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ENVS 201: INTRO ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL SCIENCE email: jmbacon@uoregon.edu office : ENVS 240 office hours: T & Th 12-2pm & by appointment

ACADEMIC HONESTY

COURSE MATERIALS

WHAT?

This interdisciplinary course will introduce students to the ways environment is understood through the social sciences. Through this course, you will be able to:

✧ Identify environmental challenges/concerns facing human societies.

✧ Discern the kinds of experiences that individuals, communities, governments, corporations, and non-governmental entities may have in addressing or exacerbating these issues.

✧ Identify a range of approaches being used to confront environmental issues.

As a result of this course, you will: ✧ Understand approaches that social science

disciplines may use to examine and address environmental issues.

✧ Have skills to conduct research on environmental issues that take into account social science perspectives.

✧ Be able to reflect on key concepts, such as environmental justice and sustainability, engage in meaningful discussions with your peers, and write about these issues.

✧ Be able to apply class concepts in future courses, academic research and practical situations such as internships and service-learning opportunities.

HOW? We will utilize:

✧ Lecture, films, academic and popular literature

✧ Class exercises to develop critical self-reflection

✧ Discussion sections where students may engage the material in a more hands-on way

Twenty Lessons in Environmental Sociology Course Packet Readings are rated for difficulty êêê is the most difficult

question with the instructor before committing or attempting to commit the act. Additional information about a common form of academic misconduct, plagiarism, is available at www.libweb.uoregon.edu/guides/plagiarism/students . Academic misconduct will be met with disciplinary action (the usual punishment is an “F” for the course).

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Week 1: BASIC THEORY 1/6/ 2015 Lecture One: Intro to Social Sciences and the course 1/7/2015 Lecture Two: Environmental Sociology Theories READINGS DUE Barbosa, Luiz C. "Theories in Environmental Sociology." (20 lessons) êêê Weeks 2: COMMONS 1/13/2015 Lecture One: The Commons and land management in the US READINGS DUE Hardin, Garret “Tragedy of the Commons” (CP 1-12) êê "Cooperation and the Commons." (CP 13-14) êê

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TENTATIVE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

“The Science of Cooperation” (CP 15-17) êê 1/15/2015 GUEST LECTURE: Ron Reed READINGS DUE Bayet. "Overturning the Doctrine: Indigenous People and Wilderness” (CP 18-25) êêê LIT REVIEW TOPIC APPROVAL DUE IN SECTIONS Week 3: CONSUMERISM 1/20/2015 Lecture One: Marxism and Environmental Thought READING DUE Foster, John Bellamy. ""Marx and the Rift"" (CP 25-41) êêê 1/22/2015 FILM: Last Call at the Oasis or Blue Gold READING DUE Campbell, Elizabeth. "Corporate Power." (20 Lessons) êê Week 4: SUSTAINABILITY 1/27/2015 TUES TEST ONE bring a scantron sheet and pencil to class 1/29/2015 Lecture Two: Sustainable Business Week 5: POPULATION and CONSUMPTION 2/3/2015 Lecture One: GUEST LECTURE by Annelia Hillman READING DUE Hynes, H. Patricia. "Consumption (1999).”(CP 42-48) ê

Holt-Giménez, Eric. "We Already Grow Enough Food” (CP 49-51) ê Goodell, Jeff. "Kunstler on Why Technology Won't Save Us." (CP 52-57) ê

2/5/2015 Lecture Two: Climate Change, Consumption, Population READING DUE Hartmann, Betsy. 10 Reasons Why. (CP 58-61) ê Bates, Diane C. "Population Demography and The Environment." (20 Lessons) êêê Weeks 6: ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS 2/10/2015 Lecture One: History of the US Environmental Movements READINGS DUE Bari, Judi. "Why I Am Not a Misanthrope." (CP 62-63) êê

Brulle, Robert J. "US Environmental Movements." (20 Lessons) êê 2/12/2015 FILM: If a Tree Falls READINGS DUE Foreman, Dave. "Putting the Earth First." (CP 64-70) ê

Guha, Ramachanda. "Environmentalism of the Poor." (CP 71-88) êêê PRÉCIS DUE IN SECTIONS Week 7: NATURAL? DISASTERS 2/17/2015 Lecture One: Disaster Vulnerability READING DUE Bullard, Robert D. "Differential Vulnerabilities" (CP 89-120) êêê 2/19/2015 TEST TWO bring scantron and pencil to class Weeks 8 : GLOBAL RISK AND DENIAL 2/24/2015 Lecture One: Climate change and the idea of Global Risk READINGS IPCC, 2014: Summary for policymakers. In: Climate Change 2014 (CP 121-153) êê 2/26/2015 Lecture Two: Climate Denial READINGS Norgaard, K. M. ""We Don't Really Want to Know" (CP 154-177) êê

Dryzek, John S. "Political and Ecological Communication" (CP 178-191) êê LIT REVIEW DUE IN SECTIONS

Week 9: SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 3/3/2015 Lecture One: EJ what is it? READINGS Taylor, Dorceta. Race, Class, Gender, and American Environmentalism. (CP 192-248) êê 3/5/2015 TEST THREE bring pencil and scantron Week 10: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES AND MOVEMENTS 3/10/2015 Lecture One: EJ and Indigenous Perspectives READINGS Baldy, Cutcha. "Why We Gather" (CP 249-258) êê 3/12/2015 Lecture Two: Indigenous Environmental Movements READINGS LaDuke, Winona. "All Our Relations." (CP 259-266) êê *12:30 MONDAY MARCH 16th Final Exam * BRING SCANTRON A NOTE ABOUT MAKE UPS There are no make-ups for in class assignments and work. If you miss class you miss the assignment. Tests can be made up. All test make-ups are take-home essays. Contact me immediately if you need to take a make up test.

30% Tests

These (3) will test your knowledge of the readings and lecture materials covered during each unit. Tests will consist of multiple choice, T/F, matching, and short answers. Study guides will be provided. Students may opt for a take home essay test up to 2 times (this means everyone needs to take at least one in-class test). The take home essay test will be a 4-5 page typed essay response with citations. The prompt is issued the morning of the test and the completed essay is due midnight the day of the in-class test. Rubrics will be made available before the prompt.

15% Final Exam

This will be a cumulative final exam. Roughly half of the questions will come from tests you have already taken. The exam will consist of multiple choice, T/F, matching, short answers and essay questions. A study guide and study session will be provided.

25% Lit Review Students will select a particular environmental topic (must get approval by week 2 from Instructor or GTF) and use the Web of Knowledge database to collect 5 articles from peer-reviewed social science journals. Students will learn to write précis and will construct a précis for each of their articles by week 6. Students will then write a 4-5 page lit review using their précis as the body of the document. Final lit review due week 8.

30% In-Class Activities and Discussion Section Participation

Attendance is mandatory, but it is not enough. Active participation in discussion means paying attention, engaging in the conversation, coming to each session prepared, and participating fully in classroom activities and assignments.

GRADE BREAKDOWN

THINK CLEARLY / DO THE WORK /ASK QUESTIONS / DO WELL