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.
ST Elective offerings are detailed in the link below. Contact Dr. Salsbury, or your STS advisor with any questions.
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.
The following course taught this spring in the political science is an interesting opportunity for STS majors
At this link you will find STS courses Spring 2014, both core course and electives. You should use this list for your planning. (Course search currently lists some STS courses incorrectly; I will let you know when I’ve got that fixed.)
As you plan your schedule, here are some things to keep in mind:
Please try to make one of the STS advising meetings. We’ll have lots to talk about.