The Sustainable James

       hands-on activities. This is a service-learning course and students will join local 5th-grade classrooms to help teach                   elementary students about the bay. Will not serve as basis for further work in science nor meet entrance requirements

       for any health profession. Three lecture and three laboratory hours per week.

• First-Year Seminar- Water: Economics, Policy & Politics: This First Year Seminar is designed to build a learning community that will examine global, national, and local issues associated with water. Is water a human right, and how does the

• answer to this question consider private property rights? What is the role of naval power, historically and in the present day? What can we learn from the specific case of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, in terms of environmental justice, aging infrastructure, and government responsibility? What is the water/energy nexus in general, and is hydraulic fracturing safe? Who decides when and where to build dams, and who benefits from the associated operating policies?

• Biology 199- Conservation Biology: An introduction to how biologists pose questions, design experiments, analyze data, evaluate evidence, and communicate scientific information. Individual sections will have different topics and formats, but all sections will involve intensive student-directed investigation and include a laboratory component. Required for prospective biology majors and biochemistry and molecular biology majors. Three lecture and three laboratory hours per week. Topic changes each semester

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Spring: Classes will be updated on regular basis.

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Specialty Classes:

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• Sophomore Scholars in Residence- Geography of the James River Water Shed: This course has three primary objectives: (1) to exercise and hone skills of critical observation of our environment, (2) to provide an introduction to physical geography emphasizing concepts of scale, connectivity and boundaries as they apply to the James River watershed, and (3) to link theory learned in class to the practice of natural resource management in the local community.

  • This class has a 1.5 unit requirment split between the fall and spring semesters, 1 and .5 units respectively.

  • For more information on UR's Sophomore Scholars in Residence Program click here.