Environmental and Urban studies as a major is only open to students that entered before Fall 2022, students entering in the fall of 2022 should look to the Environmental Studies concentration.

 

Introduction to Environmental Studies

 

Professor: Beate Liepert Monique Segarra

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 100

CRN Number: 10191

Class cap: 25

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

Humans have profoundly altered the character of the Earth’s system since the advent of agriculture and urbanization 10,000 years ago. This course explores how natural and human systems are connected, and how global problems such as climate change, biodiversity loss, species extinction are linked with one another and with social problems such as financial instability, widening economic inequality, food insecurity, intensifying conflict, and public health. We review the empirical evidence of these “wicked problems”, and introduce core concepts and methodologies from natural, and social sciences perspectives, together with practical skills that are required to tackle these issues. We will contemplate alternative political and socioeconomic options (from indigenous knowledge to shared socioeconomic pathways) and will explore how impacts of these decisions on future natural and human systems can be assessed (foresight work). Issues will be considered at a variety of scales—from the level of individual responsibility to the local, regional, national, and global dimensions. The course includes a community service component, labs, and guest lectures.  It will be co-taught by instructors in the natural and social sciences.

 

Introduction to Community Sciences

 

Professor: Elias Dueker  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 115

CRN Number: 11121

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Hegeman 308

 

Distributional Area:

LS  Laboratory Science   

Using common sense and common science, students in this class will join the Bard Community Sciences Lab as it continues to work with communities in the Hudson Valley to ensure equitable access to clean air and clean water. This Lab Science class is appropriate for students of all academic backgrounds, and will focus on the interdisciplinary nature of complex local environmental issues. We will learn the sciences (including dominant Western science, Indigenous Sciences, and other ways of knowing) behind air and water quality issues, and the means by which we can use those sciences to take immediate action. This semester, priority projects include air quality monitoring inside and outside emergency and subsidized housing in Ulster County, tracking micropollutants (plastics, bacteria, forever chemicals) in drinking water sources, and integration and interpretation of environmental monitoring datasets to strengthen climate resilient decision making by regional municipal leaders. This course is deeply engaged with local community, so will involve some out-of-class meetings with community leaders and other community scientists addressing air and water quality issues.

 

Planetary Consequences of Human Diet

 

Professor: Gidon Eshel  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 205 A

CRN Number: 10193

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Hegeman 106

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

 

“Can one produce local, organic food with relative environmental impunity?”  Life cycle analyses show that  on a national average level transportation is relatively unimportant in the overall environmental footprint of food production. While this may cast serious doubt on the "local food" notion, the picture may change significantly when organic food production is addressed because of the absence of environmentally adverse agrochemicals from the organic life cycle. In the northeast, vegetable production must be housed in environmentally demanding greenhouses in the winter months. In this course, we strive to  answer the question above quantitatively, using an on-campus innovatively designed greenhouse. This is a practicum course, with out of class and weekend participation, which emulates (in miniature) a commercial setting. Preference will be given to juniors and seniors from all fields of study with scientific and math skills in manipulating numbers, with no more than addition and multiplication of numbers.

 

Planetary Consequences of Human Diet

 

Professor: Gidon Eshel  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 205 B

CRN Number: 11073

Class cap: 20

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 111

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

 

“Can one produce local, organic food with relative environmental impunity?”  Life cycle analyses show that  on a national average level transportation is relatively unimportant in the overall environmental footprint of food production. While this may cast serious doubt on the "local food" notion, the picture may change significantly when organic food production is addressed because of the absence of environmentally adverse agrochemicals from the organic life cycle. In the northeast, vegetable production must be housed in environmentally demanding greenhouses in the winter months. In this course, we strive to  answer the question above quantitatively, using an on-campus innovatively designed greenhouse. This is a practicum course, with out of class and weekend participation, which emulates (in miniature) a commercial setting. Preference will be given to juniors and seniors from all fields of study with scientific and math skills in manipulating numbers, with no more than addition and multiplication of numbers.

 

Data Analytics for Contextualizing Place and Environmental Change

 

Professor: Jordan Ayala  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 210

CRN Number: 10194

Class cap: 18

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 107

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

Crosslists: Architecture; Human Rights

In this course, we will apply data analytics — the process of analyzing, revealing, interpreting and visualizing information such as location, distance, and spatial interaction — to generate questions about and better understand our changing built and natural environments. Data analytics provides us with the means to obtain, analyze, and communicate insights from data, both quantitative and qualitative, that are relevant in areas such as environmental studies and social science inquiry. Using real-world data, we will explore and predict the dynamics of topics like land use change, the housing crisis in the United States, the development of the built environment and human-environment interactions, migration and displacement, and human-accelerated environmental change. You will be introduced to spatial data science, data visualization, and mapping through programming in R. In addition to engaging with readings, lab projects, data collection, field work, and other assignments, you will undertake research leading to an individual course project. This course will fulfill the EUS practicum requirement. Prerequisites: CMSC 121 Introduction to Data Analytics and R Programming, or SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods, or ES/EUS 321 Geographic Information Systems, or ECON 229 Introduction to Econometics or with permission of the instructor.

