The course examines issues from social science and global problem-solving perspectives with particular attention to how culture and place affect human...
Active filters
Result of filter: 57
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...
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...
Negotiating Citizenship in Contemporary Jordan: A Simulation
Curricular materials created for the 2015 SAIL seminar: Sustainability on the Margins: Investigating Adaptation and Change in Jordan Students work as ...
Red-Dead Conveyance: Balancing Peace and Sustainability
Curricular materials created for the 2015 SAIL seminar: Sustainability on the Margins: Investigating Adaptation and Change in Jordan This module asks ...
Cities of the 21st Century: The Political Economy of Urban Sustainability
Curricular materials created for the 2015 SAIL seminar: Sustainability on the Margins: Investigating Adaptation and Change in Jordan This module was d...
Ancient Art and Architecture of Mexico and Central America
Curricular materials created for the 2015 SAIL seminar: Sustainability on the Margins: Investigating Adaptation and Change in Jordan My goal was to pr...
Critical Studies in Public Space
This introductory-level, five-week studio art course is intended to provide students a crash-course in the pragmatics and politics of architectural de...
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...
Integral Ecology
Integral ecology has origins in philosophy and religion and thus values different ways of knowing in a contemporary environmental studies world, that ...
The Arithmetic of Distance: A Module
Curricular materials created for the 2013 SAIL seminar: Mediterranean Trivium: Earth, Sea, & Culture in Italy This module invites students to cons...