ENVS 100 -- Fall 2010
Introduction to
Environmental Studies
Overview
Weekly Schedule
- Week 1 -- August
30 - September 3 -- Course introduction, the concept of sustainability;
converging socio-ecological crises in the modern world; peak oil
and its social and economic implications.
- Week 2 --
September 6 - 10 -- Peak oil and its social and economic implications,
cont.; intellectual history of environmental studies; the concept of the
environment; the concept of wilderness.
- Week 3 --
September 13 - 17 -- The concept of the environment, cont.; the concept of
wilderness, cont.; demographic factors in converging socio-ecological
problems; peak oil and its social and economic implications, cont.
- Week 4 --
September 20 - 24 -- Domination and exploitation in human to nature and human
to human relationships; environmental preservation versus access, use, and
integration with the environment.
- Week 5 --
September 27 - October 1 -- Domination and exploitation in relationships in
human to nature and human to human relationships, cont.; environmental
preservation versus access, use, and integration with the environment, cont..
- Week 6 -- October
4 - 8 -- Complex systems; cultural, economic, and demographic aspects of the
sustainability crisis; environmental justice.
- Week 7 -- October
11 - 15 -- Environmental justice, cont.; climate change; complex systems,
cont.; unsustainable economic systems.
- Week 8 --
October 18 - 22 -- Apple Days class project; Global political economy.
- Week 9 -- October 25 - 29 --
Environmental Studies program curriculum and advising; Deep Ecology;
precautionary principle.
- Week 10
-- November 1 - 5 -- Environmental issues in the news; ecological
footprint; disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and transdisciplinarity.
- Week 11 --
November 8 - 12 -- Disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity, and
transdisciplinarity, cont.; complex systems and collapse; normative
perspectives on the human/nature relationship.
- Week 12 -- November 15 - 19 -- Normative
perspectives on the human/nature relationship, cont.
- Week 13 -- November 22 - 26 --
Thanksgiving Break!
- Week 14 --
November 29 - December 3 -- Science as a human project; drivers for social
disintegration; catagenesis toward sustainability.
- Week 15 -- December 6 - 10 -- Refections on
collapse and catagenesis; case studies of sustainability projects.
- Week 16 --
December 13 - 17 -- Finals Week! -- Course wrap up and final
reflections.
Page Author: Tina Evans
Associate Professor, General Studies and
Environmental Studies
Fort Lewis College, Durango,
Colorado, USA
Page created August 13, 2010; last
updated August 30, 2010