Course ID: | GEOG 1125E. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Resources, Society, and the Environment |
Course Description: | Interactions between physical systems and human activities, and their effects on environmental quality and sustainability. Geography of population and resource consumption, food production, water and air quality, energy policy, and land/biotic resource management. |
Oasis Title: | Resources Society and Environ |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in GEOG 1125, GEOG 2250H |
Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. Each topic has a
dedicated module consisting of a PPT file of lecture notes, a
recorded teaching video, a quiz, and a checklist of items to be
completed. Review presentations and final project presentations
are to be recorded by students with instructor-provided tools
and resources. Each student is expected to have a computer
running a Windows operating system or a Macintosh platform that
allows the use of interactive technology and internet access.
Students will use the eLC software available after registration. |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students at the end of the course will be able to
1. Understand the biogeographical foundations of the human
environment
2. Compile, organize, analyze and visualize environmental-
related data to communicate with a lay audience
3. Become versed in the discourse of sustainability and
negotiate the terminology associated with the political ecology
of resource use
4. Develop a geoecological footprint essay addressing a real-
world problem
5. Realize the inner workings of the social-ecological systems
(SES) of the cultural landscapes subjected to urban expansion
and biodiversity loss |
Topical Outline: | 1. Wild Nature? Geoliteracy and political ecology amidst global
environmental change
2. Population geographies: Resource scarcity and demographic
growth
3. Economic geographies: Markets and commodities in the
environment
4. Governability and scale: Environmental institutions and the
commons
5. Soul geographies: Environmentality, ethics, and deep ecology
6. Resilience and adaptation: Environmental Risks and hazards
7. Developmental geographies: Political economy and the global
environment
8. Post-modern geographies: Social construction of nature
9. Carbon sequestration and Trade puzzle
10. Forest transitions and Tree puzzle
11. Rewilding and Wolfe puzzle
12. Nuclear prospects and Uranium puzzle
13. Biodiversity conservation and Tuna puzzle
14. Urban design and Lawn puzzle
15. Water woes and Bottle puzzle
16. Food security and French fry puzzle
17. Digital divides and E-waste puzzle
18. Farmscape transformation and Rural puzzle
19. Sustainable development and Senesce puzzle |
Honor Code Reference: | Students are responsible for conducting themselves according to
the policies outlined in the UGA Student Honor Code. Academic
misconduct, including plagiarism, unauthorized assistance,
lying, tampering, bribery, copying others’ tests, theft or
sabotaging others’ work, shall not be tolerated. For further
details, please visit the Office of Vice President for
Instruction webpage: www.uga.ovpi. The instructor prosecutes all
instances of academic dishonesty. |