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ENVST-UA 100.001 / 8997 / MW 11:00AM-12:15PM / Hayek
STUDENTS MUST ALSO REGISTER FOR RCT SEC 002-007.
Recitation:
ENVST-UA 100.002 / 7712 / F 8:00AM-9:15AM
ENVST-UA 100.003 / 7713 / T 8:00AM-9:15AM
ENVST-UA 100.004 / 7714 / R 2:00PM-3:15PM
ENVST-UA 100.005 / 7715 / W 9:30AM-10:45AM
ENVST-UA 100.006 / 7716 / W 3:30PM-4:45PM
ENVST-UA 100.007 / 8815 / R 8:00AM-9:15AM
Environmental Studies Senior Seminar
ENVST-UA 900.001 / 7718 / TR 11:00AM-12:15PM / Carlson
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 100, ENVST-UA 101, and must be an Environmental Studies Senior
Biostatistics
BIOL-UA 42 / 7497 / TR 8:00AM - 9:15AM / Killilea
Public Economics Quantitative Reasoning: Problems, Statistics and Decision-Making
CORE-UA 107 / 7974 / MW 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM / TBD
- Prerequisite: ECON-UA 10 or ECON-UA 9010 or ECON-UA 11 or ECON-UB 1. all with a minimum grade of C
Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
PSYCH-UA 10 / 8239 / MW 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM / Bauer
Research Methods in Sociology
SOC-UA 301 / 8300 / MW 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM / Baldassarri
Quantitative Analysis for Public Policy
UPADM-GP 111 / 14841 / W 11:00 AM - 1:30 PM / Polyne
ENVST-UA 410.001 / 10274 / MW 8:00AM-9:15AM / Atal
Climate Politics: When Policy Meets Reality
ENVST-UA 407.001 / 9766 / TR 8:00AM-9:15AM / Hart (taught remotely)
Applied Environmental Policy: Guided Case Studies
ENVST-UA 450.002 / 20540 / MW 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM / Atal
The objective of this class is to develop a case study on applied environmental policy and learn useful conceptual tools relevant to the particular problem at hand. The first weeks will be used to review some general conceptual tools useful to understanding the making of environmental policy (mainly from Economics and Political Science), and review some important examples of environmental policy from around the world. Then, students will be asked to develop an applied research project. Classes will be dedicated to communicate and discuss progress and develop tools from the challenges students face in their work.
Public Economics
ECON-UA 353 / 7683 / TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM / Xiaochen
- Prerequisite: ECON-UA 10 or ECON-UA 9010 or ECON-UA 11 or ECON-UB 1. all with a minimum grade of C
International Politics
POL-UA 700 / 7955 / MW 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM / Simonelli
International Organization
POL-UA 730 / 20842 / TR 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM / Lupan
ENVST-UA 275.001; BIOL-UA 140.001 / 9540 / W 8:00AM-10:00AM / Killilea
Recitation:
ENVST-UA 275.002; BIOL-UA 140.002 / 9541 / W 10:15AM-12:15PM / Killilea
Environmental and Molecular Analysis of a Disease
ENVST-UA 315.001; BIOL-UA 500.001 / 9869 / T 2:00PM-4:45PM / Killilea, Kirov
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 325 or BIOL-UA 63
ENVST-UA 325.001; BIOL-UA 63.001 / 8906 / TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM / Paolantonio
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 100
Food Production and Climate Change
ENVST-UA 331.001 / 9764 / MW 2:00-3:15PM / McDermid
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 100
ENVST-UA 390.001; BIOL-UA 390.001 / 9715 / TR 2:00PM-3:15PM / Paolantonio
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 325
ENVST-UA 450.003; JOUR-UA 204.004 / 23461 / W 10:00AM-1:00PM / Fagin
ENVST-UA 470.001 / 9380 / M 4:55PM-7:25PM / Schlottmann
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 101 or SOCS-SHU 135; recommended: Climate Change (ENVST-UA 226)
ENVST-UA 495.001; ANTH-UA 495 / 9763 / F 2:00PM-4:30PM / Rademacher
- Prerequisite: ENVST-UA 101 or SOCS-SHU 135
ENVST-UA 630.001; ANST-UA 500.001 / 9105 / R 4:55PM-7:25PM / Wolfson
Literature and the Environment
ENVST-UA 675.001; ANST-UA 475.001; ENG 675.001 / 9765 / T 11:00AM-1:30PM / Gorin
Internship in Environmental Studies
ENVST-UA 800.001 / 7717 / R 2:00PM-4:30PM / Schlottmann
- Prerequisite: Environmental Studies majors who completed ENVST-UA 100 or ENVST-UA 101
- Meets on 9/15, 10/27, 12/8
Ecological Field Methods
BIOL-UA 16.001 / 9226 / F 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM / Paolantonio
- Prerequisite: BIOL-UA 63
BIOL-UA 63.001 / 8910 / TR 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM / Paolantonio
- Prerequisite: BIOL-UA 100 or BIOL-UA 11 or BIOL-UA 13 or BIOL-UA 9011 and BIOL-UA 9012 or BIOL-UA14 or BIOL-UA 9012 reccomended as concurrent or follow-up courses: BIOL-UA 0016 and BIOL-UA 0017
Physical Science: Energy and the Environment
CORE-UA 203.001 / 7977 / TR 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM / Zhihua
NYC Coastlines: Past, Present, and Future
IDSEM-UG 2004.001 / 13844 / F 11:00 AM - 1:45 PM / Holmberg
History of Environmental Sciences
IDSEM-UG 1892.001 / 13741 / TR 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM / Anker
Green Design from Geddes to Gore
ENVST-UA 1627.001 / 19450 / M 2:00 PM - 4:45 PM / Joachim
Think Big: Global Issues and Ecological Solutions
IDSEM-UG 1628.001 / 13691/ W 4:55 PM - 7:40 PM / Joachim
History of European Environmental Sciences
IDSEM-UG 1566.001 / 13706 / TR 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM / Anker
ANST-UA 400.001 / 8473 / T 4:55PM-7:25PM / Sebo
Literature and the Environment
ANST-UA 475.001; ENVST-UA 675.001; ENG 675.001 / 9718 / T 11AM-1:30PM / Gorin
ANST-UA 500.001; ENVST-UA 630.001 / 9106 / R 4:55PM-7:25PM / Wolfson
GRADUATE: ANIMAL STUDIES
Animal Studies courses are restricted to AS MA Students during the first week of registration.
