| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Wysession, Kidder | No final | 80 | 1 | 0 | | |
| A | --W---- | 3:00P-3:50P | TBA | TBA | Default - none | 16 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only. Students who are not first year students will be automatically unenrolled from this course. |
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| B | --W---- | 4:00P-4:50P | TBA | TBA | Default - none | 16 | 1 | 0 | | Desc: | This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only. Students who are not first year students will be automatically unenrolled from this course. |
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| C | ---R--- | 4:00P-4:50P | TBA | TBA | Default - none | 16 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only. Students who are not first year students will be automatically unenrolled from this course. |
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| D | ---R--- | 4:00P-4:50P | TBA | TBA | Default - none | 16 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only. Students who are not first year students will be automatically unenrolled from this course. |
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| E | ----F-- | 1:00P-1:50P | TBA | TBA | Default - none | 16 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | This course is for first-year (non-transfer) students only. Students who are not first year students will be automatically unenrolled from this course. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 11:30A-12:50P | TBA | Trivers, VanRiper | Paper/Project/TakeHome | 75 | 4 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 3:00P-4:50P | TBA | Parks | Dec 12 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 30 | 9 | 0 | | Desc: | Sections 01 and 03 will meet in the same classroom.
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| 02 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Parks | Dec 17 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 30 | 17 | 0 | | Desc: | Sections 02 and 04 will meet in the same classroom.
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| 03 | M-W---- | 3:00P-4:50P | TBA | Parks | Dec 12 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 30 | 0 | 0 | | Desc: | Section reserved for First-Year Students ONLY. Upper-level students wiil be dropped from this section. Sections 01 and 03 will meet in the same classroom.
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| 04 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Parks | Dec 17 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 30 | 1 | 0 | | Desc: | Section reserved for First-Year Students ONLY. Upper-level students will be dropped from this section. Sections 02 and 04 will meet in the same classroom.
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| | Description: | Missouri's Natural Heritage is for first year students in the Pathfinder program. We will hold many classes outdoors and learn about your home for the next four years. The Missouri survey course will cover our geology, archaeology, and native fauna, as well as restoration, and management of our diverse habitats (prairie, forest, glade, and stream) and the biology of our diverse plant and animal wildlife (arthropods, mollusks, fish, salamanders, lizards, birds, and mammals). In addition to weekly lecture and discussion, students in this class will visit sites across the state during a number of weekend field trips and weekend camping trips. Enrollment reserved for Pathfinder Fellows. |
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| | 01 | -T----- | 2:30P-3:50P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Fike | No final | 0 | 0 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | DeMatteo | No final | 3 | 0 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 8:30A-9:50A | TBA | Loui | No final | 12 | 1 | 0 | | Desc: | Section 01 reserved for First-Year students ONLY. |
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| 02 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | TBA | Loui | No final | 12 | 10 | 0 | | Desc: | Section 02 reserved for second-year students only. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Krummenacher | Dec 16 2024 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 20 | 10 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | ---R--- | 1:00P-3:50P | Rudolph / 112 | Parks | No final | 12 | 12 | 2 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | (None) / | Braude | No final | 5 | 0 | 0 | | |
| 02 | TBA | | (None) / | Pardini | No final | 5 | 0 | 0 | | |
| 03 | TBA | | (None) / | Loui | No final | 5 | 0 | 0 | | |
| 04 | TBA | | (None) / | Knipp | No final | 10 | 0 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | Our planet is finite but our economic theories and practices assume that our economy can grow forever. The paradoxical pursuit of infinite growth on a finite planet has real-world consequences: from climate change to increasing income inequality to stagnant and declining quality of life for most of us to the ongoing mass extinction of species not deemed economically useful to us, but whose loss simplifies ecosystems to the point of collapse. If these trends continue, we will face very difficult times ecologically and socio-politically. One alternative to infinite-planet economic theory is Ecological Economics, which can be described as economics as if the laws of thermodynamics are true and apply to us. Alone among disciplines with aspiration to analytic rigor, the field of economics has remained unaffected by the thermodynamic revolution that transformed the fields of biology, chemistry, physics, even history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This failure to take physical law into account is one great source of our society's environmental (and social, and political) problems. Ecological economics thus represents the continuation of the thermodynamic revolution begun in the 1880s. This course is designed to give you an appropriate grounding in the fundamental assumptions, the conceptual novelties, and the distinctive tools of analysis that comprise this emergent school of economic theory, while placing this theorizing in historical and ecological context. We'll pay particular attention to how the precepts and practice of Ecological Economics illuminate the largest challenge facing humans today, the necessity of developing an ecologically sustainable society, one that is sized to the limits of our finite planet. