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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Fall 2020 |
Registration ID | ENVSB202001 |
Course Title | Environment and Society |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Environmental Studies |
Instructor | Dhillon,Carla M. |
Times and Days | TF 11:10am-12:30pm
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Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2310 This course explores the intersections of natural and built environments with diverse societies. Students will encounter conceptual and analytical tools of the social sciences to inform environmental responses at individual, collective, and institutional levels. Environmental issues broadly understood are not merely problems for society, but stem from cultural patterns and how societies are organized. We will survey social origins of environmental problems across local to global situations. This class draws from environmental sociology, planning, geography, political theory, and environmental health and justice. Participants interact with an array of social science methods and environmental topics. Learning to apply social concepts to environments using multiple perspectives is a core component of the course. Focused segments cover environmental justice, Indigenous peoples’ environmentalisms, and social movements of the Global Souths. Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Writing Attentive. Pre-requisite ENVS B101 or ENVS H101 or instructor's permission. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Quantitative Readiness Required (QR), Writing Attentive; Haverford: B: Analysis of the Social World (B), Social Science (SO) Enrollment Cap: 22; If the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Senior ENVS majors, Junior ENVS Majors, Sophomores, first-year students. Minors and non-majors by instructor's permission. ENVS 202 will meet remotely during both class times listed for each week. The synchronous course will primarily use Zoom, Moodle, and email to facilitate learning and communication. Most days, our class begins with an overview of key themes and inquiries. The remainder of each session is devoted to dialogue, film or media clips, small group work, or other activities. Students post reading analyses to Moodle each week before class begins. |
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