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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with ENTS Society, Culture and Policy · returned 39 results
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AMST 240 The Midwest and the American Imagination 6 credits
The history of American culture has always been shaped by a dialectic between the local and the universal, the regional and the national. The particular geography and history of the Midwest (the prairie, the plains, the old Northwest, Native Americans and white adventurers, settlers and immigrants) have shaped its livelihoods, its identities, its meanings. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this course will explore literature, art history, and the social and cultural history of the Midwest.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- Humanistic Inquiry Writing Requirement
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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AMST 240.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Elizabeth McKinsey 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THBoliou 161 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Extra time
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AMST 287 California Program: California Art & Visual Culture 6 credits
An in-depth exploration of the dynamic relationship between the arts and popular conceptions of California: whether as bountiful utopia, suburban paradise, or multicultural frontier. We will meet with California artists and art historians, and visit museums and galleries. Art and artists studied will range from native American art, the Arts and Crafts movement and California Impressionism to the photography of Ansel Adams, urban murals and the imagery of commercial culture (such as lithographs, tourist brochures, and orange-crate labels).
OCS Visions of California Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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Participation in AMST OCS program
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ARTH 267 Gardens in China and Japan 6 credits
A garden is usually defined as a piece of land that is cultivated or manipulated in some way by man for one or more purposes. Gardens often take the form of an aestheticized space that miniaturizes the natural landscape. This course will explore the historical phenomenon of garden building in China and Japan with a special emphasis on how cultural and religious attitudes towards nature contribute to the development of gardens in urban and suburban environments. In addition to studying historical source material, students will be required to apply their knowledge by building both virtual and physical re-creations of gardens.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice International Studies
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ARTH 267.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WBoliou 140 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTH 267.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Kathleen Ryor 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THBoliou 161 1:15pm-3:00pm
- T, THBoliou 140 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra time
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ARTS 113 Field Drawing 6 credits
A beginning drawing course for students who are interested in developing their skills in drawing from nature. Much of the classwork will be done outdoors and deal directly with drawing from plant forms, geological sources, and the landscape as subjects. Emphasis will be placed on the development of the technical skills needed for visual note-taking and development of journals. Problems will deal with the analysis of space and objects through line, shape, volume, and tone.
Sophomore Priority
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Arts Practice
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Daniel Bruggeman 🏫 👤
- M, WWeitz Center 242 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2018
- Faculty:David Lefkowitz 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WWeitz Center 242 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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NOT Sophomore priority, Class fees apply.
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ARTS 113.03 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WArboretum OTHER 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Open only to already Waitlisted students
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Daniel Bruggeman 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WWeitz Center 242 12:30pm-3:00pm
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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NOT Sophomore priority, Class fees apply.
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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ARTS 113.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Daniel Bruggeman 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- M, WWeitz Center 242 1:00pm-3:30pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:45pm-4:15pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.03 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- M, WWeitz Center 242 8:30am-11:00am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:17
- M, WWeitz Center 242 12:30pm-3:00pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.01 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 9:00am-11:30am
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 113.02 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Eleanor Jensen 🏫 👤
- Size:14
- T, THWeitz Center 242 1:15pm-3:45pm
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Sophomore Priority
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ARTS 212 Studio Art Seminar in the South Pacific: Mixed-Media Drawing 6 credits
This course involves directed drawing in bound sketchbooks, using a variety of drawing media, and requires on-going, self-directed drawing in visual journals. Subjects will include landscape, figure, portraits, and nature study. The course will require some hiking in rugged areas.
OCS South Pacific Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Arts Practice
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Studio Art 110, 113, 114 or 142 or previous comparable drawing experience approved by the professor. Participation in OCS program
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ARTS 275 Studio Art Seminar in the South Pacific: The Physical and Cultural Environment 6 credits
This course examines how Australia and New Zealand have changed since colonization. Students study the physical and environmental beginnings of these countries and learn about the history of their indigenous people, noting how the physical landscape has been changed through agriculture, mining, and the importation of non-native species. This course will include readings, meetings with visiting artists and lecturers, and visits to cultural centers.
