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| Interdisciplinary Environmental Courses |
| IENV-1910 First-Year Environmental Seminar I A weekly seminar required for students who are beginning their degree program in environmental science and open to other first-year students. Speakers include faculty, graduate students, and guest environmental professionals. Topical environmental issues are considered from numerous perspectives. Fall term annually. 1 credit hour |
| IENV-1920 First-Year Environmental Seminar II A continuation of IENV-1910 that focuses on a different environmental issue each year. Spring term annually. 1 credit hour |
| IENV-2100 Introduction to Environmental Studies An introduction to a variety of ways to study the environment, especially science and technology studies, environmental science, and environmental engineering. Case studies and projects emphasize the cooperation of disciplines in addressing local and global environmental issues such as PCBs in the Hudson River, acid rain in the Adirondacks, and population growth. (Cross listed as IHSS-2100. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and IHSS-2100.) Spring term annually. 4 credit hours |
| IENV-4500 Global Environmental Change Environmental issues of global concern will be investigated from a scientific perspective. Analysis of historic and current data bases on population, resources, land use, and climate will provide an introduction to detailed consideration of more specific case studies in areas including global warming, El Nino Southern Oscillation, ozone depletion, regional drought and water management, long- range transport of pollutants, species extinction and biological diversity loss. (Cross listed as ERTH-4500. Students cannot obtain credit for both this course and ERTH-4500.) Prerequisites: junior, senior, or graduate student status. Fall term annually. 4 credit hours |
| IENV-4600 Rhetoric of Nature and the Environment A seminar course focusing on how attitudes are formed and people mobilized to action on environmental issues. Topics will include traditions of nature writing and art, the symbolic/conceptual formation of “nature” and “the environment,” and methods for analysis and development of discursive formations and persuasive strategies. Prerequisites: junior or senior status, two environmentally focused H&SS courses, and two courses in biology and/or geology, or permission of the instructor. (Cross listed with COMM-4600. Students cannot receive credit for both this course and COMM-4600.) Spring term annually. 4 credit hours |
| IENV-4700 One Mile of the Hudson River I A course that focuses on the Hudson River Basin as an environmental microcosm and a vehicle through which to illustrate the natural science of river systems with particular attention to human influences. This interdisciplinary environmental science course is for environmentally oriented junior, senior, and graduate students. Prerequisites: junior, senior, or graduate student status; introductory courses in biology, chemistry, and geology; environmentally oriented humanities/social sciences courses, or permission of instructor. Fall term, even-numbered years. 4 credit hours |
| IENV-4710 One Mile of the Hudson River II The second of the two-course sequence that begins with IENV-4700. Prerequisite: IENV-4700. Spring term even- numbered years. 4 credit hours |
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