Kate O’Neill (Environmental Science, Policy, and Management)
(ESPM 150)

This course examines the complex interrelationships between humans, human activity, globalization and the environment, presenting key ideas, debates and approaches in this arena within broader humanities and social science frameworks. The first part of the course examines struggles over key ideas present in debates over the environment and globalization. The middle portion applies these ideas to global struggles over specific resources, inviting guest speakers who work on these topics. The final portion of the course presents cases in science and technology, and examined how humanities and social science perspectives inform debates over science, risk, expertise and participation. The course involves readings from new and classic texts in the field, and also sessions on how to do research, especially scholarly research, on the global environment.