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Vodehnal, Carrie

Teaching Assistant Professor

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Research

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  • My research interests include normative ethics, applied ethics (particularly environmental ethics), moral psychology, and other varieties of empirically informed theory. I am especially interested in the roles practices play in character development, the theory-action gap, and topics within land use, food ethics, and social-ecological system resilience.

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  • normative ethics, applied ethics, environmental ethics, moral psychology

Teaching

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  • ENVS 1001 - Introduction to Human Dimensions of Environmental Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Spring 2024
    Examines the human dimensions of sustainability and environmental justice. Students examine a core set of human factors linked to the environment, including the production and use of knowledge, behavior, values, social movements, policy, market forces, and systems of power, exploitation, oppression, and inequality. Through hands-on activities, students learn how these factors impact and result from the human-environment interface. Students will build quantitative and writing skills to empirically study human dimensions of the environment.
  • ENVS 1150 - First-Year Writing in Energy, Environment and Sustainability
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019
    Provides development of effective writing skills, knowledge and habits for success in the campus culture using topics related to the environmental sciences, energy, sustainability and academic/career interests. Focuses on the processes in rhetoric, emphasizing skills in creative, analytical and critical thinking, as well as research and presentation using digital and "old fashioned" methods and materials.
  • ENVS 3020 - Advanced Writing in Environmental Studies
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Summer 2018 / Fall 2018 / Spring 2019 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022
    Offers training in critical thinking and analytical writing skills appropriate to upper-division classes. Writing assignments integrate the subject matter of different topical areas. Fulfills writing requirement for Environmental Studies major. Recommended prerequisite: ENVS 1000.
  • ENVS 3140 - Environmental Ethics
    Primary Instructor - Summer 2018 / Summer 2019 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Fall 2024
    Examines major traditions in moral philosophy to see what light they shed on value issues in environmental policy and the value presuppositions of the economic, ecological, and juridical approaches to the environment. Same as PHIL 3140.
  • ENVS 3525 - Intermediate Environmental Problem Analysis: Topical Cornerstones
    Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2024
    Engages students in in-depth study of a topic such as climate change, energy, natural resources or sustainability. Through lectures, discussions, readings and activities, students will become conversant with how science, policy and values are integrated in environmental problem solving, and develop their own sense of how to critically engage with proposed solutions. Fulfills cornerstone requirement for Environmental Studies Major. Recommended prerequisite: ENVS 1000. Recommended corequisite: ENVS 3020. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours, provided the topics vary.
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