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.
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
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
