Environmental Science/Environmental Studies

Course Offerings Fall 2013

Course Code	Title/Instructor	Meets
ENST 111-01	Environment, Culture & Values Instructor: Mara Donaldson Course Description: A study of the effects of scientific, religious, and philosophical values on human attitudes toward the environment and how these attitudes may affect our way of life. By focusing on a particular current topic, and by subjecting the basis of our behavior in regard to that topic to careful criticism, alternative models of behavior are considered together with changes in lifestyle and consciousness that these may involve. This course fulfills the Division I.a. distribution requirement.	0900:TR EASTC 405
ENST 131-01	Environmental Science w/Lab Instructor: Betty Ferster, B Ashton Nichols Course Description: An integrated, interdisciplinary study of natural environmental systems and human impact on them. Basic concepts of ecology, such as biogeochemical materials cycling, energy flow, biotic interactions, and ecosystem regulation will be examined and utilized to study natural resource management, population dynamics, loss of biodiversity, and environmental pollution. Field study, including measurement of parameters in natural aquatic and terrestrial systems, data analysis, and data interpretation will be emphasized. Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Offered in Fall semester.	1330:T KAUF 109 1030:TR STUART 1104
ENST 131-02	Environmental Science w/Lab Instructor: Betty Ferster, B Ashton Nichols Course Description: An integrated, interdisciplinary study of natural environmental systems and human impact on them. Basic concepts of ecology, such as biogeochemical materials cycling, energy flow, biotic interactions, and ecosystem regulation will be examined and utilized to study natural resource management, population dynamics, loss of biodiversity, and environmental pollution. Field study, including measurement of parameters in natural aquatic and terrestrial systems, data analysis, and data interpretation will be emphasized. Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Offered in Fall semester.	1330:W KAUF 109 1030:TR STUART 1104
ENST 131-03	Environmental Science w/Lab Instructor: Pamela Van Fleet Course Description: An integrated, interdisciplinary study of natural environmental systems and human impact on them. Basic concepts of ecology, such as biogeochemical materials cycling, energy flow, biotic interactions, and ecosystem regulation will be examined and utilized to study natural resource management, population dynamics, loss of biodiversity, and environmental pollution. Field study, including measurement of parameters in natural aquatic and terrestrial systems, data analysis, and data interpretation will be emphasized. Three hours classroom and three hours laboratory a week. Offered in Fall semester.	1030:TR DANA 110 1330:R KAUF 109
ENST 218-01	Geographic Information Systems Instructor: James Ciarrocca Course Description: Cross-listed with ERSC 218-01 and ARCH 218-01.	0930:MWF KAUF 185 1330:F KAUF 186
ENST 222-01	Environmental Economics Instructor: B Ashton Nichols, Anthony Underwood Course Description: Cross-listed with ECON 222-01.	1330:MR ALTHSE 109
ENST 222-02	Environmental Economics Instructor: B Ashton Nichols, Anthony Underwood Course Description: Cross-listed with ECON 222-02.	1500:MR ALTHSE 109
ENST 310-01	Meth in Env Health Sciences Instructor: Gregory Howard Course Description: An interdisciplinary intermediate-level approach to the study of environmental problems and policy analysis. The course is project-oriented, with students bringing the experience and perspective of their own disciplinary major to bear on a team approach to the analysis and proposed resolution of an environmental problem. Topics vary depending on faculty and student interests, and on the significance of current affairs. Three hours of classroom and three hours of laboratory a week. Prerequisite: Dependent upon topic or permission of instructor.	1330:R KAUF 113 0900:TR KAUF 185
ENST 311-01	Global Environmental Politics Instructor: Michael Beevers Course Description: Cross-listed with INST 290-02. This course provides an introduction to the study global environmental politics. It seeks to understand how the global environment is being changed by humanity and how individuals, communities, societies, organizations, movements, corporations and states are responding to those changes. Global environmental politics as a field of study is not settled terrain but a contested space because "where you sit in the world" points to very different interpretations about nature, the extent of environmental problems, who or what is at fault, and the equity or effectiveness of the proposed solutions. This course will be oriented around several overlapping thematic areas and ways of thinking about global environmental politics. First, we will engage in a discussion of global environmental governance, which focuses primarily on the role of the sovereign state, global organizations and international regimes to address worldwide environmental challenges. Second, we will question the extent to which efforts to govern the global environment have been equitable and effective, and begin to conceptually "unpack" the underlying worldviews that inform global environmental politics. In doing this, we will talk about the links between the global environment and economy and ask ourselves how issues like consumption, poverty and free trade affect humanity and the environment in a globalizing world. And finally, we will discuss the role of power, history and agency in environmental politics and ask provocatively where the "change we seek" comes from. To explore the above themes, we will look at data on global environmental trends and become familiar with the key issues that dominate the field including: globalization, climate change, forest and biodiversity policy, water and food issues, energy, consumption, trade, and sustainable development.	0900:TR KAUF 179
ENST 311-02	Buddhism and the Environment Instructor: Daniel Cozort Course Description: Cross-listed with RELG 311-01. Although protection of the environment is not a Buddhist goal per se, it is involved in the quest for enlightenment. The course will apply Buddhist perspectives to questions about the relations between humans and the rest of nature, to specific environmental problems, to the tradeoffs between human good and protection of other species, and to consumption and consumerism.	1500:TF EASTC 300
