NRES 598

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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 2025
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
51396	Lecture-Discussion	GEA	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	W223 Turner Hall	Johnson, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Gender & Environment in Amazon Section Info: GENDER & ENVIRONMENT IN THE AMAZON: Scholarship across environmental justice, political ecology, gender studies, and environmental politics is increasingly drawing attention to the problem of violence against land and environmental defenders. Recent work suggests that women and Indigenous environmental defenders are particularly prone to experiencing diverse forms of violence, but especially sexual violence, loss of land/resource rights, and assassination. In this course, we will engage with literature at the intersection of gender, environment, and violence, with a specific focus on environmental defenders in the Amazon (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, and Perú). In addition to creating a theoretical foundation, this course will provide an opportunity for students to be involved in organizing and hosting a workshop with women defenders from Ecuador, Colombia, and Brazil in May 2025. Students will read relevant literature on academic workshops and conflict-sensitive engagement to prepare for this event. Letter grading. Restriction(s): Restricted to students with Junior, Senior, or Graduate class standing.
64392	Lecture-Discussion	NCS	9:30AM -11:50AM	T	W223 Turner Hall	Johnson, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/25-05/07/25 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. Letter grading. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
60798	Online	XM1	6:00PM -9:15PM	W	n.a.	Ward, M	Part of Term: A Date Range: 01/21/25-03/14/25 Credit: 2 hours Section Title: Wildlife Ecology & Ag Policy Section Info: This course investigates the interaction between agricultural practices and wildlife (mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians), with emphasis on how changes in Midwestern agricultural practices have affected wildlife and what the future might hold. We will also discuss sustainable management in these environments and the current trends in this field. With the advent of biofuels and new and revised USDA programs geared toward creating wildlife habitat on former agricultural fields, the overall effect of agriculture on wildlife populations may rapidly change over the next decade. These changes may be beneficial for some species, while detrimental to others. Online scheduled class sessions require each student to have high speed internet access and either a headset with microphone or an external microphone and speakers so they may participate in the class discussions. Wireless internet is not recommended. Restriction(s): Restricted to MS:Crop Sciences -UIUC, MS:Crop Sciences -UIUC, MS: Agricultural Educ -UIUC, MS:Nat Res Env Sci -UIUC, MS:Nat Res & Envrn Sci -UIUC, NDEG:Nat Res & EnvSci ONL-UIUC, MS:Ag Ldrship Ed&Com ONL- UIUC, NDEG:Graduate OR - UIUC, or NDEG:Undergraduate OR - UIUC.