sustainablejames

Geography of the James River Watershed. GEOG 215. Study of the local environments and protected areas within the James River watershed. Explores the natural and human connections that define the resources challenges and opportunities within this urban watershed.

Water: Economics, Politics, and Policy. CRN: 13479 and 13480. Local, national, and global issues associated with water will be examined from a variety of perspectives including, but not limited to legal, economic, political, environmental, social, historical, and religious.

Marine Biology of the Chesapeake. BIOL 111. Introduction to the ecology and biological diversity of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. Environmental issues facing the bay will be explored through direct data collection, observation, and hands-on activities.

Urban Revitalization and Preservation. IDST 334. Using the city of Richmond as a laboratory, a study of importance of preserving old and historic structures, districts and artifacts, and of maintaining integrity and flavor of existing neighborhoods within context of modern urban environment.

Water: From Noah to Katrina. CRN: 13728. One of the earliest natural forces to face human beings was water. It was a challenge, but more importantly it was the life giver and the life destroyer. Many cultures represented this ambivalent attitude towards water in their myths and literature. Water became through floods the means of destroying the old and giving birth to the new. In our modern times, we still gaze at water with similar ambivalence. We will look at the representations of this complex attitude to water in literature and other cultural forms that the human imagination has produced in response to the experience of water.

Drawing From Nature. ARTS 220. Develops skills in drawing directly from natural objects, live plants and animals. The course will examine how fine arts, botanists, and scientists utilize forms taken from natural flora and fauna in their work, introducing a variety of media, including ink, watercolor, and graphite.

Urban Education. EDUC 345. Examination of the relationship between urban issues and education policies and practices. Includes a broad interdisciplinary look at the relationship between school an urban society and communities. Sociological and philosophical theories will be used to examine how culture, race, and class influence the structure and function of urban education systems.

Memory and Memorializing in the City of Richmond. RHCS 349. Examines various sites of memory production-how they have been conceptualized and debated-and asks students to consider memory not only as an entity used in reconstructing the past but capable of being reconstructed itself.

Society, Economy and Nature: Global Perspectives on Sustainable Development. GEOG 345. Applies geography's human-environment tradition to examine social, cultural, and economic dimensions of sustainability and sustainable development. Examinations into foundations and theories behind the concept of sustainable development, discussions and debates about its real-world applicability, and explorations into case studies addressing relationships and contradictions between human desires for material well-being, environmental protection, and maintenance of cultural and/or social traditions.