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Environmental Studies 490
Senior Seminar in Environmental Studies
Spring 2008. Swart 126. Tuesday-Thursday 11:30-1:00.
We stand at a critical moment in Earth's history, a time when humanity must choose its future. As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise. To move forward we must recognize that in the midst of a magnificent diversity of cultures and life forms we are one human family and one Earth community with a common destiny. We must join together to bring forth a sustainable global society founded on respect for nature, universal human rights, economic justice, and a culture of peace. Towards this end, it is imperative that we, the peoples of Earth, declare our responsibility to one another, to the greater community of life, and to future generations.
--Preamble to the Earth Charter
SYLLABUS
STUDENT EMAIL ADDRESSES
RESEARCH TOPICS 2008
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION SCHEDULE
INDIVIDUAL THESIS MEETINGS
ASSIGNMENTS
Research project
Research project brief overview
Research project description
Questions to ask of your research project
Formal requirements for the thesis
Research proposal
Research proposal assignment
Two examples of research proosals
Progress reports
Progress report assignment
Example of progress report
Precis (abstract)
Mid-term summary
Mid-term summary assignment
PowerPoint presentations
PowerPoint presentations instructions
PowerPoint response sheet
Posters
Responses to Earth Week events
SUSTAINABILITY
Major declarations on sustainability
Calder and Clugston. "A Model Sustainable Institution."
Definitions of sustainability
Earth Charter
Filho, Walter Leal. “Dealing with misconceptions on the concept of sustainability.” <on e-reserve>
Rio Declaration, "Education for Sustainable Development"
Rio Declaration, "Principles on Environment and Development"
Second Nature."Education for Sustainability"
Selected Documents on Sustainability - list.
United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Campus Sustainability Plan - Executive Summary
Wells, Richard. "UWO Campus Sustainability Team Charge"
Wikipedia. "Sustainability."
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
On Definitions of Sustainability
On Savchenko, "Is Sustainable Development a Plausible Approach to Environmental Problems?
On Daly, “The Shape of Current Thought on Sustainable Development.”
On the Rio Declaration, "Education for Sustainable Development."
On your definition of sustainability and its relation to your thesis.
On sustainability in higher education and at UWO.
CRITICAL THINKING IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
A brief outline of critical thinking
Highlighting complex issues in the project
Values in environmental studies
Dialectical analysis
STUDY AIDS
Environmental Ethics: Four Conventional Schools in Western Philosophy
Environmental Ethics: Key Terms
Glossary of Terms in Environmental Ethics, Environmental History, and Nature Writing
"Nature": A Highly Complex Term
Otherness and Anotherness
WRITING
Barnhill's Friendly Manual for Empowered Writing and Great Papers
Two models of papers
Citations: A Summary of the MLA Style
Citations: KnightCite Automatic Citation Creator
Common grammatical mistakes: semi-colon, sentence fragment, comma splice, run-on sentence, "it"
Peer editing evaluation forms
RESEARCH
Research sources
Five Criteria for Evaluating Websites
Using Lexis-Nexus (newspaper sources)
Using the Polk Catalog
Using Advanced Keyword Search
Using Interlibrary Loan
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