NRES 598

Spring 2020 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Jan 21-May 6

Experimental Graduate Courses

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Experimental course on a special topic in natural resources and environmental sciences.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours.

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NRES 598 class schedule data for spring 2020
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	64392	Laboratory	CPE	2:00PM -4:50PM	W	N527 Turner Hall	Johnson, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Nature, Culture, and Society Section Info: This course surveys key themes in the field of political ecology. We will take a deep-dive into theories of political ecology – the critical study of nature-society relationships – by exploring scholarship across geography, anthropology, sociology, and political science. Many of the texts included here are foundational readings in studies of nature, culture, and society. The course does not attempt to present a comprehensive review of the political ecology literature. Rather, it is a critical exploration of theories and themes related to nature, political/economy, and culture. This effort will involve reading theorists like Michel Foucault, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Neil Smith, Gilles Deleuze, Donna Haraway, and Timothy Ingold, among others, and putting them in conversation with empirical casework in political ecology/human geography. As such, this course examines concepts of power, value, gender, assemblages, networks and meshworks, apparatuses and government, and more-than-humans to theorize about and better understand society-environment linkages and the political/economic/cultural drivers and consequences of global environmental change. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	70870	Online	XM2	7:00PM -9:00PM	M	n.a.	Enos, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/20-05/06/20 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Managing Threats Biodiversity Section Info: Human activities, such as land cultivation, deforestation and urbanization, have large and unequivocally negative impacts on wildlife populations. In this online course students will be introduced to contemporary anthropogenic changes from around the globe that directly cause wildlife population declines and biodiversity loss. Lectures will ground students in key ecological concepts underlying modern day threats to wildlife populations. Discussions and case study exercises will allow students to explore major conflicts between human and wildlife populations, largely driven by resource demands, that challenge policymaking and species-specific management plans. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Crop Sciences -UIUC, MS: Agricultural Educ -UIUC, MS:Nat Res Env Sci -UIUC, or NDEG:Grad Nondegree-CE-UIUC.