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Your search for courses · during 2023-24 · tagged with PPOLEP · returned 23 results
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BIOL 210 Global Change Biology 6 credits
Environmental problems are caused by a complex mix of physical, biological, social, economic, political, and technological factors. This course explores how these environmental problems affect life on Earth by examining the biological processes underlying natural ecological systems and the effects of global environmental changes such as resources consumption and overharvesting, land-use change, climate warming, pollution, extinction and biodiversity loss, and invasive species.
Sophomore Priority
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Winter 2019, Winter 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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One introductory science lab course (Biology 125, 126, Chemistry 123, 128, Geology 110, 115,120 or 135)
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BIOL 210.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:Marta Lyons 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THLeighton 305 8:15am-10:00am
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BIOL 210.00 Winter 2020
- Faculty:John Berini 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 210.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:John Berini 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 210.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore Priority
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BIOL 210.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:Daniel Hernández 🏫 👤
- Size:48
- T, THAnderson Hall 121 10:10am-11:55am
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Sophomore priority
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BIOL 338 Genomics and Bioinformatics 6 credits
The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has revolutionized biology, enabling transformative breakthroughs in fields ranging from agriculture to conservation to medicine. In this course, students will gain experience with the computational and bioinformatics tools needed to analyze “big data,” including sequence searching and alignment, assembly, gene calling and annotation. Students will learn to ask and answer their own scientific questions using sequence data, and to critically assess the conclusions other genomics and bioinformatics studies. No prior computer programming experience is required. Associated laboratory will focus on wet lab methods for DNA/RNA extraction and preparation as well as computational analysis.
Biology 339 required
- Winter 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Winter 2022, Fall 2022, Fall 2023
- Science with Lab Quantitative Reasoning Encounter
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Biology 125 and 126 and one of these upper level courses: Biology 240, Biology 321 or Biology 350
concurrent registration in Biology 339
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BIOL 338.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WLeighton 330 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 330 9:40am-10:40am
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BIOL 338.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty: Staff
- Size:16
- T, THHulings 102 10:10am-11:55am
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BIOL 338.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:24
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:00am-11:10am
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 9:50am-10:50am
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BIOL 338.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 323 9:40am-10:40am
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BIOL 338.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WAnderson Hall 223 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 223 9:40am-10:40am
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BIOL 338.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Rika Anderson 🏫 👤
- Size:20
- M, WAnderson Hall 223 9:50am-11:00am
- FAnderson Hall 223 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 271 Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment 6 credits
This course focuses on environmental economics, energy economics, and the relationship between them. Economic incentives for pollution abatement, the industrial organization of energy production, optimal depletion rates of energy sources, and the environmental and economic consequences of alternate energy sources are analyzed.
- Winter 2017, Winter 2018, Winter 2019, Spring 2020, Winter 2021, Winter 2022, Winter 2023, Fall 2023
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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Economics 111
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2017
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2018
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 236 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 236 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2019
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 304 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 304 9:40am-10:40am
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ECON 271.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THWillis 204 1:15pm-3:00pm
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2021
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:30am-12:40pm
- FLocation To Be Announced TBA 11:10am-12:10pm
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2022
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 204 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWillis 204 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ECON 271.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Mark Kanazawa 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THAnderson Hall 329 10:10am-11:55am
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ECON 271.00 Fall 2023
- Faculty:Aaron Swoboda 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWillis 211 11:10am-12:20pm
- FWillis 211 12:00pm-1:00pm
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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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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 212 Global Food Systems 6 credits
The course offers a survey of the world’s food systems–and its critics–from the initial domestication of plants and animals to our day. We will begin by examining the critical theoretical and foundational issues on the subject, and then turn to a series of case studies that illuminate major themes around the world. Topics will include land and animal husbandry, the problem of food security, food politics, the Green Revolution, biotechnology, and the implications of global climate change. Throughout the course, students will assess and seek to integrate differing disciplinary and methodological approaches. The class will include field experiences.
