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4.00 Credits
Through an analysis of case law and critical readings, students will gain an understanding of the processes used by bureaucratic agencies to make public policy. First and foremost, students will come away from this course with an understanding of the constitutional, statutory and common law procedures agencies must follow when they make and enforxe regulations. Students will also leave the course with an understanding of the historical development of American regulatory agencies and the reasons why legislatures delegate to these agencies the authority to make law. May be taken in place of PLSC 303 or PLSC 348.
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2.00 Credits
Looks at past and present food preferences in different parts of the world, and how they are related to the way people interact with their physical, biotic, and social environments.
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2.00 Credits
Research foods available along the Wasatch Front. Look at food as it is related to different ethnic, class, and religious groups. Includes studying the production, marketing, and distribution of foods in the region and impacts on the physical, biotic, and social environments.
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2.00 Credits
This course will focus on the history, theory and practice of social, political, environmental and global justice struggles. The course will examine diverse cases and movements of resistance, revolt and revolution from history and the present, and from around the globe. It will also explore and assess multiple and competing strategies, tactics, and methods of mobilization, struggle and transformation. To do so, it will draw on an intersection of diverse perspectives and experiences emphasizing resistance, transformation and emancipation in relation to identity politics, defense of the land and the commons, and social-environmental change. Especial emphasis will be placed on subaltern struggles such as post-capitalist, anti-racist, decolonial, indigenous, feminist, queer, disability, animal liberation, transnational, radical democratic, migrant, climate, and global justice struggles.
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4.00 Credits
This course presents students with an opportunity to study to global implications of contemporary environmental issues and relationships between nature and society. Many scientists and social scientists have argued that we are in the midst of the Anthropocene, an epoch in which people have fundamentally changed the earth's environment. Students will approach these issues with attention to cross-cultural interactions and ideas that shape environmental and humanitarian concerns in light of global processes of social and ecological transformation, students will study the global nature of many environmental issues, their impacts on local communities and ways those communities have responded. Global environmental issues such as energy, agriculture or water use will be considered through specific local changes with an emphasis on communities in Asia, Africa and South America.
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4.00 Credits
An old aphorism notes that to get rich in the West, oi1e should become a water lawyer. Another states that "Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting." Forest historian Char Millar writes that "Great hopes, deep doubts, even despair, have been integral to the history of westem water policy." The American West has long been defined in large part by its lack of water. The region's aridity lies at the heart of endless ecological, social, political, and legal debates that have at times sparked violence. This course will explore the social world of water in the region, and the challenges presented by its relative scarcity.
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4.00 Credits
, This course will connect students with an, innovative mixture of texts from literature and, sustainability with an eye on green business, claims about capitalism's constructive role in, environmental problem solving. The green economy, is an enormous investment opportunity for the, next generation of businesses, and is central to, many visions of American innovation and global, competitiveness for the coming century. That, said, students want to know more about the, versions of sustainable practice they encounter, in the business landscape, and want to look more, closely at the promises and pitfalls of green, business models. This course will use literary, texts in tandem with central statements of the, sustainability movement to investigate, sustainable business. This course brings us, beyond either a cynical critique of business, ethics, or a naive celebration of the, sustainability revolution: we will look closely, at influential business books, and then use, literary representations of social experience to, measure the lived realities of sustainable, business.
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1.00 Credits
Upper-division courses exploring influential ideas, texts and practices at the intersection of the humanities and the environment. Prerequisites: ENVI 101 or instructor permission.
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4.00 Credits
This course takes the history of Utah's people and places as a case study in the creation of an American identity. Emphases include the influence of and changes to the physical landscape, contact and conflict among cultures, and the place of Utah within the larger nation.
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4.00 Credits
As natural landscapes are transformed by people, specific cultural values become inscribed on the land. Some seem permanent, while others are regularly erased. This course aims to survey and explore a range of perspectives on the nature of human integration with the environment and the manifestation of human creativity on the landscape. How have ideas about art and beauty shaped the way we perceive the landscapes around us? What work does the landscape do in reenacting cultural norms? What do particular landscapes mean, how did they acquire those meanings and what do they accomplish? The course will consider the processes of culture in the productions of landscapes and the environmental implications of those processes.
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