STSC Related Courses, Fall 2007

Official course infomation including accurate room and time information can be found on
the UC Berkeley Online Schedule of Classes.

• . "Green Rhetoric?". Dale Carrico.

  What does it mean to See Green? What does it mean to Be Green? What does it mean to Act Green? What are the differences between "environmentalisms" as sites of identification and misidentification, as subcultures, as movements, as political programs, as research programs, as rhetorical perspectives? How have these Green worldly readings changed over time, how is Green changing now, and in what ways does Greenness abide? In this course we will read a number of canonical "environmentalist" texts, seeking to understand better what it means to read and write the world Greenly. Tracking through these texts each of us will struggle to weave together and testify to our own sense of the Green as an interpretive register, as a writerly skill-set, as a site of imaginative investment, and as a provocation to action. This is a Keyword course, engaging environmentalist discourses historically, theoretically, practically through an exploration of a number of key terms, among them: "Biodiversity," "Biomimicry," "Biopiracy," "Biosphere," "Climate Change," "Commons," "Consensus Science," "Cradle-to-Cradle," "Deep Ecology," "Democracy," "Denial," "Ecology," "Ecofeminism," "Ecosocialism," "Endangered Species," "Externality," "Footprint," "Leapfrogging," "Limit," "Monoculture," "Nature," "Recycling/Downcycling," "Permaculture," Polyculture," "Post-Scarcity," "Precautionary Principle," "Sustainability," "Toxicity/Abrasion," "Triple Bottom Line," "Viridian," "Wilderness," and so on. Fair warning: The course will be quite reading intensive. Each student will be delivering an in-class presentation drawn from personal research, as well as co-facilitating discussion of one of our assigned texts. The final exam will provide an occasion to come to terms with certain Key Words that will preoccupy our attention throughout our conversation. Required Text: Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang A Required Reader, Including: Carol Adams, from Ecofeminism and the Sacred, Tom Athanasiou, from Divided Planet, Janine Benyus, from Biomimicry, Murray Bookchin, from Post-Scarcity Anarchism, James Boyle, Enclosing the Genome, Rachel Carson, from Silent Spring, Annie Dillard, from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth (screening), Donna Haraway, The Actors are Cyborg, Nature is Coyote, and the Geography, is Elsewhere, Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, from Natural Capitalism, Stephen Kellert, from The Value of Life, Aldo Leopold, from Sand County Almanac, William McDonough and Michael Braungart, from Cradle to Cradle, Carolyn Merchant, from Radical Ecology, John Stuart Mill, On Nature, William Morris, News from Nowhere, John Muir, from his collected Essays, Vendana Shiva, from Water Wars and from Earth Democracy, Henry David Thoreau, from Walden Texts Available Online: * Jamais Cascio, Leapfrog 101, etc. * Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, The Death of Environmentalism * Extensive Background and Discussion of the essay "The Death of Environmentalism," via Grist * Bruce Sterling, Viridian Principles and Manifesto * Bright Green Blogs: Alliance for Green Socialism, The Gristmill, RealClimate, Treehugger, Worldchanging, etc. Recommended Text: Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century, Alex Steffen, Al Gore,Bruce Sterling

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African American Studies

• Africam C134. Information Technology and Society. Laguerre.

  This course assesses the role of information technology in the digitalization of society by focusing on the deployment of e-government, e-commerce, e-learning, the digital city, telecommuting, virtual communities, internet time, the virtual office, and the geography of cyber space. The course will also discuss the role of information technology in the governance and economic development of society. Also listed as American Studies C134.

  Day/Time: M 2-5pm

Agricultural and Resource Economics

• ARE 241. Economics of Production, Technology, Risk Agriculture and the Enviroment. Zilberman.

  This course covers alternative models of production, resource and environmental risk management; family production function; adoption and diffusion; innovation and intellectual property rights; agricultural and environmental policies and their impact on production and the environment; water resources; pest control; biotechnology; and optimal control over space and time.

  Day/Time: MW 4-5:30pm

Anthropology

• Anthro 84. Sophomore Seminar " Has Feminism Changed Science". Conkey.

