GEOGRAPHY 2412 Fall 2011 Environment & Culture Professor: Mara Goldman Lead TA: Eric ReiffWhat to Expect? • The secrets to sustainable development? • How to reverse global climate change? Learn to think critically about environmental problems, and human-environment relations Understand environmental issues in all their complexity (cultural, political, ecological) Challenge conventional wisdom & your own ideas about “the environment”, knowing about it, and managing itLead TA: Eric Reiff, [email protected] * Main contact for any recitation schedule conflict * Joshua Rodd [email protected]:: 102, 105, 112 Emily Graham [email protected] : 103, 119 Meredith DeBoom [email protected]: 107, 108,117 Ian Rowen [email protected]: 104, 113, 120 Julia Hicks [email protected]: 106, 115, 101 Jamie Humphrey [email protected]:109, 110, 118 Adam Williams [email protected],: 111, 114, 116 TAs and RecitationsWhat do I (we) expect? • Attendance - in class and recitation • Reading - before class/recitation • Participation - in recitation • Critical Thinking • Self reflection • Respect • No Laptops/smart phonesClass Structure • T/TH Lecture 11-11:50 – Main points in reading, guidelines, additional information • Recitations: once a week – Discussion, debate, assignments, reading questions – Assignments and discussion preps (reading questions, etc) posted on website, due in recitation. – NO RECITATION THIS WEEKTextbooks P.#Robbins,#J.#Hintz,#and#S.#A..#Moore.#2010.#Environment#and#Society##Additional)Readings:##On#Course#web#page#http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_2412_f11/ • Readings • Assignments • Syllabus Updates • Web linksGrading Structure • RECITATION: 50% – Short written assignments: 4 x 5% = 20% – Final paper on one of the debates = 10% – Attendance, participation in discussions = 20% • In Class Exams: 50% – 2 Mid-term exams (highest score counts): 25% – Final examination : (Mon. Dec 12, 4:30 pm): 25% Exams: multiple choice, matching, T/FAnnouncements • No recitations this week • No recitations Monday Sept 5 (Labor Day)- Discussion Prep posted on website • Class is Full: Waitlist try to move to recitation with no waitlist: 105 (M 3pm), 115 (M, 3) • Add Deadline: Aug. 31 • No Laptops/smart phonesImportant Questions • How do we know about the environment? • Where does knowledge of nature and the environment come from? • What is the environment? • What is Culture? • What constitutes ʻnatureʼ and ʻthe socialʼ? • How are problems defined and sollutions proposed?“The Environment” 1. The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates. 2. The natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity. Source: Oxford Dictionaries onlinePopulation growth Urban SprawlConsumptionAgricultural Development Soil ErosionDeforestation, global warmingUrbanization and urban pollution, carbon emissions, water quality and scarcity PollutionNature as the “non-human world”Where do we find this nature? “mother nature at her best” Wilderness areas, far from human development… Serengeti National Park, TZ: “untouched wilderness”But what about
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