ENVS

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ENVS

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2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

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ENVS

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Edition

2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

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ENVS

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course

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2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

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ENVS

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course

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2026

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catalog.rhodes.edu

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ENVS

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course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course introduces students to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) through the analysis of spatial data. Students use deductive reasoning and logic to interpret data, draw conclusions based on numerical and spatial data, learn spatial statistics, and examine the different ways to represent data. Students also learn to construct, run and apply spatial models. An emphasis is made on the application of GIS to real-world situations. Cross-listed with URBN 225

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ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Alias

URBN 225

Credits: If you are interested in Environmental Humanities, this course invites a deeper dive into inter-disciplinary thinking with water. The human body is mostly water. The planet is mostly water. If water were our teacher, what might we learn? This course recenters attentions around our shared lifeblood to expand STEM frameworks through STREAM+ (rhetoric-reading+arts) by inviting collective thinking and engaging interdisciplinary co-teachers across campus. The classifications of “humanities,” “arts,” and “sciences” were not separated from the beginning of humanity, so how might we renew and reintegrate liquid ways of knowing? Special attention will be given to our Mississippi River Watershed that gathers waters across many states and provinces to nourish our home of Memphis. Water is strong enough to wear down stone, to quietly replenish earth, even to save someone from dying of thirst. What might happen if we reconnect with our blue natures?

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: This course is taught at the Semester in Environmental Sciences (SES) Program at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. During the first four weeks of the program, all students engage in depth with the history and fundamentals of ecosystem science. Using local terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on Cape Cod as model systems, students will compare and contrast ecosystem functions through intensive fieldwork and associated laboratory training at multiple sites, including grasslands, coastal forests, freshwater ponds, and estuaries. Requires admission to the Semester in Environmental Science at Woods Hole Marine Biology Lab

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Subject

ENVS

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.rhodes.edu

Credits: By the end of this immersive 3-week course, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the major processes shaping the world’s oceans and the methodological approaches used to study them. Students will be able to: • Interpret physical, chemical, biological, and geological datasets to understand ocean structure, circulation, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem dynamics. • Explain the major components of ocean systems, including stratification, circulation, carbon cycling, primary and secondary production, food webs, microbial processes, and ocean-climate interactions. • Process and analyze real shipboard and laboratory samples, integrating observations into a coherent scientific narrative. • Use core field, laboratory, and analytical techniques in oceanography, including CTD profiling, water sampling, plankton collection, microscopy, PCR, and sequencing. • Interpret environmental drivers and anthropogenic impacts such as climate change, ocean acidification, plastic pollution, and shifting species ranges. • Present an independent research case study linked to a topic discussed in the class and/or labs. Requires admission to the Semester in Environmental Science at Woods Hole Marine Biology Lab

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

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Subject

ENVS

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: The purpose of this course is to introduce you to the fascinating environments and societies of Uzbekistan, and Central Asia more broadly, a part of the world that people in the US often know nothing about except that these are the “stans.” We will probe human-environment interactions around agriculture, irrigation and water management, infrastructure development, and global trade through travel through Uzbekistan on the Silk Roads - both past and present - including Tashkent (the current capital), Samarkand, Bukhara, Khiva, and the Republic of Karakalpakstan, home to the Amu Daryo delta and the Aral Sea. The major assignment for this class is a non-paper project. You will begin collecting questions, data, and sources during our travel to Uzbekistan, and complete your work after returning to the US. This program is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Rhodes College (USA), "Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers" National Research University [TIIAME-NRU], and Institute of Agriculture and Agrotechnologies of Karakalpakstan [IAAK]. You will be learning from experts trained in many areas including geography, hydrology, biology, economics, and history. While some of our learning will take place in the classroom, much will take place on foot, on minibuses, and on trains.

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026-2027

Source

www.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

ENVS

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: Environmental justice (EJ) is a growing and evolving area of both activism and scholarly inquiry, centered on the premise that we have only one earth, and that all people (and other species) are indispensable in achieving an equitable, healthy and vibrant world for ours and future generations. The EJ movement did not spring up suddenly in the 1980s but has deep historical antecedents in this country and around the world. In this class, we will explore the threads that coalesced in the EJ movement, the different axes of identity that shape human-environment interactions, and the places in which environmental (in)justices occur, from home to work to the streets to prisons. Students will research EJ issues in the mid-South and share their work through entries in the EJ Atlas and a creative project.

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

4

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

ENVS

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Credits: Qualified students may engage in environment-related creative activity under a faculty member’s supervision. A student may use four credits of creative activity to satisfy one of the elective requirements in Environmental Studies. Students may earn a maximum of four credits for ENVS453. Interested students should consult the appropriate ENVS faculty member. With approval of the director of the Environmental Studies and Sciences program, this course may fulfill the Environmental Experience required for Environmental Studies major and minor. Instructor permission is required to register in this course.

Subject

ENVS

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

4

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

ENVS

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course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu

Term:

Subject

ENVS

Type

course

Edition

2026

Source

catalog.rhodes.edu