OCS South Pacific Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Acceptance to Carleton OCS program
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ECON 240 Microeconomics of Development 6 credits
This course explores household behavior in developing countries. We will cover areas including fertility decisions, health and mortality, investment in education, the intra-household allocation of resources, household structure, and the marriage market. We will also look at the characteristics of land, labor, and credit markets, particularly technology adoption; land tenure and tenancy arrangements; the role of agrarian institutions in the development process; and the impacts of alternative politics and strategies in developing countries. The course complements Economics 241.
- Fall 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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Held for students participating in Winter Break Bangladesh program
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ECON 240.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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Participation in Winter Break OCS Program
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 2:30pm-3:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 3:10pm-4:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 240.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 240.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Faress Bhuiyan 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 268 Economics of Cost Benefit Analysis 6 credits
Cost-benefit analysis is a tool commonly used by economists and policy makers to compare and choose among competing policy options. This course will cover the basic theory and empirical techniques necessary to quantify and aggregate the impacts of government policy, especially as related to the environment. Topics covered include the time value of money; uncertainty; sensitivity analysis; option value; contingent valuation; hedonic estimation; basic research design. Throughout the course case studies will be used to elucidate and bring life to the theoretical concepts.
- Spring 2019, Winter 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111. Some statistics background will be useful.
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ECON 268.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 268.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 9:50am-11:00am
- FWillis 211 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 269 Economics of Climate Change 6 credits
This course studies economic models of climate change and their implications for policy design. Covered topics include: the relationship between climate change and the macroeconomy, the performance of different climate policy instruments such as carbon taxes and cap and trade systems, the potential effects of innovation, and the economics surrounding the use of different types of energy.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 110 and 111
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ECON 269.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ECON 269.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 211 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 273 Water and Western Economic Development 6 credits
This course examines a number of important aspects of water as a legal/political/economic factor in the development of the western United States. The topics include western water law, the evolution of water supply institutions, state and local water planning, the role of the federal government, and a number of current water problems, including surface and groundwater pollution, impediments to market transfers of water, and state/regional/international conflicts over water.
- Fall 2017, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 273.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ECON 273.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENGL 236 American Nature Writing 6 credits
A study of the environmental imagination in American literature. We will explore the relationship between literature and the natural sciences and examine questions of style, narrative, and representation in the light of larger social, ethical, and political concerns about the environment. Authors read will include Thoreau, Muir, Jeffers, Abbey, and Leopold. Students will write a creative Natural History essay as part of the course requirements.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 248 Visions of California 6 credits
An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner.
Extra Time required.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis Writing Requirement
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ENGL 288 California Program: The Literature of California 6 credits
An intensive study of writing and film that explores California both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor–whether of promise or disintegration–for the rest of the country. Authors read will include John Muir, Raymond Chandler, Nathanael West, Robinson Jeffers, John Steinbeck, and Joan Didion. Films will include: Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown, The Grapes of Wrath, Zoot Suit, and Blade Runner.
OCS Visions of California Program
- Winter 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2023
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENTS 210 Environmental Justice 6 credits
The environmental justice movement seeks greater participation by marginalized communities in environmental policy, and equity in the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. This course will examine the meaning of “environmental justice,” the history of the movement, the empirical foundation for the movement’s claims, and specific policy questions. Our focus is the United States, but students will have the opportunity to research environmental justice in other countries.
- Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Winter 2024
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ENTS 210.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 210.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 210.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 215 Environmental Ethics 6 credits
This course is an introduction to the central ethical debates in environmental policy and practice, as well as some of the major traditions of environmental thought. It investigates such questions as whether we can have moral duties towards animals, ecosystems, or future generations; what is the ethical basis for wilderness preservation; and what is the relationship between environmentalism and social justice.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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ENTS 215.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 211 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 215.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 132 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 215.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 215.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 215.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 215.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 244 Biodiversity Conservation and Development 6 credits
How can the need for intensive human social and economic development be reconciled with the conservation of biodiversity? This course explores the wide range of actions that people take at a local, national, and international level to address this question. We will use political ecology and conservation biology as theoretical frameworks to examine the role of traditional and indigenous approaches to biodiversity conservation as well as contemporary debates about integrated conservation development across a spectrum of cultures in North America, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ENTS 244.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THGoodsell 03 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENTS 244.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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ENTS 244.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWeitz Center 132 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 248 Environmental Memoir 6 credits
Through close readings of contemporary and classic environmental memoirs, this course explores the connections between nature and identity; race, belonging, and landscape; and memory, justice, and hope. Issues of environmental justice and injustice will serve as a key interpretive lens for approaching the texts. Authors include Robin Wall Kimmerer, Aldo Leopold, Terry Tempest Williams, and J. Drew Lanham.
- Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Writing Requirement
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ENTS 248.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 248.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 249 Troubled Waters 6 credits
This course considers the contrast between the ways various religions conceive of water as sacred, and the fact that today’s intersecting environmental crises mean that drought, flooding, sea level rise, and lack of access to clean water and safe sanitation have made the human relationship with water more fraught and complex than ever before. We will look at specific situations of environmental injustice (including Flint, Michigan; Jackson, Mississippi; and the protests at Standing Rock) as well as reading more theoretical and theological takes on water, water justice, and water activism.
- Spring 2023, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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ENTS 249.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 426 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 249.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 250 Food, Forests & Resilence 6 credits
The course will explore how the idea of sustainability is complicated when evaluated through a socio-ecological framework that combines anthropology and ecology. To highlight this complexity, the course is designed to provide a comparative framework to understand and analyze sustainable socio-ecological propositions in Minnesota and Oaxaca. Key conceptual areas explored include: coupled human-natural systems, resilience (ecological and cultural), self-determination, and social justice across stakeholders. The course includes a series of fieldtrips to nearby projects of interest. This course is part of the OCS winter break Oaxaca program, involving two linked courses in fall and winter terms. This class is the first class in the sequence.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
- Fall 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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One of the following is recommended: Environmental Studies 110, Sociology/Anthropology 110, Sociology/Anthropology 250, Biology 210, History 170 or History 205
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ENTS 250.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 251 Field Study in Sustainability in Oaxaca 6 credits
A field-based investigation of socio-ecological systems in Oaxaca, Mexico that will allow students to draw compaisons with similar systems in Minnesota. During winter break, we will visit the city of Oaxaca and neighboring villages to document and research systems of agriculture, sustainable forestry, and ecotourism, emphasizing the integration of methodologies in anthropology and ecology. Following the winter break trip, students will complete and present their research projects. This course is the second part of a two term sequence beginning with Environmental Studies 250.
Winter Break Program in Oaxaca Mexico
- Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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Prior term registration in Environmental Studies 250. At least one term of introductory Spanish (or equivalent proficiency) is required
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ENTS 251.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤 · Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- TLeighton 402 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENTS 275 The Arts and Environmental Justice 6 credits
How are artists today engaging with climate change, pollution, and other aspects of the planet’s environmental crisis? And are their creative works making any difference? In The Great Derangement, novelist and social anthropologist Amitav Ghosh argues that today’s literary fiction has failed to engage climate change in a meaningful and transformative way: we will read several “climate novels” to test his claim. We will also look at visual arts and music, including work by Maya Lin, Patricia Johanson, and collaborative artist/science/community projects such as those led by CALL, City as Living Laboratory.
