What is this Class?

Update 1/15/2024

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

2021: 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)
• And one new faculty member (Dr. Toshi Mizuta) las fall (soil, agriculture, food, technology, water)
• plus a dozen other faculty (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts)
  • Interdivisional

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

• Delaware Run

The course introduces a broad array of material that is covered in other ENVS and non-ENVS courses at OWU in more detail

Active, engaged pedagogy

• Theory into practice: OWU Connection-centered course & Department
• What’s happening with the environment
  • How to think about the environment and stuff in it
    • How to do something about the environment: give you some agency

Is this class a natural science or social science? BOTH (but actually, Interdivisional)

Think: 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
  • Feminism & the Environment
  • Racialized Environments

Then apply those concepts to understanding stuff in the environment (second half of RHM text)

• • Carbon Dioxide
  • Trees
  • Wolves
  • Uranium
  • Tuna
  • Lawns
  • Bottled Water
  • French Fries
  • E-Waste

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 198/498

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

Yeah, no Blackboard. It’s just bad pedagogical software design

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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 110 [and section] and if you are in ENVS 198)
• Did you subscribe to the class calendar?
• Did you look over the syllabus, schedule, and project pages?
• Did you share the folder (see below)
• Do you have access to the text (or will share the copy in the back of classroom)?
• Major (or ideas for major)
• Year at OWU
• Hometown (and state or country)
• Reason for taking this course

Sharing your work with Instructor: this is how you turn stuff in

• Go to your OWU Drive account
• Create a new folder with the course and your last name
  • +New button (upper left) >> then Folder
  • Phoebe B. Peabody Beebe’s folder would be: ENVS 110 Beebe
  • Share that folder with me (so I can edit)

Later, when you are ready to turn in your work: for example, the 6-page chapter review:

• put the document in the shared folder
• email me that your document is in the shared folder and ready for me to review