NRES 199

Spring 2010 All Classes

All Classes

Undergraduate Open Seminar

Credit: 1 TO 5 hours.

Experimental course on a special topic in natural resources and environmental sciences. Topic may not be repeated except in accordance with the Code.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms. No more than 12 hours may be counted toward graduation.

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NRES 199 class schedule data for spring 2010
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
35106	Lecture-Discussion	CER	2:00PM -3:30PM	TR	Mumford Hall	Endress, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Campus & Env Responsibility Section Info: Environmental issues are everywhere - in the places we work, live, play, or go to school - and are often overlooked in our day-to-day activities and behaviors. The purposes of this course are to generate greater awareness of our impacts on the environment, build environmental competence, and catalyze changes that lead to environmentally responsible and sustainable behaviors. Through class discussions, readings, projects, and portfolio development, students will explore the impacts of individuals, groups, or institutional impacts on, and their responsibilities toward, local and global environments. By utilizing the University as a laboratory for the study and implementation of solutions, students can move beyond abstractions to the lived reality while helping this University better fit the emerging realities of this century. Registration restricted to James Scholars.
52089	Lecture-Discussion	IGC	3:00PM -4:50PM	TR	National Soybean Res Ctr	Kuo, F	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Illinois Green Campus Section Info: This course addresses the real life challenges of making organizations more sustainable, using UIUC as a primary case study. Students gain concepts, tools, and skills for effecting change not only here at UIUC, but in the myriad institutional and other contexts in which they operate. The course begins by exploring the wide range of institutionally related environmental impacts and the associated roles of individuals within these settings. UIUC is used as a primary case study to illustrate institutional practices including procurement, utility supply and consumption, building design and operations, transportation, and waste production and recycling. Students acquire conceptual models for understanding sustainability and institutional behavior; strategies for revealing hidden impacts of institutions; approaches for achieving behavioral change; systems thinking and integrated design skills; organizational leadership and facilitation skills; strategies for encouraging innovation and building organizational learning capacities; and other resources that have proven useful in achieving institutional change. This class will meet in room 282 of the National Soybean Research Center (1101 W. Peabody Drive, Urbana).
35107	Lecture-Discussion	WTE	6:00PM -9:50PM	R	Turner Hall	Brazee, R	Part of Term: B Date Range: 03/15/10-05/05/10 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Watching the Environment Section Info: Watching the Environment is a film intensive course that looks at two senses of ?watching? the environment: (a) critically examining representations of the environment through the news media, Hollywood, documentaries, independent films and advocacy groups including credibility versus drama, and (b) scientifically understanding and monitoring the biological and physical processes critical to environmental health and indicators of environmental quality.