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 2:30P-3:50P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | VanRiper | No final | 15 | 15 | 13 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | As committed environmentalists, one of our greatest fears is that not enough people take climate change seriously. To ward off that fear, we assess the state of the world in the most dramatically pessimistic ways to indicate the seriousness of our situation and our personal commitment to "environmentalism." Highlighting (much less admiring) human progress in areas where solid evidence of its flourishing exists, seems blasphemous, dismissive of evident, copious human suffering and natural systems abuse. However, the absence of acknowledging human progress reinforces social fear and a sense of danger. The resulting panic leads to a preferencing of solutions which appear "in harmony with nature," limiting our understanding and trust of viable alternative solutions using our best social, economic and technological powers. As antidote to this cycle, in this course we will explore the precepts of environmental modernism, the reconciliation of environmental preservation with human development. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 4:00P-5:20P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Loui | No final | 12 | 11 | 0 | | Desc: |
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| | Description: | Urbanization is one of the most significant forces shaping today's environment. More than half of the world's population now lives in urban, rather than rural, areas. This migration has profound consequences for people and the planet, connecting a sustainable future to the developments in cities around the world. Many cities are already advancing sustainable policies and practices in all areas of urban systems and services - green infrastructure, renewable energy, waste management and climate mitigation. This course explores the impact of the rise of cities in an interconnected world and the efforts to sustainably address environmental issues in urban settings. This course pays particular attention to the role of planning, politics and policy. Class time will be devoted to lectures, case studies, group activities and discussion. Student learning will be assessed through exams, online assignments, and a research paper on an environmental issue in a city of the student's choice. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Krummenacher | Dec 17 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 40 | 38 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 11:30A-12:50P | TBA | Richardson | Dec 17 2024 10:30AM - 12:30PM | 175 | 124 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | From the beginning of the human campaign, societies have socialized the spaces and places where they live. This socialization comes in many forms, including the generation of sacred natural places (e.g., Mt. Fuji) to the construction of planned urban settings where culture is writ large in overt and subtle contexts. Over the past two decades or so, anthropologists, archaeologists, and geographers have developed a wide body of research concerning these socially constructed and perceived settings -- commonly known as "landscapes". This course takes a tour through time and across the globe to trace the formation of diverse social landscapes, starting in prehistoric times and ending in modern times. We will cover various urban landscapes, rural landscapes, nomadic landscapes (and others) and the intersection of the natural environment, the built environments, and the symbolism that weaves them together. Chronologically, we will range from 3000 BCE to 2009 CE and we will cover all the continents. This course will also trace the intellectual history of the study of landscape as a social phenomenon, and will investigate the current methods used to recover and describe social landscapes around the world and through time. Join in situating your own social map alongside the most famous and the most obscure landscapes of the world and trace the global currents of your social landscape! |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 10:00A-11:20A | TBA | Frachetti | Paper/Project/TakeHome | 50 | 50 | 2 | | |
