Cool Classes

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Winter '09

Peregrine Falcons Return CLEI 20G Mon 5 pm College Eight Room 242. Learn how UCSC helped save these falcons and participate in the program. Class prepares student for Spring or Summer internships. Contact: Glenn Stewart [mailto: gstewart@ucsc.edu] More info

CLEI 20F - Justice on Earth 01-SEM(42524) TuTh 4:00PM - 5:30PM Eight Acad 252 Joy Pehlke

SOCY 179 - Nature, Poverty, and Progress: Dilemmas of Development and Environment 01-LEC(44310) TuTh 2:00PM - 3:45PM Earth&Marine B206 Ben Crow

CLEI 90 - College Eight Garden Internship 01-SEM(33019) Tu 4:00PM - 5:30PM Eight Garden Candace Calsoyas

CLEI 170C - Law and Politics in California: Fundamental Perspectives and Current Controversies 01-SEM(43350)

Nature Literature ENVS 01-SEM(44493) TuTh 10:00AM - 11:45AM ISB 221 Sarah Rabkin

Community and Agroecology ENVS 91F 01-SEM(41802) Th 4:00PM - 7:00PM Lower Quarry Sarah Rabkin

An Introduction to World Environmental History ENVS 173 -01-LEC(45158) TuTh 6:00PM - 7:45PM ISB 221 Staff

EART 107 - Remote Sensing of the Environment 01-LEC(34396) TuTh 12:00PM - 1:45PM Earth&Marine B210 Eli Silver

Writing 2 41865 Section 01& 2 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 10:00AM-11:45AM Hum & Soc Sci 350 Instructor: Archimedes, S.

The Consumer Society

What does it mean to be living in a consumer society? Does consumerism encourage us to be greedy and materialistic or can it be creative and liberating? What effect does our seemingly bottomless desire for things have on the environment, on the well being of workers, and on our psychological health? To what extent are our desires – even our identities – shaped by advertising campaigns? Our readings will examine some of these questions and many others relating to contemporary debates about the impact of commercial culture on our lives. Through spirited discussions and reflective reading, students will be encouraged to become thoughtful critical thinkers, alive to the pleasures of writing and analysis. All students will engage in class discussions, participate in collaborative group work, write several informal papers, draft and revise several formal essays, and complete the course with a multi-stage research paper.

WRIT-2-10 41873 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 02:00PM-03:45PM Kresge Clrm 325 Instructor: Terhaar,T.L.

Global Warming, Biodiversity, and the Environment

Global warming threatens to change the natural and human environment. Sea levels may increase, global surface temperatures are increasing, and major weather events will very likely increase. Some of these events may be abrupt or irreversible. How will we cope with these changes?

This course allows students to explore a specific scientific issue related to a major ecological problem: global climate change and the loss of biodiversity on planet Earth. Students will select a research topic on biodiversity loss and then complete several writing assignments that navigate the process of writing a major research essay. Each student follows the same process as a scientist or policy analyst reviewing the current state of knowledge on an environmental issue. Individual writing assignments will be revised and then incorporated into the final research essay. Non-science students are particularly welcome in the class.

WRIT-2-20 41882 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 06:00PM-07:45PM Crown Clrm 203 Instructor: Rava,A. Our Relationship to the Animal Kingdom

What is the nature of the relationship between human beings and the animal kingdom? In this composition course, we will explore the interdependence of humans and animals through critical reading and analytical writing. While animals are a vital and meaningful presence in our collective and individual lives, our attitude towards them is ambivalent and our treatment of them contradictory. We will investigate a wide variety of texts, including pieces by Frans de Waal, Jane Goodall, J.M. Coetzee, George Orwell, and Isaak Dinesen. Studying and writing about our perceptions of and relationships with animals will help us make ethical determinations about animals’ rights and welfare in human society.

WRIT-2-21 43242 Rhetoric & Inquiry TTh 04:00PM-05:45PM Eight Acad 242 Instructor: Todd,J.A. Exploring the Human Place in Nature

How might people live in physical, mental, and spiritual harmony with the rest of nature? Both Euro-American and indigenous American nonfiction texts will inform our developing understanding of how we as humans can take our appropriate place within nature. Students will enhance writing and rhetorical skills while exploring such questions as these: What assumptions about the nature of nature hamper our capacity to live harmoniously within it? What's the relationship between our own bodies and that of the Earth? How can we, both as a community and individually, make positive contributions to the natural processes that support all life? Students will do extensive informal writing and will share feedback on their academic essays both outside of class and in instructor-facilitated writing groups.

Fall

EE 80S Sustainability Engineering (open to all) Shakouri

Blood and Oil 01-LEC(23940) ENVS 144 TuTh 2:00PM - 3:45PM J Baskin Engr 152 Alan Richards 09/25/2008 - 12/05/2008

ENVS 80B - The Ecological Forecast for Global Warming 01-LEC(21138) TuTh 10:00AM - 11:45AM J Baskin Engr 152 Michael Loik 09/25/2008 - 12/05/2008

CLTE 91 Intro to Nuclear Policy Weds 5-6:45 Soc Sci II Rm 179 dohirsch@ucsc.edu

Periodic

Education for Sustainable Living Program Student-run course, great guest lecturers

CMPS 80J: Technology Targeted at Social Issues

UC and the Bomb Student-run course. City on the Hill article

EE 80J: Renewable Energy Sources (Typically Spring)

Introduction to energy storage conversion with special emphasis on renewable sources. Fundamental energy conversion limits based on physics and existing material properties. Various sources, such as solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and fuel cells described. Cost-benefit analysis of different alternative sources performed, and key roadblocks for large-scale implementation examined. Latest research on solar cells and applications of nanotechnology on energy conversion and storage introduced. (General Education Code(s): T2-Natural Sciences.) A. Shakouri

Summer 2008

History of Santa Cruz Mountains

Natural History of Birds

Sustainable Development

Political Ecology and Social Change: Natural Resources, Energy and Agro-Food Systems (ENVS 158-01 #71622) 7/28-8/29 9-12 TTh UCSC Extension Moffet Field. Dustin Mulvaney dustin.mulvaney@gmail.com email to get syllabus