- Winter 2023
- Literary/Artistic Analysis
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ENTS 275.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 203 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 307 Wilderness Field Studies: Grand Canyon 6 credits
This course is the second half of a two-course sequence focused on the study of wilderness in American society and culture. The course will begin with an Off-Campus Studies program at Grand Canyon National Park, where we will learn about the natural and human history of the Grand Canyon region, examine contemporary issues facing the park, meet with officials from the National Park Service and other local experts, conduct research, and experience the park through hiking and camping. The course will culminate in spring term with the completion and presentation of a major research project.
HIST 306 required previous winter term, Extra Time
- Spring 2022, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 306 and Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 307.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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ENTS 310 Topics in Environmental Law and Policy 6 credits
This seminar will examine topical issues in domestic and international environmental law and policy. We will aim to understand how environmental laws work to achieve policy objectives, with attention also to debates about the role of markets and community-based environmental management. The specific topics may change from year to year, but may include approaches to sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, protection of endangered species, and conservation and management of water resources. This course has no prerequisites and is suitable for students of environmental studies, political science, international relations and political economy.
- Winter 2017, Spring 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Social Inquiry
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ENTS 310.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WLeighton 202 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 202 2:20pm-3:20pm
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ENTS 310.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- T, THGoodsell 03 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ENTS 310.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 310.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWeitz Center 230 11:30am-12:40pm
- FWeitz Center 230 11:10am-12:20pm
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ENTS 310.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 114 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 114 12:00pm-1:00pm
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ENTS 318 Trees, Forests, and Climate Justice 6 credits
Will planting one trillion trees save us from climate change? Will deforestation and wildfires doom us? This course will examine the ways that contemporary worries, hopes, and dreams about forests and the ways their fate is entangled with that of humanity are rooted not only in science and practical policy choices, but in the folklore, sacred stories, and great literature that have long shaped our engagement with “the deep dark woods.” The course is constructed as a multi-disciplinary approach to forests in the Anthropocene; each student will pursue an original, interdisciplinary research project leading to a ca. 25-page research paper.
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ENTS 318.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:15
- M, WWillis 203 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 203 2:20pm-3:20pm
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HIST 286 Ecology and Society in African History 6 credits
Scholarship about the multiple arenas in which colonialism wrought wide-ranging ecological transformations in Africa captures imagination. Through the lens of ‘history from below’ approach, this course interrogates African environmental history across pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial temporal spaces. It pays particular attention to how Africans’ indigenous knowledge and practices of natural resource access have been in perpetual conflict with neo-protectionist conservationist policies that threaten Africans’ bio-cultural heritage today. Themes to be addressed include African ideas about landscape, culture-nature relationality, sustainable natural resource utilization, disease ecologies, gender and the environment, resource-based conflicts, climate change, ecological imperialism, and negotiations for environmental justice.
- Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry
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HIST 286.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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HIST 306 American Wilderness 6 credits
This course is part of the off-campus spring break program, involving two-linked courses in winter and spring. To many Americans, wild lands are among the nation’s most treasured places. Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree–the names alone evoke a sense of awe, naturalness, beauty, even love. But, where do those ideas and feelings come from, and how have they both reflected and shaped American cultural, political and environmental history over the last four centuries? These are the central issues and questions that we will pursue in this seminar.
Spring Break OCS Program Course. ENTS 307 required for Spring Term registration.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2020, Winter 2022, Winter 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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Acceptance in Wilderness Studies at the Grand Canyon OCS program. History 205 is recommended but not required.
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 306.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:12
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 308 American Cities and Nature 6 credits
Since the nation’s founding, the percentage of Americans living in cities has risen nearly sixteenfold, from about five percent to the current eighty-one percent. This massive change has spawned legions of others, and all of them have bearing on the complex ways that American cities and city-dwellers have shaped and reshaped the natural world. This course will consider the nature of cities in American history, giving particular attention to the dynamic linkages binding these cultural epicenters to ecological communities, environmental forces and resource flows, to eco-politics and social values, and to those seemingly far-away places we call farms and wilderness.
