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RMES 501 History and Philosophy of Environmental Thought
Catalogue No. 2394
Instructor: John Robinson

This course will examine how attitudes towards human nature and non-human nature have changed over the period from Mesolithic times until the present in Western society. By reading and discussing historical arguments and contemporary documents we will attempt to uncover the underlying assumptions about the world that were characteristic of different periods in the history of Western culture. The underlying question is whether contemporary concerns about sustainability require fundamental changes in the way we conceive of ourselves or our environment.

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Gender, Space, Inequality, and Environment
Catalogue No. IRES/WMST 503D/3
Instructor: Leila M. Harris
Mondays, 2-5pm. Room 028 Social Work, Jack Bell Building

Focusing on gender as a critical operation of inequality and social difference important for environmental politics and relations, this course will serve as an in-depth introduction to environmental justice, political ecology, and feminist approaches to space and nature. An overarching goal of this course is to consider how it is that gender and environment may be interrelated, or even mutually constitutive. You will leave the course with a grasp of how gender and environment may be linked theoretically and empirically, how gender and other operations of socio-spatial difference affect environmental processes and access to resources, the role of gender and social difference in environmental politics and activism, how sexed and racialized bodies are differentially situated with respect to pollutants and environmental processes, as well as how notions of gender and social difference may affect our understandings of and approaches to ‘nature’, ‘science’ and ‘environments.’

RMES 599 Masters Thesis

Section 101 (Term 1) Section 001 (Terms 1 & 2)

RMES 699 PhD Thesis

Section 101 (Term 1) Section 001 (Terms 1 & 2)