 

Sustainable Development and Social Enterprise

 

Professor: Eban Goodstein  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 310

CRN Number: 10322

Class cap: 25

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tues  Thurs     8:30 AM - 9:50 AM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

One way to achieve the UN SDGs is through social enterprise: creating mission-drive businesses and non-profit organizations. This cross-institution course provides a critical introduction to the SDGs, and the forces behind global change. Students will work with and learn from other classes in the global OSUN network, while conducting and sharing research projects on local enterprise solutions to issues like energy, food, affordable housing, immigration, or gender equity.

 

Climate and Agroecology

 

Professor: Jennifer Phillips  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 311

CRN Number: 10323

Class cap: 5

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM – 3:00 PM Albee 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

In this course we will examine the linkages between agroecosystems and the climate system. We begin by looking at projections for climate change impacts on crop production, with a focus on crop simulation models, their applications and limitations. We then look at expectations for the influence of elevated CO 2 on yield, and controversies involved. We then turn to a discussion of the role that agriculture can play in climate change mitigation, given the large greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming systems. This takes us to an in-depth discussion of soil carbon management, and trade-offs between emissions from various reductions strategies. Finally, we will investigate the various strategies being put forth regarding climate change adaptation, including the role of genetically modified crops, biodiversity, and system resilience, with major implications for future food production. This is a graduate course offered to a limited number of undergraduates. Interested students should contact Jennifer Phillips.

 

Leading Change for Sustainability

 

Professor: Aurora Winslade

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 327

CRN Number: 10324

Class cap: 25

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Mon  10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204

  Wed 10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 100

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

This is a collaborative, cross-institution course in leading change in organizations where student teams develop and advance proposals for organizational innovation within the university. Examples might include carbon footprint analysis, expansion of local food offerings, improved daycare or transportation for students and workers, or improved recycling system. Bard students will work with classes from Palestine, Kyrgyzstan, Bangladesh and Lithuania through a mixture of synchronous on-line learning, and in-person labs. The course will culminate in a “shark tank for sustainability” between teams from the different universities. Topics include understanding why change fails more often than it succeeds, the key factors that drive successful organizational change, the role of the change facilitator, and tools for designing and facilitating processes that bring forth the group intelligence.

 

Enviornmental Policy II

 

Professor: Monique Segarra  

 

Course Number: ES/EUS 406

CRN Number: 10325

Class cap: 4

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Albee 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

 

This course analyzes the dynamic and complex relationship among various factors—legal, political, cultural, and ethical—that influence the environmental policy-making process. It uses a case-study approach to introduce students to the core concepts of environmental policy making and environmental policy cycles that include defining the environmental problem, setting the environmental agenda, and presenting and implementing policy solutions. Students examine state and social responses to new and ongoing environmental problems. In the United States context, this includes taking into account the nature of state-federal relationships in developing and applying the environmental law, as well as the evolving role of technology, tensions between private and public interests, and equity considerations. In addition to U.S. environmental policy, the course explores international environmental regime development, conflict resolution, and transboundary citizen networks that influence global environmental decision making. Open to moderated students. Prerequisite: Environmental Policy I

 

Cross-listed Courses:

 

Divided Cities

 

Course Number: ANTH 219

CRN Number: 10339

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jeff Jurgens

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Archaeology of African American Farms, Yards, and Gardens

 

Course Number: ANTH 290

CRN Number: 10342

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Christopher Lindner

 

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Hegeman 201

    Fri   1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Hegeman 201

 

Distributional Area:

LS  Laboratory Science   

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Historical Studies

 

Doing Ethnography

 

Course Number: ANTH 324

CRN Number: 10344

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Maria Sonevytsky

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights

 

Political Ecology

 

Course Number: ANTH 349

CRN Number: 10345

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Yuka Suzuki

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     9:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 308

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society

 

Architecture as Media: Spatial Subjects

 

Course Number: ARCH 111 MC

CRN Number: 10544

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Michael Cohen

 

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Achebe Flex Space

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Architecture as Translation: At Scale

 

Course Number: ARCH 211

CRN Number: 10546

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Betsy Clifton

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

 

 

  Wed     1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Urbanization and Climate Change, A Counter-Narrative

 

Course Number: ARCH 213

CRN Number: 10554

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Ross Adams

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Achebe Flex Space

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Planetary Studio: Radical Ruralism

 

