The field of abrupt climate change seeks to understand very fast changes, or “tipping points,” in historical climate records. Course topic...
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Seeing/Observing Animals Across the Disciplines
Every discipline brings different skills and emphases to the task of learning to “see,” particularly within disciplinary methodology. In looking a...
Ebola in Contested Spaces
The Coe Team’s SAIL project is multi-pronged endeavor, consisting of both individual modules and a team-taught course offered during our institu...
ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability
Curricular materials created for the 2016 SAIL seminar: Silicon Valley as an Innovation Ecosystem ANT 365 Environment, Culture and Sustainability comb...
Sustainability and Collapse in the Middle East
We developed an upper-division, interdisciplinary course that focused on the questions: What do sustainable environmental, cultural, and political pra...
Technical Skills for Campaign Managers
Curricular materials created for the 2016 SAIL seminar: Silicon Valley as an Innovation Ecosystem This module: Examines what kinds of jobs and skills ...
A Playful Approach to Practicing Creativity and Innovation
Curricular materials created for the 2016 SAIL seminar: Silicon Valley as an Innovation Ecosystem As we observed on our SAIL seminar in Silicon Valley...
Innovation Clusters
Curricular materials created for the 2016 SAIL seminar: Silicon Valley as an Innovation Ecosystem Silicon Valley is the epitome of innovation clusters...
How to Talk Midwestern
Unlike other regions of the country, the Midwest is often described as an “anti-region.” What, in fact, is the Midwest? What are the defining feat...
Contested Spaces: The Brazilian Amazon
The Brazilian Amazon is very important, as the rainforest is considered one of the world’s major “lungs,” meaning a carbon sink; such sinks grow...
Contested Spaces: The Arctic
As the Arctic ice cap melts, interests are shifting, and the Arctic is quickly becoming a contested space. The melting ice (and improved technologies...
Global Challenges in Jordan
The course examines issues from social science and global problem-solving perspectives with particular attention to how culture and place affect human...