  In this seminar we will consider the question, "Has feminism changed science?" from two perspectives: 1) we will take the question more-or-less at face value and review several fields of science, ranging from anthropology/archaeology/biological anthropology to physics, and see if, and in what ways, the practices of the field have been influenced by feminist critiques of science and feminist issues of the past 3+ decades. This will necessarily involve our consideration of feminist thought, and especially feminist critiques of science; and 2) we will approach this question as an example of the anthropology or social studies of science and technology. The main objective of a seminar is to engage in discussion and group interaction in relation to the readings and topics of concern/interest. We will start out with some background readings and our specific "sciences" of focus will depend in part on the interests and background of the student participants.

  Day/Time: M 11am-12pm

• Anthro 112. Synthetic Biology. Rabinow and Keasling.

  A new course co-taught by Professor Paul Rabinow and Professor Jay J. Keasling (Chemical Engineering, Director of Synberc). This course deals with synthetic biology, covering at a minimum the basics of this new field. www.synberc.org We will examine synthetic biology within a frame of human practices, with reciprocal emphasis on ways that economic, political, and cultural forces may condition the development of synthetic biology and on ways that synthetic biology may significantly inform human security, health, and welfare through the new objects that it brings into the world. Students will work in small groups on specific topics: biosecurity, biofuels, intellectual property, how this new field will contribute to shaping our understanding of humans and their environment.

  Day/Time: Tu Th 3:30 - 5pm

• Anthro 115. Introduction to Medical Anthropology. Scheper-Hughes.

  This upper division undergraduate course in critical medical anthropology explores humans as simultaneously biological, social, cultural, and symbolic beings. It is concerned with questions of theoretical and applied significance, and with research that is of relevance to medicine and the biological sciences as well as to anthropology. Therefore, this class is suitable for majors in anthropology and related disciplines and for pre-med students. The course provides a comparative perspective on the body, illness, disability, and other forms of human affliction, and on healing in societies ranging from highland New Guinea, central Africa, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the United States. Biomedicine is treated as one among many efficacious systems of medical knowledge, power, and healing. Lectures will treat topics including sorcery, witchcraft and magic; the efficacy of symbols; the relations among mind, body, self and society; the cultural shaping of emotions, pain, suffering; madness and civilization; the impact of gender, class, and race in disease; the social meanings of illness; power/knowledge and medical practice; the political economy of sickness and of health in global perspective. Medical anthropology provides a critical lens on the ways that people (as individuals and as populations) live, suffer, sicken, and die. It explores paths towards reaching a goal of -- if not ‘health for all’ (the utopian WHO premise) at least, “less death for the many.” Part I introduces the field of medical anthropology through an anthropology of the mindful body; Part II deals with the personal, social, cultural, moral, spiritual and political meanings and experience of illnesses, suffering and death; Part III deals with global health, medicine, and human rights: poverty, hunger, sickness, epidemics, and premature death in industrialized and in so-called ‘developing’ world ending with a unit on medicine and human rights and a manifesto for ‘liberation medicine’ via the engaged research, doctoring, and political vision of the anthropologist/ physician, Dr. Paul Farmer.

  Day/Time: TuTh 11-12:30pm

• Anthro 148. Anthropology of the Environment. Moore.

  Why does the environment incite such passion and protest? What cultural practices and discourses converge in environmental struggles? The course explores the cultural politics of nature in diverse geographical and historical contexts. We ask: what are the dominant images of nature; how are those meanings challenged, debated, and deployed by different actors; and what are the symbolic and material consequences of these conflicts? An anthropological perspective offers insight into the role of cultural practices and representations in environmental struggles and their impact on livelihoods and landscapes. The course examines influential perspectives ranging from cultural ecology and ecological anthropology to ecofeminism and environmental racism. Readings on imperialism, colonialism, and the commoditization of nature emphasize the complex entanglements of nature, culture, and power. The course highlights specific environmental struggles where the politics of race, class, and cultural difference figure prominently. We examine debates over rainforests in the Americas and Africa, petroleum politics in Amazonia and Nigeria, and the dispossession of Native American resource rights in the United States. The course analyzes rural livelihoods in diverse Third World environments, including their relationship to social movements and political violence. We also explore the ways "nature" becomes entangled in social relations, hierarchies, and inequalities through naturalized power relations. In so doing, we focus on how specific environmental conflicts are integrally related to articulations of justice, rights and identity.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

• Anthro 189.2. Anthropology of Science. Mialet.