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| | Description: | This introductory course in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is designed to provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to be an independent user of GIS. The course will use the latest version of ESRI ArcGIS. The course is taught using a combination of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on, interactive tutorials in the classroom. You will also explore the scientific literature to understand how GIS is being used by various disciplines to address spatial questions. The course takes a multidisciplinary approach that is focused on learning the tools of GIS versus working with data from a particular field. The goal is to establish a solid foundation you can use to address spatial questions that interest you, your mentor, or your employer. The first weeks of the course will provide a broad view of how you can display and query spatial data and produce map products. The remainder of the course will explore the power of GIS with a focus on applying spatial analytical tools to address questions and solve problems. As the semester develops, more tools will be added to your GIS toolbox so that you can complete a final independent project that integrates materials learned during the course with those spatial analyses that interest you the most. Students will have the choice of using a prepared final project, a provided data set, or designing an individualized final project using their own or other available data. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 10:00A-11:20A | Rudolph / 308 | [TBA] | No final | 17 | 17 | 6 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| 02 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:20P | Rudolph / 308 | [TBA] | No final | 17 | 17 | 3 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:20P | Kemper / 103 | Sheren | Paper/Project/TakeHome | 30 | 21 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | The Sustainability Exchange engages interdisciplinary teams of students to tackle real-world energy, environmental, and sustainability problems through an experiential form of education. Students participate in projects with on- or off-campus clients, guided by faculty advisors from across the University. Teams deliver to their clients an end-product that explores "wicked" problems requiring innovative methods and solutions. Past projects have included conducting greenhouse gas inventories for a community organization; developing a tool to screen University investments for sustainability parameters; developing a sustainability plan for a local nonprofit; addressing water savings initiatives for local breweries; and assessing the vulnerability of city sanitation systems. New projects and clients are introduced every semester. Team-based projects are complemented by seminars that explore communications, project management, data visualization, problem-solving strategies, and the environmental, social, and economic context of Saint Louis. The course is designed primarily for undergraduates, with preference given to seniors. Registration for this course is direct to the waitlist, and students are selected by application. The application can be found here . The deadline for the application is April 24th. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-3:50P | January Hall / 110 | Williams, Krummenacher, Solberg, Knipp, VanRiper, Bumpers | No final | 0 | 0 | 22 | | |
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| | Description: | RESET is an interdisciplinary course that explores the incredible potential of renewable energy, energy storage, and electrification to mitigate climate change. Students will gain an in-depth understanding of the complex dynamics that are driving rapid deployment of renewables and present both opportunities and challenges to decarbonization in the years ahead. Through the lenses of business, policy, and engineering, students in RESET will learn through classroom lectures from faculty, industry professionals, and policy-makers; group discussions; field trips to solar arrays and a landfill gas power plant; and a final team project where students serve as consultants to a local government, proposing an on-site solar strategy, local policy changes to support decarbonization, and more. By the end of the course, students will have an understanding of many large-scale issues influencing decarbonization, as well as the real-world factors that are necessary for designing, financing, and building new renewable energy projects. Why renewables and the grid? Decarbonizing the electric grid paired with electrifying sectors that currently run on fossil fuels - including transportation, heating, buildings, and manufacturing and construction - together have the potential to reduce more than 50% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The global energy transition, which was already well-underway, accelerated in 2022 due to a combination of countries' energy security concerns following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and expanding climate ambition resulting in new policies that support renewable energy, including the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States. The International Energy Agency's 2022 Renewables report found that "renewables are set to account for over 90% of global electricity expansion over the next five years, overtaking coal to become the largest source of global electricity by early 2025." Registration for this course is direct to the waitlist, and students are selected by application. The application can be found here . The deadline for the application is 5 PM on April 24th. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 1:00P-2:20P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Valko | No final | 0 | 0 | 22 | | |
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| | Description: | Community ecology is an interdisciplinary field that bridges concepts in biodiversity science, biogeography, evolution and conservation. This course provides an introduction to the study of pattern and process in ecological communities with an emphasis on theoretical, statistical and experimental approaches. Topics include: ecological and evolutionary processes that create and maintain patterns of biodiversity; biodiversity and ecosystem function; island biogeography, metacommunity dynamics, niche and neutral theory; species interactions (competition, predation, food webs), species coexistence and environmental change. The class format includes lectures, discussions, and computer labs focused on analysis, modeling and presentation of ecological data using the statistical program R. Prereq: Bio 2970 recommended, or permission of instructor. (Biology Major Area C) |
