ENVS 1000 - Introduction to Environmental Studies
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Spring 2018 / Fall 2019
This course provides students with an introduction to natural science topics and skill sets necessary to address multi-dimensional human-environment interactions. Students will survey biological and physical science aspects of environmental change, examining ecological, biological, chemical, and technological factors that influence the quality of life on Earth. The focus of the class is on developing a stronger science-based understanding of Earth�s environmental systems and how they are altered by human activity. Required for ENVS majors.
ENVS 1001 - Introduction to Human Dimensions of Environmental Studies
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Fall 2018
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 3022 - Climate Politics and Policy
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Summer 2019 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Engages students in exploring the realm of contemporary and historical climate policy at three major levels of government: international, national and local/regional. Through course lectures, discussions, readings and activities, students will become conversant with the actors, mechanisms and concerns involved in climate policy and politics and develop their own sense of how to judge the success of climate policies. Fulfills intermediate social science requirement in Environmental Studies Major. Recommended prerequisite: ENVS 1000 or GEOG 1972. Same as GEOG 3022.
GEOG 3022 - Climate Politics and Policy
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Summer 2019 / Summer 2020 / Summer 2021 / Summer 2022
Engages students in exploring the realm of contemporary and historical climate policy at three major levels of government: international, national and local/regional. Through course lectures, discussions, readings and activities, students will become conversant with the actors, mechanisms and concerns involved in climate policy and politics and develop their own sense of how to judge the success of climate policies. Fulfills intermediate social science requirement in Environmental Studies Major. Recommended prerequisite: ENVS 1000 or GEOG 1972. Same as ENVS 3022.
SOCY 3201 - Sociological Research Methods
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Spring 2020
Introduces students to the logics and methods of sociological research. This requirement for majors teaches ways to answer sociological questions by collecting and analyzing different types of data. Students are trained in research ethics and learn how to collect their own data and conduct original sociological research. Collection and analysis of both qualitative and quantitative data are included.
