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(Re)Center: Reimagining a New Student Center — ARC4116.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Andrew Schlatter Donald Sherekfin
Credits: 4
This course presents an opportunity to participate in re-imagining the “next life” of the Student Center, as it transitions from its temporary function as a dining facility back to a home for student-centered programming. Students will work together collaboratively to generate program concepts and physical design ideas as a basis for envisioning a full interior renovation of
Visual Arts CAPA Environment Music

Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Credits: 4
Action research is a methodology for learning while doing and food sovereignty is the practice of self-determination in food systems. Food sovereignty projects solve food insecurity by empowering communities and individuals to produce their own culturally appropriate food and medicine. The class will split into affinity groups, each working on different food sovereignty related
CAPA Environment

Action Research Lab for Food Sovereignty — APA4239.01

Spring 2020
Instructor: Tatiana Abatemarco
Credits: 4
Action research is a methodology for learning while doing and food sovereignty is the practice of self-determination in food systems. Food sovereignty projects solve food insecurity by empowering communities and individuals to produce their own culturally appropriate food and medicine. The class will split into 4 groups, each working on a different food sovereignty related
CAPA Environment

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Fall 2019
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?
Science and Mathematics Environment

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals Climate Change — cancelled

Fall 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?
Science and Mathematics Environment

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Elizabeth Sherman
Credits: 4
Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Adaptation or Extinction: Animals and Climate Change — BIO4222.01

Fall 2016
Instructor:
Credits: 4
Global climate change has been implicated in the extinction of some animal species, changes in the geographic ranges of others, and many species appear to be increasingly vulnerable to both biotic (e.g. disease, competitors) and abiotic (e.g. temperature, acidification, pollutants, drought) stressors. Will different animal species adapt to global climate change or disappear?
Science and Mathematics Environment

Addressing a Growing Environmental Problem: Plastic Pollution — APA4139.01

Spring 2019
Instructor: Judith Enck
Credits: 2
This class will provide the latest scientific, economic and policy information to students and marry that information to public action strategies that each student will be expected to lead. With guidance from the faculty, students develop and then implement their strategy for public action. Special attention will be paid to strategies that can be replicated. With over 8 million
CAPA Environment

Advanced Forest Ecology Conservation (with Lab) — BIO4323.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Caitlin McDonough MacKenzie
Credits: 4
Forest ecosystems regulate climate, store and filter water, provide food and fiber, and serve as recreational areas and sacred spaces. These ecosystems are undergoing dramatic changes — climate change, deforestation, management — with important ecological, economic, and social consequences for the future of ecosystems and society. Vermont is among the most forested states in
Science and Mathematics Environment

After Oil: The Promise and Problems of Alternative Energy — SCI2119.01

Fall 2021
Instructor: John Bullock
Credits: 4
It is conventional wisdom that we need to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels in coming years. The reasons include not only the growing problem of climate change, but the simple fact that supplies are finite and new energy sources must be developed on scales large enough to meet the ever-increasing demand throughout the world. This course will begin with an examination of how
Environment Science and Mathematics

Agroecology — ENV2118.01

Spring 2015
Instructor: Valerie Imbruce
Credits: 4
This course is for students interested in the ecology of agricultural systems. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of inputs and outputs in agricultural systems and their relation to primary productivity, nutrient cycling, energy flows, and species interactions on farms.  We will consider agroecology as a science based in, although fundamentally different from,
Science Mathematics and Computing Environment

Air Pollution Measurement and Monitoring — ES4103.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Andrew McIntyre
Credits: 4
Air pollution is a global problem, affecting the quality and longevity of life for millions world-wide. This is true even for certain areas in the U.S. where, despite regulatory efforts, air pollutant concentrations exceed safe limits on a regular basis. In an effort to forecast and prevent detrimental air pollution events, atmospheric measurements of various pollutants are
Science and Mathematics Environment

Alternative Facts: The Undoing of Science in America — ENV2185.01

Fall 2017
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits:
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. (Isaac Asimov, 1980). Does the recent U.S. election suggest that the
CAPA Environment Science and Mathematics

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2016
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions, and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to clean air and water, forests, energy, public lands, and
Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Environmental Politics — POL2109.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: John Hultgren
Credits: 4
This course will explore American environmental politics, from the late 1800s to the present day, with a focus on understanding the actors, institutions and structural power dynamics that impact environmental struggles. We will proceed by engaging with a variety of historical and contemporary case studies related to toxic waste, clean air and water, fracking, national parks,
CAPA Environment Society Culture and Thought

American Food 2018 — APA2151.01

Fall 2018
Instructor: Ben Hall
Credits: 4
In this survey we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also
CAPA Environment

American Food 2021 — APA2343.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Susan Sgorbati
Credits: 4
In this class we will examine the way food is used as social tool to produce power, exploitation, and waste. We will review the use of food in political movements such as the Catholic Worker House and Black Panthers Free Food Program, as well as hunger strikes as an individual tool of political freedom and not eating animals as a form of political resistance. We will also
CAPA Environment

An Environmental History of Food and Farming — BIO2204.01

Spring 2017
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Modern humans have been around for well over 100,000 years. Our ancestors came up with agricultural technology (active ecosystem management for enhanced food production) only about 10,000 years ago, and began changing their world irreversibly.  The long‐term feedbacks triggered by adoption of food production on human population dynamics, socio-cultural systems, and
Science and Mathematics Environment

An Environmental History of Food and Farming — ENV2204.01

Spring 2021
Instructor: Kerry Woods
Credits: 4
Modern Homo sapiens have been around for about 200,000 years and for about 95% of that time, our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers. Around 10,000 years ago, several distinct sets of our ancestors came up with agricultural technology (active ecosystem management for enhanced food production), and immediately began changing their world irreversibly. Long‐term feedbacks
Science and Mathematics Environment

Ancient to Modern Environments: Near and Far — ES4106.01

Spring 2023
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 2
To study a planet’s climatic variation over geologic time we must look for subtle clues in the sedimentary rock record. We are currently doing this on two planets, and scientists have their sights set on more planetary bodies around the solar system. At the same time, the James Webb telescope is offering an unprecedented glimpse of what planets may look like outside of our
Science and Mathematics Environment

Ancient to Modern Environments: Near and Far — ES4106.01

Spring 2025
Instructor: Tim Schroeder
Credits: 2
To study a planet’s climatic variation over geologic time we must look for subtle clues in the sedimentary rock record. We are currently doing this on two planets, and scientists have their sights set on more planetary bodies around the solar system. At the same time, the James Webb telescope is offering an unprecedented glimpse of what planets may look like outside of our
Science and Mathematics Environment

Animal Social Behavior — BIO4307.01

Spring 2018
Instructor: Betsy Sherman
Credits: 4
E. O. Wilson has said that “the organism is simply DNA’s way of making more DNA”. Are the elaborate, bizarre, (at times flamboyant), energy requiring social systems of animals simply adaptations which permit those animals to reproduce? Why is there so much diversity among animal social systems? Why are most mammals polygynous and most birds monogamous? Can we make predictions
Science and Mathematics Environment