Vassar Environmental Research Institute

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The Vassar Environmental Research Institute provides chance to the interested person to conduct research on Earth’s environmental systems, to promote fieldwork, and to foster engagement with the local community. This is the list of courses offered by this institute:

Arts and Humanities Divisions

100 level
ENGL/ENST 179a: Special Topic: Henry David Thoreau (0.5 credit)
FREN 189: The Poetics of Terroir

200 level
ART 273 Modern Architecture and Beyond
ART 280 Drawing in the Landscape
ENGL 205, 206: Composition
ENGL 207, 208: Literary Nonfiction
ENGL 226: American Literature
HISP 229: Postcolonial Latin America

300 level
ART/URBS 370: Seminar in Architectural History
ART/ENST 385: The Art of Nature
ENGL 383: Emerson, Poetry and America
FREN 348b: Modernism and its Discontents (Endangered Habitats)
FREN 355: The Beast Within: Animals in French Literature and Culture
Natural Science Division

100 level
BIOL 106: Introduction to Biological Investigations
BIOL 187a: Plants and Plant Communities of the Mid-Hudson Region (0.5 credit)
CHEM 108. 109: General Chemistry
ESCI 103a: The Earth Around Us (0.5 credit, first six weeks)
ESCI 101b: Geohazards (0.5 credit, second six weeks)
ESCI 151a: Earth, Environment and Humanity
ESCI 161b: Evolution of Earth and its Life
MATH 141a and b: Intro to Statistics

200 level
BIOL 202 Plant Physiology and Development
BIOL 208b: Plant Structure and Diversity
BIOL 226a: Animal Structure and Diversity
BIOL 228: Animal Physiology
BIOL 238b: Principles of Genetics
BIOL 241a: Ecology
BIOL 282: Evolutionary Genetics
CHEM 244, 245: Organic Chemistry
CHEM 275b: Computational Methods in Chemistry
ESCI 201b: Earth Materials
ESCI 211a: Sediments, Strata/Environment
ESCI 221: Soils and Terrestrial Ecosystems
ESCI 261: Field Geophysics: Digital Underground
ESCI-281: Stable Isotopes in Environmental Science

300 level
BIOL 340: Animal Behavior
BIOL 350: Evolutionary Biology
BIOL/ENST 352: Conservation Biology
BIOL 354b: Plant-Animal Interactions
BIOL 356a: Aquatic Ecology
CHEM 335: Advanced Environmental Chemistry
CHEM 362b: Instrumental Analysis
ESCI/ENST 335a: Paleoclimatology
ESCI/ENST 341: Oil
ESCI/ENST 361: Modeling the Earth
ESCI/ENST 381b: Biogeochemical Cycles
PSYC 321: Seminar in Animal Learning and Behavior

Social Science Division
100 level
ECON 100: Intro to Macroeconomics
ECON 101: Intro to Macroeconomics
ESSC 100: Earth Resource Challenges
ESSC 111a and b: Earth Science and Environmental Justice
GEOG 102: Global Geography
PHIL 106a and b: Philosophy and Contemporary Issues
POLI 140: American Politics
POLI 150: Comparative Politics
POLI 160: International Politics
POLI/ENST 181a: Political Theory, Environmental Justice, and the case of New Orleans after Katrina (0.5 credit)
POLI/ENST 182b: Environmental Political Thought (0.5 credit)
SOCI 151: Introduction to Sociology