Course Number: ARCH 221

CRN Number: 10555

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Stephanie Lee

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Achebe Flex Space

   Thurs    1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Achebe Flex Space

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Architecture as Research: More-than-Human Architecture

 

Course Number: ARCH 311

CRN Number: 10559

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Ivan Lopez Munuera

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Achebe Flex Space

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Drawing II: Sustainable Drawing Practices

 

Professor: Lisa Sanditz  

 

Course Number: ART 207 LS

CRN Number: 10607

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts 140

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Cross-listings: Environmental Studies; Environmental and Urban Studies

 

Modern Architecture in the Age of Colonialism

 

Course Number: ARTH 125

CRN Number: 10087

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Olga Touloumi

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 204

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists:

Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Introduction to American Studies

 

Course Number: AS 101

CRN Number: 10179

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Peter L'Official

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin 202

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Literature

 

Ecology and Evolution

 

Course Number: BIO 202

CRN Number: 10007

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Cathy Collins

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   8:30 AM - 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 114/115

 

Distributional Area:

LS  Laboratory Science   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Biostatistics

 

Course Number: BIO 244

CRN Number: 10009

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Cathy Collins

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 114/115

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global Public Health; Mathematics

 

Game Theory

 

Course Number: ECON 203

CRN Number: 10185

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Aniruddha Mitra

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 204

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

Crosslists:

Economics & Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies; Politics

 

Environmental Economics

 

Course Number: ECON 242

CRN Number: 10189

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Gautam Sethi

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Hegeman 308

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

The Right to Employment

 

Course Number: ECON 227

CRN Number: 10678

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor: Kyle Mohr  

 

 

 

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Hegeman 204

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Sociology

 

Developing Cities

 

Course Number: ECON 319

CRN Number: 10327

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Sanjay DeSilva

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 5:50 PM Hegeman 102

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies

 

Cinema and the City: NY and LA

 

Professor: Joshua Glick  

 

Course Number: FILM 212

CRN Number: 10467

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Avery Film Center 217

 

Screening:

Mon       7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Avery Film Center 117

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   

 

Crosslists: Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Ecocinema

 

Professor: Masha Shpolberg  

 

Course Number: FILM 370

CRN Number: 10466

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       5:00 PM - 7:00 PM  Preston 110 (Screening)

 Tue   Thurs    1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Avery Film Center 338

 

Distributional Area:

AA  Analysis of Art   D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Re-Thinking Silicon Valley

 

Course Number: HIST 382

CRN Number: 10316

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth

 

Schedule/Location:

   Thurs    12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

 

Distributional Area:

HA  Historical Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Human Rights

 

A Human Right to Homes or Homelessness

 

Course Number: HR 278

CRN Number: 10616

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Kwame Holmes

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Reem Kayden Center 200

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Water-Bodies: Confluences, Deltas, Gulfs

 

Course Number: HR 353

CRN Number: 10303

Class cap: 7

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Juliana Steiner

 

Schedule/Location:

  Wed       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 302

 

Distributional Area:

MBV  Meaning, Being, Value  D+J Difference and Justice

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

The Land of Disasters: A Cultural History of Catastrophic 'Japan'

 

Professor: Chiara Pavone  

 

Course Number: LIT 267

CRN Number: 10362

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon  Wed     11:50 AM - 1:10 PM Olin Languages Center 115

 

Distributional Area:

FL  Foreign Languages and Lit   

 

Crosslists: Asian Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Climate Fiction

 

Course Number: LIT 3251

CRN Number: 10395

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Daniel Williams

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin Languages Center 206

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Race and Real Estate

 

Course Number: LIT 328

CRN Number: 10387

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Peter L'Official

 

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 304

 

Distributional Area:

LA  Literary Analysis in English   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

Introduction to Meteorology

 

Professor: Beate Liepert  

 

Course Number: PHYS 112

CRN Number: 11032

Class cap: 16

Credits: 4

 

Schedule/Location:

  Tues  Thurs     5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Reem Kayden Center 102

 

Distributional Area:

MC  Mathematics and Computing   

 

Crosslists: Environmental and Urban Studies; Environmental Studies

 

American Anthropocenes and the Politics of Nature

 

Course Number: PS 286

CRN Number: 10275

Class cap: 22

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Bill Dixon

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 205

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Philosophy; Science, Technology, Society

 

Tricks of the Trade: Qualitative Research Practicum

 

Course Number: SOC 333

CRN Number: 10266

Class cap: 12

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Jomaira Salas Pujols

 

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 309

 

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   

 

Crosslists:

American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights

 

Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness

 

Course Number: WRIT 345

CRN Number: 10410

Class cap: 15

Credits: 4

 

Professor:

Benjamin Hale

 

Schedule/Location:

  Thurs     3:10 PM - 5:30 PM Olin 303

 

Distributional Area:

PA  Practicing Arts   

 

Crosslists:

Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights