study-Write Deliberately. Students Need to enroll in both courses, unless they have permission of the instructor. We will be traveling to the Field Camp at Cat Ranch for two weeks of intensive reading, writing, and conversation.
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2.00 Credits
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Henry David Thoreau. In these linked courses we will examine what it means to live deliberately. We will read works by authors who went to the woods, the desert, or the mountains to examine their lives and the world around them more carefully. And we will write of our own experiences in the natural world and in a small community living together. This is a field course co-listed with ENVI 301: Field Study-Write Deliberately. Students Need to enroll in both courses, unless they have permission of the instructor. We will be traveling to the Field Camp at Cat Ranch for two weeks of intensive reading, writing, and conversation.
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1.00 Credits
This field study will explore the ways in which a place is lived and experienced by people. It will combine classroom learning and a three-day field trip to the Bears Ears in the southeastern Utah. Prior to the field trip, we will learn the cultural history of this place. During the field trip, we will meet and interact with locals from this area, and visit sites of cultural significance.
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2.00 Credits
Backyard farms, community gardens, farmers markets and food co-ops...all of these are part of the revival of growing food in the city. This field study course will take an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the benefits, challenges and complexities of urban agriculture, from the history of urban food production to hunger relief efforts, from the "community" in community gardens to the science of growing food in the city. We'll learn through local field visits and by reading some of the great writing about growing food in the city.
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4.00 Credits
This course has cross-disciplinary appeal from Computer Science to Geology to ENVI. Maps and other geographic information are increasingly present in myriad applications in our data-rich, digital world. Environmental studies in particular make extensive use of "spatial data", i.e., information involving locations. Working with spatial data is best accomplished with the extensive capabilities provided by geographic information systems (GIS). GIS include a combination of hardware and software that allow us to collect, store, manage, analyze and present spatial data. Such data are increasingly available, are easily collected with GPS tools or even with smart phones, and are used to address issues in many fields. In this class, students will learn how GIS systems work and, in a series of labs, will work with GIS software using various data types to query and analyze it, present it as maps and graphs, and collect data concerning environmental topics. Students will also learn spatial analysis techniques, some principles of cartography, essential principles of how geographic information is used to solve problems. (4)
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4.00 Credits
The concerns of Environmental Studies are grounded in specific places, topics, and processes. Extended field study courses put students in those places so that they can explore deeply the challenges, possibilities, contexts, and processes at the heart of contemporary and historical environmental issues. These field courses require a commitment to travel away from campus for an extended period of time (ranging from 1 week to a full semester) for the field experience.
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4.00 Credits
Wars, ambushes, evictions, occupations, political and personal arguments, murders, feuds. The Environmental History contemporary social context of the west is full of conflict. But it is also full cooperation, agreement, help, love, encouragement, and collaboration. In this course we will visit the sites of this conflict and cooperation. We'll talk to actors in the debates and the process and look to understand the context of the conflict and the hope behind the cooperation as people look to address the wide range of environmental issues across the West. The sites we visit will be driven by the itinerary of the trip, current events, and the availability of guest speakers. This course will function as one of the Westminster Expedition Courses (and must be taken with ENVI 330B, ENVI 330C, and ENVI 330D).
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4.00 Credits
This course will function as one of the Westminster Expedition Courses (and must be taken with ENVI 330A, ENVI 330C, and ENVI 330D). This course will examine the link between the landscapes of the West and the cultural meanings attached to them. The natural landscapes that surround us contain a world of meaning. The earth is home, habitat, playground, resource, waste-sink. It is seen as dangerous and peaceful, bountiful and depleted, crowded and open. Places like Yellowstone National Park, the Nez Perce Trail, the Atomic Test site, or the expanses of the Bitterroot mountains carry with them profound histories and meanings the often confound their natural appearance. How do we reconcile these contradictions? What do they mean in terms of the cultural and political ecologies of particular places? How do the cultural values we attach to natural landscapes challenge our understandings of their history and our own involvement in the natural world? By looking at the cultural geography of the environment we can analyze how the meanings of nature are actively created and why it is contested by different people in different places. And, perhaps most importantly, why it matters. In this course students will examine these landscapes of meaning in person. They will hear from experts, managers, and discuss the contested meanings that surround them. Students will prepare questions for guest lecturers, write descriptive field notes while observing and participating in social life, reflect on your interviews and field notes through exploratory essays, write critical reviews of existing relevant research, and complete an original analysis of a cultural landscape that incorporates properly-cited primary and secondary source material. You may take lots of pictures, video, or record sounds and present them to the public on the expedition blog.
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