|
92115 |
EUS 101
Intro Environ
& Urban Studies |
Monique Segarra |
T Th 10:20 am-11:40
am |
AVERY 110 |
SA |
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: 20
|
92116 |
EUS 102
Intro: Enviro
System Science |
Robyn Smyth |
M 2:00 pm-3:20 pm W 2:00 pm-5:00 pm |
OLIN 203 ROSE 306 |
LS |
The
science needed to understand and address our complex socio-environmental
challenges comes from a broad range of disciplines. In this course, we
introduce and integrate core concepts and methodologies from physical,
biological, and social sciences and practice systems thinking to build your
capacity to think critically about the causes and solutions to complex
environmental problems and sustainability challenges. We will develop a
mechanistic understanding of the drivers of climate change and the consequences
for ecological processes, water resources, and agriculture. We will learn about
and practice the scientific method as we study the air, land, water, and waste
around campus.
The
course goals are to (1) develop your capacity for systems thinking about social
and environmental problems, (2) understand and think critically about the role
of science and scientists in society, (3) practice the scientific method and
understand its strengths and weaknesses in the context of environmental
sciences, and (4) improve your mechanistic understanding of the climate system,
watershed processes, waste fate & transport and other core environmental
science concepts.
Class
size: 21
|
92125 |
EUS 221
Water |
Elias Dueker |
T Th 2:00 pm-5:00
pm |
HEG 106/
ROSE 306 |
LS |
This
course offers a detailed exploration of the earth's hydrosphere and its
interactions with the biosphere, lithosphere, and atmosphere. Topics will
include origins of the hydrosphere, origins of life, the global hydrologic
cycle, and anthropogenic influences on aquatic ecosystems. We will further
explore pressing global environmental issues associated with the hydrosphere:
climate change, protection of drinking water resources, freshwater and marine
ecosystem degradation, and waste water treatment. Lab work will be guided by
scientific questions related to these issues, and will focus on detection of
anthropogenic influence, management and maintenance of water resources, and
frontiers of scientific approaches to sustainable human interactions with water
resources. Labs will include field
sampling, lab analysis, and computer modeling to improve understanding of the
ecological ramifications of water pollution in marine, estuarine, and
freshwater ecosystems. Prerequisites: EUS 102, Bio 202, or permission of
instructor.
Class
size: 16
|
92556 |
EUS 305E Social Entrepreneurship Practicum |
Alejandro
Crawford |
M W 8:30 am-9:50 am |
BARRINGER 104 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
Economics
This
is a collaborative, cross-institution course in social entrepreneurship designed
for undergraduates, where student teams ideate and develop models for social
enterprises. Social entrepreneurship is the process of building new
organizations that offer scalable solutions to social and environmental
challenges. Social enterprise can be either for-profit, or non-profit, but key
is the ambition to address societal problems at scale. The practice of social
entrepreneurship explores the full suite of liberal learning: critical
analysis, persuasive writing, oral communication, quantitative reasoning,
design thinking, and group social dynamics. Bard students will engage with
classes from AUCA, AQB, CEU and Earth University, through a mixture of
synchronous on-line learning, and in-person labs. The course will culminate in
a “shark tank for sustainability” among and between teams from the different
universities, with winning teams then competing at the Bard MBA’s annual
Disrupt to Sustain pitch competition in December. The teaching and learning
collaboration will be made possible through the use of Bard MBA Professor
Crawford’s cloud-based teaching tool, RebelBase,
which supports project-based learning embedded in a collaborative, online
entrepreneurial ecosystem. The course will include readings and discussion
focused on social issues related to entrepreneurship: drivers of change, from decarbonization to AI; delinking growth from material
throughput; urban-based innovation ecosystems; social obstacles to risk taking;
working on multi-disciplinary teams; language, power and gender dynamics in
entrepreneurship; deconstructing the archetypes of entrepreneurship.
