Environment & the World
Description
This Learning Community focuses on the world's natural environments and how they shape and are shaped by society, politics, culture, and economics. Students in the community will develop their abilities to analyze, explain, and think philosophically about interactions between human activities and natural processes in different places, emphasizing linkages between global and local systems. The Environment and the World LC will engage with such questions as the following:
• On a planet covered by water, why is it in such short supply?
• Does the way we eat have anything to do with climate change?
• What do cities have to do with air pollution in rural places?
• How does culture affect resource use and how does resource use affect culture?
• What is ecological about politics and what is political about ecology?
• Can suburbs be “green” (environmentally sustainable)?
• Does environmental change in China or Africa matter to the United States?
• Is nature to blame for the world economic crisis?
• Do wealthy countries of the world “owe” poor countries for environmental destruction?
For which students?
This LC is especially appropriate for students who are considering the following majors: Anthropology, Earth Science, Economics, Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Geography, Geology, Global Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology.
Schedule of courses
This Learning Community takes the following classes (click here for detailed schedule):
Fall
XIDS 2002 Environment and the World
ENGL 1101 Basic Composition I
POLS 1101 American Government
COMM 1110 Public Speaking
GEOG 1112 Weather and Climate
GEOG 1112L Weather and Climate Lab
Spring
ENGL 1102 Basic Composition II
GEOG 1113 Landform Geography
GEOG 1113 Landform Geography Lab
PHIL 2100/2120 Philosophy
GEOG 1013 World Geography
MATH 1111 College Algebra
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