11648

11648

EUS 102 Intro to Environmental Science

Gidon Eshel

M . W . .

1:30 – 2:50 pm

RKC 103

SSCI

While environmental issues have many aspects, their mechanistic descriptions always lie firmly within the domain of the natural sciences. In this course, we explore several key physical principles that are salient to numerous environmental problems. Physical principles discussed include conservation laws, thermodynamics, motion and momentum. Issues discussed include climate change, eutrophication of waterways, energy sources, urban environments and agriculture.

11223

EUS 104 Colonial and Post-colonial Geographies

Jonathan Anjaria

. T . Th .

3:10 - 4:30 pm

HEG 102

SSCI

Cross-listed: Human Rights This course is an intensive study of lived environments. With the help of tools provided by critical geography and related disciplines, we will explore how various forms of knowledge over territory, such as through maps and surveys, as well as mythologies and oral histories, shape the way landscapes are lived. In particular, this course emphasizes how colonial histories shape present governance and struggles over land and resources. Themes covered in the course include, but are not limited to, the production of ‘natural’, 'wild' or 'frontier' spaces, conflicts over resource extraction, settler landscapes and colonial spatial imaginations. This class is global in scope, so we will discuss examples of imperial spatial management, productions of nature, and imaginations of the landscape in places such as Egypt, the Brazilian Amazon, the American southwest, New Zealand, Indonesia, Nigeria and the Hudson Valley. Class size: 22

11665

EUS 203 Geographic Information Systems

Mark Becker

. . W . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

HDRANX 106

SSCI

2 credits (Core Course) This course is designed to provide undergraduate students with a comprehensive review of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and remote sensing technologies as they are used in a variety of social and environmental science applications. Through a mixture of lectures, readings and hands-on exercises, students will acquire an understanding of the structure of spatial data and databases, basic cartographic principles and data visualization techniques, how to conduct spatial analysis and methods for developing sound GIS project design and management practices. Upon completing this class, students will:

· Understand the fundamental concepts of geographic information systems and their relationship with other information management systems.

· Gain familiarity with GIS software for conducting basic GIS analyses and producing cartographic products.

· Conduct studies typically carried out in GIS including site selection, analysis of spatial/temporal processes, assess environmental impacts, geocode data and conduct point pattern analysis. Prerequisites: Preference will be given to moderated students.

11680

EUS 310 Neotropical Ecology

Marc van Roosmalen

. . . . F

10:10 -12:30 pm

RKC 101

SSCI

This course is an introduction to the Amazon rainforest and its complex ecology presenting contemporary research in the footsteps of the great naturalists of the 19th century (Von Humboldt, Wallace, Spix, Martius, Bates, Spruce) who were the first to uncover the path of evolution while being in the Amazon (in his 1854 “Monkeys of the Amazon” Wallace wrote in fact the Origin of Species before Darwin!). Through the study of the intricate web of relations between plants and animals in pristine ancient forests the long standing academic question will be unveiled why the Amazon harbors by far the highest biodiversity on earth. For a good understanding we will examine the continent's geomorphology going back in time to the Miocene, determine which major vicariance events occurred, and what role the major tributaries of the Amazon, together with their wide floodplains, have played (and still play) in the speciation and radiation of species through genetic isolation of entire populations of plants and animals. This is best demonstrated looking at the demography of extant Neotropical monkeys following Alfred Wallace's river barrier hypothesis which strongly supports the nowadays widely accepted phylogenetic species concept. On this philosophical journey through the Amazon we will further look at often all-Amazonian phenomena such as the various types of water, the annual tide, the flooded forest-types linked to water-type and terra firme types of forest linked to soil conditions, phyto-sociological composition, physiognomy, phyto-chemistry, animal guilds, ecological niches, seed dispersal syndromes, seed/seedling predation, co-evolution, and seasonal lateral migration of frugivores (including fish) from nearby hinterland into the black-/clear-water floodplain (called 'igapo') to feed on a bounty of fruits and seeds available only during the peak of flooding. At the end we will discuss, investigate and develop methods to exploit the Amazon rain forest in a true sustainable way which is our only hope to keep this last vast wilderness standing and at the same time combat global climate change.

