Selected environmental social science topics that require an intermediate background. Offered when interest and opportunity arise. May require at least one 200 level Environmental Science course as prerequisite. 1 unit.

This course explores how legal systems mediate our relationship with the Earth, Earth systems/processes, and nonhuman entities. Students will interrogate dominant environmental law approaches and assumptions and explore contrasting and emergent legal approaches, including ecological law, rights of nature, and Earth system law. Students will explore whether and how these approaches would address environmental inequities and injustices among humans that result from contemporary environmental regulation, before considering their practicability and potential to promote greater equity in our engagement with nonhuman interests.

An opportunity for students to engage in team-based, applied anthropological work on a focused project, this course is intended as a linked block that supports advanced coursework in such areas of study as human ecology, field archaeology, event ethnography or museum curatorial work. Sites for fieldwork will vary from year to year, ranging from the Rocky Mountain West and/or Southwest Regions to international settings. Incorporates such hands-on activities as participant observation, interviewing, networking, policy development, field data gathering, collections management, habitat or nutritional analysis, publication and dissemination, as well as training data analysis and presentation, rhetorical and organizational skills.

Course will deepen a students' understanding of the frameworks used to understand sustainable development and how climate change affects sustainable development objectives and intersect with food systems.