Hiram College 2021-2022 Catalog Environmental Studies 1 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Course Descriptions EVST 10100: INTRO TO SOCIO-ENV STUDIES:ES: 4 Hour(s) Program Website: http://www.hiram.edu/environstudies (http:// INTRODUCTION TO SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES:ES ~ All living www.hiram.edu/environstudies/) things depend on and influence their environments, but humans do so in a unique way. This course examines interactions between human and About the Program non-human nature through the study of specific biophysical processes and systems, human social systems, socio-environmental problems, The Mission of Hiram College’s Environmental Studies program is to offer and more. Students will integrate and apply diverse knowledge from opportunities for students to become informed and responsible citizens the physical, biological, and social sciences, as well as ethical, legal, of the world by gaining the breadth of knowledge and expertise necessary and other perspectives, to understand complex systems and be able to to critically evaluate and communicate about issues that concern our identify entry points, at multiple scales, for addressing problems. Fulfills complex relationship with the environment, at a local and global scale. the Ethics and Social Responsibility (ES) core requirements. Hiram College’s distinctive environmental studies program draws on Core: Meaning/Ethics/Soc Responsibil perspectives from the natural and social sciences, the arts, and the EVST 18000: WKSP:: 1 Hour(s) humanities. This unique course of study emphasizes the importance WORKSHOP: ~ Workshops may be taken Pass/No Credit only. Students of exploring nature, society, and environmental issues to develop each may take no more than nine workshops for credit toward graduation. student’s ability to examine, articulate, and address complex problems Workshops can be used as elective credit only. through the integration of diverse knowledge, skills, and perspectives. EVST 20100: PERMACULTURE BASICS: 3 Hour(s) Our major is built on hands-on-learning, real-world work experience, and PERMACULTURE BASICS: BEYOND SUSTAINABILITY~ Permaculture is interactions with exceptional faculty from many academic programs a set of principles and decision-making strategies for organizing human across campus. settlements in ways that work with, rather than against, nature. Using the Environmental studies is available as an academic major or minor. best of traditional, local, and scientific knowledge; careful observation Upon declaring a major or minor, students will choose an environmental of natural patterns; and techniques that integrate principles of ecology, studies faculty advisor and, by the end of their sophomore year, identify permaculture provides guidance in designing systems that are intended the area of emphasis to guide their course of study. The environmental to be not only sustainable but resilient and regenerative. Through studies program is administered and primarily taught by environmental a variety of class activities the course will explore applications of studies faculty. Additional courses and perspectives are provided permaculture within the contexts of water, soil, food, energy, sociocultural, by contributing faculty from many disciplines including: art, biology, and other systems. Students will acquire the knowledge and skills chemistry, communication, economics, education, English/writing, necessary to apply permaculture principles in their own lives and entrepreneurship, history, philosophy, political science, psychology, communities. sociology, and more. EVST 20500: ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION: 4 Hour(s) ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION ~ The goal of this course is to provide Faculty students, including those interested in classroom and environmental education, naturalists, and youth leaders, with the skills, experiences, Michael Benedict, (2006) Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; and understandings necessary to help audiences interpret their natural Conservation Director & Interim Director of the James H. Barrow surroundings and define their relationship and interactions with nature Biological Field Station and Northwoods Field Station and the environment. This will be accomplished by emphasizing an B.S., Universidade Santa Ursula, Brazil; understanding of natural history and fundamental environmental M.S., Ph.D., University of Toledo concepts, and providing opportunities to plan, teach and evaluate [email protected] nature and environmental education based on best practices and Debbie V.S Kasper, (2011) Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; developmentally appropriate strategies. The James H. Barrow Field Howard Seymour Bissell and the Robert Kenyon Bissell Symposium Chair Station and surrounding park districts and environmental education B.A., St. Norbert College; centers will be our classroom as we attempt to develop a foundation for M.A., Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University conceptual understanding of environmental concepts. The course will [email protected] focus on environmental literacy and current research in environmental education. Students will develop skills to foster learning through Sarah Mabey, (2007) Associate Professor of Environmental Studies; experiences teaching children, adults and families at the Hiram College Natural History Program Coordinator; Faculty Chair Field Station, local schools and nearby natural areas. Assessment of B.A., Bryn Mawr College; learning outcomes and program evaluation strategies will be practiced. M.S., University of Maryland, College Park; Students will be certified to teach national curricula, such as project Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi WILD and Project WILD Aquatic. A segment of the course will be taught [email protected] at Hiram’s Northwoods Field Station in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Surrounded by 100,000 acres of national forest, lakes, streams and bogs, Northwoods provides the ideal location to develop a land ethic and reflect on the many ways people change nature and nature changes people. At Northwoods, we will live communally – sleeping in cabins – and each of us will be responsible for camp maintenance, daily chores, and cooking. Field trip fee. This course is also listed as EDUC 20500. Hiram College 2021-2022 Catalog Environmental Studies 2 EVST 20900: ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY-W/LAB:SM: 4 Hour(s) EVST 24000: AMERICAN ENVRNMENTAL HIS:CA,UD: 4 Hour(s) ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY-W/LAB:SM ~ An introduction to the AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY:CA,UD ~ This course will relationship between humans and their physical environment in the introduce students to the history of environmental issues and field of geology. Topics covered include plate tectonics, earthquakes, environmental activism in North America. Students will consider how volcanoes, soil weathering and pollution, landslides and mass wasting, Native Americans interacted with the natural environment prior to subsidence and collapse, surface and ground water pollution, and the European arrival; how the Europeans who entered North America solid and hazardous waste management. Laboratory exercises include looked upon the natural environment and how their views and practices basic rock and mineral identification, interpretation of topographic and differed from those of the Native Americans; and how the European geological maps, earthquakes, surface and ground water processes, and settlement in North America affected the natural environment. Students several field trips to local areas of interest. Student must also register for will also explore how the growth of industrial capitalism and westward a EVST 20900 lab. The breakdown between lecture and lab hours is for expansion affected the natural environments, and how Americans view administrative office use only. This course may only be taken as 4 credit the "wilderness" and the environment in the nineteenth century. Finally, hours. students will explore the rise of a conservation movement and social Core: Experimental Scientific Method activism to protect and preserve the environment, and they will study EVST 21500: HUMAN SETTLEMENTS:CA: 4 Hour(s) closely the rise and growth of a modern environmental movement in the HUMAN SETTLEMENTS:URBANIZATION, SPRAWL, AND late twentieth century. Also offered as HIST 24000. TRANSITIONS:CA ~ For the vast majority of human history, people have Core: Social/Cultural Analysis Meth; Understanding Diversity Home lived in small groups. Urbanizing processes, which began millennia ago, EVST 24100: PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY-W/LAB:SM: 4 Hour(s) have accelerated rapidly in recent centuries and have brought about PRINCIPLES OF ECOLOGY-W/LAB:SM ~ Ecology is the study of species some dramatic changes in how people live. With reference to biological interactions with their environment. In this course we will examine evolution, we will identify fundamental human needs in order to establish the ecology of plants and animals from the level of the individual to a basis for assessing the degrees to which different kinds of settlements the ecosystem. Important areas of focus will include adaptation to (e.g., foraging societies, early and industrial cities, and sprawl) meet the environment, habitat use, the behavior of populations, community those needs and for discerning the ways they influence quality of life. We structure and function, and the movement of energy and nutrients give special consideration to the environmental and social consequences through ecosystems. The course will be taught at the J. H. Barrow of settlement design and land use and explore some novel alternatives