|
91824 |
EUS 101 Introduction to EnvironMENTAL and Urban Study |
Kris Feder |
. T . Th . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 301 |
SSCI |
Humans have
profoundly altered the character of Earth’s biosphere since the advent of
agriculture and urbanization 10,000 years ago. This course explores how global
problems such as climate disruption, species extinction, and depletion of
fossil soils, fuels, and waters are interlinked with one another but also with
social problems such as financial instability, widening economic inequality,
food insecurity, intensifying conflict and militarization, and declining public
health. We review the empirical evidence of major environmental problems; consider
which academic disciplines and practical skills are required to tackle them;
and contemplate alternative political options open to governments and
communities. Issues will be considered
at a variety of scales—from the level of individual responsibility to the
local, regional, national, and global dimensions. EUS 101 and 102 are the
foundational courses of the EUS program and are required for moderation. No
prerequisite. Class size: 22
|
91665 |
EUS 102 Introduction to EnvironMENTAL and Urban Science |
Eli Dueker |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI |
This course
offers an integrated exploration of the science underlying environmental
issues. The primary objective is to provide students with a systems-oriented
understanding of biological, chemical,
physical, and geological processes that
affect earth, air, water, and life. Students will gain a solid
understanding of the fundamental scientific
principles governing environmental systems including the cycling of matter and
the flow of energy. By practicing the application of these scientific concepts,
students will develop their ability to predict potential outcomes of complex
environmental issues. Regional examples of elemental cycling, hydrology,
ecology, climate change, and food systems will be used
to teach and practice concepts, including through field trips to local
environmental points of interest. Class size: 22
|
91825 |
EUS 205 Planetary ConseqUENCES OF Food ProductION |
Gidon Eshel |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 204 |
SCI |
While
the course title summarizes the broad background in which the course is
anchored, the course focus is more specific. It looks to answer the question, “Can one produce local, organic food with relative
environmental impunity?” Life cycle analyses repeatedly show that,
on a national average level, transportation is relatively unimportant in
food production’s overall environmental footprint. While this may
cast serious doubts on the "local food" notion, the picture may
change dramatically when organic food production is addressed, because of
the absence of environmentally adverse agrochemicals from the organic
life cycle. In the northeast, it's not clear, because for roughly half
the year vegetable production must be housed in notoriously environmentally
heavy greenhouses. In this course, we strive to rigorously and
meticulously answer quantitatively the above question, using an on-campus
innovatively designed greenhouse. This is a very hands-on course, with
much off hours and weekend participation, which emulates (is a model
miniature of) a commercial setting. The course is open to juniors and
seniors from all fields of study, but scientific and math inclination is
definitely needed. In particular, comfort with manipulating long lists of
numbers, with no more than addition and multiplication of numbers, but
lots of both, is a must.
Class size: 22
|
91656 |
ECON / EUS 206 Economics From the Ground Up |
Kris Feder |
. . W . F |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 201 |
SSCI |
Cross-listed: Environmental &
Urban Studies Economics is the study of constrained choice.
Most introductory textbooks begin by characterizing the processes and outcomes
of complex markets involving exchanges of goods and money among millions of
“agents” (households and firms), which are implicitly assumed to obey established
social conventions and governmental directives. This course develops economic
principles from the ground up through successive extensions of a simple
intuitive model. We first explore the economizing behavior of a single
individual, acting alone, who struggles to survive by employing available
resources to produce food and shelter. From this “Robinson Crusoe” model we
derive basic concepts such as income, wealth, and utility; opportunity cost;
labor and wages; capital and interest; land and rent; risk, profit and loss;
competition; and, uniting them all, the equimarginal
principle of optimization. We then introduce cooperation and exchange among
persons in order to analyze markets, prices, property, externalities, public
goods, money and credit, and the economic functions of government. Throughout,
the human economy is understood as embedded in local and global ecosystems.
Thought experiments are supplemented with an historical survey of actual
economies, from hunter-gatherer societies to agricultural subsistence economies
to contemporary industrial systems. Prerequisite: ECON 100 or permission of
instructor. Competence in high-school algebra and pre-calculus is important. Class
size: 22
|
92006 |
EUS 210 THE GLOBAL FUTURE OF FOOD |
Michael Specter |
. . . . F |
9:30 am – 12:30 pm |
RKC 102 |
SSCI |
Few issues
cause more strident debate than those involving the way we grow
our food. In the United States, calories are plentiful and cheap–
but with twin epidemics of obesity and diabetes those calories are killing
us. In many parts of the developing world, the opposite is true: more
than a billion people go to bed hungry every night. And the gap is growing. How
do we address these very different problems? Organic food has become
something akin to a religion in many places, but by 2050, this planet will need
to support three billion more people than it does today. That means producing,
in the next thirty or so years, as much food as we have grown so far
in all of human history. Is there any way to do that while shunning the use of
sophisticated scientific tools – particularly genetically modified food?
