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BIO 154 Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

BIO 260 Invertebrate Diversity

BIO 266 Principles of Ecology

BIO 268 Marine Ecology

BIO 364 Plant Ecology

PHI 238 Environmental Ethics

EGR (GEO) 319 Groundwater Geology

EGR 390 Renewable Energy Power System Design

GEO 104 Global Climate Change

GEO 105 Natural Disasters: Confronting and Coping

GEO 111 Intro to Earth Process and Hist

ANT 241 Anthropology of Development

SWG 230 Feminisms and the Fate of the Planet

Hampshire College

SS 0220-1 Buddhism and Ecology

HACU 0303-1 Beyond Sprawl and Crawl

NS 0106-1 Earth Resources

NS 0150-1 Agriculture, Ecology, Society

NS 0181-1   Sustainable Technology

NS 0195-1   Pollution and Environment

Mt. Holyoke College

ENVST 200 Environmental Science

GEOG 107 Intro to Physical Environment

GEOL 101-01 Environmental Geology

UMASS Amherst:

ANTHRO 208 Human Ecology

BIOLOGY 287 Intro Ecology

BMATWT 211 Enrgy Efficient Housing

CE-ENGIN 370 Enviro Engin Principles

CE-ENGIN 371 Water and Wastewater Systems

CE-ENGIN 661 Subsurface Pollution

ECON 308-01 Political Economy of the Envir

ENVIRSCI 101-01 Intro Environmental Biology

ENVIRSCI 112   Fundamentals of the Environment

ENVIRSCI 397B   ST-Plants and Environment

PHYSICS 190E   Energy and Society

PLNTSOIL 575   Environmental Soil Chemistry

PLSOILIN 265   Sustainable Agriculture

POLISCI 253   Int’l Envrn Pol+Plc

PUBHLTH 666   Env.+Occupational Toxiocology

RES-ECON 720  Envrmntl+Resource Economics

Amherst College

BIO 23-01 Ecology

CHEM 38-02  Atmospheric Chemistry

ENST 22-01 Western Environmentalism

ENST 51-01 Invasive Species

GEOL 09-01 Environmental Science

HIST 65-01 African Environmental Hist

HIST 87-01 US Mexican Borderland

PICK 08-01  Conservation Biology

SPRING 2008 COURSE OFFERINGS

EVS 150 Modeling Our World: An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

EVS 300 Seminar in Environmental Science and Policy

BIO 110 Introductory Colloquia: Life Sciences for the 21st Century

BIO 154 Biodiversity, Ecology and Conservation

BIO 110 Conservation Biology Colloquium

BIO 364/365 Plant Ecology and Lab

BIO 366 Biogeography

BIO 103 Economic Botany – Plants and Human Affairs

BIO 264/265 Plant Systematics and lab

BIO 272 Vertebrate Biology

BIO 366 Biogeography

CHM 108 Environmental Chemistry

ECO 224 Environmental Economics

EGR 260 Mass and Energy Balances

EGR 330 Engineering and Global Development

EGR 346 Hydrosystems Engineering

EGR 390 Topics in Engineering: Science, Technology and Ethics

ENG 353 Green Shakespeare

GEO 108 Oceanography: An Introduction to the Marine Environment

GEO 109 The Environment

GEO 301 Aqueous Geochemistry

GEO 270j Carbonate Systems and Coral Reefs of the Bahamas. J-Term

GOV 254 Politics of the Global Environment

GOV 306 Politics and the Environment

PHY 100 Solar Energy and Sustainability

PPL 222 Colloquium: U.S Environmental History and Policy

SOC 332 Seminar in Environmental Sociology

SOC 323 World Population

FALL 2007 COURSE OFFERINGS

ANT 230, Africa: Population, Health, and Environment Issues

Looks at the peoples and cultures of Africa with a focus on population, health, and environmental issues on the African continent. Professor: Elliot Fratkin

ANT 236 Economy, Ecology, and Society
Theoretical approaches to the study of economy, ecology, and cultural evolution in anthropology including production, exchange, and consumption in non-western societies and more. Professor: Elliot Fratkin

BIO 364, Topics in Environmental Biology
Examine coral reefs in terms of their geologic importance and their ecological interactions, with a focus on effects of environmental and anthropogenic disturbances Professor: Paulette Peckol

ECO 224, Environmental Economics
Study the causes of environmental degradation and the role that markets can play in both causing and solving pollution problems. Professor: TBA

EGR 312 Thermochemical Processes in the Atmosphere
A technical background for understanding and addressing air pollution in both engineering and policy terms, with an emphasis on engineering controls. Professor: Paul Voss

EGR 315, Ecohydrology
Study hydrology and its interplay with ecosystems. Professor: Andrew Guswa

FYS 147, Science and Politics of Food, Water and Energy
Explore how disciplinary lenses frame the way economists, geologists, historians, biologists, chemists, engineers and others think about food, water and energy. Professor: Leslie King, Paul Wetzel

GEO 109, The Environment
Evaluate how human activity impacts the earth and the sustainability of natural resources. Professor: Robert Newton

GEO 311, Environmental Geophysics
Theory and environmental applications of geophysical techniques. Professor: TBA

GOV 254, Colloquium: Politics of the Global Environment
An introductory survey of the environmental implications of the international political economy including the tragedy of the commons, sustainable development, global warming, and environmental security. Professor: Gregory White

GOV 306, Politics and the Environment.
Examine environmental policy making within the federal government, with special emphasis on how Congress deals with environmental policy issues. Professor: Donald Baumer

PHI 238, Environmental Ethics
Understand and critically evaluate various ethical perspectives on human beings' interactions with nature and these perspectives' applications to environmental issues. Professor: Jeffry Ramsey

SOC 233, Environment and Society
Explore the relationship between people and their natural environments. Professor: Leslie King

SWG 230, Feminism and the Fate of the Planet
This course explores women's activism on the land of laborers, and in their lives. Students will develop research projects in consultation with area farms, link their local research with global agricultural movements, write papers and give one oral presentation. Professor: Elisabeth Armstrong

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