ENVS 305: Environmental Impact Assessment (Rev. C2)

Environmental Studies 305: Environmental Impact Assessment, a three-credit, senior-level course, is designed to introduce you to a systematic process for predicting and evaluating the significant environmental consequences of a proposed action or undertaking.

ENVS 343/GLST 343: Global Environmental Change (Rev. C1/C1)

This course is designed to assist you in framing global environmental change issues as socioecological and inherently political. In addition to becoming familiar with examples of critical global socioecological analyses, you will be asked to demonstrate how to apply an integrated systems, global studies, and political ecology analysis to highlight relationships between the local, regional, and global dimensions of environmental change, identify how human societies make environments and environments influence humanity over time, and critically reflect on how relations of power, production, and reproduction work in association with the web of life. While you are doing this, you will also have opportunities to learn how you learn, and in so doing, tailor this course to fit your interests and passions.

ENVS 461: “Hatchet and Seed” – Tools of Political Ecology (Rev. C2)

Welcome to Environmental Studies 461: “Hatchet and Seed” – Tools of Political Ecology. This course introduces you to key concepts, debates, and analytical tools in political ecology. We begin from the premise that all environmental “problems” are political: how they unfold, how they affect people, and the stories we tell about them are all a product of contestation and struggle. In this course, you will examine some of these contestations, their effects, and the responses to them..