This course will examine one of our most fundamental problems: is it possible
to overhaul our badly broken system of industrial agriculture, and feed the
Earth’s rapidly growing population, while also growing safe, plentiful and
nutritious food? Class size: 22
|
91672 |
EUS 214 ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING LAB: Water Quality on the Saw
Kill |
Eli Dueker |
. . . Th . |
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm |
RKC 114 |
SCI |
(2
credits) Environmental monitoring can be used
as a powerful tool by scientists, policy makers, resource managers and
community advocates to detect and assess anthropogenic influence on the natural
environment. To get hands-on experience
with the nuts and bolts of monitoring water quality in the Hudson River
Estuary, students will plan and implement a sampling program on the Saw Kill to
be integrated into NYC Riverkeeper’s tributary
monitoring program. In addition to participating in building an environmental
monitoring program from the ground up, students will become proficient in field
and lab methods for monitoring basic water quality, including biological,
chemical and physical parameters. Students will also become familiar with water
quality governmental regulations and policy concerns on the Hudson River.
Prerequisites: EUS 102, BIO 202, or
permission of instructor. Class size: 15
|
91518 |
EUS 225 North and South |
Susan Rogers |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 308 |
SSCI/DIFF |
North and
South is an interdisciplinary course about the polar regions.
We will read classic narratives of polar exploration, including
Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey in the
World, Shackleton's Endurance and Nansen's North.
Students will become familiar with polar geography, the history of exploration
and current environmental issues facing these regions. Our work will be
supplemented with paintings, photography, poems and short stories. Class
will involve equal parts reading and writing as well as independent research on
the Arctic and Antarctic. Following in the tradition of polar expeditions, all
students will be required to memorize several poems and to present their
research (to entertain us through the dark of a polar winter). Class size: 16
|
91826 |
EUS 305 EUS Practicum |
Thomas O'Dowd |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 300 |
SSCI |
Environmental
Education is more than summer camp. When it is done right, EE is effective
communication about environmental problems and solutions that utilizes
cognitive psychology, the latest in natural sciences, and social science
research methods to plan, evaluate and constantly improve EE programming. EE is
not only about nature anymore, but it is also about sustainability (people,
places, and planet), and it takes place in cities, suburbs, small towns,
and wilderness. This course will cover the basics of planning, implementing,
and evaluating EE programs, and will include observations of (and real-world
practice with) several urban and rural EE programs along the Hudson River. Class
size: 15
|
92009 |
EUS 311
CLIMATE AND AGROECOLOGY |
Jennifer
Phillips |
M
. W . . |
1:30 pm
– 3:30 pm |
OLIN 302 |
|
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 CO2 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 Eban
Goodstein.
|
92010 |
EUS 313 CLIMATE SCIENCE |
Sandra
Penny |
. T . Th . |
2:30 pm
– 4:30 pm |
OLIN 302 |
|
This course
begins with studies of Earth’s climate system and how it works across a range
of scales of time and space. These include investigations of the circulations
of the ocean and atmosphere and their dynamic interactions such as El
Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO), monsoons, and North Atlantic Oscillation
(NAO); carbon and other biogeochemical cycles; radiation balance, the
greenhouse effect, and other factors that force climate to change; and
feedbacks in the climate system. Students further explore past climates and how
they give us insight into our present predicament.
Learning Outcomes:
This is a graduate course offered to a
limited number of undergraduates.
Interested students should contact Eban
Goodstein.
|
92011 |
EUS 315 CLIMATE POLICY |
Monique Segarra |
. . . .
F |
1:30 pm
– 4:30 pm |
OLIN LC
120 |
|
This course
focuses on the legal, political, cultural, and ethical dimensions of the
climate policy-making process. It provides an overview of basic concepts of
environmental law, politics, and policy making, for a detailed analysis of U.S.
and international climate law and policy. Students evaluate climate change
responses that include incentive-based regulatory approaches (cap-and-trade and
cap-and-dividend systems with offsets; carbon taxes), command and control
approaches, direct promotion of clean technology
through regulation and subsidy, and voluntary agreements. Students examine
critical issues of monitoring and enforcement, climate equity, and climate
federalism, as well as the relationships among local, state, federal, and
international policy.
