12333

EUS 101    Intro Environmental & Urban Studies

Monique Segarra

T Th   10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 205

SA

SSCI

 EUS 101 introduces the key themes and fields that address environmental and urban questions. While disentangling and analyzing the terms used to describe aspects of the environment—nature/culture, human/nonhuman, wilderness/countryside/city—this interdisciplinary course considers issues such as environmental justice, biodiversity preservation, protected natural areas, infrastructure, agricultural and food sustainability, ecotourism, climate change, and development. The course is organized around four ways that humans relate to their environments: to observe and classify; to organize; to gather and distribute; and to conserve. From the perspective of each thematic category, students will become familiar with various disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches represented in the EUS curriculum (such as anthropology, cultural geography, environmental literature and history, political science, natural history, political ecology, sociology, spatial analysis, and urban economics), while engaging with their methods.

Class size: 25

 

12334

EUS 102    Intro:Environmental & Urban Science

Robyn Smyth

T         1:30 pm-3:50 pm  Th       1:30 pm-4:30 pm

HEG 106 ROSE 306

LS

SCI

 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 think critically about the potential outcomes of complex environmental issues. Local and global examples of elemental cycling, hydrology, ecology, agriculture, urbanization, and climate change will be used. This class will include some local field trips and outdoor data collection.

Class size: 20

 

12335

EUS 203    Geographic Information Systems

Susan Winchell-Sweeney

F       1:30 pm-3:50 pm

HDR 101A

SA

SSCI

 2 credits Students will explore the various spatial analysis methods used by scientists, planners, and public-policy makers to improve the understanding and management of our world. Students will learn the fundamentals of modeling, data analysis and mapping using geospatial technologies. Practical exercises relate to themes studied throughout the year. In this project-based class, students begin by learning the fundamentals of using spatial information, conducting spatial analysis, and producing and interpreting maps. In the second half of the course, they apply these skills to a team-based research project of their own design. The program culminates in a poster session, where the students show their work to their peers, professors in the program, and the greater Bard community.

Class size: 18

 

12336

EUS 215    Food Systems:Human/Environmental Health

Kris Feder

M W     3:10 pm-4:30 pm

ALBEE 106

SA

SSCI

 What on Earth are humans supposed to eat? This question is often overlooked in debates over farm policy. Yet nutrition science and evolutionary biology indicate that modern diets—based on processed grains, soy, seed oils, and sugar—are implicated in the soaring rates of diabetes, heart disease, obesity, autoimmune diseases, some cancers, and even psychiatric disorders. Meanwhile, the industrialization of agriculture has accelerated environmental damage from soil erosion, nutrient loss, greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, and deforestation. Since 1950, real Gross World Product has grown by a factor of twenty as the human population has tripled; the increased food supply is largely due to the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers. Globalization and rising concentration in industrial production, processing, and distribution have transformed agriculture around the world. How many humans can extract a nutritious diet sustainably from a given land base? What are the obstacles to reforming food systems toward more sustainable and appropriate practices? This course provides an overview of the geomorphology, ecology, history, economics, and politics of food systems, with a particular focus on the United States.

Class size: 22

 

12583

EUS 216  GIS and Community Engagement: Preparing a Natural Resource Inventory

Susan Winchell-Sweeney

T        11:50 am-1:10 pm   F       4:40 pm-6:00 pm

HDR 101A HDR 101A

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: American Studies

Students will receive formal instruction in the fundamentals of using spatial information, conducting spatial analysis, and producing high-quality cartographic products. Creating a Natural Resources Inventory (NRI): A guide for Communities in the Hudson River Estuary Watershed will also be supplied to each student. The development of an NRI for the Town of Esopus will serve as the team-based research project. Students will participate in work group meetings scheduled with community stakeholders throughout the semester.

