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Fall 2024 | GEOG 3379 Section 001: Environment and Livelihoods in the Global South (19436)
- 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
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 415
- Enrollment Status:
Open (22 of 60 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Environmental destruction of our planet over the last three centuries has been a product of radical political and economic shifts in the world. This course examines how our world's economic and political systems, and the livelihoods they engender in the Global South, have produced catastrophic local and global environmental conditions. What we produce, sell, buy, how we consume goods, and how we dispose of the waste are at the heart of the world's deteriorating environmental conditions. The current global world order has produced a world in which overconsumption and poverty have led to an environmental disaster that is endangering all species. Example of the topics we will explore include the state of global fisheries and forests, the struggle over scarce water resources, and the responsibility each of us has as an individual and a citizen in reversing the lone planet's ability to support the lives of all humans and other species. 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/19436/1249
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 April 2013
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