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Interdisciplinary Environmental Courses
| New and highlighted courses for 2008 |
| Courses in 2007-08 catalog |
Some new interdisciplinary environmental courses, Fall, 2008 Geology and Ecology of Regional Environments Sustainable Design: Theory, Application, Assessment The Lake Project: Social Sculpture and the Landscape
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Courses offered 2007-08 (will soon be updated for 2008-09) |
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Syracuse University | SUNY - ESF |
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School of Architecture ARC 535 Organicism in Modern Architecture College of Arts and Sciences Anthropology Biology -- many courses, including Earth Sciences -- many courses, including Fine Arts (Arts and Sciences) Geography -- many courses, including History Latino-Latin American Studies Native American Studies Political Science Public Affairs and Citizenship Religion Science, Technology, and Society
College of Human Ecology Nutrition and Hospitality Management
College of Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering -- many courses, including: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering College of Law LAW 716 Environmental Law University College Legal Studies Visual and Performing Arts Industrial and Interaction Design Whitman School of Management Law and Public Policy |
Environmental Chemistry (for full listing click here) Environmental and Forest Biology (for full listing click here)
Environmental Resources and Forest Engineering (for full listing click here) -- many courses, including Environmental Studies (for full listings click here) Composition, Library, and Literature -- many courses, including Communications -- several courses, including Environmental Studies -- many courses, including Environmental Science (Graduate) -- many courses, including
Forest and Natural Resource Management (for full listing click here) -- many courses, including Landscape Architecture (for full listing click here)
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Climate Change: Science, Perception, and Policy This course addresses climate change, one of society's most pressing issues, through multi-disciplinary exploration of the science, how the media shapes public opinion, competing views on risk and uncertainty, decision-making, costs and benefits of different policies including the Kyoto protocol, and the ethical dimensions of the choices facing societies affected by the issue. Faculty from SU and ESF in law, economics, earth science, and environmental studies will co-teach this course and bring dialog that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. Insights gained from this course apply to other complex, highly technical environmental problems. This course is designed for students with diverse backgrounds and does not have prerequisites. This is a graduate level course with no prerequisites. Undergraduates at ESF (typically seniors) may enroll in the course under EST 496 with Mark Meisner's permission while undergraduates at SU may enroll in GOL 400 with Don Siegel's permission. |
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GOL 200 -- Earth Science of Energy Key themes include the science and technology behind the global search for oil and gas and estimating future reserves, hydrocarbon resources and impacts on world events, geology of geothermal energy, oceanography of tidal power, climatology or wind energy, and resource stewardship. |
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HNR 360 -- Buillding with a Conscience:
The Synergies of Historic Preservation and Sustainable Design Prof. Elet Callahan, Whitman School of Management, Law and Public Policy Dept. and Gary Radke, Professor of Art and Architecture, SU College of Arts and Sciences January 14-15, 2006 Pre-semester seminar (Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening) Tuesday/Thursday 3:30-4:50 p.m. Start the spring semester with a two-day seminar introducing historic preservation, sustainable design, and the non-profit organization with which we will work during the semester. Seminar participants will visit sites developed with the intent to preserve the natural and built environments and meet with professionals involved in these efforts. During the semester, we will explore the values underlying historic preservation and sustainable design, identifying ways in which these objectives reinforce and support each other, and examine local, national, and international illustrations of “building with a conscience.” Our partner non-profit agency is Grace Episcopal Church. Located in the university neighborhood, the church was founded in 1871 and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since1973. Grace is a diverse, socially active community struggling to survive, in part due to the burdens imposed by its building. The class will work with Grace members to research and organize its archives, which are housed in the Special Collections Resource Center of the Syracuse University Library and include correspondence related to the civil rights movement in the 1960s. The class will also conduct an energy audit of the facility and explore other environmental design and use strategies. |
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LPP 458 --Environmental Law and Policy LPP 458 utilizes judicial, legislative, executive, and administrative materials, as well as secondary sources, to examine environmental issues and explore the relationship between economic and environmental processes. Topics include NEPA, the Endangered Species Act, eminent domain and takings, air and water quality control, pollution control, and sustainable development. |
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BIO 688: Readings in Biodiversity A graduate seminar course examining the theoretical mechanisms controlling biodiversity in which different students will discuss papers each week. Topics covered include species interactions and co-existence, habitat fragmentation, disturbance, species-area relations and biogeographical patterns of species richness of organisms from microbes to large mammals. |
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FOR 694 Writing for Scientific Publication (3 credits)
Prof. Ruth Yanai, Forest and Natural Resources Management Meeting time TBA, interested students should contact Prof. Yanai with their availability. Students will improve their skills in technical reporting by preparing a manuscript suitable for submission to a scientific journal. Topics include selection of an appropriate journal, design of effective figures and tables, sequential preparation of sections of the manuscript, writing tips, |
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Environmental Public Policy Dispute Resolution This course provides you with the opportunity to learn about and expand skills in managing public policy disputes concerning environmental issues. We will examine theory and apply it to skills to better understand how distinguishing characteristics of environmental public policy disputes and communication processes influence approaches for resolving them, preventing them, and making them more productive. The format of the course is a combination of some lecture, discussion, and a lot of skill-based activities. |
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Onondaga Land Rights and Our Common Future
ENS 496-11 (#40523), ENS 696 Section 10 (#40522) EFB 496 (#40520), EFB 696 Sec 1 (40521) Instructors: Robin Kimmerer, Biology; Jack Manno, Environmental Studies; Thane Joyal, Environmental Law; Philip Arnold, SU Dept. of Religion, Freida Jacques, Onondaga Nation School and several guests including Joe Heath, Onondaga Nation Legal Counsel and others. This course will run in conjunction with an educational series beginning in February sponsored by Syracuse University, SUNY ESF and Neighbors of Onondaga Nation (NOON) with the same title, Onondaga Nation Land Rights and Our Common Future. |