  Anthropologists have studied tribes from all over the world, classified the most exotic customs, taken pictures of and documented familial relationships and the most complex cults, they have described art, rituals and popular traditions, but what about what we believe to be our most reliable and efficacious source of knowledge: Science? In this class, we will try to understand how science is done--its dynamics, its organization, and how it penetrates our social fabric and transform it. Following the work of anthropologists, but also historians and sociologists this course is designed to provide newcomers to Science and Technology Studies an overview of some of its major themes and issues, and an opportunity to investigate ways in which influential scholars in the field, such as Collins, Haraway, Law, Latour and Lynch have gone about their work.

  Day/Time: W 2-5pm

• Anthro 189.3. Anthropology of Public Health. Mantini-Briggs.

  This course gives students interested in anthropology, medical anthropology, medicine, and public health the ability to critically analyze how public health practitioners and policy makers respond to some of the most pressing health crises and medical injustices of our day. It presents a framework for understanding the role of public health programs and strategies in affecting the lives of people around the world, including how public health institutions help maintain relations of dominance in public contexts, even in the course of genuine efforts to address health disparities and provide needed services. Why do some programs fail to prevent diseases in their target populations? How are these programs put in place? What are the theories, the strategies, stereotypes, and economic and others interests that shape outcomes? Today more than ever we need to know how smoking, Avian flu, HIV/AIDS, bioterrorism, and other public health issues shape the lives of people around the world. This course draws on ethnographic, theoretical, and critical perspectives in enhancing students' ability to critically analyze public health programs and discourses. Guest lectures, films, media reports, and public health journal articles supplement the lectures.

  Day/Time: MW 4-5:30pm

• Anthro 189.4. Anthropology of Media. Hubbard.

  Global humanitarian interventions are made by celebrities, reality television shows such as Idols receive more votes than most elections, and media technologies are shifting modes of participation and ways of crafting imaginative worlds. Our course enters this terrain by exploring the particular tools, questions and methods anthropology offers for the critical understanding of media. With an emphasis on media in a global perspective, together we will investigate the role of media in the processes we call globalization, the aesthetics and politics of celebrity on the *world stage*, and the institutions and technologies of media circulation. We focus on the relation between the materiality of these technologies and the forms of social relations and political rule they encode and produce. This course serves simultaneously as an introduction to the themes and debates within anthropology of media and as a site for persistent reflection on the relationship between media technologies, celebrity, and politics in our own lives.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

• Anthro 196. Evolutionary Theories of Biology and Culture. Deacon.

  Fast-paced advanced seminar on classic and current issues in biological anthropology. Readings will include some basic background but primarily will be drawn from current research papers in topic areas such as evolutionary theory, human paleontology, human evolutionary genetics, brain evolution, evolution of human cognition and language, species-unique physiology, primate behavior and adaptation, and other relevant areas. Students are expected to present critical seminar discussions of current research papers and produce 4 written commentaries critically analyzing primary sources.

  Day/Time: W 4-6pm

• Anthro 215B. Adv. Med Anthro Seminar "Anthropology of the Body". Scheper-Hughes.

  Critical Medical Anthropology emerged in the 1980s as a critically reflexive discipline with the realization that 'the body in question' was not a singular, discrete, biological organism with an individual psyche. Embodiment was conceptualized as a dynamic that varied over time and across the world as shaped by discourses, institutions, practices, technologies, and ideologies. Today, medical anthropologists approach bodies as the most proximate site where social 'truths' and social contradictions are played out, as well as a locus of personal and social resistance, of struggle and of creativity. Conceptions of body and embodiment and dis-embodiment are central not only to medical anthropology, but to the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of the discipline as a whole. Outside anthropology, unexamined assumptions about mind/body/self/society insidiously infect research paradigms. While some branches of biomedicine presuppose a universal, unitary, a-historical, biological subject, doctors (as well as medical anthropologists) are confronted with bodies that are messy, and that refuse to conform or 'submit' to biomedical categories of disease and medical efficacy. The seminar begins in problemetizing the body as subject/object of anthropological inquiry. In addition to treating the body in illness, the course will cover topics ranging from the phenomenology of the mind-body problem, the grotesque and the 'carnavalesque' body in time and space, the abled and the dis-abled body, phantom limbs and prosthetic devices, the body in pain, the tortured body and the body politic; the body and commodity fetishism.

