ENVS 156 JO1 Permaculture
60491 / 3 credits / Keith Morris / Online and off-campus / July 5 – August 12
Residential intensive course from July 17 - July 29. This is a full-time "farm and nature immersion" residential
Permaculture Design Certification course, meeting at Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, Vermont July 17 - 29.
Before and after these dates there are readings, assignments and online meetings, but students do not need to be onsite (or in Vermont). Co-requisite: ENVS/PSS 195. Taken together, ENVS/PSS 156 & ENVS/PSS 195, are a full internationally-recognized Permaculture Design Certification Course (PDC); Program Fee $600 ($300 nonrefundable adv. deposit required) for farm-sourced and organic local meals, on-farm camping, use of boats, and other equipment. Prerequisite: Three hours basic biological or ecological science, or permission. Please see www.prospectrock.org for more details. Instructor permission required: contact keith.morris@uvm.edu; Cross listed w/PSS 156 JO1. Enrollment Limit: 22.
ENVS 179 D2: Ecofeminism
61972 / 3 credits / Annika Ljung-Baruth / Online / May 23 – June 17
Investigation of the parallel dominations of women and nature, through analysis and reflection on ecofeminist theory, activism, and spirituality. This class is an introduction to the developing field of ecofeminism, which is both an academic subfield of philosophy and environmental ethics, and a type of activism. Students will read some of the most influential writers in the field-theorists, historians, activists, and spiritual revisionists - and consider the implications of their ideas for environmental thought and analysis. Students will also undertake hands-on action projects reflecting ecofeminist principles. Cross-listed with WGST 179. Prerequisite: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR
002, or GSWS 001. Enrollment Limit: 25.
ENVS 183 Environmental Impacts of Consumerism
61889 / 3 credits / Rob Williams / Online / May 23 – June 17
Ecological footprint assessment for human use of energy, housing, water, waste, and food. Review of regulatory strategies, economic options, and consumer awareness to reduce environmental impact. Prerequisites: One of the following: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 188 SU: Sustainability Science
60508 / 3 credits / Eric Garza / Online / May 23 – July 15
Few words are so deserving of dissection than ‘sustainability’ and ‘science’. This course will lead participants through the social and political underpinnings of these two words, and their relevance to several controversial issues commonly addressed by those engaged with the science of sustainability. Among the topics considered are the idea of planetary boundaries, resource scarcity and inequity, environmental pollution and environmental justice, global environmental change, and the relationships between sustainability, resilience and adaptation. Course content will be delivered entirely online over eight weeks, utilizing a range of evaluation methods. Prerequisite: One of the following: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 189 SU: Introduction to Systems Thinking
61890 / 3 credits / Eric Garza / Online / June 20 – July 15
The landscape in which we live (our ‘environment’) is made up of suites of complex systems that connect to other complex systems. Systems theorists have developed an entire language to aid in their understanding and description of systems, to augment their capacity to predict system outcomes, and to inform their efforts to intervene in systems to bring about particular outcomes. This course will offer students a background in the language and concepts of systems theory, and will use this language and these concepts as a lens through which to analyze contemporary environmental issues. The course will use Donella Meadows’ book Thinking in Systems , along with supplemental readings as needed. Prerequisites: One of the following: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC
001. Enrollment Limit: 20.
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ENVS 191 Internship
61891 / 1-9 credits / Staff / May 23 – August 12
An on-site supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Prerequisite: Permission of course coordinator and an approved project plan.
ENVS 195 JO1 Permaculture Practicum
60492 / 2 credits / Keith Morris / Online and off-campus / July 5 – August 12
Residential Intensive Course from July 17 - July 29; This is a full-time "farm and nature immersion" residential intensive Permaculture Design Certification course, meeting at Willow Crossing Farm in Johnson, Vermont July 17 through July 29. Before and after these dates there are readings, assignments, and online meetings, but students do not need to be onsite (or in Vermont). Co-requisite: Taken together, ENVS/PSS 156 & 195 are a full internationallyrecognized Permaculture Design Certificate Course (PDC); Program Fee $600 ($300 non refundable adv. deposit) for farm-sourced and organic local meals, on-farm camping, use of boats, and other equipment. Please see www.prospectrock.org for more details. Instructor permission required: contact keith.morris@uvm.edu; Cross listed w/PSS 195 JO1. Enrollment Limit: 22.
ENVS 195 Z2 Bicycles, Globalization and Sustainability
61875 / 3 credits / Luis Vivanco / TWR 1:00 pm – 4:45 pm / Williams Hall 511 / May 23 – June 17
In recent years the bicycle has enjoyed a renaissance as a form of sustainable urban transportation in many major cities throughout the world, primarily as governments and activists seek ways to reduce the social, health, and environmental problems caused by automobile pollution and congestion. This course examines the complex connections between globalization, cycling, and urban sustainability. These themes include: theorizing contemporary forms of urban mobility and how transportation technologies, specifically the bicycle, relate to social change; the dynamic history and role of the bicycle around the world (primarily Asia, Latin America, Europe, and
North America) as a form of transportation; and the current adoption of the bicycle by urban environmental movements. We will take several bicycle fieldtrips around Burlington, and work in service learning with several local bicycle advocacy organizations. Cross listed with ANTH 195 Z3, HST 195 Z1 GRS 195 Z1, GEOG 195 Z2.
