Spring 2009
Local Places/Global Regions: Introduction to Geography
(GEOG/INTL A101)
Introduction to cultural, political, and environmental diversity in an international context. Focus on key global issues, current events, and geographic approaches to understanding world problems.
MW 8:30-9:45 Dr. Mark Carper
TR 11:30-12:45 Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen
TR 2:30-3:45 Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen
Elements of Physical Geography (GEOG A205)
Analysis of the processes that form the physical environment & resulting physical patterns. Study of landforms, climate, soils, water resources, vegetation, & their world & regional patterns. Optional laboratory of one additional credit.
TR 1:00-2:15 Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen
Lab (GEOG A205L)
M 2:30-5:15
T 2:30-5:15
F 9:00-11:45
Across This Land: The Historical Geography of North America (GEOG A345)
Explores the European settlement of North America (U.S. and Canada), the impact of geography on this settlement, and the impress of culture and political process on the land. A significant part of the course compares and contrasts the American and Canadian geographic experience and the creation of distinct regional cultures.
TR 10:00-11:15 Dr. Dorn Van Dommelen
Living on Earth:
Introduction to Environmental Studies (ENVI A201)
Introduction to complex environmental issues, emphasizing human impacts, behavior, and institutions. Covers population, food energy, air, and water resources, climate change, chemicals, forests and biodiversity, indigenous cultures, land use, current law, and human-nature relationships. Focuses on policy and politics, historical and cross-cultural perspectives, individual incentives, economic tradeoffs, and questions of fairness.
Web course
Environmental Ethics (ENVI A303)
Historical and comparative analysis of Western, non-Western, indigenous and Native American philosophies, concerning the intrinsic, aesthetic and use values of nature and the land. Contemporary environmental ethics, including deep ecology, the land ethic, ecofeminism, and animal rights theories will be examined in detail. There will also be a focus on the ethical issues surrounding contemporary environmental controversies, such as land management, wildlife management, wilderness designation, sustainability, biodiversity and species preservation, private property and public commons, environmental racism, human overpopulation, development versus preservation, laboratory use of animals, vivisection, animal farming, subsistence, and sports hunting.
TR 11:30-12:45 Dr. Raymond Anthony
Environmental Economics and Policy (ENVI A210)
Survey of environmental policy, emphasizing market-oriented approaches to problems. Present value, cost-benefit analysis, and nonmarket valuation tools are developed and applied to Alaskan and global environmental and natural resource issues.
MW 5:30-6:45 Dr. Steve Colt