  Day/Time: M 1-3pm

• Anthro 250X-4. Anthropology of Science (Introduction to Science Studies). Hayden.

  This graduate seminar offers a broad introduction to science studies (broadly conceived) and to the anthropology of science (narrowly conceived). Tying the semester’s readings together is an abiding concern with how different trajectories of inquiry in science studies have understood the relationship between science and the political or the social. How have notions of politics, ‘democracy,’ and sociality themselves been theorized and redefined through critical engagements with science and technology, knowledge and artifacts, interest and invention? We will examine these questions in the context of now-classic conversations regarding, among other things, critiques of objectivity and constructivism, agency and the non-human, the modest witness, and ‘representation’ in various senses. The seminar concludes with an examination of recent articulations of a new politics of science in which science studies itself is becoming a locus for rethinking the nature of the political, the public, and the social. What are the promises and limits of these new articulations?

  Day/Time: Tu 3-6pm

Asian Studies

• Asian Studies 150. Urbanization in the Era of Globalization: China, Hong Kong and Taiwan Connected. Po.

  China has been undergoing urbanization at a scale and pace unprecedented in human history. At the same time, cross-border flows of capital and labor have been playing a critical role in shaping the path of China’s industrialization and urbanization. This course tries to explore the urban transformation of China not only from the perspective of its internal dynamics but also in terms of its increasing interactions with the global economy. With a special focus on China’s connections with Hong Kong and Taiwan, we will trace China’s urbanization process in a context of globalization. Finally, we will also investigate how changing regional divisions of labor are reshaping the role of cities in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

  Day/Time: MWF 10-11am

Bioengineering

• Bioeng 100. Ethics in Science and Engineering. Head-Gordon.

  The goal of this semester course is to present the issues of professional conduct in the practice of engineering, research, publication, public and private disclosures, and in managing professional and financial conflicts. The method is through historical didactic presentations, case studies, presentations of methods for problem solving in ethical matters, and classroom debates on contemporary ethical issues. The faculty will be drawn from national experts and faculty from religious studies, journalism, and law from the UC Berkeley campus.

  Day/Time: WF 4-5:30pm

Business Administration

• BA 279I.1. Economics of Innovation. Hall and Wolfram.

  Day/Time: W 12-2pm

• MBA 290B.1. Biotechnology Industry Perspectives and Business Development. Sanders.

  This course is designed to examine the strategic issues that confront the management of the development stage biotech company, i.e., after its start-up via an initial capital infusion, but before it might be deemed successful (e.g., by virtue of a product launch), or otherwise has achieved “first-tier” status. Thus, the intention is to study the biotech organization during the process of its growth and maturation from an early stage existence through “adolescence” into an “adult” company. The key point is how does one research and develop a life science technology or product to the point where it is ready for the marketplace and how does one finance that relatively protracted process? Almost inevitably, at least a part of the answer to this question, and thus an element in the business and financial history of most biotech companies, has involved partnering with others, both as a means to perform aspects of the R&D process, as well as generate funding for that work. Hence, the focus of the class will be on business development, i.e., the deal making that must occur to accomplish these corporate objectives – both to bring in new technologies and especially, to facilitate getting the initial product(s) to market (and pay for the R&D required to make that happen). We will explore the critical deal issues from both the perspective of the development stage company and the viewpoint of the larger, more mature biotech or big pharma company with which it seeks to partner. Emphasis will be on biotech companies in the healthcare sector (primarily therapeutics, but also vaccines and diagnostics) with some (comparative) discussion of other industry areas, e.g., agriculture (veterinary and crop plant science).

  Day/Time: Tu 4-6pm

• MBA 290T.2. The Business of Nanotechnology. Issacs and Grossman.

  The field of nanotechnology, at most ten years old, has emerged as an important new area for investment and business opportunity, and one that is already having an impact in many industries. Both established companies and young start-ups are developing businesses based on innovations in nanostructures and nano-scale developments in materials science, information technologies and the life sciences. Offered for the first time in Fall, 2005, this is UC Berkeley's first course focused on nanotechnology-based business opportunities. The course provides a comprehensive overview of the core elements in this emerging field, specifically the scientific and technical basis of nanotechnology, the emerging business opportunities, and the policy issues that represent both threats and opportunities to nanotechnology investors, innovators, and entrepreneurs. This course is particularly suited for those who anticipate founding or operating a technology company. The course focuses on skills needed for the identification of opportunities that can lead to successful entrepreneurial ventures in nanotechnolgy, regardless of the individual's "home" skill set, whether managerial or technical. We examine in depth the many approaches being taken today to capitalize on opportunities in nanotechnology. Course material and speakers focus on executing marketing, technology development and strategic plans that integrate technological development with evolving customer requirements. A central goal of the course is to improve understanding of how the confluence of technological innovation, market forces and venture finance drives new technology ventures.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-4pm

• MBA 290T.1. The Future of Information Technology. Moazzami.

