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ENV/URST 201 Community and Urban Resilience

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Urbanization and globalization, climate change, the persistence and growth of social inequities, and accelerated resource degradation and depletion are not merely technical problems, but social problems. This course is designed for students in environmental studies, urban studies, sociology and/or cognate fields to understand and apply con- cepts of resilience from sociology and geography to complex socio-ecological problems facing communities and urban places. The aim of this course is to introduce students to empirical, theoretical, and imaginative reflection on the possibilities of “resilience” for addressing climatological, ecological, economic, and social crises. Together, we will cover such key questions as: What is resilience? What role have various urban processes, such as urban renewal, segregation, or gentrification, had on the production or dismantling of resilience? Why are social science perspec- tives essential for understanding and addressing ecological change? How do social conditions affect urban and rural vulnerability to disturbances, disasters and changing climate regimes? What elements of the social fabric hold communities together through turbulent times? How can cities build capacity to withstand disruptions and shocks associated with climate change, global pandemics, interruptions in global trade and food supply, sharp increases in the cost of energy, and environmental degradation? What initiatives or interventions can nurture the development of alternative economic and social spaces that support the emergence of life-sustaining structures and practices? (Mauer, Kosta, offered annually.) ENV 202 Environmental Humanities This course emphasizes the role of the humanities in imagining a just and sus- tainable planet. In particular, it will explore how a diverse array of literature and art – including the novel, short story, poem, play, podcast, film and television – can help us understand issues of immediate significance, like population growth, climate change and species extinction. Immersion in this literature and art, and the issues with which they are in conversation, promises to provide tools for thinking through questions we will encounter in our future aca- demic work and civic engagement and beyond. For example, as college-educated citizens endowed with intellec- tual wherewithal, what is our responsibility during a time of ecological crisis? How must we act in lived reality, and what will a specific blueprint for such action look like? (Murphy, offered annually)

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ASN/ENV 215 Environmental Development in East Asia

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ENV 207 Environmental Statistics (also GEO 207)

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where they go when you throw them ‘away’? Each night, trucks bring tons of New York City waste to processing and storage facilities near Geneva. Meanwhile, boatloads of computers ‘recycled’ in North America sail for Asia and Africa to be dismantled in dangerous conditions so that small amounts of valuable metals may be recovered. This course will introduce students to the global geography of garbage (garbography?) with a particular focus on envi- ronmental, human health, and human rights implications. (Magee) ENV 205 Intro to Environmental Law Since the 1970s, environmental law in the United States has become increas- ingly integrated into natural resource management, municipal land use decisions and corporate development strat- egies. This course will provide students with an overview of major federal environmental laws including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, CERCLA (Superfund Act) and the National Environmental Policy Act. In addition, we will cover some basics of property law and the Administrative Procedure Act, which provide the foundation for environmental law theory and enforcement. The course would be a good course for students considering a legal career, a career in environmental studies, municipal planning or land use, or just a general interest in law. (Kinne) ENV 207 Environmental Statistics Investigation design and statistical analysis of data are intimately linked. This course will explore these facets of the scientific process iteratively. We will examine probability and sampling, study and data integrity, hypothesis generation and testing, and data analysis using descriptive statistics, t-tests, chi-squared applications, one-and two-way analysis of variance, correlation, time series analysis and linear regres- sion. We will also introduce multivariate methods of data structure exploration. Students will practice concepts by designing investigations in the realms of Earth and environmental science, gathering and/or assembling data form other sources and analyzing it using the R statistical computing environment. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in the Natural Sciences. Offered annually. ENV 213 Poverty and Place in Rural America This course centers on the study of place-based poverty in the United States with a focus on rural areas. The course examines the ways in which social and economic rewards are geo- graphically and racially stratified, asking “Who gets what, where and why?” This course takes an interdisciplinary HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 215 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 99

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ment, creates resilient teams and communities, enables the sustainable use of natural resources, and reduces violence. Navigating Conflict will begin with an analysis of the structures, assumptions, and values that inform our understanding of conflict and the role conflict plays in our lives, both in “mainstream” U.S. culture as well as in other contexts such as Chinese and Native American culture. The course will then delve deeper into theories and techniques of mediation and facilitation and their utilization across cultures and across the conflict spectrum: from interpersonal conflict to intra- and inter-group conflict to complex natural resource conflicts. Students will practice self-monitoring, attending to and responding to the needs of people in conflict. Techniques will include reflective listening/feedback loops, the use of questions and summaries and how data and information support parties as they navigate conflict. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to interrogate the role of the mediator/facili- tator with regards to impartiality, party empowerment, social justice and equity. (Kinne, offered occasionally) ENV 237 Environmental Justice in Indian Country American Indians have since ‘time immemorial’ had an immedi- ate relationship to the natural world and their physical surroundings. Many native peoples are rooted to place. This course explores American Indian relationships to nature and eco- political responses to contemporary environmental issues. Beginning with the history of American Indian political relationships with the U. S. federal government, we will consider the various and complex ways in which this history has affected and continues to affect American Indian ecology, agricultural land use, natural resource conservation, urban pollution, and modern environmental move- ments. Topics may include: resource use; land claims; sacred and ecologically unique places; hunting and fishing rights; food and agriculture; and traditional ecological knowledge. Students in this course will be introduced to the writings and ideas of Indigenous scholars and activists such as Vine Deloria, Jr. (Mauer, offered annually).

