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Colloquia Offered for Spring 2007
| Name and Registration Information | Description | Instructor Information |
| Global
Warming (11:015:401)
Meets Th 2:15-5:15 p.m. Index # 45404 |
An interdisciplinary approach to the investigation of the causes and consequences of global atmospheric change such as global warming and ozone depletion. Team projects focus primarily on impacts on New Jersey and the northeast and on developing and evaluating potential solutions. | Instructor:
Jim Miller Phone: 732-932-6555 X545 Email: miller@imcs.rutgers.edu |
| Ethics
in Science (11:015:405)
Sec 1: Meets W 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.; Index # 47319 Sec 2: Meets F 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.; Index # 52394
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Exploration of a variety of ethical issues related to science, including, but not limited to gene patents, conflict of interest, insider trading, cures of disease, endangered species, human experimentation, and man and the environment. Students work in small groups on a particular issue of their choosing.
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Instructor:
Julie Fagan Phone: 732-932-8354 Email: Fagan@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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Plants
and Human Health Meets M, Th 12:35 - 1:55 p.m. Index #51102 |
Examination and critical analysis of alternative therapies currently used to treat human illnesses. | Instructor:
J. Simon Phone: 732-932-9711 X355 Email: jesimon@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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Science and the Media (11:015:424) Meets T 6,7 Index # 54224 |
Examanation of how the media help shape public perceptions of science and how these views then influence the practice of science. Specific examples will be used to discuss how popular notions of science are formed, reinforced or superceded; how societal views influence science policy; and how business and national interests can alter the public's view of science and science education. | Instructor:
Michael Lawton Phone: 732-932-8165 X223 Email:lawton@aesop.rutgers.edu |
| Marvellous
Microbes (11:015:429)
Meets T 2:30 - 5:30 p.m. Index # 49900 |
Consideration of the positive attributes of diverse beneficial microbes through interesting vignettes and historical bases, including: microbes and the foundation of the U.S. steel industry; hymns of John Greenleaf Whittier; paintings of Beatrix Potter of mushroom hallucinogens; and stabilization of sand-dunes through the activities of bayberry's microbial symbionts. | Instructor:
D. Eveleigh Phone: 732-932-9763 X328 Email: eveleigh@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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International Trade Policy (11:015:431) Meets W 12:35 - 1:55 p.m; F 2:15 - 3:35 p.m. Index # 48128 |
This course will focus on the nature of trade in agricultural products, trade policies and practices of import and export nations, agricultural policies of common market areas and other major trading blocks, market instability and other primary commodity problems, trade negotiations and current developments in agricultural trade and trade policy. | Instructor:
Edmund Tavernier Phone: 732-932-9171 X256 Email: tavernier@aesop.rutgers.edu |
| Tropical
Agriculture (11:015:492)
Meets T 2:15 - 5:15 p.m. Index # 47675 |
An experiential learning course about tropical agricultural systems, with major foci on the key food, agricultural and environmental issues. Teams of three or four students will be formed and will be the basis for most course activities and evaluation. | Instructor:
Richard Merritt Phone: 732-932-9711 X:247 Email: dmerritt@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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Human Ecology of Maritime Regions (11:374:308) Meets F 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Index # 54191 |
The focus of this junior-senior colloquium is human interaction with the ocean as mediated through the activity of fishing, and the main issue we address is sustainable use of fish, shellfish, and their habitats, from an inter-disciplinary perspective. | Instructor:
Bonnie McCay Phone: 732-932-9153 X314 Email: mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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Meets Th 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Index # 52715 |
The pharmaceutical, biotech, “green” (environmental), and the food industries are expected to be major sources of growth in jobs and the wealth in the 21st Century. However, their contribution to job creation, human health, and an improved environment will depend on US and NJ policies. The US patent system will influence how much you have to pay for drugs and how much pharmaceutical companies will invest in developing new drugs. Federal Drug Administration regulations will determine whether the drugs we take are safe and when new “miracle” drugs will become available. They will also decide if biotech foods are safe. US environmental regulations will determine whether we can use plants and microbes to clean up heavy metals in the environment or whether we have to use bulldozers and landfills to clean up hazardous waste sites. The students in this class will choose a firm and analyze how policies affect the technology that the firm supplies, the prices that it charges, its profits, and the benefits and costs of their technologies to society. | Instructor:
Carl Pray Phone: 732-932-9155 X219 Email: prayr@aesop.rutgers.edu |
| New
& Re-emerging Diseases (11:374:431)
Meets M 2:15 - 5:15 p.m. Index # 51118 |
Provides a broad social, cultural and ecological framework for understanding both the emergence of new diseases (and the re-emergence of old ones) and the role they play in our lives and our evolution. This understanding should help us gain a clearer sense of where to intervene to control them. | Instructor:
Peter Guarnaccia Phone: 732-932-9168 Email: guarnaccia@aesop.rutgers.edu |
| Weather,
Climate & Environmental Design (11:670:306)
Meets W 5:35 - 8:35 p.m. Index # 41103 |
Impacts of interacting weather and climate variables on environmental and engineering issues and design applications in the areas of agriculture, stormwater management, air pollution, coastal management, weather extremes/severe weather, and global warming. | Instructor:
R. Dunk Phone: Email: dunk@cep.rutgers.edu |
| Conservation
Ecology (11:704:317)
Meets W 9:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Registration by permission of instructor only |
Effects of technology and population growth on species, ecosystems, and human communities. Environmental impact of agricultural and industrial systems. Global environmental change. Biological and social underpinnings of conservation. | Instructor:
David Ehrenfeld Phone: 732-932-9553 email: dehrenfeld@aesop.rutgers.edu |
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Trade, Agriculture, Immigration and Social Movements (37:575:481) Meets T 12:35 - 3:35 p.m. Index # 53643
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This course looks at the global food and agriculture system and examines how family farmers (peasants or campesinos) offer an alternative to corporate globalization: food sovereignty, or counties' right to define their own agriculture, food and trade policy without any dumping of cheap agricultural products on their markets. In addition to readings on agriculture and farmer movements (with a special focus on Latin America, South Asia and Africa), we will see videos about alternative agricultural production and farmer protests against free trade and agribusiness. We will look at the effect of the globalization on rural workers and communities in developing countries, on the global environment and global climate change, and on immigration to the developed and urban world. Students will work in research teams with farmer organizations to produce a final project. |
Instructor: William Kramer |
Last Updated: December 12, 2006