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Just Art: Art & Social Change
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
Art and Social Change exposes students to the role of Interdisciplinary Art in engaging personal and political experience, while informing students about conceptual art and methods that have been…
The Art of Social Practice: Changing the World
3 Credits
This course examines the ways in which social practice has evolved from 1960 to the present. Students study the artists and movements that have utilized social practice to evolve the political…
Special Topic in ES: Design Thinking - Visualizing & Building Change
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
quote from Milton Glaser, a famous designer, suggests that design "moves things from an existing condition to a preferred one." By using design as a problem-solving tool, we can create a preferred…
Financial Decision Making in the Triple Bottom Line Organization
3 Credits
This course examines the principles of finance and financial techniques for effective management decision-making in the sustainable business, nonprofit, or other organization. While the course focus…
Poetry Workshop
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
"The world is never the same once a poem has been added to it," said Dylan Thomas....this "contribution to reality....helps to change the shape of the universe" by extending our understanding of…
Art & Healing
3 Credits
In this course students study performance as a competing practice in the traditional art market. Students take a close look at queer, trans, women, and artists of color who have used -and currently…
Special Topics in ES: Regenerative Design: Architecture, Permaculture and Resilience
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
This class will create an awareness of the importance of design in shaping both the natural and human environments. Every product we use, every space we inhabit, every city we live in has been…
Special Topics in SBM: Building Blocks of Sustainable Business
3 Credits
This survey course will introduce students to key concepts of accounting, economics and statistics which form the building blocks of the quantitative considerations for business. This course will…
Just Art: Art & Social Change
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
rt and Social Change exposes students to the role of Interdisciplinary Art in engaging personal and political experience, while informing students about conceptual art and methods that have been…
Studio Practice I
3 Credits
Students work with distinguished faculty and artist mentors through a series of private studio visits and/ or practice-building experiences locally, where the student lives, or through travel to Los…
Environmental History & Philosophy
3 Credits
This course provides a systematic historical and philosophical
analysis of prevailing Western perspectives of the environment. Drawing on the work of
historians such as Max Oelschlaeger, Carolyn…
Advance Photoshop
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
Photoshop I is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn technical and creative use of Adobe Photoshop CC. Students will be exposed to the technical application of design principles…
Studion Practice: II
3 Credits
Students work with distinguished faculty and artist mentors through a series of private studio visits and/ or practice-building experiences locally, where the student lives, or through travel to Los…
Land Use Planning and Policy
3 Credits
This course explores the institutional frameworks and interaction of different modes of energy, infrastructure, and transportation in a carbon-constrained world. Beginning with an examination of past…
Writing the Wild: A Creative Writing Workshop
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
Online
What do writing and wildness have in common What can the natural world teach us about accessing our most wild selves so we can create energized, potent, and engaging stories In this creative writing…
Studion Practice: III
3 Credits
Students work with distinguished faculty and artist mentors through a series of private studio visits and/ or practice-building experiences locally, where the student lives, or through travel to Los…
Ecological Design
3 Credits
Rotating through a series of special topics, this course provides students an opportunity to explore a variety of approaches to ecological design. Some topics might include, but are not limited to,…
Teaching & Learning in Adventure Education
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
What does it mean to be a highly effective educator This course introduces students to the intentional application of a variety of effective teaching practices applicable to a wide range of…
Studio Practice: IV
3 Credits
Students work with distinguished faculty and artist mentors through a series of private studio visits and/ or practice-building experiences locally, where the student lives, or through travel to Los…
Field Botany
Course Degree Type
Graduate
Course Delivery Type
Online
review of topics in plant anatomy, morphology, physiology, evolution,
systematics, and field methods to provide students with the botanical knowledge and skills they
need to support work in…
Outdoor Education & Recreation
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
This course offers an introduction to the manifold facets of the Adventure Education program. Students from all disciplines are encouraged to enroll and explore the broad field of adventure…
Rock Climbing, Introduction to
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
This course introduces students to the basic technical skills associated with rock climbing. The appropriate student has little to no rock climbing experience, and is led through a gentle progression…
Successful Interdisciplinary Learning Strategies
1 Credits
One of the distinctive opportunities for students in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) program is the ability to create interest-driven courses. This one-credit course,…
Social Values and Value Chains: Farm to
Course Degree Type
Graduate
Course Delivery Type
Online
Beginning with the differing challenges of growing annuals versus perennials and the integration of animals in agroecosystems, this course will explore current trends and production methods for…
Ways of Being in Wilderness
Course Degree Type
Undergraduate
Course Delivery Type
On-Campus
How do Non-Western cultures view and interact with the natural landscape How do our American views of nature and conservations export globally and affect people world wide In this class, we examine…