| Instructor: Professor Nathan Sayre email: nsayre@berkeley.edu office phone: 643-4084 office: 589 McCone office hours: |
Class Location: 55A McCone Class Time: W 1-4 Course control number: 36742 Units: 4 |
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| One 3-hour seminar per week. The relationship between human societies and natural environments lies at the heart of geographic inquiry and has gained urgency as the rate and scale of human transformations of nature have grown, often outstripping our understanding of causes and effects. The physical side of environmental science has received most of the emphasis in university research, but the social basis of environmental change must be studied, as well. Recent developments in social theory have much to offer environmental studies, while the latter has, in turn, exploded many formerly safe assumptions about how and what the social sciences and humanities ought to be preoccupied with. This seminar allows students to explore some classics in environmental thought as well as recent contributions that put the field on the forefront of social knowledge today. |
