Fall 2023  |  GEOG 3379 Section 001: Environment and Development in the Third World (19922)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Enrollment Requirements:
soph or jr or sr
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/05/2023 - 12/13/2023
Wed 05:00PM - 07:30PM
UMTC, West Bank
Anderson Hall 230
Enrollment Status:
Open (21 of 60 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Inequality in the form of extreme wealth and poverty in our world are major causes of environmental degradation. In addition, development failure as well as certain forms of economic growth always led to environment disasters. This course examines how our world's economic and political systems and the livelihoods they engender have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. Beyond this, the course explores alternative approaches of achieving sustainable environment and equitable development. prereq: Soph or jr or sr
Class Description:
This course has three objectives: (a) to advance students' knowledge of the dynamics of capitalism as a global system, its insatiable appetite for resources, and effect on human development; (b) to give students analytical tools to understand the relationship between this expansive system, its enormous productive and destructive capacity (social and ecological); (c) to enable students to gain substantive knowledge about how this system impacts on Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and the social and ecological struggles in those regions. Topic covered include: Dynamics and patterns of economic development; Uneven global consumption of natural resources; Poverty and over-consumption as the twin sources of environmental degradation; Population and development, Urban environment in the South; Gender-class and environmental struggles; waste and the global commons. Teaching methods: There are lectures and one discussion session per week. Several students will lead each weekly discussion of current environment/development topic. We watch and critique several documentaries. Authors include: Bina Agarwal, Barry Commoner, Michael Watts, P. Blaike; Dharam Ghai; David Harvey. Intended audience: Social and natural science undergraduates.
Grading:
30% Midterm Exam
30% Final Exam
25% Reports/Papers
5% Special Projects
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: class participation, examinations
Class Format:
60% Lecture
20% Film/Video
20% Discussion
Workload:
45 Pages Reading Per Week
10 Pages Writing Per Term
2 Exam(s)
1 Special Project(s)
Other Workload: Writing involves summaries of some of the readings for the course
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19922/1239
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
16 April 2013

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