Environmental and Urban Studies
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 |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 100 |
CRN Number:
11243 |
Class cap: 30 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Monique Segarra
Beate Liepert |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 9:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 204 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis |
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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.
Feeding 10 billion people |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 111 |
CRN Number:
11241 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Gidon Eshel |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 202 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics and Computing |
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Local food systems, and the global one, cannot be scaled up
in their current configurations to feed predicted future Earths in even remotely
just and nutritionally adequate ways. If we try, they will clearly bump against
Earth’s fundamental physical limits. Yet alternative configurations can easily
do the job, and then some. In this course, we will explore those fundamental
limits, the robust and weak elements of existing and envisioned food systems,
and the design of a global food system that optimally builds on the robust
elements while minimizing susceptibility to the weaknesses. Prerequisites:
passing score on Part I of the Mathematics Placement and familiarity with Excel
or Google Sheets.
Reading on Grass |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 112 |
CRN Number:
11242 |
Class cap: 25 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Gidon Eshel |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Hegeman
308 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics and Computing |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Historical Studies |
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Global grasslands and steppes are a planetary dominant biome today,
and the most recent addition to Earth’s grand biomes. Their physics and
governing related sciences are somewhat well-developed, and there is much to
read there, which we will do. But such landscapes have also featured
beautifully in fiction. We will read some of those novels as well. The crux of
the course will be an effort to intellectually balance and harmonize the
scientific and literary approaches to grasslands and steppes of the world.
Sustainable Development and Social
Enterprise |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 310 |
CRN Number:
11298 |
Class cap: 25 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Hunter
Lovins |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 8:30 AM
– 9:50 AM Olin Languages Center 115 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis |
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals highlight 17 key areas
for global progress, ranging from food security to women’s empowerment to
climate change action. One way to achieve these goals is through social enterprise:
creating for-profit and non-profit organizations whose mission is to advance
one or more of the SDGs. This collaborative, cross-institution course explores
the global drivers of change that led to the UN SDG’s, with a particular focus
on Social Enterprise solutions. Bard students will work with and learn from
classes in Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine and other countries through a
mixture of synchronous on-line, weekly global class, combined with in-person,
project-based learning. The synchronous portion of the course provides a
critical introduction to the SDGs, and the forces behind global change, ranging
from climate to technology to income inequality. The experiential component on
the course involves the students conducting shared research projects on local
enterprise solutions to the SDG’s. Student teams will choose a sector of
interest—energy, food, affordable housing, immigration, toxic exposure—and map
the Hudson Valley ecosystem of for-profit and non-profit enterprises seeking to
address these challenges. The projects will include deep dives into the
strategies pursued by select enterprises within their sector. The students will
produce a final report for distribution to the social enterprises within their
sector. This will be an OSUN Network Collaborative Course, hybrid in structure,
with one global synchronous online session per week, and one in-person session
each week at Bard. The synchronous on-line session will be taught by Bard MBA
Professor Hunter Lovins, meeting one day per week, simultaneously in all
schools online for 90 minutes. The course will have an in-person, 90-minute
section once per week taught by co-instructors to the practicum work. This is
an OSUN Online Class, taught online and open to Bard students and students from
OSUN partner institutions. This is an
OSUN Network Collaborative Course, taught on multiple OSUN partner institutions
and designed to allow students to learn and work together across
campuses.
Climate and Agroecology |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 311 |
CRN Number:
11674 |
Class cap: 8 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Jennifer
Phillips |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 3:00 PM Albee B102 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis |
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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 and land use change. We review crop
simulation models, their applications and limitations, as well as expectations
for the influence of elevated CO2 on crop yield and nutrition. 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, nitrogen
fertilizer, and trade-offs between emissions from various reduction strategies.
Finally, we will investigate the strategies being put forth regarding climate
change adaptation, including the role of traditional seeds and genetically
modified crops, agroforestry, and system resilience, with major implications
for future food production.
