Curriculum

The geography core course requirements must be fulfilled in addition to the curriculum listed for the area of emphasis.

Nature and Society-AOE Required Courses

Depth (choose one):
CRD 244 Political Ecology of Community Development
ECL 210 Advanced Topics in Human Ecology
ECL 211 Advanced Topics in Cultural Ecology

Methods (choose one course from Group A and one from Group B):
Group A
ARE 239 Econometric Foundations
ESP 278 Research Methods in Environmental Policy
POL 211 Research Methods in Political Science
SOC 201 Social Research

Group B
EDU 205A Ethnographic Research in Schools I:
HIS 204 Historiography
NAS 280 Ethnohistorical Theory and Method

Electives as best associated with subfield:
Depth focus:
ANT 211 Advanced Topics in Cultural Ecology
ANT 212 Political Ecology (4)
ANT 221 Rural Transformation in Postcolonial Societies
ARE 214 Development Economics
ARE 215D Environment and Economic Development
CRD 245 The Political Economy of Urban and Regional Development
ECL 213 Population, Environment, and Social Structure
ECL 216 Ecology and Agriculture
ECL 217 Conservation and Sustainable Development in Third World Nations
ECL 222 Human Ecology of Agriculture
ESP 212A Environmental Policy Process
ESP 220 Tropical Ecology (3)
IAD 200N Philosophy and Practice of Agricultural Development
LAW 285 Environmental Law
LAW 285A Environmental Justice Law
LAW 285C Agricultural Law and Policy
LAW 285T Farmworkers and the Law
LAW 290 International Trade Dispute Seminar
LDA 260 Landscape and Power
LDA 280 Landscape Conservation
NAS 212 Community Development for Sovereignty and Autonomy
POL 207 Environmental Public Policy
SOC 233 Gender, Culture, and Local/Global Transformation.
SOC 245 Developing Societies

Methods focus:
ABT 182 Environmental Analysis using GIS
ANT 207 Ethnographic Writing
ARE 240A Econometric Methods (Same course as ECN 240A.)
ECL 206 Concepts and Methods in Plant Community Ecology
EDU 205B Ethnographic Research in Schools
ESP 212B Environmental Policy Evaluation
SOC 206 Quantitative Analysis in Sociology
SOC 207A-207B Methods of Quantitative Research