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Home Page Requirements Course Schedule Discussion Board Email the Class READINGS Introduction Forest General Forest Local Forest Post-Trip Aquaculture Ecology Aquaculture Politics Aquaculture Local Dairy General Dairy Local Dairy Post-Trip FIELD TRIPS Forest Products Aquaculture Dairy ESSAY ASSIGNMENTS Forest Products Shellfish Dairy |
Instructor: Stevan Harrell Professor of Anthropology Professor of Environmental and Forest Sciences Adjunct Professor of Chinese Faculty Associate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Adjunct Curator of Asian Ethnology, Burke Museum Office: 238 Denny email: stevehar@uw.edu OverviewThis is a field-, reading-, and writing- intensive course on how humans modify and manipulate ecosystems to produce useful resources. Throughout, we emphasize a systems perspective, closely examining the ecological, economic, and political effects of the elements of each system on one another. We also pay attention to analysis of systems at different scales of space, time, and complexity. Our specific subject matter encompasses ecosystems in Washington State that are modified to produce and extract three kinds of resources: forest products, shellfish, and milk products. Each three-week unit, including an all-day Friday field trip, focuses on one of these three resource types. For each unit, students are required to read a series of articles, post on a discussion board, comment formally in class on some of them, go on the field trip, keep a field journal, and write a topical essay on an assignment dealing with problems of that type of resource system. Click here for a detailed explanation of requirements and grading policies. |