79-336 Introduction to Environmental Ideas
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
By recognizing that environmental problems are themselves complex and require insights from social, political, and scientific perspectives, the interdisciplinary Program in Environmental and Sustainability Studies urges students to gain proficiency in different disciplinary habits of thinking. Introduction to Environmental Ideas fulfills the Environmental Humanities Core Course requirement for the Minor and Additional Major in Environmental and Sustainability Studies. This seminarstyle course introduces key methods and approaches for interdisciplinary inquiry within a framework of Environmental Humanities. Students will practice recognizing and applying disciplinary and interdisciplinary criteria for problems of environment and sustainability apply relevant historical context for key principles and terms used within the field of Environmental and Sustainability Studies and take part in informed discussions about ways of seeing, and creating interventions for environmental problems that are simultaneously social, political, and technical. This course considers the different frameworks of Environmental Justice Climate Justice Development Studies and Sustainable Development. Preference for course registration goes to students already declared for the Minor or Additional Major in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Prerequisites: none listed
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