ClassInfo - Spring 2014 Sociology Classes

Spring 2014 | SOC 4305 Section 001: Society and the Environment: A Growing Conflict (66512)

Instructor(s): Jeffrey Broadbent
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Meets With:: GLOS 4305 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2014 - 05/09/2014

Tue, Thu 01:00PM - 02:15PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 415
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Summer 2023

Course Catalog Description:: Societal causes/cures of ecological problems such as global warming, species extinction, and resource exhaustion.
Class Description:: Over the past 150 years, human society's effect on its local and global environment has increased dramatically. Nowadays, those environmental harms are more and more coming back to harm humans as well as other species. The biggest example of this negative feedback is global climate change. If humanity continues to pour greenhouse gasses like carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, it will get hit with intensifying disasters. According to James Hansen, these could eventually even wipe out the human species. This course explores why this situation has come about and what we can do about it. Three factors: growth of population, growth capacity to buy more stuff, and the technology to make lots of stuff?all these require energy produced by burning fossil fuels that emits carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We need to understand why we as a group, despite available information, have let this problem get so bad. Only then can we overcome this inertia and plot an attainable course toward sustainable world.
Grading:: Other Grading Information: Grading for this course is based primarily on short essays and exercises.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66512/1143
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 11 November 2013

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