Wednesdays, 12-12:50pm, HSSB 1227
Enrollment Code: 70821
This freshman seminar will explore current environmental issues and elements of equity within them. It will be linked to the 2005-2006 Critical Issues in America program at UCSB (special lectures and events) and provide freshmen a special opportunity to meet with visiting experts and scholars in addition to the regular class sessions. Short readings and active discussion will be expected of seminar participants. Seminar participants will enjoy special opportunities to participate in campus events and meetings with guests to campus.
Professor William Freudenburg, Dehlsen Professor of Environmental Studies and the immediate past-president of the Rural Sociological Society, has devoted most of his career to the study of environment-society relationships. He is particularly well-known both for his work on coupled environment-society systems in general and for his work on more specific topics, including resource-dependent communities, the social impacts of environmental and technological change, and risk analysis.
Professor Robert C. Wilkinson is the 2005-2006 Schuyler Lecturer in the Environmental Studies Program and Director of the Water Policy Program at UCSB’s Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management. His teaching, research, and consulting focus on water policy, climate change, and environmental policy issues. Dr. Wilkinson teaches the ES courses on Water Policy, Climate Change, and Sustainable Communities.
