| source UC Davis (X) |
level |
department Nature and Culture (X) |
Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: satisfaction of Subject A requirement; Comparative Literature 1, 2 or 3, or English 3 recommended. Nature and culture as human constructs, conditioned by both time and place; importance of nature in human thought, both scientific and spiritual; scientific and literary view of the relation between nature and culture, including forms of observation and methods of analysis. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt.—II. (II.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1. Problems in nature and culture, with particular attention to integrative theoretical frameworks available for the investigation of specific issues. Case studies will vary with instructor. May be repeated once for credit when topic and instructor differ. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum or SciEng, Wrt—III.
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: course 1. Ethical issues underlying environmental/ecological controversies, including anthropocentrism vs. ecocentrism, wilderness and species preservation, human population growth, animal rights, deep ecology, and ecofeminism. Emphasis is on critical examination of issues from cross-cultural, theoretical, and applied perspectives. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—(III.) McLean
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: upper division standing. Writings and drawings of a historical period of exploration, with a focus on descriptions of nature. Consideration of what representations of the enterprise of exploration reveal about the cultural values of the explorers, and how those values persist. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—I. Glover
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Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: upper division standing. Issues surrounding animal rights, including hunting, fishing, industrial husbandry and slaughter, experimentation, and pets. Emphasis on the complexities of human relations to other animals from historical, literary, and cross-cultural perspectives. Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum, Wrt.—II. McLean
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Studio—6 hours. Field trips. Exploration of how the people of various cultures, from traditional to contemporary, have expressed their relationship to the natural world in art.
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Discussion—1 hour; fieldwork—70 hours/quarter; term paper. Prerequisite: course 100 and consent of instructor. Fieldwork: one week prior to the beginning of the quarter, plus two weekends. Natural scientific, social scientific, and literary/artistic approaches to the study of nature and culture in one place, which will vary with instructor. Offered in alternate years.—I. (I.)
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Seminar—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; admission to the Nature and Culture Honors program. Students must contact the department before enrolling. Supervised reading, research and writing to prepare for developing a project proposal under the direction of faculty sponsor. Not offered every year.—I, II.
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Independent study; project. Prerequisite: consent of instructor; admission to the Nature and Culture Honors program. Students must contact the department before enrolling. Second of a two-course sequence comprising the senior honors program. It is an individual-study course in which a student produces an honors project under the supervision of a faculty member. Not offered every year.—II, III.
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Tutoring—3-15 hours. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Assist in field trips, lead study sessions with groups and individual students. (P/NP grading only.)
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Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
Score: 12.28047 Details | Listing | Web page
Prerequisite: consent of instructor. (P/NP grading only.)
Score: 12.28047 Details | Listing | Web page