Prerequisites: ANTH 021, GEOG 050, ENVS 002 or HST 010, or instructor permission. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 195 Z3 Queering Ecologies
61892 / 3 credits / Ingrid Nelson and Harlan Morehouse / TWR 9:00 am – 12:45 pm / Lafeyette Hall L300 /
May 23 – June 17
Queering Ecologies explores strategies for understanding, producing, and inhabiting diverse environmental relations. The course’s aim is to work towards novel political-ecological approaches adequate to 21st century environmental challenges. This course revolves around the idea of ‘queering’, which is understood in two complementary ways: (a) as an oppositional stance to normative sexual and gender arrangements (male/female, masculine/feminine); and, (b) as a strategy for disrupting the boundaries between nature/society and human/nonhuman. By drawing on literatures ranging from queer and feminist scholarship to science fiction, and through interactive and written assignments, students will investigate how disrupting conventional and gendered boundaries opens up opportunities for discovering creative and affirmative ways of inhabiting the world that recognize, learn from and intervene in longstanding patterns of exclusion and violence. Prerequisites: One of the following: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Enrollment Limit: 25.
ENVS 195 Z4 Designing Abundance
61893 / 3 credits / Vic Guadagno / On and off-campus / June 20 – July 15
This course offers students the opportunity to obtain their internationally recognized Permaculture Design
Certification (PDC) with an emphasis on regionally focused design modeled after natural systems and patterns.
Students will learn how to apply permaculture design principles and strategies on various scales, from backyard gardens to whole watersheds, to new economies. As active participants in the ongoing Permaculture design of
Central Vermont, students will become part of the solution as we shift our cultural narrative towards one of resilience and abundance. Notes: Dates: June 19th - July 1st; This is a two-week residential design intensive at the
Headwaters Garden and Learning Center in Cabot, Vermont, with multiple site visits around central Vermont. There will be design projects as well as hands-on sills training. Program Fee: $600 - which covers three organic, locally sources meals/day and on-site camping. Please see our website for more information: http://designabundance
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.weebly.com. Prequisites: One of the following: ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Contact instructor at victorgeemail@gmail.com for more information. Enrollment Limit: 10.
ENVS 195 Z5 Plant-Based Healing Medicine
61895 / 3 credits / Kate Elmer Westdijk / TWR 9:00 am – 12:45 pm / Terrill-Home EC 308 / May 23 – June 17
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with both the science and the art of herbalism/herbology/ phytotherapy and its approach as a holistic healing modality. Students explore the historical perspectives of herbalism, as well as its present-day context within both the realms of complementary/integrative and Western allopathic biomedical medicines. The sustainable harvesting, preparation, and storage of herbs are covered, in addition to specific herbs as support for specific organs or systems of the body. A “weed walk” to view medicinal plants growing on the UVM campus is included. Additional trips may include RailYard Community Apothecary and
Clinic, Urban Moonshine’s organic digestive bitters and herbal tonics company, and Rock Point's medicine plantrich land. Guest speakers include area herbalists and integrative health practitioners. This service-learning course engages students as contributors to local community herbalism efforts to provide affordable, local, plant-based medicine for all members of our community. In addition, the course will familiarize the students with the holistic
(natural medicine) approach to health and healing; the relative safety-toxicity spectrum of botanicals; and the role of nutrition, botanicals, and lifestyle support in preventative health. Prerequisites: One of the following: ENVS 001,
ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 195 Z7 Environmental Literature, Arts, Media
61915 / 3 credits / Adrian Ivakhiv / MTWR 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm / Terrill-Home EC 308 / May 23 – June 17
This course offers an introduction to the environmental humanities exploring the range of values and cultural expressions of the human-nature relationship. We will explore contemporary and historical works of literary, visual, musical, performative, and media arts to see the role the expressive humanities have played in shaping socialcultural attitudes toward nature and the human dilemma of depending on nature as source and sustenance. Through readings, discussion, class presentations, and written and creative work, students will gain exposure to artists and movements in the environmental arts and literature as well as ecomedia studies. Prerequisites: One of the following:
ENVS 001, ENVS 002, NR 001, NR 002, ENSC 001. Enrollment Limit: 25.
ENVS 202 Z1 Senior Capstone Thesis
61656 / 1-6 credits / Staff / May 23 – August 12
Credits for students working on their ENVS 202 Senior Capstone Thesis. Prerequisite: ENVS major; minimum junior standing, ENVS 201.
ENVS 202 Z2 Senior Capstone Internship
61657 / 1-6 credits / Staff / May 23 – August 12
Credits for students working on their ENVS 202 Capstone Internship. Prerequisite: ENVS major; minimum junior standing, ENVS 151, and an approved capstone internship approval.