200 level
ANTH 235: Area Studies in Prehistory
ANTH 240a and b: Cultural Localities
ANTH 242: The Frozen North
ANTH 280: Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Food
ANTH/ASIA 285a: East Asian and Australian Prehistory
ECON 209a and b: Probability and Statistics
ECON 210a and b: Econometrics
ECON 233: Political Economy of Globalization
ECON 238b: Law and Economics
ECON 248a: International Trade and the World Financial System
ECON 267b: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
GEOG 220a: Cartography: Making Maps with GIS
GEOG 224b: GIS: Spatial Analysis
GEOG 226: Remote Sensing
GEOG 230: Spatial Statistics
GEOG 238b: China and the Modern World
GEOG 242b: Brazil: Society, Culture, and Environment in Portuguese America
GEOG 250: Urban Geography
GEOG 256: Environmental Perception and Conservation History
GEOG 260: Conservation of Natural Resources
GEOG 266: Population, Environment, and Sustainable Development
GEOG 272: Geographies of Mass Violence
GEOG 283a: Geography of Food and Farming
PHIL 226b: Philosophy of Science
PHIL 234b: Ethics
POLI 238: Power and Public Policy
POLI 242b: Law, Justice, and Politics
POLI 259a: Human Rights and Politics
POLI 265: International Political Economy
POLI 266: Defense Policy and Arms Control
POLI 268a: The Politics of Globalization
POLI 269: National Model United Nations
SOCI 216b: Food, Culture, and Globalization
SOCI 235: Quality of Life
SOCI 260: Health, Medicine, and Public Policy
SOCI/ ENST/URBS 261: “The Nuclear Cage”: Environmental Theory and Nuclear Power
SOCI 264: Social Welfare and Political Policy

300 level
ANTH/ENST/STS 331b: Technology, Ecology and Society
ANTH/INTL 363b: Nations, Globalization, and Post-Coloniality
ANTH 364: Tourism
GEOG 340: Advanced Urban and Regional Studies
GEOG/ENST 356: Environment and Land Use Planning
GEOG 382b: Gender and Geography in the Middle East and North Africa
GEOG 384a: Community GIS (Noise, Noise, and More Noise)
HIST/ENST 367: Peoples and Environments in the American West
POLI 312b: Green Utopias
SOCI 312: Corporate Power
SOCI 368: Toxic Futures: From Social Theory to Environmental Theory

Other Program Courses
100 level
INTL 106: Perspectives in International Studies
STS 131: Genetic Engineering: Basic Principles and Ethical Questions
STS 180a: Energy: Sources and Politics (0.5 credit)
URBS 100: Introduction to Urban Studies

200 level
AFRI/ENST 256: Environment and Culture in the Caribbean
AMCL 212: The Press in America
INTL 251b: Global Feminism
INTL 276: Spaces in Global Capitalism
WMST/STS 241: Feminist Approaches to Science and Technology

300 level
STS 360a: Issues in Bioethics
STS/ENST 364b: Law and Technology
URBS/ENST 350: New York City as a Social Laboratory
WMST/ENST 370: Feminism and Environmentalism
WMST/ESSC 380a: Gender, Resources, and Justice

Partial list of Faculty members 2013:
Mark W. Andrews, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Tobias Armborst, Assistant Professor of Art
Pinar Batur, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Studies
Stuart L. Belli, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Robert D. Brown, Professor of Greek and Roman Studies on the Sarah Mills Raynor Chair
Lynn Capozzoli, Director of Exploring Program at Vassar Farm
Mark W. Andrews (French and Francophone Studies)
Pinar Batur (Sociology)
Stuart L. Belli (Chemistry)
Mary Ann Cunningham (Earth Science and Geography)
Rebecca Edwards (History)
Lucy Lewis Johnson (Anthropology)
Paul Kane (English)
Jamie Kelly (Philosophy)
Kirsten Menking (Earth Science and Geography)
Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (Hispanic Studies)
Julie Park (English)
A. Marshall Pregnall (Biology)
Margaret Ronsheim (Biology)
Paul Ruud (Economics)
Peter Stillman (Political Science)
Jeffrey Walker (Earth Science and Geography)
Participating Faculty
Lynn Christenson, Assistant Professor of Biology
Mary Ann Cunningham, Associate Professor of Geography
Rebecca Edwards, Professor of History on the Eloise Ellery Chair
Brian J. Godfrey, Professor of Geography and Director of Urban Studies
Kathleen Hart, Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies
Benjamin Ho, Assistant Professor of Economics
Julie E. Hughes, Assistant Professor of History
Lucy Lewis Johnson, Professor of Anthropology
Paul Kane, Professor of English

Contact details:
Environmental Studies at Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave., Box 735, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0735
Office: New England, 103
Phone: 845-437-5430
Fax: 845-437-7204