ENST 311-03	Practicum in Sustainability Instructor: Cornelius Leary Course Description: Cross-listed with SUST 301-01. Many communities are embracing sustainability as a goal of community development, giving weight to social equity, economic security and ecological integrity as they work to build the capacity of their residents to improve the quality of their lives. In this practicum course we will learn about different conceptions and models of sustainability and community development through case studies and a community-based research project with community partners in Carlisle. The research project will help students develop skills for building sustainable communities, working in teams and working with community partners. Lab hours will be used for in-class exercises, guest speakers, field trips to partner sites, and fieldwork for the research project. There may be one or two weekend field trips.	0830:WF KAUF 178 1330:F KAUF 178
ENST 311-04	Paleoclimatology of East Asia Instructor: B Ashton Nichols, Kelin Zhuang Course Description: Cross-listed with ERSC 311-01 and EASN 206-04. This introductory-level course focuses on Quaternary climate change in East Asia (China, Korea and Japan) with special emphasis on the past 20,000 years. It is designed to be accessible to both science and non-science students. There are not prerequisites. Topics covered will include 1) global and regional mechanisms of frequent Quaternary climate change; 2) climate change records retrieved from loess deposits, marine sediments, and caves; 3) sea level change and its influence on regional land-sea interaction; 4) Himalaya uplift and East Asian monsoon evolution in the Quaternary based on records from Ocean Drilling Program Leg 184 and cave sediments; 5) climate change related to sustainable development in East Asias large rivers and their deltas, including the Yellow and the Yangtze Rivers. For example, the course will examine the Three Gorges Dam and its impact on its watershed, estuary and human migration, as well as the Yellow Rivers dramatic channel shifts and the consequences for regional sustainability development.	0930:MWF ALTHSE 110
ENST 330-01	Env Disruption & Pol Analysis Instructor: Michael Heiman Course Description: This course examines the effect of environmental policies on environmental quality, human health and/or the use of natural resources at local, national and international levels. It considers the ways scientific knowledge, economic incentives and social values merge to determine how environmental problems and solutions are defined, how risks are assessed and how and why decisions are made. The course examines a range of tools, processes and patterns inherent in public policy responses and covers issues ranging from air and water pollution and toxic and solid waste management to energy use, climate change and biodiversity protection. A combination of lectures, case studies, laboratory exercises and field trips will be used. Three hours classroom and four hours laboratory a week. NOTE: This course fulfills the WR graduation requirement. Prerequisite: 131 and 132 or 130, or permission of instructor.	1030:TR KAUF 185 1330:T KAUF 185
ENST 335-01	Analysis/Mgmt of Aquatic Env Instructor: Candie Wilderman Course Description: An interdisciplinary study of the aquatic environment, with a focus on the groundwater and surface waters of the Chesapeake Bay drainage basin. This course provides a scientific introduction to the dynamics of rivers, lakes, wetlands, and estuarine systems as well as an appreciation of the complexity of the political and social issues involved in the sustainable use of these aquatic resources. Students conduct an original, cooperative, field-based research project on a local aquatic system that will involve extensive use of analytical laboratory and field equipment. Extended field trips to sample freshwater and estuarine systems and to observe existing resource management practices are conducted. Three hours classroom and four hours laboratory a week. Generally offered in the fall in a two-year alternating sequence with 340.	1030:MWF KAUF 116 1230:W KAUF 116
ENST 340-01	Anly & Mgmt of the Terrest Env Instructor: Brian Pedersen Course Description: Cross-listed with BIOL 320-01.	1030:MWF KAUF 113 1230:W KAUF 113
ENST 406-01	Understand Hum Place in Nature Instructor: Michael Beevers Course Description: This senior seminar course explores in-depth the complex interactions between humans and the natural world through multiple and overlapping disciplines and viewpoints. We will reflect on what we mean by the environment and nature, and explore how these powerful concepts and understandings have evolved and been given significance through science, religion, philosophy, history, ethics, culture, politics, race and gender. The course engages critically with topics that lie at the heart of current environmental debates, and provides for understanding on issues ranging from wilderness and species protection and rainforest destruction to social justice, policy, planning and the commodification of the natural world. This course is designed to help us (re)evaluate our place is nature, comprehend the search for sustainability and guide our future endeavors. It is required for environmental studies and science students and highly recommended for those in all disciplines with an interest in living sustainability.	1330:M KAUF 187
ENST 406-02	The Real Costs of Energy Instructor: Pamela Van Fleet Course Description: Students will thoroughly examine the pros and cons of conventional and alternative forms of energy related to electric power grids and transportation and their costs relative to environmental impacts, social implications, sustainability, economics, politics, and energy efficiency from the local to global level. They will analyze energy exploration and extraction, production, infrastructure development and consumptive use of energy and learn how to research as well as evaluate the true costs of different forms of energy.	1330:M KAUF 186
ENST 550-01	Independent Research Instructor: Cornelius Leary Course Description:	: