The following courses are being offered as part of the environmental theme semester. These
courses, from departments across the
University, provide an opportunity to examine environmental issues from a variety of viewpoints
and disciplines. We encourage you to
investigate -- and participate in -- as many of these courses as possible!
Course descriptions and (in most cases) schedule and availability
information are
available by clicking on the course title in
the following list.
Divison | Div # | Course # | Course
Title | Cr
Hrs. | Professor |
---|
College of
Architecture and Urban Planning |
Urban Planning | 007 | 502.001 | Environmental
Planning | 3 | Patrick
McGovern |
College of
Engineering |
AOSS/ NRE/ UCrse/ Sociology | 241/ 711/ 495/
482 | 172.001 111.001 111.001 111.001 | Introduction to Global Change
II | 4 | Tim
Killeen David
Allan Vince Abreu |
AOSS | 241 | 202.001 | The
Atmosphere | 3 | Peter
Sousounis |
College of Literature,
Science, and the Arts (LS&A) |
Cultural Anthropology | 319 | 440.001 | Cultural
Adaptation: Political Ecology, Agriculture &
Deforestation | 3 | Michael Fleisher |
Biology | 328 | 100.001 | Biology
for Nonscientists | 4 | Jack
Burch |
Biology | 328 | 108.001 |
Introduction to Animal Diversity | 4 | Phil
Myers |
Biology | 328 | 255.001 | Plant
Biology | 5 | Michael
Wynne |
Biology | 328 | 483.001 | Limnology:
Freshwater Ecology | 3 | John
Lehman |
Chem/ AOSS | 334/ 241 | 105.001 | Our
Changing Atmosphere | 3 | John
Barker |
English | 361 | 313.010 | Topics
in Literature: Winter &
Spring | 4 | Richard
Tillinghast |
English | 361 | 317.001 | Literature
& Culture: Changing Attitudes Towards
Nature | 3 | Alan
Howes |
English | 361 | 484.001 | Issues
in Criticism: Romantic Nature | 3 | Tobin Siebers |
Env. Studies/ Geology/
AOSS | 366/ 377/ 241 | 123.001 | Life
and the Global
Environment | 2 | James
Walker |
Env.
Studies/ Res.
College | 366/ 867 | 240.001 | Introduction
to Environmental Studies:
Big Questions for a Small Planet | 4 | Catherine
Badgley |
Env.
Studies/ NRE | 366/ 711 | 356.001 308.001 | Homeplace:
Life in the Huron
Valley | 3 | Paul
Webb,
John Knott, James Walker |
Env. Studies | 366 | 412.001 | Alternative
Patterns of Resource Utilization: The Amish in Twentieth
Century America | 3 | Trudy Huntington |
Geology | 377 | 135.001 | History
of the Earth | 3 | Alex
Halliday, Gerry
Smith |
Geology | 377 | 206.001 | How
the Earth Works: The
Water
Cycle &
Environment | 2 | Phil
Meyers |
Geology | 377 | 222.001 | Introductory
Oceanography | 3 | Bob
Owen |
Geology | 377 | 223.001 | Introduction
to Oceanography,
Lab | 1 | Bob
Owen |
Geology | 377 | 265.001 | How
to Build a Habitable
Planet | 3 | Ben van
der
Pluijm |
Geology | 377 | 275.001 | The
Ice Ages Past and Present | 3 | Ted
Moore |
German | 379 | 326.002 | Intermediate
German: Deutschlands Ökologie: eine grüne
Zukunft? (The Ecology of Germany: A Green
Future?) | 3 | Janet
VanValkenburg |
History | 390 | 197.003 | Freshman
Seminar:
Environment & History in
Europe | 3 | Paolo
Squatriti |
History/ American
Culture | 390/ 315 | 396.002 496.001 | History
Colloquium:
"History of the North American
Environment" | 4 | Maria Montoya |
Honors | 395 | 493.001 | DeRoy-Graf
Seminar:
Rethinking Agriculture in the Age of Ecology | 2 | Wes
Jackson, Donald Worster |
Political Science | 450 | 497.001 | Undergraduate
Seminar in Comparative and Foreign Government: The Political Economy of
the Environment | 3 | Michael Ross |
Political Science | 450 | 498.001 | Undergraduate
Seminar in International Politics: Global Environmental Changes and the
State | 3 | Harold
Jacobson |
Sociology | 482 | 105.002 | First
Year Seminar in Sociology: People and Global Environmental
Change | 3 | Richard
Rockwell |
AOSS/ NRE/ UCrse/ Sociology | 241/ 711/ 495/
482 | 172.001 111.001 111.001 111.001 | Introduction to Global Change
II | 4 | Tim
Killeen David
Allan Vince Abreu |
School of Natural Resources
and Environment (SNRE) |
AOSS/ NRE/ UCrse/ Sociology | 241/ 711/ 495/
482 | 172.001 111.001 111.001 111.001 | Introduction to Global Change
II | 4 | Tim
Killeen David
Allan Vince Abreu |
NRE | 711 | 210.001 | Introduction
to Environmental
Policy | 3 | Bonnie
Robinson |
NRE | 711 | 220.001 | Conservation
of Biological
Diversity | 3 | David
Allan |
NRE | 711 | 270.001 | Our Common
Future: The Ecology, Economics, and Ethics of
Sustainable Development | 4 | Lisa Curran |
NRE | 711 | 301.001 | Ecological
Issues | 4 | Paul
Nowak, Jim
Diana |
NRE/ LHSP
(Lloyd Hall
Scholars
Program) | 711/ 445 | 306.003 110.003 | Environmental
Problem
Solving | 3 | Scott
Sherman |
NRE | 711 | 306.004 | Environmental
Politics
and Policy | 3 | Barry
Rabe |
NRE | 711 | 306.007 | Composting
- Nature's Recycling | 2 | Doren Comerchero, Lori Kasle |
NRE | 711 | 306.045 | Interdisciplinary
Capstone
Applications | 3 | Pat
West |
NRE | 711 | 361.001 561.001 | Conservation
Behavior: Source Reduction and Recycling |
3 | Kate Irvine, Maureen Austin |
NRE | 711 | 443.001 | Applied
Social and Behavioral Science | 3 | Pat
West |
NRE/ Economics | 711/ 358 | 470.001 370.001 | Natural
Resource
Economics | 3 | Gloria
Helfand |
NRE/ Education | 711/ 208 | 481.001 D474 | Environmental
Education and Natural Resources | 4 | Michaela Zint |
School of Public
Health |
EIH | 742 | 310.001 | Environmental
Chemicals
and Disease | 3 | Rita
Loch-Caruso |
HBHE | 747 | 661.001 | Environmental
Disasters and
Social Policy | 3 | Greg
Button |
HBHE | 747 | 690.001 | Environmental
Health
Education | 3 | Sylvia
Tesh |
Residential
College |
RC/Hums | 865 | 242.001 | Creative
Adaptation | 4 | Carolyn
Balducci |
RC/Hums | 865 | 322.001 | Advanced
Writing for Children and Young Adults | 4 | Carolyn Balducci |
RC/IDiv Env.
Studies | 867 366 | 240.001 240.001 | Big
Questions for a Small
Planet | 4 | Catherine
Badgley |
RC/IDiv | 867 | 350.001 | Special
Topics; Environmental
Education | 1 | Steve
Brechin |
RC/NSci | 875 | 415.001 | Science
&
Politics | 4 | Susan
Wright |
RC/SSci NRE | 877 711 | 305.001 306.093 | Society
& The
Environment | 4 | Steve
Brechin |