Class size: 8

 

12337

EUS 226    Environmental Modeling

Gautam Sethi

T Th    1:30 pm-2:50 pm

HEG 102

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: Economics; Mathematics

This course will expose students to a variety of modeling techniques used in environmental decision-making. The inclusion of these techniques in this course is motivated by their relevance in generating useful answers to current policy issues. For example, how rapidly should the switch to renewable energy generation be made? The answer to this question depends on, in part, the rapidity with which fossil fuels are being depleted. This course will introduce the concept of peak oil and use statistical methods to estimate the timing of peak global crude oil production. As another illustration, international development agencies have introduced new varieties of rice in Laos in a bid to make rice yields less susceptible to climate change. The impact of this intervention on livelihoods of small landholders, however, is uncertain due to inherent fluctuations in many factors such as the market price of rice. In this course, we will use data collected by the UNDP to conduct a Monte Carlo simulation and develop a probabilistic answer to this issue. Other examples of relevant policy issues discussed in this course include developing simple predator-prey models to predict changes in populations of keystone species, and modeling the sustainability of fisheries under various regulations of regional fisheries councils in the United States. Students are expected to have some basic knowledge of regression analysis and be proficient in Calculus I. While it is desirable that students have some prior coding experience, the course will begin with a three-week primer on MATLAB programming. Prerequisite: MATH 141, Calculus I

Class size: 22

 

12508

EUS 232    (Urban) Oceanography

Elias Dueker

W  F  1:30 pm-4:30 pm   W  F  1:30 pm-4:30 pm

HEG 300 ROSE 306

LS D+J

 The world's oceans are vastly underappreciated in terms of their profound influence on our daily lives, regardless of where we live. We will take an earth sciences approach, coupled with a socioeconomic lens, to understand this influence globally, regionally, and locally. Using the Hudson River Estuary, the New York Harbor, Coney Island, and other regional coastal areas as our living lab, this class will introduce you to the fundamental biological, physical, and chemical mechanisms governing global oceans. We will explore the central role that the oceans play in climate change and connect this directly to the real-time struggles of coastal megacities facing bigger storms and worsening coastal water quality. We will partner with the NY Harbor School to learn about the concrete interplay between environmental racism and water quality in megacities like New York City. We will also work with community-based organizations including the Newtown Creek Alliance, the River Project, and Billion Oysters Project on remediation efforts including microplastics mapping and removal, oyster reef recovery, living docks, climate adaptation, and combined sewer overflow mitigation. For 300-level credit (which is cross-listed with Biology), you will additionally collaborate with a team of students from the NY Harbor School in conducting a semester-long project.

Class size: 14

 

12338

EUS 240    Advanced Readings: Environmental Science

Gidon Eshel

M W    10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 308

SA

SSCI

 While prohibitively technical at times, some fundamental advances in environmental science can be translated into English and made at least partially palatable for the curious, motivated student. This seminar-style course will explore, in detail, several key papers of recent years covering climate change, water resources and agriculture.

Class size: 20

 

12340

EUS 304    EUS Practicum: Aquatic Ecosystem Restoration

Robyn Smyth

F       9:30 am-12:30 pm   F       9:30 am-12:30 pm

HEG 300 ROSE 306

LS

 With climate change intensifying the hydrologic cycle and exacerbating existing challenges to water management, we face a need to simultaneously restore and adapt aquatic ecosystem to improve water quality and prepare for larger variation and uncertainty in precipitation. Billions of dollars are currently spent on ecological restoration in the U.S. alone. In this course we seek to understand how to maximize these resources to simultaneously restore degraded water quality, enhance resiliency to climate extremes, sequester carbon, and enhance biodiversity. We will use local, national, and international case studies to examine the theory and practice of ecological restoration with an emphasis on climate change projections and the need to mitigate and adapt while restoring. We will hear about challenges and best practice from practitioners engaged in restoration and adaptation in NY and beyond. The majority of the class will be held outside at impaired aquatic field sites where we will design, implement, and/or evaluate restoration/adaptation projects. In addition to hands-on practice in the field, students will write and present a mock proposal for a restoration/adaptation project in response to an actual grant solicitation for the course final.

Class size: 10

 

12341

EUS 311    Climate & Agroecology

Jennifer Phillips

M W    10:10 am-11:30 am   Th      9:30 am-12:30 pm

ALBEE 102 ROSE 306

LS

SCI

In this course we will examine the linkages between agroecosystems and the climate system. Based on the framework of impacts, mitigation and adaptation, we will cover the physiology of increased global temperatures and elevated CO2 on plant growth and yield, and the implications for global food supplies. We then turn to an investigation of the role that regenerative agriculture and permaculture can play in both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to expected climate extremes. Special attention will be paid to practices that promote soil health. In addition to close reading of the peer-reviewed science, students will run experiments using a simulation model. This is a graduate course in the program in Environmental Policy. All students taking the course attend lectures twice a week. Undergraduates additionally attend a soils lab once a week.