  This course is an intensive and in-depth study of the rapidly evolving information technology industry. Students will analyze the role of regulatory, technological, economic, and market forces in shaping the information technology industry structure, value chain, business and operating models, competitive strategy and dynamics, and barriers to entry. Special emphasis is placed on identifying new opportunities and understanding the challenges for startups and other new entrants. The impact of the changing industry landscape on established business models and industry practices for innovation, intellectual property creation and utilization, risk management, product/service development, supply chain management, and market/distribution channel development is also explored in detail.

  Day/Time: TuTh 4:30-6pm

• MBA 294.6. Alternative Energy Speaker Series. Issacs.

  This course will begin with an overview of the current oil, gas and electricity industries, both framing the rise in alternative energy innovation and providing a comparison of costs and infrastructure. The subsequent six classes will each cover one field of alternative energy: solar, ethanol, wind, smartgrids/distributed generation, wave, and storage. The first hour of each class will be an overview of the technology and the 'state of the industry,' given by a professor, student, or practitioner with expertise in that energy source. During the second hour, a practitioner or venture capitalist focused on that technology will present on their business' decisions, obstacles, and vision.

  Day/Time: Tu 6-8pm

Center for New Media

• New Media 190. Digital Culture. Rinehart.

  Day/Time: Th 6:30-8:30pm

Cognitive Science

• Cog Sci C103.3. History of Information. Duguid.

  This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as "the information age." We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect society and vice versa? Also listed as History C192, Mass Communications C103, and Information C103.

  Day/Time: M 11am-12pm

Earth and Planetary Science

• EPS 39A. Geological Influences in California Society Today. Helgeson.

  This freshman seminar consists of a few introductory lectures and videos followed by a four-day field trip in which you will explore in person the influence of California geology in society, and meet and get to know fellow students with the same interests. The theme of this course is the influence of geology in California society. As a freshman seminar, the class involves close personal interaction between students and senior faculty. For the interaction to work, it is essential that all enrolled students be prepared for the learning experience and to become engaged as active participants. Toward this end, the field trips are preceded by two or three one-hour lectures and two or three video presentations. Students are expected to attend one logistical meeting for the section of the field trip they are attending. Each student goes on only one field trip: Group 1 or 2. Each group will take one continuous four-day trip to visit geological and historical localities in various parts of California . Topics emphasized on the trips vary: societal impacts of dams, the Gold Rush, resource conservation, the geology of Yosemite as a national park, water resource issues, volcanic and seismic hazards, and glacial geology.

  Day/Time: MW 4-5pm

• EPS 170AC. Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society. Brimhall.

  We live in a country in crisis where geo-political history is being made that will impact the future of planet Earth. The US plays a globally-determinative role in how Americans develop and use fossil fuels, water, and metallic ore deposits, and faces a crossroads in its resource policy. Contradictions between our materialistic lifestyle, the limitations of the Earth to provide for our growing needs, foreign policies in the Middle East, and the lack of an effective energy policy, have polarized political discourse over conflicting ideologies. What lies behind these divergent world views ? Can this impasse be overcome ? What lessons can we and the peoples of other countries learn from the history of the West-marked both by remarkable achievement as it is by injustice, dispossession, internment of ethnic groups, warfare of between native Peoples and a superpower in need of resources? Can leaders of other countries seeking to develop their natural resources avoid environmental degradation? We explore the peoples of the West through lectures about iconic events, discussions, and documentary and popular films. Also listed as Letters and Science 170AC.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

Economics

• Econ C102. Natural Resource Economics. Sunding.

  Introduction to the economics of natural resources. Land and the concept of economic rent. Models of optimal depletion of nonrenewable resources and optimal use of renewable resources. Application to energy, forests, fisheries, water, and climate change. Resources, growth, and sustainability. Also listed as Environmental Economics and Policy C102.

