Spring 2017  |  SOC 4305 Section 001: Environment & Society: An Enduring Conflict (67179)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Mon, Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 125
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Examines how natural/built environments influence human behavior/social organization. Focuses on microenvironments/their influence on individuals. Impact of macroenvironments on societal organization. Environmental movements. prereq: 1001 or environmental course recommended, [soc majors/minors must register A-F]
Class Notes:
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Class Description:

Over the past 150 years, human society's damage to 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. If we keep on this way, human society will suffer increasing disasters and not be sustainable into the future. This course explores why this situation has come about and what we can do about it. Three factors: growth of population, affluence and technology, causing more resource withdrawals from and polluting inputs into the environment, are the immediate causes of its decline. The social sciences explain why we have often ignored the issue, even if we have clear natural science knowledge of the problem, and as a result, failed to head off predictable environmental disasters. The current global scale of environmental change presents even bigger risks, but also great opportunities to learn how to cooperate to better manage our "Spaceship Earth."


Grading:
Grading for this course is based primarily on short essays and exercises.
Exam Format:
No exams. Five short pop quizzes.
Class Format:
Lecture and discussion
Workload:
30 pages of reading per week plus essay/exercise and one student group presentation.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67179/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
11 November 2016

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