Leading Change for Sustainability |
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Course
Number: ES/EUS 327 |
CRN Number:
11299 |
Class cap: 25 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Aurora Winslade
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Barringer 104 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social Analysis |
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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.
This will be a hybrid, synchronous online course with an in-person lab, taught
at Bard, AUCA, AQB, BRAC, and EHIl. The synchronous online session is taught by
Bard MBA professor Aurora Winslade and meets one day per week, simultaneously
in all countries for 90 minutes. The course has an in-person, 90-minute section
once per week taught by co-instructors. This is
an OSUN Network Collaborative Course, taught on multiple OSUN partner
institutions and designed to allow students to learn and work
together across campuses.
Cross-listed courses:
Race & Nature in Africa |
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Course
Number: ANTH 265 |
CRN Number:
11279 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Yuka Suzuki |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 11:50 AM
– 1:10 PM Hegeman 308 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global &
International Studies; Human Rights |
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Archaeology of African American Farms,
Yards, and Gardens |
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Course
Number: ANTH 290 |
CRN Number:
11280 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Christopher Lindner
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Schedule/Location: |
Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Rose Laboratories 108 |
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Fri 1:30 PM
– 4:30 PM Rose Laboratories 108 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory Science |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental &
Urban Studies; Historical Studies |
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Doing Ethnography |
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Course
Number: ANTH 324 |
CRN Number:
11285 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Laura Kunreuther
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 5:10 PM
– 7:30 PM Olin 303 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights |
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How to Build a Ruin |
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Course
Number: ARCH 111 SL |
CRN Number:
11430 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Stephanie Lee
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 10:10
AM – 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities |
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New Manuals: Redesigning Architectural
Rituals |
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Course
Number: ARCH 111 BC |
CRN Number:
11431 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Betsy Clifton
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 1:30 PM
– 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities |
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Fossil Invitations: rethinking
architectural site analysis through deep time |
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Course
Number: ARCH 130 TT |
CRN Number:
11425 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 2 |
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Professor: |
Thena Tak |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed Fri 3:30 PM
– 6:30 PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Studio Art |
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Para-fictional Design Investigations: Hard
Labor, Soft Space |
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Course
Number: ARCH 221 SL |
CRN Number:
11429 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Stephanie Lee
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue 10:10 AM
– 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House Thurs 10:10 AM
– 12:10 PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing Arts D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights |
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Designing Potential Histories of ‘El
Bohio’ off Anarchy Row |
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Course
Number: ARCH 321 MC |
CRN Number:
11428 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Michael Cohen
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 10:10 AM – 1:10
PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Fri 10:10 AM – 12:10
PM Garcia-Renart House |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing Arts D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights |
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Modern Architecture in the Age of Colonialism |
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Course
Number: ARTH 125 |
CRN Number:
11106 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Olga Touloumi
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed Fri 11:50 AM
– 1:10 PM Olin 102 |
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Distributional Area: |
AA Analysis
of Art |
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Crosslists: |
Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies |
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Ecology and Evolution |
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Course
Number: BIO 202 |
CRN Number:
11027 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Felicia Keesing
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed Fri 8:30 AM
– 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 114/115 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory
Science |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies |
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Biostatistics |
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Course
Number: BIO 244 |
CRN Number:
11029 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Gabriel Perron
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Fri 1:30 PM
– 3:30 PM Albee 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics
and Computing |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Global Public Health; Mathematics |
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Field Ornithology |
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Course
Number: BIO 311 |
CRN Number:
11030 |
Class cap: 14 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Bruce Robertson
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 3:30 PM
– 4:50 PM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Lab: |
Fri 8:30 AM
– 11:30 AM Reem Kayden Center 111/112 |
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Distributional Area: |
LS Laboratory Science |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies |
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Game Theory |
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Course
Number: ECON 203 |
CRN Number:
11288 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Aniruddha Mitra
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Henderson Comp. Center 101A |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics
and Computing |
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Crosslists: |
Economics & Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global &
International Studies; Politics |
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The Right to Employment |
