What is this Class?

Update: 1/30/2021

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Environmental Studies Program & Environmental Studies Major: first offered in 1978

2017: Environmental Science Major added: Environment & Sustainability Program

• Environmental Studies vs. Environmental Science (vs Geography) at OWU

Interdisciplinary Program: draws from courses across campus

2020: Department of Environment & Sustainability: Promoted!

• Two Geography positions explicitly support the program: Dr. Rowley and Dr. Krygier
• And one Biological Sciences position: Dr. Anderson (Botany, Ecology)
• plus a dozen other faculty (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts)
  • Interdivisional

More good stuff will be happening in the near future…

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Crazy complexity of nature, environment, and human cultural and social interactions

• Delaware Run

The course touches on a broad array of material that is covered in many other courses at OWU in more detail

Active, engaged pedagogy

• Theory into practice; practice into theory: OWU Connection-centered course & Department
• Works well in the context of COVID 19 and the pandemic
  • focus on your project

Importance of different approaches to environment & sustainability (first half of RHM text):

• concepts that enable action
  • Population & Scarcity
  • Markets & Commodities
  • Institutions & the Commons
  • Environmental Ethics
  • Risks & Hazards
  • Political Economy
  • Social Construction of Nature

Importance of taking one object and understanding its complex context (second half of RHM text)

• view and environmental object or thing from different approaches to enable action
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Trees
  • Wolves
  • Uranium
  • Tuna
  • Lawns
  • Bottled Water
  • French Fries
  •  E-Waste

Interdivisional: natural science + social science + humanities + arts (a bit)

Importance of the research process: intellectual skills imparted by a college education: Project, theory into practice

Importance of collaboration: student knowledge and interests, other OWU students, faculty, staff, OWU partners: ENVS 198 (100.1)/498 (400.1)

Lots of steps, parts, due dates: the research process: you are fully capable of managing a relatively complex project

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Review course syllabus, schedule, project

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Send me an email (jbkrygier@owu.edu) with the following info:

• Your Name (preferred name)
• The course (ENVS 100.1 [and section] and/or ENVS 100.2)
• Are you in person or remote this semester (after in-person starts in a week)
• Did you sign up for the class calendar? Look over the syllabus, schedule, and project pages?
• Major (or ideas for major)
• Year at OWU
• Hometown (and state or country)
• Reason for taking this course