11677

EUS COL Environmental & Urban Studies Colloquium

Noah Chasin

. T . . .

4:45 – 6:00 pm

OLIN 205

SSCI

1 credit.

Description to follow.

11406

ANTH 101 A Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Jonathan Anjaria

M . W . .

1:30 - 2:50 pm

OLIN 101

SSCI/DIFF

11193

ANTH 101 B Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

Laura Kunreuther

M . W . .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 205

SSCI/DIFF

11637

ANTH 212 Historical Archaeology

Christopher Lindner

. . W . .

. . . . F

4:40 – 6:00 pm

11:50 -4:30 pm

HEG 300

ROSE 108

HIST/DIFF

11391

BIO 142 Organismal Biology

William Maple

Lab A:

Lab B:

. . W . F

. . . . F

. . . Th .

10:10 - 12:10 pm

1:30 - 6:00 pm

RKC 103

SCI

11392

BIO 144 Biostatistics

Philip Johns

Lab:

. T . . .

. . . Th .

3:10 - 6:00 pm

RKC 102

MATC

11393

BIO 147 Conservation Biology

Cathy Collins

Lab:

. . W . F

M . . . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

1:30 - 4:30 pm

RKC 102

RKC 114

SCI

11396

BIO 202 Ecology and Evolution

Felicia Keesing

. . W . .

. . . . F

8:30 - 11:30 am

9:30 - 11:30 am

RKC 114/115

SCI

11115

ECON 101 A Introduction to Microeconomics

Tsu-Yu Tsao

. T . Th .

1:30 - 2:50 pm

OLIN 202

SSCI

11116

ECON 101 B Introduction to Microeconomics

Olivier Giovannoni

. T . Th .

4:40 - 6:00 pm

ALBEE 106

SSCI

11117

ECON 102 A Introduction to Macroeconomics

Tamar Khitarishvili

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

ALBEE 106

SSCI

11118

ECON 102 B Introduction to Macroeconomics

Olivier Giovannoni

. T . Th .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 309

SSCI

11119

ECON 102 C Introduction to Macroeconomics

Kris Feder

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:50 am

HEG 106

SSCI

11124

ECON 206 Economics From the Ground Up

Kris Feder

M . W . .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 201

SSCI

11409

ECON 221 Economics of Developing Countries

Sanjaya DeSilva

. . W . F

1:30 - 2:50 pm

HEG 106

SSCI

11123

ECON 229 Statistics

Alex Chung

. . W . F

8:30 - 9:50 am

OLIN 202

MATC

11411

HIST 2014 History of New York City

Cecile Kuznitz

. T . Th .

1:30 - 2:50 pm

HEG 201

HIST

11415

HIST/EUS 2253 An Ecological History

of the Globe

Alice Stroup

. T . Th .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 308

HIST

11417

HIST 3132 The History of Urban Schooling

In the U.S., 1790-2010

Ellen Lagemann

. T . . .

1:30 - 3:50 pm

OLIN 205

HIST

11419

HIST 3146 The Environment in History

in the Middle East and Africa

Jennifer Derr

M . W . .

10:10 - 11:30 am

HEG 308

HIST

11464

LIT 2006 “The Storm Cloud of the

Nineteenth Century”: Imagining the Environment in English Literature and Culture

Deirdre d'Albertis

. T . Th .

10:10 - 11:30 am

OLIN 306

ELIT

11608

LIT 2316 In the Wild: Reading and Writing the Natural World

Susan Rogers

. T . . .

1:30 - 3:50 pm

ALBEE 106

ELIT

11310

PS 373 Human Rights & the Environment

Monique Segarra

. . . Th .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

HEG 200

SSCI

11101

SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology

Allison McKim

. . W . F

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI

11615

SOC 138 Introduction to Urban Sociology

David Madden

. T . Th .

11:50 - 1:10 pm

OLIN 203

SSCI