  Day/Time: TuTh 8-9:30am

• Econ C222. Economics of Innovation. Hall.

  Study of innovation, technical change, and intellectual property, including the industrial organization and performance of high-technology industries and firms; the use of economic, patent, and other bibliometric data for the analysis of technical change; legal and economic issues of intellectual property rights; science and technology policy; and the contributions of innovation and diffusion to economic growth. Methods of analysis are both theoretical and empirical, econometric and case study. Also listed as Ph.D. in Business Administration C279I.

  Day/Time: W 12-2pm

Energy and Resources Group

• ERG. UC Berkeley Climate Action Course. Kammen.

  With the approval of the Cal Climate Action Partnership (CalCAP) proposal Chancellor Birgeneau committed UC Berkeley to reduce campus greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2014. The CalCAP proposal is based on work undertaken by the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on Sustainability (CACS) that inventoried campus GHG emissions and identified potential sources of savings. This Climate Action Course will bring together interested students to study the projects currently being considered and to move them forward through action-oriented research. This course will provide motivated students an opportunity to contribute to significant change in campus green house gas emissions and energy use. Course sessions will engage leaders from CalCAP, CACS, facilities management, research faculty, and the UC administration in conversation on specific CalCAP projects and other opportunities for emissions reductions on campus. Readings will include studies and proposals on greenhouse gas reduction from UC Berkeley and other campuses around the country as well as peer reviewed literature on emissions reductions, behavioral change, energy economics, building resource use, etc. Students will be expected to write a research paper on a topic of their choice and put together a presentation of their work for the CalCAP committee. In addition, each student will be expected to organize and run at least one class session and actively participate in classroom discussions. If you have questions or wish to join this course, email Sam at sborgeson@berkeley.edu

  Day/Time: M 4-6 (tentative)

• ERG 100. Energy and Society. Kammen.

  Energy sources, uses, and impacts: an introduction to the technology, politics, economics, and environmental effects of energy in contemporary society. Energy and well-being; energy in international perspective, origins, and character of energy crisis.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

• ER 201. Interdisciplinary Analyais in Energy and Resources. Ray, Harte, Kammen.

  Introduction to interdisciplinary analysis as it is practiced in the Energy and Resources Group (ERG). Most of the course consists of important perspectives on energy and resource issues. Introduced through a particularly influential book or set of papers. The course also provides an introduction to the current research activities of the ERG faculty and practical knowledge and skills necessary to successfully complete graduate school in an interdisciplinary program.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• ER 275. Water and Development. Ray.

  This class is an interdisciplinary graduate seminar for students of water policy in developing countries. It is not a seminar on theories and practices of development through the ‘lens’ of water. Rather, it is a seminar motivated by the fact that over 1 billion people in developing countries have no access to safe drinking water, 3 billion don’t have sanitation facilities and many millions of small farmers don’t have reliable water supplies to ensure a healthy crop.

  Day/Time: Tu 3-6pm

• ER 290. Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation. Torn.

  The course will emphasize the consequences of climate change and actions that people could take to minimize its impacts. The course will consider specific impacts scenarios and create detailed impact scenarios for a given region. It will describe response options, and evaluate their technical potential in the short- and long-term, their cost and unintended consequences.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5pm

• ER 290. Critical Natures - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Global Food and Agriculture. Moreno-Penaranda.

  This course will focus on how some theories and concepts provide a specific lens by which to view, understand, and explain nature-society interactions relevant to global food and agricultural issues. The seminar will critically examine theories and concepts without giving privilege to one understanding over the others. Rather, we will compare them considering the particular research questions with which each of them grapples. Interdisciplinary explanations that will be explored during the course include: political ecology, co-evolutionary theory, agroecology, ecological economics, agrarian studies, and post-modern social theory. Critical scrutiny of key pieces within each of these literatures will be used during class to explore challenges posed by interdisciplinary analyses of the ecological and social dimensions of the global agri-food system.

  Day/Time: Tu 4-7pm

Engineering

• Engineering 24.1. Time, Money, and Love in the Age of Technology. Azevedo.