Learning
Outcomes:
• Basic
knowledge of qualitative policy analysis
• Overview of
international regime theory
• Familiarity
with key concepts and concrete policy instruments related to climate mitigation
and adaptation
• Integration
of policy analysis with an understanding of technical and scientific solutions
to climate change
This is a graduate course offered to a
limited number of undergraduates.
Interested students should contact Eban
Goodstein.
|
91547 |
ARTH 145 Byzantine Art & Architecture |
Katherine Boivin |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 204 |
AART |
|
91548 |
ARTH 227 Roman Urbanism from romulus to rutelli (753 bce – 2000 ce) |
Diana DePardo-Minsky |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
|
91549 |
ARTH 235 15th Century Italian renaissance Art, Architecture and urbanism |
Diana DePardo-Minsky |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 102 |
AART |
|
91614 |
LIT 214 Cairo Through its Novels |
Dina Ramadan |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 120 |
FLLC |
|
91619 |
LIT 2238 Nature, Disaster & EnvironmENt IN JAPANESE LITERATURE |
Mika Endo |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 201 |
FLLC |
|
91683 |
BIO 144 Biostatistics |
Arseny Khakhalin |
. . W . F |
1:30 pm -4:30 pm |
RKC 115 |
MATC |
|
91681 |
BIO 153 A Global Change Biology |
Bruce Robertson Lab: |
. T . Th . . . . . F |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm 8:30 am - 11:30 am |
RKC 115 RKC 112 |
SCI |
|
91685 |
BIO 202 Ecology and Evolution |
Felicia Keesing |
. . W . . . . . . F |
8:30 am - 11:30 am 9:30 am - 11:30 am |
RKC 114/115 RKC 114/115 |
SCI |
|
91718 |
MATH 132 Network Science |
Csilla Szabo |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
HEG 204 |
MATC |
|
91740 |
PHYS 124 Climate Change |
Gidon Eshel |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
HDR 106 |
SCI |
|
91542 |
ANTH 101 Intro to Cultural Anthropology |
Laura Kunreuther |
M . W . . |
3:10 pm -4:30 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91640 |
ANTH 277 IN THE GARDEN OF EMPIRE: Nature & Power in THE
MODERN Middle East |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
OLIN 202 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91561 |
ANTH 331 TOXIC MODERNITIES: AnthroPOLOGY in AND of THE Nuclear Age |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins |
. . . Th . |
10:10 am- 12:30 pm |
Albee 106 |
SSCI |
|
91645 |
ECON 100 A Principles of Economics |
Aniruddha Mitra |
M . W . . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLINLC 115 |
SSCI |
|
91646 |
ECON 100 B Principles of Economics |
Aniruddha Mitra |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
HEG 201 |
SSCI |
|
91647 |
ECON 100 C Principles of Economics |
James Green-Armytage |
. T . Th . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
RKC 103 |
SSCI |
|
91648 |
ECON 100 D Principles of Economics |
Andy Felkerson |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
HEG 106 |
SSCI |
|
91656 |
ECON / EUS 206 Economics From the Ground Up |
Kris Feder |
. . W . F |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
HEG 201 |
SSCI |
|
91659 |
ECON 229 Introduction to Econometrics |
Sanjaya DeSilva |
. . W . F |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
ALBEE 106 |
MATC |
|
91782 |
HIST 2014 History of New York City |
Cecile Kuznitz |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLINLC 118 |
HIST |
|
91781 |
HIST 280A American Environmental Hist I |
Mark Lytle |
. . W . F |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
OLIN 204 |
HIST |
|
91791 |
PS 109 Political Economy |
Sanjib Baruah |
M . W . . |
1:30 pm -2:50 pm |
RKC 101 |
SSCI |
|
91807 |
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology |
Allison McKim |
M . W . . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SSCI/DIFF |
|
91809 |
SOC 138 Introduction to Urban Sociology |
Peter Klein |
. T . Th . |
11:50 am -1:10 pm |
OLIN 205 |
SSCI |
|
91802 |
SOC 205 Introduction to Research Methods |
Yuval Elmelech |
. T . Th . |
10:10 am- 11:30 am |
HDRANX 106 |
MATC |
|
91810 |
SOC 269 Globalization, Social Conflict, and Citizenship |
Peter Klein |
. T . Th . |
4:40 pm -6:00 pm |
OLIN 203 |
SSCI |