Yale College Preregistration for Limited Enrollment Courses begins Today!The student application period for courses with limited enrollments will take place from April 6-21. How the application process works for limited-enrollment courses is largely up to individual departments and to individual instructors. Following are instructions for EVST limited enrollment courses. Students will be notified if they are admitted to a class before
April 30th. Registration opens within Yale Course Search on May 3rd and ends EVST 212 Democracy and SustainabilityTh 9:25am-11:15am Instructor: Michael Fotos. Concepts include institutional analysis, democratic consent, property rights, market failure, and common pool resources. Topics of policy substance are related to human use of the environment and to U.S. and global political institutions. YC EVST: Advanced Seminar Professor Fotos is the DUS for Environmental Studies. Priority to Political Science, EP&E, and EVST majors. Please complete the preregistration form below. EVST 224 Writing About the EnvironmentW 9:25am-11:15am Instructor: Alan Burdick. Exploration of ways in which the environment and the natural world can be channeled for literary expression. Reading and discussion of essays, reportage, and book-length works, by scientists and non-scientists alike. Students learn how to create narrative tension while also conveying complex—sometimes highly technical—information; the role of the first person in this type of writing; and where the human environment ends and the non-human one begins. This course is highly recommended for seniors as a complement to EVST 496a, the fall Senior Colloquium within which seniors draft their senior essays. It could also be used by juniors to explore a potential senior essay topic, helping focus planned research for the summer of 2020. Alan Burdick is a Senior Editor at The New York Times, and was formerly Senior Editor at the New Yorker Magazine. Priority to EVST majors; open to non majors as space permits. Students interested in the course should email the instructor at alan.burdick@gmail.com with the following information: 1.) A few paragraphs describing your interest in taking the class. 2.) A non-academic writing sample that best represents you. EVST 234L Field Science: Environment and SustainabilityT 1pm-2:15pm | Th 1pm-5pm Instructor: Kealoha Freidenburg. A field course that explores the effects of human influences on the environment. Analysis of pattern and process in forested ecosystems; introduction to the principles of agroecology, including visits to local farms; evaluation of sustainability within an urban environment. Weekly field trips and one weekend field trip. YC EVST: Core BA Natural Science and YC EVST: B.S. Natural Science/Field Lab "Instructor Permission Required". Priority to EVST majors; open to non majors as space permits. Students who attempt to enroll in this course will be prompted to submit a formal request to the instructor. If the instructor admits you, you may enroll. NOTE: if you are not granted permission to enroll, you may still place the course on your Canvas worksheet until add/drop period, when you may be admitted if other students drop the course. EVST 244 Coastal Environments in a Changing WorldF 9am-1pm Instructor: Mary Beth Decker. The effects of human action and natural phenomena on coastal marine ecosystems. Methods used by coastal scientists to address environmental issues; challenges associated with managing and conserving coastal environments. YC EVST: Core BA Natural Science and YC EVST: B.S. Natural Science/Field Lab Priority to EVST and E&EB majors; open to non majors as space permits. Please complete the application form below. EVST 350 Writing the WorldT 2:30pm-5:20pm Instructor: Verlyn Klinkenborg. This is a practical writing course meant to develop the student’s skills as a writer. But its real subject is perception and the writer’s authority—the relationship between what you notice in the world around you and what, culturally speaking, you are allowed to notice. What you write during the term is driven entirely by your own interest and attention. How you write is the question at hand. We explore the overlapping habitats of language—present and past—and the natural environment. And, to a lesser extent, we explore the character of persuasion in environmental themes. Every member of the class writes every week, and we all read what everyone writes every week. It makes no difference whether you are a would-be journalist, scientist, environmental advocate, or policy maker. The goal is to rework your writing and sharpen your perceptions, both sensory and intellectual. This course is recommended especially for junior EVST majors and provides an opportunity to refine the focus of your concentration and to consider how to structure research for your senior essay during the summer of 2020. Verlyn Klinkenborg is a well known creative non-fiction writer who has published essays and articles in The New Yorker, Harper’s, and National Geographic. He was a member of the New York Times Editorial Board from 1997 to 2013. He writes about public land use, especially in the American West, rural life and species protection and extinction. Priority to EVST majors and YSE students; open to non majors as space permits. Students interested in the course should email the instructor at verlyn.klinkenborg@yale.edu with a brief paragraph about yourself, your background and your interest in writing. 422 Climate and Society from Past to PresentTh 1:30pm-3:20pm Instructor: Michael Dove. Discussion of the major currents of thought—both historic and contemporary—regarding climate, climate change, and society; focusing on the politics of knowledge and belief vs disbelief; and drawing on the social sciences and anthropology in particular. YC EVST: Core Humanities/Social Science Professor Dove is a world renowned environmental anthropologist, having played a prominent role in defining the field. Priority to EVST majors; open to non majors as space permits. Please complete the preregistration form below. EVST 473 Climate Change, Societal Collapse, and ResilienceTh 3:30pm-5:20pm Instructor: Harvey Weiss. The coincidence of societal collapses throughout history with decadal and century-scale abrupt climate change events. Challenges to anthropological and historical paradigms of cultural adaptation and resilience. Examination of archaeological and historical records and high-resolution sets of paleoclimate proxies. Read more about this course here. YC EVST: Core Humanities/Social Science Senior and junior EVST majors have precedence. If you are interested in taking this course, email the instructor at Harvey.Weiss@yale.edu. If you have questions about the early enrollment process, please email the EVST Program Manager, Linda Evenson. |