Class size: 10

 

12342

EUS\SOC 319    EUS Practicum: Hudson Valley Cities/Environmental (In)Justice

Peter Klein

W       10:10 am-12:30 pm

HEG 200

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Sociology

How do urban processes of growth, decline, and revitalization affect different groups, particularly along dimensions of race, class, and gender? This place-based research seminar course looks closely at this question by examining the historical, political, and social landscape of Hudson and Kingston. We will use these nearby cities as cases to explore theories on urban transformation and the contemporary challenges that face small urban centers. In particular, the course will use the lens of environmental inequality, or the ways in which some people are more likely to be exposed to environmental hazards than others, to examine the effects of historical processes, as well as to investigate how residents and government officials are addressing pressing problems. The course will look specifically at issues of food justice, pollution, access to resources, and environmental decision-making processes. We will visit these cities as a class, and students will develop and carry out their own research project with an organization in one or both places. (This course fulfills the practicum requirement for moderated EUS students.) Admission by permission of the instructor. This course will usually meet from 10:10-12:30 on Wednesdays, but students must be available from 9:00-12:30, in order to allow for off-campus trips. This class may be taken either on its own or in conjunction with Anthropology 255: Anthropology of Institutions.

Class size: 15

 

13000

EUS 333  Urban Abandonment: A Housing Justice Lab

Kwame Holmes

F        1:30 pm-3:50 pm

HEG 300

SA

SSCI

2 credits

Cross-listed: Human Rights

This practicum will involve students in a pilot study of housing vacancy and real estate speculation in Kingston, NY. Across the country—most recently dramatized in Oakland California’s Moms4Housing movement—real estate speculators maximize investments by withholding potential housing from real estate and rental markets. By manipulating the vacancy rate, speculators can drive housing costs up while avoiding rent stabilization rules. These issues are manifest in nearby Kingston, one of many mid-sized cities around the country experiencing rapid demographic change as Americans abandon major cities in search of “tranquil, small town life.” Our project, in collaboration with the Real Kingston Tenant’s Union and the Kingston Community Land Trust will investigate the vacancy rate in Kingston’s “Midtown,” a working class community sandwiched between Uptown and the Rondout, two rapidly gentrifying commercial districts. Through a GIS practice called “Countermapping,” we will document and visualize the hidden transcript of housing inequality in this rapidly changing city. Students will learn about the economics and politics of land valuation, and strategize--in partnership with housing justice activists--against systematic rent increases, evictions and other tactics endemic to speculative land investment.

Class size: 15

 

12339

EUS 328    Environmental Futures and the Global Climate Crisis

Michele Dominy

Th     10:10 am-12:30 pm

HEG 300

SA

Cross-listed: Science, Technology, Society

Glacial melt. Tropical deforestation. Sea-level rise. Desertification. Ocean acidification. How will these processes determine our environmental futures? Can we respond to the increasing threat of a sixth extinction? What are the elements of the sustainability revolution? Each student in this Calderwood Seminar will select a critical environmental issue related to human-induced global climate change and follow it as their investigative “beat” for the term. Drawing upon their past studies, students will read scientific articles on their topic, engaging in its scientific, social, ethical, and policy aspects, while also considering related articles in publications such as The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books. Through six short varied written assignments, students will hone their analytic and writing and editing skills for cogency and elegant expression as “public” writers, collaborating in and modeling effective environmental communication as an instrument for climate action. The focus of the seminar is on student writing, peer review and editing with required weekly assignment deadlines. Prerequisite: junior or senior standing or permission of the instructor. Calderwood seminars are intended primarily for junior and senior majors in the field or in affiliated fields. They are designed to help students think about how to translate their discipline or interdisciplinary training to non-specialists through different forms of public writing. Depending on the major, public writing (usually 800-1500 words in length) might include policy papers, book reviews, interviews with professionals, TED talks or an academic minute, grant reports, and editorials. Students will write or edit one short piece of writing each week.

Class size: 12

 

12346

EUS 406    Environmental Policy II

Monique Segarra

T Th  1:30 pm-2:50 pm

ALBEE 102

SA

 This course analyzes the dynamic and complex relationship among various factors—legal, political, cultural, and ethical—that influence the environmental policy-making process. It uses a case-study approach to introduce students to the core concepts of environmental policy making and environmental policy cycles that include defining the environmental problem, setting the environmental agenda, and presenting and implementing policy solutions. Students examine state and social responses to new and ongoing environmental problems. In the United States context, this includes taking into account the nature of state-federal relationships in developing and applying the environmental law, as well as the evolving role of technology, tensions between private and public interests, and equity considerations. In addition to U.S. environmental policy, the course explores international environmental regime development, conflict resolution, and transboundary citizen networks that influence global environmental decision making. Open to moderated students. Prerequisite: Environmental Policy I

Class size:

 

12343

EUS 415    Microbial Remediation (Waste Cluster)

Elias Dueker

Th      1:30 pm-3:50 pm

HEG 300

Cross-listed: Biology

Our past approach to handling human-generated waste, "the solution to pollution is dilution," has resulted in the saturation of our air, water, and soils with toxins and plastics. As we grapple with this complex issue, we are also being forced to upgrade crumbling infrastructure including landfills, waste treatment plants, and drinking water plants. This seminar will explore the dynamic microbiological field that is dedicated to proactively reducing pollution in our water, land, and air, and to developing effective alternatives to our treatment of waste moving forward. This course will be part of the EUS Waste Cluster, which includes arts, anthropology, and writing classes taught by Ellen Driscoll, Susan Rogers, and Sophia Stomatopoulou-Robbins. We will occasionally meet with these classes during the semester to engage in interdisciplinary discussions about waste issues, and will join them in a joint field trip to New York City to witness this megacity's approaches to handling waste on a massive scale.

Class size: 12

 

12307

ANTH 212    Historical Archaeology Historical Archaeology: Early African and German Americans near Bard

Christopher Lindner

Th      4:40 pm-6:00 pm   F       1:30 pm-5:00 pm

HEG 300 ROSE 108

HA

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies Class size: 12

 

12311

ANTH 323    The Politics of Infrastructure

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Th      1:30 pm-3:50 pm

HEG 201

SA D+J

SSCI DIFF

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society Class size: 15

 

12312

ANTH 324    Doing Ethnography

Gregory Morton

W        1:30 pm-3:50 pm

Henderson 101A

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

 

12552

ART 132    Art and Climate Change

Adriane Colburn Ellen Driscoll

W       10:10 am-1:10 pm

FISHER

PA

PART

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size: 14

 

12266

ART 206 ED  Sculpture II:Earth/Air/Water

Ellen Driscoll

Th       10:10 am-1:10 pm

FISHER FOUNDATIONS RM

PA

PART

 Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies

Class size: 14

 

12237

ARTH 246    Medieval Art:Mediterranean World

Katherine Boivin

M W    10:10 am-11:30 am

FISHER ANNEX

AA

AART

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Medieval Studies; Middle Eastern Studies Class size: 22

 

12243

ARTH 281    Governing the World: An Architectural History

Olga Touloumi

W F    11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 102

AA

AART

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

 

12513

ARTH 314    Public Writing and the Built Environment

Olga Touloumi

Th      3:10 pm-5:30 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AA D+J

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights Class size: 12

 

12507

ARTS 135    The Architecture of an Urbanized Planet: Designing Body and World

Ross Adams

T        10:10 am-1:10 pm   Th     10:30 am-12:30 pm

HDRANX HDRANX

PA

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities Class size: 12

 

12506

ARTS 220    Architectural Entanglements with Labor

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco

T Th    4:40 pm-6:00 pm

OLIN 203

AA

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights Class size 15

 

12302

AS 310    Art, Animals & Anthropocene

Krista Caballero

W        1:30 pm-3:50 pm

New Annandale House

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Experimental Humanities; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