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| | 01 | -T----- | 9:00A-10:20A | TBA | Myers | No final | 24 | 23 | 20 | | Desc: | Thursday's class will be split into two discussion sections. Discussion sections will meet in TBA. |
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| A | ---R--- | 9:00A-10:20A | TBA | Myers | No final | 12 | 11 | 10 | | |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 2:30P-3:50P | TBA | Pollak | Dec 18 2024 3:30PM - 5:30PM | 30 | 30 | 4 | | |
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| | 01 | --W---- | 4:00P-6:50P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Martin | Dec 13 2024 6:00PM - 8:00PM | 0 | 0 | 25 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 1:00P-2:20P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Martin | Dec 18 2024 1:00PM - 3:00PM | 20 | 6 | 0 | | |
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| | 01 | M-W---- | 4:00P-5:20P | Rudolph / 308 | [TBA] | No final | 18 | 7 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | 01 | ----F-- | 10:00A-12:50P | Rudolph / 308 | Lian | No final | 20 | 6 | 0 | | | Actions: | | Books | | Syllabus | | Syllabi are provided to students to support their course planning; refer to the syllabus for constraints on use. |
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| | Description: | This course is designed to support fourth-year students who are working on research and thesis development for mentored research, honors research, or Latin Honors with the Environmental Studies Program. In this pass/fail, one-hour seminar course, instructors will guide students through common elements of the research process and teach skills for thesis writing that cross disciplines, such as goal setting and planning, developing a proposal, outlining methodology and findings, and using bibliographic reference software. Instructors and students will co-create a supportive environment for students to share ideas, feedback, and support as they engage in their independent reserach processes. This course is REQUIRED for all students completing Latin Honors and STRONGLY ENCOURAGED for students conducting mentored "senior" research regardless of GPA. Students graduating in spring or summer should take ENST 498 in fall and ENST 499 in spring of their final year; students graduating in December should take ENST 498 in the fall of their graduating year. |
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| | 01 | TBA | | TBA | Pardini | No final | 6 | 0 | 0 | | |
| 02 | TBA | | TBA | Krummenacher | No final | 6 | 0 | 0 | | |
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| | Description: | The goal of this course is to introduce you to many of the skills that are required to generate, contextualize, and justify research. The final product of the course will be a literature review and tractable research question about a topic of your choice. One of the most important pieces of conducting research is to generate an interesting and important research question that is grounded in what we already know, contextualized by previous research, and justified by what gaps yet remain in our knowledge. Researchers craft and share this motivation in a literature review, contextualizes, justifies, and motivates the research question. Drafting a literature review is a critical and large part of the process, because working through writing of ideas is often how the ideas are shaped and refined, in large part because writing is thinking. In class we will cover a variety of concepts and skills that are useful in any discipline in terms of searching for the right kind of background information and data, evaluating types and quality of sources, reading and summarizing literature, constructing a logical and persuasive written argument, reference management, and data management and visualization. This course serves all students in the interdisciplinary environmental space, because the content and skills of this course apply to the literature review process across the range of humanities, social science, and natural science disciplines. We will touch on disciplinary conventions where they differ, but most of the content and skills are common and apply to all disciplines. Some students will go on to pursue a senior thesis research project while others may not, but all students will be able to transfer the skills you learn here into other course and capstone work, professional school and professional work going forward. Through reading, individual homework activities, and group discussion and class activities, you will learn and practice skills. Over the course of the semester, you will complete phased assignments that build up to a written literature review on a topic of your choice. Your course grade will be based on participation, homework, class activities, and assignments related to the literature review. This course is offered every semester. It is designed for third year students with a major or minor in Environmental Analysis/Environmental Studies. It is not required but is strongly recommended for any student who is considering senior thesis research in Environmental Analysis. Fourth-year and second-year Environmental Analysis/Environmental Studies students will be considered on a case-by case basis based on available seats. |
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| | 01 | -T-R--- | 11:30A-12:50P | Schnuck Pav / 202 | Pardini | No final | 12 | 7 | 0 | | |
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