91959

EUS 101 Introduction to Environmental & Urban Study

Kris Feder

. T . Th .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

HEG 102

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

91595

EUS 102 Introduction to Environmental & Urban Science

Elias Dueker

. T . Th .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

RKC 115

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

91960

EUS 205 Planetary Consequences of Food Production

Gidon Eshel

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

RKC 103

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

91957

EUS 210 The Global Future of Food

Michael Specter

. . . . F

9:30 am - 12:30 pm

OLIN 202

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

92017

EUS 220 2 Air

Elias Dueker

. T . Th . . . W . .

10:10 am -11:30 am 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

RKC 102 RKC 114

SCI

Related interest: Biology This course offers a detailed exploration of the earth’s atmosphere and its interactions with the biosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere. Topics will include origins of the atmosphere, origins of life, anthropogenic influences on the atmosphere, and connections and exchanges with the hydrologic cycle. We will further explore pressing global environmental issues associated with the atmosphere: climate change (extreme weather events, shifting precipitation patterns), air pollution, acid rain, and depletion of the ozone layer. Lab work will be guided by scientific questions related to these issues, and will focus on detection of anthropogenic influence on air quality. Specifically, students will conduct field sampling and utilize microbiological and chemical assays in the lab to better understand sources for and tracking of contaminants in air. Prerequisites: EUS 102, Bio 202, or permission of instructor. Class size: 16

91961

EUS 305 EUS Practicum: SUSTAINABLE TRAIL DESIGN

Thomas O'Dowd

. T . Th .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

RKC 115

SSCI

Walking and biking are some of the most sustainable forms of transportation and great ways to interact with nature and neighbors. How can we design trails/paths/sidewalks that work for pedestrians, communities, and the environment? What does this look like “on the ground”? These are questions we will be answering in a real way in this EUS Practicum. Working with the Director of Bard’s Landscape and Arboretum program and Bard’s Sustainability Manager, as well as several campus and community partners, class members will develop, implement, and evaluate projects that enhance Bard’s landscape and other Hudson Valley locations. Examples may include Bard’s trail system, the Tivoli Bays trail system, trails in Red Hook, and rail trails in Kingston. The course will touch on and develop projects related to the diverse interests of EUS students (conservation, environmental education, historic preservation, landscape architecture, parks, public health, site design, stewardship, sustainability, urban planning, water quality, wellness, etc.) and will provide a stepping stone to EUS-related senior projects, internships, and careers. Class size: 15

91958

EUS COL EUS Colloquium

Kris Feder

. . . . F

4:40 pm -6:00 pm

OLIN 102

2 credits. The EUS Colloquium is an invited speaker series that meets once weekly. EUS majors must enroll at least once and may enroll twice for credit. Space permitting, all members of the community are welcome to attend lectures. The theme of the Fall 2015 colloquium is food and farming. Depending on availability, speakers may include scientists such as agroecologists, soil scientists, climate scientists, nutrition scientists, crop geneticists, or agricultural economists, as well as practitioners such as organic farmers, industrial farmers, aquaculturalists, biodynamic farmers, or permaculturalists. Class size: 40

92015

ARTH 125 MODERN ARCHITECTURE 1850-1950

Olga Touloumi

. T . Th .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

92353

ARTH 132 THE CULTURAL PRACTICE OF MAPPING

Gretta Tritch-Roman

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

HDR 106

AART

92016

ARTH 214 ARCHITECTURE AND MEDIA

Olga Touloumi

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

Olin 203

AART

91573

ARTH 201 GREEK Art and Architecture

Diana DePardo-Minsky

. T . Th .

4:40 pm -6:00 pm

OLIN 102

AART

91567

ARTH 375 Mexican Muralism

Susan Aberth

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

91981

LIT 2194 Berlin: Capital of the 20th CENTURY

Thomas Wild Screenings:

. T . Th . . . W . .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm 6:30 pm -9:00 pm

OLINLC 118 LC 118/PRE 110

ELIT

91998

LIT 2213 BUILDING STORIES

Pete L’Official

. . W . f

11:50 am -1:10 pm

RKC 115

ELIT

91770

LIT 3308 Reading & Writing the Hudson

Susan Rogers

. T . . . . . . Th .

