Spring 2016 courses for both Environmental Studies and Science, Technology and Society can be found in the links below. The current lists of courses can also be found using Class Search in My.Butler. Please contact your advisor with any questions.
ENV Spring 2016 COURSES – Poster
STS Spring 2016 COURSES – Poster
Fall 2015 courses with an STS attribute can be found in the link below. The current list of courses can also be found using Class Search in My.Butler. Please contact your STS advisor with any questions.
Summer 2015 courses with an STS attribute can be found in the link below. The current list of courses can also be found using Class Search in My.Butler. Please contact your STS advisor with any questions.
This Thursday, April 10th, Butler will be celebrating Fair Trade Day as part of Butler’s annual Peace Week celebration. As part of Fair Trade Day, we will be inviting Anne and Kelly Campbell from the Village Experience Fair Trade store and the Village Cooperative non-profit (http://www.experiencethevillage.com/) to speak about the role of Fair Trade in creating sustainable systems of economic-development and trade in the Global South from 6-7:30pm GH105.
ST Elective offerings are detailed in the link below. Contact Dr. Salsbury, or your STS advisor with any questions.
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Joe Ritter and John Broere
The Solar Car Challenge: Designing for the Future (The Secrets of the Prinicipia Solar Car Project)
TONIGHT – Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 7:30 p.m., Reilly Room
The Principia Solar Car Project began in 1991 with a handful of highly motivated liberal arts students. For the past 12 years, the project has consistently met its goals through active learning and application of engineering principles. The team has consistently placed in the top seven in the numerous cross-country races, a record particularly remarkable given that Principia College is a small liberal arts school in Elsah, Ill., competing against top engineering universities, multinational corporations, and engineering firms.
Joe Ritter joined the faculty in 1995 as an assistant professor of chemistry, attaining the rank of professor a decade later. He has served as chair of the Chemistry Department, director of the Engineering Science Program, and faculty advisor to the Principia College Solar Car Project. A longtime faculty mentor with invaluable experience and irrepressible enthusiasm for project-based learning, he assumed the post of assistant dean of academics in 2008.
John Broere is an instructor of computer science at Principia. He has been a faculty adviser to the Principea Solar Car Team since 2007, and was a member of the team as an undergraduate student from 1998-2002. During his time with the team, he has had the opportunity to participate in numerous major races and events both nationally and internationally. He also was instrumental in erecting a wind test tower on Principia’s campus to investigate the viability of using wind power to supplement the College’s energy supply.
I just realized that we had failed to share with you another course for spring 2014 that can serve as an STS elective. This looks very interesting — especially for those of you interested in environmental studies.
EN393: Into the Wild – Literature and the Environment
This class will explore wilderness and its relationship to human culture. Our concern throughout will be on a concept, the idea of wilderness, as it evolves in the nature writing tradition. We tend to think of wilderness spatially, as “an area where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man is a visitor who does not remain” (Wilderness Act of 1964). And we will examine wilderness in terms of specific locales: John Muir’s Sierra, Edward Abbey’s red-rimmed deserts, the old-growth forests of Gary Snyder’s far west, Barry Lopez’s arctic, the archipelagic outposts of Robert MacFarlane’s Britain. For these and other writers from H. D. Thoreau to Aldo Leopold, wilderness offered in turns scenery, solitude, spiritual communion, recreation, and scientific study, and their experiences encourage us to think wilderness in different terms. Might we not consider wilderness temporally: does a familiar place become wild in the deep pitch of night? Or in terms of climate: is a snow-clad peak more wild than that same height greened by wildflowers? To what extent is wilderness a state of mind?
We will also take up recent responses to the received notion of wilderness. Kathleen Jamie provides a feminist critique of a strain of wilderness writing by what she calls the “lone enraptured male,” while Evelyn White reminds us that how we think about the wild is shaped by gender and race. The very idea of wilderness as a place where “man is a visitor who does not remain” is challenged by Luther Standing Bear and Leslie Marmon Silko, who attest to a long native American inhabitance of these lands. Moreover, recent work by ecologists and cultural geographers has suggested that the primeval wilderness we associate with the European settlement of North America is a historical aberration. Today, as wilderness continues to bleed from the world, we will ask ourselves how nature writing might re-wild our own imaginations.
A common and important question for STS majors is: what counts towards my STS degree? In theory, the best way to answer this and other questions about graduation requirements is by reviewing your academic requirements (what everyone calls your degree audit) in the Student Center of My.Butler. I say, “in theory” because in order the audits to work, the audit must be correctly programmed by the registrar to know what courses count as STS electives in any given semester — and that has not been the case for STS.
This semester I have been working with the STS steering committee and the registrar’s office to bring course information up to date, and at this point we are close to an audit that you and your adviser can trust. Now I need your help. I would be grateful if all of you (especially those who are juniors and seniors) would check your audit. It should tell you all courses that you have completed or are presently enrolled in that can count toward the STS major. If you have taken a course that you thought would count, and it is not on your audit, you need to let me know.
You can find your audit on My.Butler. Here are the instructions:
Login and click Self Service > Student Center. In the Academics area, under the Other Academics dropdown, select Academic Requirements and click on the button. Your advising audit appears onscreen. Requirement areas that haven’t been completely fulfilled yet will automatically be expanded. Sections of the audit that are minimized have already been satisfied.
When you get there, you may find it helpful to click the button that allows you to see the report in PDF format. I personally like this, because it lists all the courses you have taken towards the STS elective requirement in a single table, so you don’t have to scroll through 100+ options.
You can now look up STS courses on Course Search. When you get there:
This should match the information on the one page handout I posted earlier, but it will give you up-to-date information on enrollments, so you can see if a class is filling up.
You still can’t trust your degree audit, but we’ll get that fixed soon.
