Course Details:

Instructor - John Rueter
Professor, Environmental Sciences and Management
email: rueterj@pdx.edu
website: http://web.pdx.edu/~rueterj/courses/ESM102
CMS: D2L - ESM 102
CRN: 41281
lecture time: Tuesday 10 to 11:20
room: LH 339

Announcements:

Quiz 2 feedback has been posted.

 

Lab Details:

The lab schedule and syllabus will be available on D2L

You are required to be in one of the lab sections.
All labs are in SB2 149
102L section 1 - Thur 9 am (CRN 41285)
102L section 2 - cancelled
102L section 3 - cancelled
102L section 4 - Tue 9 am (CRN 41284)
102L section 5 - Wed 4 pm (CRN 41282)
TAs for the lab are:

Katie Bohren
Alec Kretchun

Workshop schedules - put this on your calendar!

• Workshop 1: Alternative cook stoves
  • Jan 26 - 4:30 to 6:30 or Jan 27 - 12 to 2
• Workshop 2: Water purification and change
  • Feb 16 - 4:30 to 6:30 or Feb 17- 12 to 2
• Workshop 3: Organic farms - energy, water, land
  • Friday Mar 9 - see lab syllabus
  
  

Syllabus, contains information about:

specifics of hybrid courses

purpose of the course
learning objectives
reading assignments
online quizzes
quizzes
grading
student resonsibilities
student conduct code

The text is free online in a pdf format.

Multiple Perspecitves and Approaches to Complex Environmental Issuses V4.3

Please check the date of the document because I will be updating this during the term.

Assessment and quiz feedback

week 1 in-class	week 1
week 2 in-class	week 2
week 3 in-class	week 3
week 4 in-class	week 4
week 5 in-class	week 5
quiz 1
week 6 in-class	week 6
week 7 in-class	week7
weel 8 in-class	week8
quiz 2
week 9 in-class	week9
week 10 in-class	week 10

instrtuctions and hints for quiz 1
instructions and hints for quiz 2

Assignments deadline

all on D2L

Jan 10 - Week 1

Introduction, course details
types of problems
multiple perspectives framework
I = P * A * T

Log on verification due by Friday at 5 PM.

Week1-online by Monday Jan 16 by midnight.

Demographic transition
Systems Viewer
Malthus vs. Boserup
Environment and poverty
Environment and health

Week2-online due by

Human energy use and sources: world vs. USA
Fossil fuel, CO2, and climate change
Net Energy

Week3-online due by Monday Feb 6 - but do it as soon as you can (this was my error)

Week4-online due by Monday Feb 6 at midnight

Water: resources
Water: Pollution

Week5-online due by Monday Feb 13 at midnight

Week6-online due by Monday Feb 20 at midnight.

Week7-online due by Monday Feb 27 at midnight.

Easy one!

Innovation in agriculture
Working with world views

Urbanization and Sprawl
Innovation

Mar 13 - Week 10

Solving Environmental Problems
small scale approaches
Integrative reveiw

course evaluations