11:50 am -1:10 pm 8:30 am -1:10 pm

OLIN 304 FIELD STATN.

PART

91742

WRIT 345 Imagining Nonhuman ConsciousnESs

Benjamin Hale

. T . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 304

PART

91536

RUS 231 St. Petersburg: City, Monument, Text

Olga Voronina

. T . Th .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

OLIN 201

FLLC

91544

SPAN 352 Mapping the City in Latin American Literature

Nicole Caso

. T . Th .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

OLINLC 208

FLLC

92002

BIO 244 Biostatistics

Arseny Khakhalin

. T . Th .

1:30 pm -4:30 pm

RKC 111

MATC

91590

BIO 145 Environmental Microbiology

Brooke Jude

. T . Th .

8:30 am - 11:30 am

RKC 111/112

SCI

91594

BIO 202 Ecology and Evolution

Felicia Keesing

. . W . F

8:30 am - 11:30 am

RKC 114/115

SCI

91587

BIO EUS 220 Air Quality

Elias Dueker

. T . Th . . . W . .

10:10 am -11:30 am 1:30 pm -4:30 pm

RKC 102 RKC 114

SCI

91647

PHYS 124 Climate Change

Gidon Eshel

M . W . .

10:10 am -11:30 am

HDR 106

SCI

91858

ANTH 101 A IntroDUCTION to Cultural Anthropology

Yuka Suzuki

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

91859

ANTH 101 B IntroDUCTION to Cultural Anthropology

Yuka Suzuki

M . W . .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI/DIFF

91860

ANTH 211 Field MEthOds: Environmental Archaeology: ANCIENT PEOPLES ON THE BARD LANDS

Christopher Lindner

. . W . . Su or F

4:40 pm -6:00 pm 11:50 am -4:30 pm

HEG 300

SCI

91868

ANTH 221 Unnatural States: Theories and Ethnographies of Statehood Today

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

. T . Th .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

OLIN 201

SSCI/DIFF

91867

ANTH 349 Political Ecology

Yuka Suzuki

. T . . .

10:10 am -12:30 pm

OLIN 306

SSCI/DIFF

91869

ANTH 350 Contemporary Cultural Theory

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

. . . Th .

10:10 am -12:30 pm

OLIN 308

HUM/DIFF

91871

ECON 100 A Principles of Economics

Kris Feder

. T . Th .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

HEG 106

SSCI

91872

ECON 100 B Principles of Economics

Andy Felkerson

M . W . .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI

91873

ECON 100 C Principles of Economics

James Green-Armytage

. T . Th .

1:30 pm -2:50 pm

HEG 106

SSCI

91881

ECON 229 Introduction to Econometrics

James Green-Armytage

M . W . .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

HEG 308

MATC

91879

ECON 242 Ecological Economics

Kris Feder

. . W . F

11:50 am -1:10 pm

HEG 106

SSCI

91894

HIST 112 THREE CITIES: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE URBAN HISTORIES OF Lagos, Nairobi, & Johannesburg

Drew Thompson

M . W . .

10:10 am -11:30 am

OLIN 205

HIST

91911

HIST 3102 Research Seminar in U. S. URBAN History

Myra Armstead

. T . . .

3:10 pm -5:30 pm

OLIN 309

HIST

91922

HIST 3112 PLAGUE!

Alice Stroup

M . . . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 308

HIST

91923

PHIL 328 The Lives of Animals

Jay Elliott

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 308

HUM

91930

PS 109 Political Economy

Sanjib Baruah

M . W . .

10:10 am -11:30 am

ASP 302

SSCI

91945

SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology

Allison McKim

M . W . .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

HEG 106

SSCI/DIFF

91947

SOC 138 Introduction to Urban Sociology

Peter Klein

. T . Th .

3:10 pm -4:30 pm

OLIN 205

SSCI

91946

SOC 269 Global Inequality & Development

Peter Klein

. T . Th .

11:50 am -1:10 pm

RKC 115

SSCI/DIFF