Topics studied include early environmental experiences and development, environmental stressors such as crowding and noise, territoriality and privacy, environmental aesthetics, cognitive maps and way-finding behavior, effects of institutional size on performance, and attitudes towards the natural environment. This course focuses on the diverse ways in which rural women in emerging nations conceptualize and utilize landscape and resources, and the effects of material changes in natural and social environments on the quality of gender relations, social life, and community organization. It also looks comparatively at the experiences of women migrants and urban workers, and the relationships between gender and ecology in Western societies. The following are Environmental Studies related courses but are taught under other disciplines. Please register for any of these courses under their regular disciplines.
Ecology is the study of the relationships among organisms and their biotic and abiotic environments.
The course addresses theoretical and applied questions central to contemporary ecology through a combination of field and laboratory studies, at the level of the individual, population, community, and ecosystem. Exceptions require permission of the instructor. A course in the methods used to study free-ranging vertebrate animals. Lectures will focus on conceptual problems with estimating population size and dynamics, home ranges, territories, feeding behavior, and habitat use. Laboratories will focus on methods used to capture, identify, mark, track, and census vertebrate populations, including the use of radiotelemetry equipment and fluorescent dye markers.