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and their applications. The goal of the course is to broaden a student’s understanding of remote sensing and use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to perform and understand image analysis methodologies. Introductions to the electromagnetic spectrum, energy sources, radiation principles, aerial cameras, and electronic imaging provide the student with a fundamental scientific understanding of remote sensing. This understanding is coupled with an exposure to the techniques of extracting relevant information from digital imagery using GIS software. In summary, this course presents an overview of the various aerial and space-based remote sensing platforms and their char- acteristics, with a view toward future systems and capabilities. Prerequisites include PHYS 150, or PHYS 240, or CPSC 124, or any GEO 18x course, or any ENV -lXX course, or permission of the instructor. (Dumitriu/Halfman, spring semester). HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 216 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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have been used to inform and support decision making in the management of watersheds and parks, in the design of emergency evacuation plans, among others. Advanced GIS will cover a wide range of modeling applications using rasters, including watershed drainage analysis, ecological corridors and least cost path analysis. Students will also be introduced to analytical tools such as spatial data interpolation techniques, point pattern and density analysis, and error assessment. Hands-on experience will be provided through weekly labs and final project. (Brubaker, of- fered occasionally)

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lands (state and federal), private lands, parks, monuments and roadless areas, tribal lands, and laws governing water, forests, minerals, rangelands, wildlife, and other environmental resources. After completing this course, students will have a well-developed sense for the complexity of the laws that govern our natural resources, and an understanding of the respective roles or state and federal governments, agencies and courts in managing natural resources. They will be able to make a well-researched and well-articulated legal argument in support of or against an existing or proposed law that governs (or may govern) one or more natural resources in the United States. In the process, stu- dents will learn how to do legal research, how to form a legal argument, and how to write and speak persuasively. (Kinne, offered alternate years) ENV 325 Environmental Leadership As citizens of the developed world we are relatively disconnected from the nat- ural environment. Therefore, the environmental impacts of our daily actions are often unseen, and we find ourselves on a collision course with environmental degradation and global climate change. It is within this context that ad- dressing environmental issues requires leadership. This course will explore the lives and perspectives of leaders at all levels, from those involved in community-based initiatives, to those working in national and international contexts. We will analyze and apply a variety of leadership models that can be used to engage across difference, identify critical needs, build coalitions, manage uncertainty, and collaborate with stakeholders. The emergence and nature of environmental leadership will be examined in settings ranging from rural America, to the European Union, to urban China, to indigenous populations in developing countries. Ultimately, students will come to understand the opportu- nities they have in terms of leadership, both now and in the future. (Makinster, offered occasionally) ENV 345 Decolonial Environmentalisms Is social justice necessary for environmental sustainability, or does it distract from solving environmental problems? The ‘decolonial’ of this course title serves as an umbrella term for the pursuit of justice shared by all groups marginalized by white heteropatriarchy, because of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, class, and non-humanity. The intersectionality of ‘decolonial’ is underscored by the plurality of the course title’s second term, ‘environmentalisms.’ Over the course of the semester we will explore cutting-edge critical theory scholarship in the ever-burgeoning field of environmental humanities, and how this intersectional, decolonial scholarship contributes to a broad societal and scholarly conversation about the fate of the planet. Putting disparate lenses in conversation, Decolonial Environmentalisms demonstrates that a holistic conception of justice is crucial for producing ecological sustainability. Several out-of-class events related to these course themes are being offered on campus during the semester; students will be required to attend one of their choosing. Prerequisite: ENV 202, or by permission of the instructor. (Murphy, offered occasionally) ENV 360 Environmental Afrofuturism Afrofuturism provides a framework for understanding the legacies of colonial- ism, and thereby for critiquing current systems and gesturing toward alternative futures. Recognizing that the same structure of violence produces both racial inequality and environmental injustice, ‘Environmental Afrofuturism’ looks at speculative environmental art about Africa and the black diaspora to critique the connected effects of colonialism and environmental extractivism, and to imagine a freer expression of black subjectivity and greater justice for the earth. Such art includes literary science fiction, film and other visual art forms as well as popular music. In addition to the flourishing universe of Afrofuturist art, students in this course will investigate Afrofuturist-engaged environmental humanities scholarship. Although race is the primary lens through which we will consider socio-technological history, HWS.EDU/CATALOGUE 217 2023 - 2024 CATALOGUE

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ENV 402/ARCH 351 Sustainable Community Development Methods

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INRL/POL 140 Introduction to Comparative World Politics

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multidisciplinary project or seminar. It enables a group of ES seniors to investigate an interdisciplinary topic of envi- ronmental interest with a focus on the local HWS and Geneva community. The topic is selected at the beginning of the semester and students work both independently and in groups toward the completion of an overall class goal. Completion of the group senior integrative experience requires preparation of a substantial individual paper demon- strating the student’s project focus as well as the integration of their work with the others within the class, and a public (group or individual) presentation at a brown bag seminar. (Staff, offered annually) ENV 401 Individual Senior Integrative Experience The senior integrative experience (SIE) involves a multidisciplinary project or seminar, independent study, or an off-campus internship. Ideally an internship should have both an aca- demic and an experiential component. Students must register for ENV 300 during their senior year even if they are fulfilling this requirement by completing an independent study. A student should discuss the SIE project with their advisor, as well as with the faculty member supervising the work if other than the student’s advisor. Completion of the senior integrative experience requires preparation of a substantial paper demonstrating integration of all three perspectives of study, and a public presentation at a brown bag seminar. (Staff, offered each semester)

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