SMEA/SIS/ENVIR 103: Society and the Oceans (5 credits)

Tuesdays & Thursdays 2:30-4:20

Dr. Lekelia Jenkins

* This course counts towards Natural World (NW) and/or Societies (I&S) requirements.*

Oceans tell the story of whether humans are capable of achieving a sustainable relationship with the planet. Once thought as an inexhaustible source of protein and mineral wealth, the oceans now are showing increasing signs of stress.

Society and the Oceans explores how human values, institutions, culture and history shape environmental issues and policy responses. Topics throughout the course will include an overview of marine laws and policy, our roles as consumers of ocean products, and ecological concepts such as shifting baselines. The primary case studies used for this course will focus on fisheries and fisheries conservation.

SMEA 103 is now being offered for Fall registration A new course, SMEA 203, is finishing the approval process. Once approved this summer, the SMEA 103 course offering will be converted to SMEA 203 for Fall. The content will remain the same and it will continue to count as NW and I&S credits.

C ENV 110 (5)

Instructor: Ray Hilborn, Aquatic & Fishery Sciences

Meets both Natural World and Individuals and Societies Requirements

(I&S/NW)

SLN# 11640

No prerequisites. Great for Freshmen!

Everyone eats, and all food production has environmental consequences.

· Discover environmental science through food production.

· Explore the link between the decline of civilizations and current farmer efforts to cope with changing water supply, topsoil loss, and technology.

· Create a food diary and find out the environmental consequences of your diet.

· Understand what climate change, politics, culture, biodiversity, and geography have to do with food.

See: http://coenv.washington.edu/students/food_and_the_environment.pdf

College of the Environment

U NIVER S IT Y of WA S H INGTON

COE food environment.pdf

ESS 102 (NW) SPACE&SPACE TRAVEL
Explores powering the sun, making of space weather conditions, observations from space and from Earth, Earth’ s space environment, radiation belts and hazards, plasma storms and auroras, electron beams, spacecraft requirements, tooling up for manned exploration. Open to non-science majors.

ESS 106 (NW/I&S) LIVING WITH VOLCANO
Explores volcanoes and volcanic eruptions on Earth and in the solar system. Examines how volcanoes work and how they affect the environment, life, and human societies. Illustrates principles using local examples of recent volcanism and ancient examples of mega-eruptions. Evaluates the possibility of predicting future eruptions.

ESS 202 (NW) EARTHQUAKES
Earthquakes of the Pacific Northwest and around the world — their cause and relationship to plate tectonics; why, where, and when they occur. How earthquakes affect human life: shaping landscape, hazards. Laboratory explores physical processes associated with earthquakes. One field trip. Open to non-science majors

ESS 205 (NW) ACCESS TO SPACE
Group development of student experiments to the outer rim of our atmosphere and the beginning of space; investigation of stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, magnetosphere, development of exploration packages; basic electronic fabrication, global positioning, radio tracking, expectations at high altitudes. Open to all disciplines. No previous experience of electronics required.
This course seeks to provide science majors as well as non-science majors access to space to fully appreciate Earth’s upper atmosphere and near space environment and to learn how to accomplish working experiments in these very extreme environments. The course will provide hands-on experience through high-altitude balloon experiments that the students will build and launch. At the same time students will learn basic principles of space sciences as well as basic electronics.

OPEN TO ANYONE WHO HAS TAKEN ESS 101:

ESS 301 (NW) GEOL OF NORTHWEST
Geologic history of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Emphasis on use of geologic principles in interpreting evidence found in landscapes and rocks. Weekend field trips optional. Prerequisite: either ESS 101, ESS 105, ESS 210, ESS 211.

ESS 306 PLANETARY GEOLOGY
Up-to-date survey of geological features and processes on and within planets and their moons deduced from sampling, remote sensing, spacecraft imagery, and theory. Comparative discussion of volcanism, tectonics, surface processes, and thermal evolution. Examination of moon rocks and meteorites. Course information at http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/ess-306 Prerequisite: either ESS 101, ESS 105, ESS 210, ESS 211.

M-F 1:30-2:20pm in GUG 220

SLN 13708

Forests have and continue to play important roles in providing environmental services, human values and natural resources to societies around the world. Historically those groups who successfully dominated access to forests and their resources had considerable political, economic and social power. During the last three decades, highly polarized conflicts over resource uses and conservation have played out in forest landscapes because they are embedded in human landscapes. This course provides a ‘road map’ of factors that need to be considered when making decisions in forests and uses case studies to explore these issues.

ESRM 101A ForestsSociety Flier Spr2012.pdf

Lecture hours: MWF 10:30-11:20 click to go to time schedule
Discussion section: T or Th 9:30-11:20/11:30-1:20/1:30-3:20/2:30-4:20
Course website: http://fish.washington.edu/classes/fish101/

“Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over” – Mark Twain

Water will be the Oil of the 21st century and beyond- the invaluable commodity that determines the wealth of nations, and the health of humans and the freshwater ecosystems upon which we depend. We all know too well the importance of clean, fresh water; but do you know the real reasons why water shortages have led to environmental degradation and intense social conflicts throughout the globe? Many of the most dangerous human diseases are water-borne; how are society’s actions exacerbating these? Why is the biodiversity of freshwater ecosystems the most imperiled on the planet? Is Seattle really a ‘wet’ place or are we running out of sustainable water supplies? This course will examine these and many related questions to improve our understanding of human dependencies and effects on freshwater ecosystems.

FISH 101 Course Flyer.pdf

PHIL 338: Philosophy of Human Rights
T Th 10:30-11:50 (sln: 17371)
WF quiz sections
I&S

This course will provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of human rights. The course begins with an overview of the main issues in the conceptualization and justification of human rights. The course then considers the following special topics: Should human rights be understood only negatively, as rights not to be coerced, or they include positive rightsthat is, rights to be provided with something (e.g., subsistence, health care, or education). Are human rights culturally relative? We will consider the position that human rights reflect “Western values” and do not apply to other societies. We will also consider the potential conflict between women’s rights and traditional values; and feminist criticisms of human rights as androcentric. Other questions include: Are there gay and lesbian rights? Are human rights individual rights, or do they also include group rights? We will also discuss international enforcement and the role of the International Criminal Court. There will be a Midterm Exam, a Final Exam, several short written assignments, and a final project. For their final project, students will have the option of doing service learning with a Seattle-based human rights organization and preparing a service learning report or doing a research paper on a human rights issue. This course qualifies as a core course for the Human Rights Minor and is an approved course for the Law, Societies,& Justice sub-field on rights. Meets I&S Requirement. Prerequisites: None. TEXTS: (1) Patrick Hayden, The Philosophy of Human Rights; (2) volume 1 of the course reader; and (3) volume 2 of the course reader, which contains excerpts from my book, Which Rights Should Be Universal? There are no royalty payments included in the price of volume 2 of the reader. If you are interested in reading the entire book, you will have the option of buying a copy of my book instead of volume 2 of the course reader. Don’t buy both.

Link to info on distinguished teaching award:

http://www.washington.edu/facultystaff/awards/2011-recipients/william-talbott-distinguished-teaching-award