- Winter 2019, Winter 2021, Winter 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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History 205 is recommended but not required
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 308.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLibrary 344 10:10am-11:55am
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LTAM 220 Eating the Americas: 5,000 Years of Food 6 credits
Food is both a biological necessity and a cultural symbol. We eat to survive, we “are what we eat,” and delicious foods are “to die for.” What does this all mean in the context of Latin America, which gave us the origins of peanut butter (peanuts), spaghetti sauce (tomatoes), avocado toast (avocados), french fries (potatoes), and power bowls (quinoa)? In this class, we will explore the long history humans have had with food in Latin America, drawing from archaeology, ethnohistory, and anthropology to explore the relationship between food, culture, power, identity, gender, and ethnicity.
- Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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LTAM 220.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Sarah Kennedy 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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POSC 212 Environmental Justice 6 credits
The environmental justice movement seeks greater participation by marginalized communities in environmental policy, and equity in the distribution of environmental harms and benefits. This course will examine the meaning of “environmental justice,” the history of the movement, the empirical foundation for the movement’s claims, and specific policy questions. Our focus is the United States, but students will have the opportunity to research environmental justice in other countries.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Spring 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022
- Intercultural Domestic Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 114 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWillis 114 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 204 12:00pm-1:00pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 230 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 230 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:21
- M, WWeitz Center 235 1:00pm-2:10pm
- FWeitz Center 235 1:50pm-2:50pm
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POSC 212.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Kimberly Smith 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FLeighton 236 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 268 Global Environmental Politics and Policy 6 credits
Global environmental politics and policy is the most prominent field that challenges traditional state-centric ways of thinking about international problems and solutions. This course examines local-global dynamics of environmental problems. The course will cover five arenas crucial to understanding the nature and origin of global environmental politics and policymaking mechanisms: (1) international environmental law; (2) world political orders; (3) human-environment interactions through politics and markets; (4) paradigms of sustainable development; and (5) dynamics of human values and rules.
- Winter 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2024
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 268.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 233 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FWeitz Center 233 2:20pm-3:20pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:20am-12:05pm
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POSC 268.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 274 Globalization, Pandemics, and Human Security 6 credits
What are the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on global politics and public policy? How do state responses to COVID-19 as well as historical cases such as the Black Death in Europe, the SARS outbreak in East Asia and Middle East, and the Ebola outbreak in Africa help us understand the scientific, political, and economic challenges of pandemics on countries and communities around the world? We will apply theories and concepts from IR, political economy, and natural sciences to explore these questions and consider what we can learn from those responses to address other global challenges like climate change.
- Fall 2021, Fall 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 274.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 203 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 274.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THHasenstab 002 3:10pm-4:55pm
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POSC 333 Global Social Changes and Sustainability* 6 credits
This course is about the relationship between social changes and ecological changes to understand and to be able to advance analytical concepts, research methods, and theories of society-nature interactions. How do livelihoods of individuals and groups change over time and how do the changes affect ecological sustainability? What are the roles of human institutions in ecological sustainability? What are the roles of ecosystem dynamics in institutional sustainability? Students will learn fundamental theories and concepts that explain linkages between social change and environmental changes and gain methods and skills to measure social changes qualitatively and quantitatively.
Extra Time required.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2021, Spring 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWillis 211 1:15pm-3:00pm
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Extra Time (Films)
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 10:10am-11:55am
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Extra time
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THWeitz Center 233 1:45pm-3:30pm
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POSC 333.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Tun Myint 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
- T, THHasenstab 002 10:10am-11:55am
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POSC 335 Navigating Environmental Complexity—Challenges to Democratic Governance and Political Communication 6 credits
How can we design democratic institutions to deal with environmental and social problems? Are there universal approaches to solving political problems in physically and socially diverse communities? Do people come up with different institutional ways to address shared problems because of environmental or cultural differences? Our seminar considers current thinking about complex social-ecological systems and how we communicate and work collectively to address the problems of local and global commons.
