We are actively seeking titles and descriptions of relevent graduate courses from professors at the University of Minnesota for dissemination among interested faculty and graduate students. Upcoming courses include:
Spring 2018
ALL 8002 (Readings in New Materialism), with Christine Marran Issues/approaches in academic study of Asian literature/ cultures. Problems in contemporary academic theory in humanities. Application of theory to Asia/issues raised. Interventions of critical theory. Ethics of professional peer review. Crisis in higher education.
COMM 4250 (Environmental Communication), with Mark Pedelty Historical, cultural, material contexts within which environmental communication takes place. Understand environmental communication as well as develop communication strategies that lead to more sustainable social practices, institutions, and systems.
ENGL 8090 (Ecocritical Food Studies), with Dan Philippon Sample topics: literature of World War II, writings of the Holocaust, literature of English Civil War, advanced versification.
LA 3514/5514 (Making the Mississippi), with Matthew Tucker Critical environmental parameters affecting growth/development of metropolitan areas. Students assess these parameters and prepare a multi-functional land use plan for a defined locale.
LA 8775 (Postnatural Gardens of the Anthropocene), with Matthew Tucker LA 8774 is the last in a series of courses that aim to develop your ability to understand the systems and techniques by which a design is transformed into a real, tangible landscape. This course will specifically focus on the complexity of real world projects and the techniques,skills, and technologies that are required to workcollaboratively with architects, urban planners, engineers, and contractors.
Fall 2017
GER 3651/5610 (Environmental Thinking), with Charlotte Melin How environmental thinking became social-political force through German literature/culture, with comparisons to global or U.S. developments. Authors include Goethe, Christa Wolf, Enzensberger.
HSCI 3244/5244 (Nature's History: Science, Humans and the Environment), with Sally Gregory Kohlstedt We examine environmental ideas, sustainability, conservation history; critique of the human impact on nature; empire and power in the Anthropocene; how the science of ecology has developed; and modern environmental movements around the globe. Case studies include repatriation of endangered species; ecology and evolutionary theory; ecology of disease; and climate change.
PA 5290 Topics in Planning: Environmental Equity (section 3), with Dan Milz This interdisciplinary course examines the causes and consequences of place-based health disparities in cities, explores how health disparities can be mitigated and exacerbated by urban planning decisions, and introduces best practices in urban planning for achieving community health equity. The course will involve extensive readings, guest lectures, field-based assignments, data-collection activities, and local community involvement. Twin Cities has one of the largest disparities in health outcomes in the nation and local practitioners are pioneering new urban planning solutions to reduce place-based health disparities. The course will utilize this location advantage and use the region as an immersive learning environment. Students are expected to apply knowledge and skills learned in the class locally in the Twin Cities region.
Summer 2017
LA 5705 (Regreening Minds, Cities, and Regions), with Laura Musacchio Description currently unavailable. Please check back at a later date.
If you will be teaching a graduate course in 2017-18 that you wish to publicize among members of the EHI, please share it with us at [email protected].