Courses

Fall 2008 Seminars

UGS 302: Re-presenting Los Angeles

Topic Undergraduate Studies
Substantial Writing Component: Yes

Course Description
The purpose of this course is to examine various representations of Los Angeles as they are manifest in a variety of media, including cinema, the novel, cybercultures, music, advertising, and tourist practices, among many.

UGS 303: Humankind and Nature

Topic Undergraduate Studies
Substantial Writing Component: Yes

Course Description
This course explores the relationship of people to environment in respect to how we have transformed landscapes through hunting, cropping, establishing settlements including cities and how we have expressed various attitudes toward landscapes as both resources to be exploited and places to be protected and managed.

UGS 303: Latin America: Environmental History and Sustainability

Topic Undergraduate Studies
Substantial Writing Component: Yes

Course Description
Within the context of present day debates about sustainability, this course is an overview of Latin America’s environmental characteristics and the long-term history of human uses of environmental opportunities, environmental hazards and human impacts on the environment.

UGS 303: Our Global Backyard: Environment, People, Science and Technology

Topic Undergraduate Studies
Substantial Writing Component: Yes

Course Description
This course will survey the major global environmental concerns affecting the Earth and its residents from the perspectives of the environmental sciences.

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