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POSC 335.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Barbara Allen 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THHasenstab 109 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 239 Religion & American Landscape 6 credits
The American landscape is rich in sacred places. The religious imaginations, practices, and beliefs of its diverse inhabitants have shaped that landscape and been shaped by it. This course explores ways of imagining relationships between land, community, and the sacred, the mapping of religious traditions onto American land and cityscapes, and theories of sacred space and spatial practices. Topics include religious place-making practices of Indigenous, Latinx, and African Americans, as well as those of Euro-American communities from Puritans, Mormons, immigrant farmers.
- Winter 2021, Fall 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies Writing Requirement
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RELG 239.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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RELG 239.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 301 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 243 Native American Religious Freedom 6 credits
This course explores historical and legal contexts in which Native Americans have practiced their religions in the United States. Making reference to the cultural background of Native traditions, and the history of First Amendment law, the course explores landmark court cases in Sacred Lands, Peyotism, free exercise in prisons, and sacralized traditional practices (whaling, fishing, hunting) and critically examines the conceptual framework of “religion” as it has been applied to the practice of Native American traditions. Service projects will integrate academic learning and student involvement in matters of particular concern to contemporary native communities.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2023
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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RELG 243.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 243.00 Spring 2023
- Faculty:Michael McNally 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- T, THLeighton 402 10:10am-11:55am
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RELG 257 Asian Religions and Ecology 6 credits
How “eco-friendly” are Asian religious traditions? What does “eco-friendly” even mean? This course begins with an overview of the major religious traditions of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. From this foundation, we turn to modern and contemporary ecological thinkers, movements, and policies and discuss their indebtedness to, and divergence from, various religious heritages. We will also explore how modernity, capitalism, industrialization, climate collapse, and Western environmental movements have influenced eco-advocacy in contemporary Asia.
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RELG 257.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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SOAN 203 Anthropology of Good Intentions 6 credits
Is the environmental movement making progress? Do responsible products actually help local populations? Is international AID alleviating poverty and fostering development? Today there are thousands of programs with sustainable development goals yet their effectiveness is often contested at the local level. This course explores the impacts of sustainable development, conservation, and AID programs to look beyond the good intentions of those that implement them. In doing so we hope to uncover common pitfalls behind good intentions and the need for sound social analysis that recognizes, examines, and evaluates the role of cultural complexity found in populations targeted by these programs.
- Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Winter 2024
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWeitz Center 235 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 036 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am
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SOAN 203.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 203 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 203 1:10pm-2:10pm
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SOAN 233 Anthropology of Food 6 credits
Food is the way to a person’s heart but perhaps even more interesting, the window into a society’s soul. Simply speaking understating a society’s foodways is the best way to comprehend the complexity between people, culture and nature. This course explores how anthropologists use food to understand different aspects of human behavior, from food procurement and consumption practices to the politics of nutrition and diets. In doing so we hope to elucidate how food is more than mere sustenance and that often the act of eating is a manifestation of power, resistance, identity, and community.
- Winter 2018, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023
- International Studies Social Inquiry
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 3:10pm-4:55pm
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Sophomore Priority
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 1:45pm-3:30pm
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Sophomore Priority, Class Fees Apply
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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SOAN 233.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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SOAN 323 Mother Earth: Women, Development and the Environment 6 credits
Why are so many sustainable development projects anchored around women’s cooperatives? Why is poverty depicted as having a woman’s face? Is the solution to the environmental crisis in the hands of women the nurturers? From overly romantic notions of stewardship to the feminization of poverty, this course aims to evaluate women’s relationships with local environments and development initiatives. The course uses anthropological frameworks to evaluate case studies from around the world.
- Spring 2019, Spring 2022
- International Studies Social Inquiry Writing Requirement
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The department strongly recommends that Sociology/Anthropology 110 or 111 be taken prior to enrolling in courses numbered 200 or above
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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SOAN 323.00 Spring 2022
- Faculty:Constanza Ocampo-Raeder 🏫 👤
- Size:15
- T, THLeighton 236 8:15am-10:00am