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Course
Number: ECON 227 |
CRN Number:
11290 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Pavlina Tcherneva
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Wed 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 304 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental &
Urban Studies; Human Rights; Sociology |
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Introduction to Econometrics |
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Course
Number: ECON 229 |
CRN Number:
11291 |
Class cap: 18 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Sanjay DeSilva
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Albee 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics
and Computing |
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Crosslists: |
Economics & Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global &
International Studies |
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Ecological Economics |
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Course
Number: ECON 242 |
CRN Number:
11292 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Kris Feder |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Henderson Comp. Center 101A |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies |
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Developing Cities |
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Course
Number: ECON 319 |
CRN Number:
11296 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Sanjay DeSilva
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 3:30 PM
– 5:50 PM Albee 106 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies |
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Shanghai and Hong Kong: China’s Global
Cities |
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Course
Number: HIST 2302 |
CRN Number:
11310 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Robert Culp |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon Fri 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
HA Historical
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Asian Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International
Studies; Human Rights |
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A Human Right to Homes or Homelessness |
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Course
Number: HR 278 |
CRN Number:
11317 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Kwame Holmes |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM – 11:30
AM Olin 101 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies |
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The City and the Experiment |
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Course
Number: LIT 273 |
CRN Number:
11390 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Adhaar Desai |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental
Humanities |
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Trading Fictions in the Indian Ocean |
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Course
Number: LIT 368 |
CRN Number:
11667 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Elizabeth Holt
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 3:30 PM
– 5:50 PM Olin 301 |
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Distributional Area: |
MBV Meaning, Being, Value |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Middle Eastern Studies |
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Tricks of the Trade: Qualitative
Research Practicum |
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Course
Number: SOC 333 |
CRN Number:
11366 |
Class cap: 12 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Peter Klein |
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 12:30
PM – 2:50 PM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies;
Global & International Studies; Human Rights |
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Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness |
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Course
Number: WRIT 345 |
CRN Number:
11419 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Benjamin Hale
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Schedule/Location: |
Mon 3:10 PM
– 5:30 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
PA Practicing
Arts |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights
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Toxicity and Contamination |
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Course
Number: ANTH 229 |
CRN Number:
11276 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 1:30 PM
– 2:50 PM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental Studies; Human Rights; Middle Eastern Studies; Science, Technology,
Society |
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The Animal in Anthropology |
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Course
Number: ANTH 358 |
CRN Number:
11282 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Yuka Suzuki |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue 9:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 303 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental Studies |
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The City and the Experiment |
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Course
Number: LIT 273 |
CRN Number:
11390 |
Class cap: 22 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Adhaar Desai |
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue Thurs 10:10 AM
– 11:30 AM Olin 205 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
Environmental & Urban Studies; Environmental Studies; Experimental
Humanities |
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Places and Spaces |
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Course
Number: LIT 391 |
CRN Number:
11400 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Hua Hsu |
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Schedule/Location: |
Wed 3:30 PM
– 5:50 PM Olin 305 |
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Distributional Area: |
LA Literary
Analysis in English |
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Crosslists: |
American & Indigenous Studies; Architecture; Environmental Studies |
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Climate Seminar |
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Course
Number: PHYS 311 |
CRN Number:
11080 |
Class cap: 16 |
Credits: 2 |
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Professor: |
Beate Liepert
|
||||
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Schedule/Location: |
Thurs 8:30 AM
– 9:50 AM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
MC Mathematics
and Computing |
||||
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Crosslists: |
Environmental Studies |
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Race, Space, and Place |
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Course
Number: SOC 356 |
CRN Number:
11365 |
Class cap: 15 |
Credits: 4 |
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Professor: |
Jomaira Salas Pujols
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Schedule/Location: |
Tue 3:10 PM
– 5:30 PM Olin 309 |
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Distributional Area: |
SA Social
Analysis D+J Difference and Justice |
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Crosslists: |
Africana Studies; American & Indigenous Studies; Environmental
Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights |
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