- Spring 2017, Spring 2021, Winter 2023
- International Studies Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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ENTS 212.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 8:15am-10:00am
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ENTS 212.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WWeitz Center 132 9:50am-11:00am
- FWeitz Center 132 9:40am-10:40am
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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 288 Abrupt Climate Change 6 credits
Abrupt climate change is very fast change, related to “tipping points” and thresholds, evident in current and historical climate records. Includes interpretation of historical climate data and measurement methods, evolving theories for abrupt change, the role of complex earth systems processes, and trends in global climate change today. The course will address our future through examining cases studies on past human civilizations and discussion of how to reduce our vulnerability to an unstable future climate. Includes a term-long project at the intersection of abrupt climate change and an issue of human concern.
- Spring 2020, Spring 2024
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Biology 125 or 126, or Chemistry 123 or 128 or any 100-level Geology, or Physics (two five-week courses or one ten week course from 131 through 165)
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ENTS 288.00 Spring 2020
- Faculty:Trish Ferrett 🏫 👤
- Size:30
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 132 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 132 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENTS 288.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:Trish Ferrett 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- Grading:S/CR/NC
- M, WWeitz Center 233 12:30pm-1:40pm
- FWeitz Center 233 1:10pm-2:10pm
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ENTS 289 Climate Change and Human Health 6 credits
This course will offer a survey of the relationship between climate change and human health. The course will begin by developing an understanding of climate science, and then turn to explore a series of topics that illuminate the intimate relationship between climate change and human health. Topics that will receive sustained attention include short-lived climate forcers and the climate and health impact of mitigation measures, extreme heat/drought, mosquito-borne diseases, indoor air pollution/biomass combustion/cookstoves, and biodiversity conservation. The class will provide opportunities for students to engage in hands-on projects to help them better understand the topics covered in class.
Extra Time, Winter Break Ethiopia program
- Spring 2018, Fall 2020, Fall 2022
- Quantitative Reasoning Encounter Social Inquiry
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One introductory course in Biology 125 or 126, Chemistry 123 or 128, any 100-level Geology, or Physics (two five-week courses or one ten week course from 131-165)
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ENTS 289.00 Spring 2018
- Faculty:Deborah Gross 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WLeighton 426 9:50am-11:00am
- FLeighton 426 9:40am-10:40am
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ENTS 289.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:Deborah Gross 🏫 👤 · Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:18
- M, WAnderson Hall 323 10:00am-11:10am
- FAnderson Hall 323 9:50am-10:50am
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Requires participation on 20 Winter Break Ethiopia program
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ENTS 289.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:Deborah Gross 🏫 👤 · Tsegaye Nega 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- M, WHulings 316 1:50pm-3:00pm
- FHulings 316 2:20pm-3:20pm
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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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HIST 205 American Environmental History 6 credits
Environmental concerns, conflicts, and change mark the course of American history, from the distant colonial past to our own day. This course will consider the nature of these eco-cultural developments, focusing on the complicated ways that human thought and perception, culture and society, and natural processes and biota have all combined to forge Americans’ changing relationship with the natural world. Topics will include Native American subsistence strategies, Euroamerican settlement, industrialization, urbanization, consumption, and the environmental movement. As we explore these issues, one of our overarching goals will be to develop an historical context for thinking deeply about contemporary environmental dilemmas.
- Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Winter 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024
- Humanistic Inquiry Intercultural Domestic Studies
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2017
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2018
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2019
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 10:10am-11:55am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2020
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:27
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLocation To Be Announced TBA 10:20am-12:05pm
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2021
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Fall 2022
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 8:15am-10:00am
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2023
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Winter 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 236 1:15pm-3:00pm
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HIST 205.00 Spring 2024
- Faculty:George Vrtis 🏫 👤
- Size:25
- T, THLeighton 426 1:15pm-3:00pm
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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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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 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 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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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 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