WINTER 2012: Our first class will meet at 3:00 Tuesday 10 Jan. 2012 in Sem2 E2107. Be there on time with the first text; the first week is essential. This is our regular meeting place, except...
...Science Seminar will have a workshop in the CAL (Computer Applications Lab in Lab2) at 1:00 on Thursay 12 Jan. (week 1). The workshop is required to *familiarize you with our Moodle page and assignments, and to *establish pre-seminar teams.
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How is energy created and harvested, stored and transformed, used or abused? What effects do human energy systems have on Earth’s climate? What are consequences for human societies? What can we learn from the past? How can we live more sustainably?
Energy Systems & Climate Change (ES&CC) investigates questions such as these, as a learning community seeking deeper knowledge and wisdom together. One of our primary means of inquiry is seminar. Small teams pre-seminar on weekly readings in advance, we all seminar together twice a week (in person), and we share essays and peer responses online.
Interested students are invited to join our ES&CC seminar for 8 credits. SciSem students and ES&CC students can share insights and questions about our seminar readings, and ideas about the future. SciSem students will write three essays and many peer responses (individually), and will post pre-seminar assignments (with teams). Learning goals include deeper understanding of sustainability and climate change, science and scientific methods, and improved skills in writing, teamwork, and communication.
Prerequisites: Good reading and writing skills. Willingness to work online and in teams. (No math or science required!)
+4 Research credits? ES&CC student teams planned research inquiries in fall, to be carried out in winter quarter. Science Seminar students with science background are invited to 1) read about planned research projects online, 2) talk with an ES&CC team about the possibility of joining them, 3) plan, with your new team, your role in the research inquiry, 4) fill out a research proposal form, 5) bring that with a drop-add form for Zita's signature by Friday 13 Jan.
Questions? Contact Dr. E.J. Zita (email: zita(a)evergreen.edu)
Office hours: 12:30 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at our 1:00 classrooms
SEMINAR |
Weekends |
Monday |
Tuesday
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Wednesday |
Thursday
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Saturday:
Essays due |
PIQs due
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PIQs due
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1:00 Seminar in
SEM2 A 3107
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Sunday: Responses to essays |
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Monday: Replies to responses |
3:00 Seminar in
SEM2 D2109 |
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3:00 Tuesday in SEM2 D2109
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1:00 Thursday in SEM2 A 3107
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week 1 |
Articles on Solar & Wind - get your copies on Moodle. Start reading Big Coal. |
Meet in CAL (in Lab2) today only. Articles (Finkel and Sagan) and Moodle workshop. |
week 2 |
Finish Big Coal |
Cradle to Cradle (short) |
week 3 |
Merchants of Doubt |
Merchants of Doubt |
week 4 |
IPCC Special Report |
IPCC Special Report |
week 5 |
Natural Capitalism |
Natural Capitalism |
week 6 |
Collapse (selected chapters) |
Collapse (selected chapters) |
week 7 |
Food Rebels (short) |
Food Rebels |
week 8 |
Third Industrial Revolution |
Third Industrial Revolution |
week 9 |
final evals |
week 10 |
optional field trip with Energy Systems & Climate Change |
WINTER TEXTS : You must have your own copy of each text and bring it to class when it's on the syllabus. Experience shows that this correlates well with success in the program. (Audio CD is not enough.)
Required *articles* will be made available to you via Moodle at no cost. We will try to minimize paper use in this program. If you have e- books on your laptop, you can bring that to class. Reference page numbers or e-locations in PIQs, essays, and responses. |
| Scientific American articles on *Solar solution and *Wind solution (to be provided on Moodle). |
| Natural Capitalism, by Hawkens, Lovins, & Lovins ((2008) |
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Big Coal, by Jeff Goodell (2007) This is our first major reading of winter quarter, if you'd like to get a head start on it over break. |
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Cradle to Cradle, McDonough & Braungart (2002) |
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| The 3rd Industrial Revolution, by Jeremy Rifkin (2011) |
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Collapse (selected chapters), by Jared Diamond (2011) |
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| IPCC, *Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events
and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation |
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Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes (2011) |
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Food Rebels, Guerilla Gardeners, and Smart-cookin' Mamas, by Mark Winne (2011) |
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