printer friendly pageAMSTUD 276: Water Resources: Culture and Context (ENVRES 276)
Students in this discussion-based seminar will examine both the social and environmental challenges of managing California¿s freshwater resources. The multidisciplinary team of instructors will introduce a range of textual sources - engineering, cartographic, art historical, and ecological, to name a few - and the class will engage directly with Cantor¿s `Art of Water¿ exhibition as well as local feats of water infrastructure. Students will gain historically-grounded insights through tailored weekly assignments and develop creative solutions for freshwater security as the final project.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3-5
Instructors:
Googasian, V. (PI)
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Grubert, E. (PI)
;
LeBourdais, G. (PI)
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Instructors:
Googasian, V. (PI)
;
Grubert, E. (PI)
;
LeBourdais, G. (PI)
;
McVarish, M. (PI)
;
Rogers, L. (PI)
AMSTUD 279X: American Jewish History: Learning to be Jewish in America (EDUC 279, HISTORY 288D, JEWISHST 297X, RELIGST 279X)
This course will be a seminar in American Jewish History through the lens of education. It will address both the relationship between Jews and American educational systems, as well as the history of Jewish education in America. Plotting the course along these two axes will provide a productive matrix for a focused examination of the American Jewish experience. History students must take course for at least 3 units.
Last offered: Winter 2015
AMSTUD 281: Asian Religions in America; Asian American Religions (ASNAMST 281, RELIGST 281, RELIGST 381)
This course will analyze both the reception in America of Asian religions (i.e. of Buddhism in the 19th century), and the development in America of Asian American religious traditions.
Last offered: Winter 2014
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
AMSTUD 293: Church, State, & Schools: Issues in Education & Religion (EDUC 293, RELIGST 293X)
This course will examine interactions between religion and education, focusing on both formal and experiential sites in which people and communities explore, articulate, encounter, and perform religious ideologies and identities. The class will focus on different religious traditions and their encounters the institutions and structures of education in American culture, both in the United States and as it manifests in American culture transnationally.
Last offered: Autumn 2015
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