12313

BGIA 301    NY at Center of the World

Giles Alston

-

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies Class size: 18

 

12100

BIO 202    Ecology and Evolution

Cathy Collins

W F    8:30 am-11:30 am

RKC 114/115

LS

SCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 18

 

12102

BIO 244    Biostatistics

Gabriel Perron

W F    1:30 pm-3:30 pm

RKC 111

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global Public Health; Mathematics Class size: 18

 

12103

BIO 311    Field Ornithology

Bruce Robertson

T Th    1:30 pm-2:50 pm   F       8:30 am-11:30 am

RKC 111 RKC 111/112

LS

SCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 16

 

12104

CHEM 121    Chemistry in Modern Policy

Miles White

T         10:00 am-11:30 am   Th      1:00 pm-4:30 pm

RKC 122 RKC 122/126

LS

SCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 16

 

12324

ECON 203    Game Theory

Aniruddha Mitra

T Th   10:10 am-11:30 am

RKC 101

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: Economics & Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Political Studies Class size: 22

 

12327

ECON 229    Introduction to Econometrics

Sanjaya DeSilva

T Th    4:40 pm-6:00 pm

ALBEE 106

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: Economics & Finance; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies Class size: 18

 

12320

ECON 245    Economics of Conflict

Aniruddha Mitra

T Th    1:30 pm-2:50 pm

HEG 308

SA D+J

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

 

12330

ECON 321    Seminar in Economic Development

Sanjaya DeSilva

W        1:30 pm-3:50 pm

RKC 200

SA

SSCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15

 

12347

HIST 129    Urban American History

Jeannette Estruth

M W     1:30 pm-2:50 pm

OLIN 202

HA D+J

HIST DIFF

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12348

HIST 180    Technology, Labor, Capitalism

Jeannette Estruth

T Th    3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 309

HA D+J

HIST

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights; Science, Technology, Society Class size: 16

 

12360

HIST 2134    Comparative Atlantic Slavery

Christian Crouch

M W    10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 204

HA

HIST

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights Class size: 22

 

12357

HIST 243    African/African American Arts

Drew Thompson

M W     3:10 pm-4:30 pm

OLIN 202

HA

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Art History; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

12365

HIST 343    Commons and the Commune

Gregory Moynahan

W        1:30 pm-3:50 pm

51 107

HA

Cross-listed: Human Rights; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 15

 

12369

HR 219    Mapping Police Violence

Kwame Holmes

T Th   10:10 am-11:30 am

OLIN 310

SA D+J

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities Class size: 18

 

12364

HIST 337    Public History in the U. S.

Myra Armstead

M         10:10 am-12:30 pm

OLIN 301

HA D+J

Cross-listed: Africana Studies; American Studies; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 15

 

12418

HR 367    Geontologies and Rights

Pelin Tan

W       2:00 pm-4:30 pm

CCS SEMINAR

SA D+J

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies

 

12044

ITAL 235    Advance Review: Imagining Italian Cities

Franco Baldasso

T Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLINLC 206

FL

FLLC

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12066

LIT 258    American Literature II

Matthew Mutter

T Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 201

LA D+J

ELIT

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12067

LIT 259    American Literature III

Peter L'Official

T Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLIN 202

LA D+J

ELIT

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12422

PHIL 140    Other Animals

Jay Elliott

M W     8:30 am-9:50 am

OLIN 101

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 22

 

12428

PHIL 257    Darwinism & its Discontents

Kathryn Tabb

T Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm

OLINLC 208

MBV

HUM

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Historical Studies; Science, Technology, Society Class size: 22

 

12143

PHYS 120    Global Energy

Paul Cadden-Zimansky

M W    10:10 am-11:30 am   F       9:30 am-11:30 am

HEG 201 HEG 107

LS

SCI

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 16

 

12443

PS 372    Environmental Political Theory

Kellan Anfinson

M          3:10 pm-5:30 pm

OLINLC 120

MBV

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies Class size: 15

 

12408

SOC 205    Intro to Research Methods

Yuval Elmelech

T Th   11:50 am-1:10 pm

HDR 106

MC

MATC

Cross-listed: American Studies; Environmental & Urban Studies; Global & International Studies; Human Rights Class size: 15