Prerequisite: Economics 100
Class
size: 16
|
92543 |
EUS 309
EUS Colloquium / Practicum: Environmental Justice: Art,
Science, and Radical Cartography |
Elias Dueker Krista Caballero |
T Th 5:40 pm-7:00
pm |
EXPERIMENTAL
HUMANITIES TENT |
SA |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies, Experimental Humanities, Human Rights,
We
generally assume maps are objective, accurate representations of data and the
world around us when, in fact, they depict the knowledge, experience, and
values of the humans who draft them. As a hybrid EUS practicum + colloquium,
this course will explore ways in which ecological issues are entangled with
colonial histories of racism and supremacy, resource extraction and expansion
through mapping. Native American scholarship will ground our exploration as we
consider the impact and consequences of mapping as a tool used historically to
claim ownership and invite exploitation. We will also investigate the evolution
of radical cartography to counter these practices and imagine alternative
mapping for more just ecological futures. A series of Indigenous scholars and
activists will provide an opportunity for students to learn from experts
working at the forefront of their fields to address environmental injustices
locally, nationally, and internationally. These guest lectures will be paired
with hands-on projects that explore mapping as a tool for environmental
advocacy alongside artistic and counter-mapping approaches that experiment with
ways we might communicate scientific and humanistic knowledge to a wider
audience. In both theory and practice this team-taught course aims to
reconsider and transform ways of engaging community science and community
action through collaborative inquiry, interdisciplinary experimentation, and
meaningful cross-cultural dialogue.
Class
size: 15
|
92120 |
EUS 405
Environmental
Policy I |
Monique Segarra |
T Th 1:30 pm-3:00 pm |
OLIN 308 |
SA |
During
this course, students analyze the political forces that impact the policy
making process and the legal and regulatory instruments that have been
developed to protect the environment and human health. The class provides a
political framework to capture the dynamic and complex relationships between
these and other critical factors − scientific, economic, cultural,
institutional and ethical − that influence how society responds to
environmental problems from the local to international levels. In addition, this
class will help us track and navigate the larger political context that has
provided openings for the modern environmental movement to emerge in the United
States during the 1960s, and the advancement and retrenchment of environmental
law and policies over time. The analytic framework that we use to help us think
systematically across complex policy issues/arenas and over time is built on
the inter-related concepts of ideas, interests and institutions. One of the
primary goals of this course is to enable you to approach any environmental
issue and to make sense of it by using this frame analysis. For example, what
are the dominant (and often contentious) ideas about what constitutes a policy
issue or a policy problem to be solved? Who are the critical actors or interest
groups that shape both a definition of the problem and its solution, or who can
support or block a policy/program during its implementation? What are the kinds
of institutional factors that shape policy formation and implementation –from
federalism in the United States or Mexico, to bureaucratic rules, national laws
and political venues such as congress, state legislatures, local government,
bureaucratic agencies or cultural beliefs -to name only a few!
Class
size: 5
Cross-listed
courses:
|
92562 |
ARCH 121 Design Studio-Seminar 1: Planetary |
Ross Adams |
T
10:20 am-1:20pm
Th 10:30am-12:30pm |
HDRANX 106 |
PA |
Cross-listed:
Environmental & Urban Studies, Experimental Humanities
|
92305 |
ARTH 126
Situating
Architecture: Modernisms |
Olga Touloumi |
W F 3:50 pm-5:10
pm |
OLIN 102 |
AA |
Cross-listed:
Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22
|
92239 |
LIT 3028
Soundscapes
of American Lit. |
Alexandre Benson |
F 2:00
pm-4:20 pm |
OLIN 303 |
LA |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Experimental Humanities, Environmental & Urban Studies Class size:
15
|
92318 |
ARTH 307 Contested Spaces |
Olga Touloumi |
Th 5:40 pm-8:00 pm |
FISHER ANNEX |
AA |
Cross-listed: Architecture;
Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental
Humanities; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15
|
92234 |
LIT 3233 American Study |
Peter L'Official |
W
2:00 pm-4:20 pm |
HEG 300 |
LA |
Cross-listed: Architecture;
American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 12
|
92006 |
BIO 157
Food
Microbiology |
Gabriel Perron |
T Th 8:30 am-11:30 am |
RKC 111/112 |
LS |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities Class size: 16
|
92008 |
BIO 202
Ecology and
Evolution |
Bruce Robertson |
W F 8:30 am-11:30 am |
RKC 114/115 |
LS |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies Class size: 16
|
92009 |
BIO 244
Biostatistics |
Gabriel Perron |
T Th 2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
RKC 103 |
MC |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies; Global Public Health; Mathematics Class size:
16
|
92016 |
BIO 308
Plant Ecology |
Cathy Collins |
W 3:50 pm-4:50 pm F 9:00 am-11:40
am F 12:10 pm-3:40
pm |
RKC 200 RKC 102 RKC 111/112 |
LS |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies Class size:
16
|
92117 |
PHYS 124
Climate
Change |
Gidon Eshel |
M W 10:20
am-11:40 am |
RKC 103 |
LS |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies Class size: 30
|
92093 |
ANTH 211
Ancient Peoples before
the Bard Lands: Archaeological methods and theory |
Christopher Lindner |
Th 3:50 pm-5:10 pm F 2:00 pm-5:00
pm |
HEG 300 ROSE 108 |
LS |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 12
|
92087 |
ANTH 218
The Rift and the
Nile: History, Culture and the Natural World in Eastern Africa |
John Ryle |
M W 12:10
pm-1:30 pm |
HEG 201 |
SA D+J |
Cross-listed:
Africana
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies; Human Rights Class size:
20
|
92088 |
ANTH 351
The Interview –
In ethnographic research, oral history, human rights, journalism, literature
and film |
John Ryle |
T 10:20
am-12:40 pm |
HEG 106 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
Africana
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size:
15
|
92199 |
BGIA 301
The Core
Seminar: Non-State Actors in
International Affairs |
Elmira Bayrasli |
- |
|
SA |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies; Global & International Studies Class size:
18
|
92101 |
ECON 114
Economics for
Planet Earth |
Kris Feder |
T Th 12:10 pm-1:30
pm |
ALBEE 106 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22
|
92107 |
ECON 229
Introduction
to Econometrics |
Sanjaya DeSilva |
T Th 2:00 pm-3:20
pm |
ALBEE 106 |
MC |
Cross-listed:
Economics
& Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International
Studies Class size: 0
|
92108 |
ECON 242
Ecological
Economics |
Kris Feder |
M W 3:50 pm-5:10
pm |
ALBEE 106 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies Class size:
22
|
92111 |
ECON 319
Developing
Cities |
Sanjaya DeSilva |
W 2:00 pm-4:20 pm |
HDR 106 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies; Global & International Studies Class size:
12
|
92128 |
HIST 145
The Business of
Drugs in America |
Jeannette Estruth |
T Th 5:40 pm-7:00
pm |
OLIN 202 |
HA D+J |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Political Studies; Science,
Technology, Society Class size: 22
|
92129 |
HIST 161
History of Technology
and Economy: The Era of Hydrocarbon Economy |
Gregory Moynahan |
T Th 8:30 am-9:50 am |
OLIN 202 |
HA D+J |
Cross-listed:
Environmental
& Urban Studies; Science, Technology, Society Class size:
22
|
92121 |
HIST 193
From the New Deal
to the Green New Deal: Liberalism and Conservatism in the United States |
Jeannette Estruth |
T Th 3:50 pm-5:10
pm |
OLIN 205 |
HA D+J |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Political Studies Class size:
22
|
92190 |
SOC 138 Introduction to Urban Sociology |
Peter Klein |
T Th
12:10 pm-1:30 pm |
HEG 204 |
SA |
Cross-listed: Architecture;
Environmental & Urban Studies; American Studies Class size: 22
|
92193 |
SOC 205
A Intro to
Research Methods |
Yuval Elmelech |
T Th 12:10 pm-1:30
pm |
HDR 106 |
MC |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights Class size: 15
|
92194 |
SOC 205
B Intro to
Research Methods |
Yuval Elmelech |
T Th 3:50 pm-5:10
pm |
HDR 101A |
MC |
Cross-listed:
American
Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies;
Human Rights Class size: 15
|
92197 |
SOC 361
Writing
Environmental Justice |
Peter Klein |
W 2:00 pm-4:20 pm |
OLIN 302 |
SA |
Cross-listed:
Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights
Class size: 12