ENVS 212 Advanced Agroecology
61944 / 4 credits / Ernesto Mendez / TWR 9:00 am – 12:15 pm / Off-site / May 23 – July 1
An in-depth overview of research and application in the field of agroecology, including ecological and social dynamics in agricultural landscapes in Vermont and abroad. Pre/co-requisites: PSS 021 and one semester of ecology at the 100-level or above, or instructor permission. Cross-listed with: PSS 212. Enrollment Limit: 15.
ENVS 291 Internship
61896 / 1-9 credits / Staff / May 23 – August 12
An on-site advanced, supervised work experience combined with a structured academic learning plan directed by a faculty member or a faculty-staff team in which a faculty member is the instructor of record, for which academic credit is awarded. Prerequisite: ENVS 002; Junior standing; permission of course coordinator and an approved project plan.
ENVS 294 SL: Environmental Education
60475 / 3 credits / Margaret Burke / Online / July 18 – August 12
In this course, students will: 1. Define ecological literacy and critically reflect on its importance in designing environmental education experience; 2. articulate their own environmental teaching philosophy; 3. describe the
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United States; 4. identify local environmental education practitioners and compare their educational approaches to pressing environmental issues; 5. describe environmental education pedagogy and apply it by designing a unit of study that aligns learning objectives, teaching strategies, developmentally appropriate materials and assessment strategies. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 295 OL1 Circumpolar Climate Change
60610 / 3 credits / Kathleen Osgood / Online / May 23 – August 12
Across the North, anthropogenic or “human-caused" change is happening at an accelerated rate. The hole in the ozone layer, the waning of Arctic Sea ice, the disappearance of permafrost, the release of methane from peat bogs - not only are these indicators of human-caused climate change, but they are also multipliers of that process. Writingintensive and research-based, this seminar considers the impacts of climate change from a human perspective, with a special emphasis on indigenous peoples in the North, including human adaptations, community capacity for change, and regional cooperation. Working in regional groups, students will research the situation on the ground and review current literature (80%). In lieu of a final exam, students make recommendations for responses to climate change in the North (20%). Prerequisite: Junior standing. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 295 OL2 Cars, Culture, Media
61898 / 3 credits / Rob Williams / Online / May 23 – June 17
In the U.S. car use has steadily increased since the early part of the 20th century. Today, mobility is defined as automobility, or motorization, because about 85 percent of the trips we take (for a purpose) are in automobiles.
Central to the growth in automobility has been the size, power and force of the automobile industry. Cars have become woven into American culture so much that it has become cliché to say that we have a “love affair with the car.” Culture can be defined as the symbols of expression that individuals, groups and societies use to make sense of their daily lives and to articulate their values. Culture is reproduced through music, TV, movies and advertising, among other venues. We will break down the “love affair with the car” by examining the culture that surrounds the automobile, the promotion of that culture over time, and the role of the media in promulgating car-related cultural artifacts. Prerequisite: Junior standing. Enrollment Limit: 20.
ENVS 295 TR1 Costa Rica: Ecological and Socio-Economic Aspects of Tropical Forest Carbon Projects
61931 / 3 credits / Susan Moegenburg, Bryan Foster, Jose Miguel Chaves Fallas / Travel Course / May 23 –
June 17
Travel study course to Costa Rica. Travel dates: May 21 - June 4, 2016; Cross listed w/ENSC 295 TR1, FOR 295
TR1, & NR 295 TR1. This course will apply to the neo-tropics skills students have already developed through prerequisites in tree identification, reading forested landscapes and conducting forest inventories (greater depth).
This course will also expand students’ knowledge regarding REDD+ and expose students to financial and project management tools (greater breadth). Specifically, this course will enable students to: (1) Identify 20+ tree families of ecological and/or economic significance in tropical cloud and lowland forests; (2) Measure trees for biomass in both primary natural and secondary plantation forests; (3) Understand the characteristics of various tropical forests, both in theory via lectures, and in practice via numerous natural history field walks; (4) Develop a solid theoretical knowledge of REDD+ (including scientific basis of forest carbon storage, how storage varies in different management regimes, and synergies and trade-offs with both biodiversity conservation and social welfare); and (5)
Gain familiarity with project management tools, including financial tools. Prerequisites: One of the following:
BCOR 102, ENVS 173, FOR 122 or NR 103; Instructor permission required. Program Fee: $2,478.00. Enrollment
Limit: 13.
ENVS 295 Z2 Projects in Campus Sustainability
61897 / 3 credits / Wendy Verrei-Berenback and Aaron Witham / MW 9:00 am – 12:45 pm / Lafayette Hall
L400 / May 23 – July 1
Students will work closely with the Office of Sustainability in developing projects that will contribute to the
University achieving a gold rating for STARS 2.1 by February 2017. Students will work in collaborative groups to develop programs that contribute to attaining the maximum number of points in Engagement standard
(https://stars.aashe.org/pages/about/technical-manual.html). This course will model key principles of Education for
Sustainability. Guest speakers from the Office of Sustainability and other stakeholder groups will augment readings, discussions, student “teach-ins” and instructor “lecturettes.” Course will have an online component. Prerequisite:
Junior standing. Enrollment Limit: 20.
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