Non-Animal Studies students that would like to enroll in one of the below graduate-level courses must email the Director of the Master's Program, Dr. Jeff Sebo (jrs477@nyu.edu), for permission to enroll. Please note that the non-CAS/Liberal Arts limit for College of Arts and Science students is now 32 credits.
ANST-GA 1000.001 / 3262 / T 2:00-4:30PM / Jerolmack
This survey course introduces students to the key ideas and debates within the social sciences and humanities pertaining to how human and animal lives intersect. Specifically, it examines how relationships with animals both reflect and shape social life, culture, and how people think about themselves. We will explore the myriad and contradictory positions that animals occupy in society [e.g., as pets, pests, mascots, and food] and deconstruct the social origins of these seemingly natural categories. We will also take a grounded look at what actually happens when humans and animals interact, which sheds new light on the nature of human and animal consciousness. Fundamentally, students will learn how the roles that animals take on in our lives, and the ways that we think about and relate to them, are inherently social processes that are patterned by geography, culture, class, and gender; and they will gain an appreciation for how “the animal turn” problematizes the anthropocentric foundations of the social sciences and humanities and transgresses traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Animal Stories: The Art of Crafting Conservation Narratives
ANST-GA 2500.001 / 3140 / M 4:55-7:25PM / Greenberg
Science might give us the facts, but stories change hearts and minds. In this hands-on, production-driven course, students will engage with professional authors, podcasters, documentarians, screenwriters, video game designers and visual artists and over the course of the semester develop narratives about the nonhuman world. Our production-based inquiries into story will be coupled with a study of the hard science of animal lifecycles and the building blocks of classical dramatic structure.
Trash Animals: The Art of Living in a Human World
ANST-GA 2500.002 / 3139/ T 4:55-7:25PM / Nissim
Cities reshape the evolutionary path of urban wildlife. Synanthropic animals – animals who live near human habitats – are generally drawn to human-made trash and relatively well-adapted to climate change. In this class, we will discuss human-made environments as ecosystems and examine the many animals who live in these ecosystems, the complex relationships between animals and trash, and the different ways in which waste is tightly connected to human consumption and other behaviors. We will also react to these themes in artistic form.
This class sits at the intersection of art, science, and technology. It combines studio practice and research with example case studies and critical texts. Through a series of creative experiments and assignments, students will work to design interventions and creative projects that explore these themes. We will draw attention to what happens when we design spaces with only one species in mind.This class is for students who are eager to develop projects that tell a story, raise awareness, transform perceptions, or inspire change around an environmental justice issue.
Animals, the Environment, and Policy and Praxis in the Anthropocene
ANST-GA 2500.003 / 3141 / R 2-4:30 / MacDonald
Scientists and policy-makers have warned that this is a crucial decade for action. The climate emergency, biodiversity loss, the COVID pandemic, and multiple inequalities among peoples, societies, and species are reshaping life on Earth. In addition, food systems exploit billions of animals, domesticated and wild, and are a major contributor to forest loss, extinction, water pollution, and global heating. These times demand new and strengthened thinking, collaborating, communicating, and advocating to inform and influence policy-making (government, regulatory and institutional) and to bring about a new relationship with the non-human world.
This course will explore how to increase policy protections for animals and the environment and navigate the landscapes of power and influence in which policies are shaped. Students will engage in and test varied facets of policy analysis and advocacy and can “go deep” on topics of particular interest to them. Drawing from the instructor’s experience within global civil society, topics and texts will come from the global North and South, and span researchers and activists, as well as successes, failures, and promising approaches. The course will reflect on current events, including the UN climate summit (COP27) in November 2022.
Sustainability and the Future of Food
ANST-GA 2500.004 / 3183 / W 2:00-4:30PM / Hayek
Raising animals for food is a major driver of climate change and environmental degradation. These impacts are expected to worsen in the future with rising global demand for meat and dairy. Open to students from all backgrounds, this course will demystify the science and economics behind animal agriculture's impacts on Earth's environmental cycles. Students will deepen their critical thinking through readings on sustainability science, animal agriculture, law and policy, and technology. Guest speakers working on real-world environmental and animal protection issues will share stories from their unique careers and innovative strategies to protect animals and the environment. Students will develop their own action plans to address an issue of their choice through research projects, which they will continuously get feedback on and improve throughout the semester.