| source Yale (X) |
level |
department Studies in the Environment (X) |
TTh 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Methods from ecosystem ecology, landscape ecology, and industrial ecology applied to questions of how cities work and how they can be more sustainable. Guest speakers, community projects, and field trips in New Haven. Application of theory to New Haven and to cities around the world.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Areas Sc Energy sustainability and global warming; thermodynamic fundamentals; engines (combustion technologies, fossil-fuel pollution, carbon capture and sequestration). Wind, solar, biomass, and other renewable energy sources. Designed for non-science majors and for freshmen and sophomores in science and engineering.
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TTh 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 23) 12/16/2009 W 2.00 Areas Hu Survey of interactions between people and natural environments in North America from precolonial times to the present, including ecological, political, cultural, and economic dimensions. The rise of modern conservation and environmental movements; development of public policy.
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MWF 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Skills QR Areas Sc Physical processes that control Earth?s atmosphere, ocean, and climate. Quantitative methods for constructing energy and water budgets. Topics include clouds, rain, severe storms, regional climate, the ozone layer, air pollution, ocean currents and productivity, the seasons, El Niño, the history of Earth?s climate, global warming, energy, and water resources.
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3 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Permission of instructor required Laboratory and field exercises to accompany EVST 201a.
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T 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period An intensive workshop in writing about science and the environment for a broad audience. Translating complex subjects into elegant prose, conducting interviews, handling controversies, researching articles, and finding one's voice. Readings include exemplary works ranging from newspaper articles to book excerpts.
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 27) 12/17/2009 Th 2.00 Areas Sc Morphogenesis and adaptation of trees from seed formation and germination to maturity. Physiological and developmental processes associated with structural changes in response to environment are discussed from both a phylogenetic and an adaptive point of view.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Exploration of how particular indigenous peoples relate to local bioregions and biodiversity. Differences between and within indigenous societies, especially in cultural relationships to place. Ways in which values associated with physical places are articulated in symbols, myths, rituals, and other embodied practices.
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MW 1.30-2.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas So Examination of capitalism as it functions in practice, with extensive use of business cases. The role of capitalism in generating wealth and innovation unprecedented in history. Negative consequences of capitalist development such as radical inequality, disruption of the natural environment, and intermittent social crises.
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Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Areas Sc Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Introduction to the ecosystem concept. Topics include the structure and functioning of ecological systems, the response of systems to changing environmental conditions, and preservation and management issues. Discussion of both terrestrial and marine/aquatic systems.
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Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Field trips to interpret the ecosystem-level functions of a wide variety of natural landscapes.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Study of the relationship between society and the environment. Global processes of environmental conservation, development, and conflicts over natural resource use; political-economic contexts of environmental change; ways in which understandings of nature are discursively bound up with notions of culture and identity.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required A practical introduction to the nature and use of geographic information systems (GIS) in environmental science and management. Applied techniques for the acquisition, creation, storage, management, visualization, animation, transformation, analysis, and synthesis of cartographic data in digital form.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Examination of how nations negotiate, establish, and implement international environmental law and how the United Nations and other international agencies function. Simulated negotiations; discussion of diplomatic negotiations regarding climate change that occur during the term.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Natural history and environmental writing in the English-speaking world from the late eighteenth century to the present. Readings include Gilbert White?s
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MW 1.00-5.00 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Sc An outdoor overview of the study of ecosystems. How the structure of ecosystems develops (e.g., biodiversity) and how ecosystems function (e.g., process nutrients or pollutants). The impact of global changes, such as climate change and eutrophication, on ecosystem structure and function. Field-based group and independent projects focused on New England ecosystems.
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Th 2.30-4.30 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required History of the anthropological study of the environment. The nature-culture dichotomy, ecology and social organization, methodological debates, and the politics of the environment.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 26) 12/15/2009 T 2.00 Permission of instructor required The effects of variations in the hydrologic cycle on the global distribution of freshwater. The role of environmental change in regulating freshwater supply and quality. The influences of agriculture, industry, mining, urbanization, climate change, and energy-production alternatives on freshwater resources in the United States and abroad.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Overview of the legal norms governing patterns of energy use and associated adverse effects on climate stability, environmental quality, and human health. Focus on U.S. law and policy, with some consideration of relevant international treaties. Special attention to building efficiency and to land-use regulation and urban growth, particularly coastal prospecting and development.
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MW 11.35-12.50 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 34) 12/17/2009 Th 9.00 Permission of instructor required Exploration of a range of coastal and pelagic ecosystems. Relationships between biological systems in the ocean and the physical processes that control the stratification and movements of water. Anthropogenic impacts on oceans, such as the effects of fishing, aquaculture, and global warming. Includes three optional Friday field trips.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The natural history of rivers and river systems and the politics surrounding the efforts of states to manage and engineer them.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required Collapse documented in the archaeological and early historical records of the Old and New Worlds, including Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Europe. Analysis of politicoeconomic vulnerabilities, resiliencies, and adaptations in face of abrupt climate change; anthropogenic environmental degradation; resource depletion; ?barbarian? incursions; and class conflict.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research under the supervision of members of the faculty, resulting in a senior essay. Students meet with peers and faculty members regularly throughout the fall term to discuss the progress of their research. Projects should offer substantial opportunity for interdisciplinary work on environmental problems. Students may choose to do either a one- or a two-term senior project.
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