  Many people in technological societies complain of "time poverty." What are the real relationships between time, money, and love in our lives? Where is love in a world dominated by the technological paradigm? Is there a balance to be found? Does technology make us happy? What is the good life? How can we cultivate peace of mind in a world of rapid change? These and other fundamental questions will be at the heart of a semester-long Socratic dialogue. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: M 1-2pm

English

• English 24.1. Visual Culture and Autobiography. Wong.

  Visual culture is not just about pictures, but the (post) "modern tendency to picture or visualize existence"–what W.J.T. Mitchell calls "the pictorial turn." Not surprisingly, as contemporary writers and artists struggle to find forms that convey postmodern individual identities in multicultural, often urban, social landscapes, they experiment with visual/verbal forms of self-representation and self-narration: story quilts, family photo albums, letters, comic books (co-mix), artists' books, photo-biographies, video and film, performance art, homepages, "zines," and more.

  Day/Time: Tu 5-8pm

Environment Economics and Policy

• Environ Econ 39A. Critical Choices in the Use of Natural Resources. Zilberman.

  Natural resources in California are vast but finite, and demands on them are often in conflict. This seminar will examine the major decisions, private and public, that determine how our natural resources are managed and allocated. Drawing illustrations from their own work, members of the department will show the interplay of economic analysis with political and institutional factors in shaping public policies. Policy decisions on such subjects as pesticide use, forest preservation, water rights, dairy waste disposal, air pollution control, the Bay Delta ecosystem, and endangered species protection will be discussed. This seminar may be used to satisfy the Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement in Letters and Science.

  Day/Time: W 12-2pm

• EEP 143. Economics of Innovation and Intellectual Property. Wright.

  This course addresses the economics of research and incentives for innovation including intellectual property rights. Topics include the standard modern economics of invention; modern intellectual property rights; innovation examples from agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, software, and electronics; the roles of the public and private sectors; innovation and market structure; the needs of the poor; and global intellectual property negotiations.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

Environmental Science, Policy & Management

• ESPM 24.4. Tropical Islands - Biology and History. Gillespie.

  Remote tropical islands have inspired writers and painters for centuries. These tiny specks in the vast oceans often have a well-known geological history, so we understand how long they have existed for organisms to colonize. Therefore, these islands can tell us a lot about how biodiversity arises and goes extinct. In this course we will examine the properties of islands, how diversity has arisen in history, and how this has changed as people have arrived. The course will look at unique groups of animals and plants on remote islands, as well as people and cultures, and will include case studies of different islands. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: Th 12-1pm

• ESPM 24.3. Invasive Species: Why, When and Where?. Roderick.

  Invasive species are biological organisms that should not be where they are, and that are expanding their range. The number of invasive species is climbing rapidly, causing increasing damage to the environment, economy, and human health. Invasive species are now considered to be one of the major forces of global change. Here, we will follow the media, read popular science articles, watch documentaries (and a few B-movies), hear from a couple of experts, go look at some invasive species, and discuss the topic, all with the goal of understanding the problem and solutions. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: Th 12-1pm

• ESPM 24.1. Issues in Natural Resource Conservation. Wood.

  Some of the issues to be dealt with include management and preservation of timberlands; reducing fire risk through logging; management in wilderness areas; endangered species; importation and exportation of logs; the lives of John Muir and Gifford Pinchot; trees and religion; can rain forests be saved?; killer bees; coral reefs—human threat; jobs versus spotted owls; vegetarianism; Muir Woods, past and present; garbage in the United States; biofuels; solar power; airport expansion in the San Francisco Bay Area; the competition for water; global warming; and many more topics to be selected by the students. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: F 9-10am

• ESPM 24.2. Discussions on Evolutionary Biology. Spieth.

  Discussions on Evolutionary Biology is a seminar for freshmen that explores the intellectual excitement of evolutionary biology and examines its significance for understanding the world we live in. Weekly readings and roundtable discussions introduce basic facts and principles of evolutionary biology, including both historical perspectives and contemporary issues. Attention is given to popular misconceptions of biological evolution. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: W 3-4pm

• ESPM 50AC. Introduction to Culture and Natural Resource Management. Spreyer.

  An introduction to how culture affects the way we use and manage fire, wildland and urban forests, rangelands, parks and preserves, and croplands in America. The basic concepts and tools for evaluating the role of culture in resource use and management are introduced and used to examine the experience of American cultural groups in the development and management of western natural resources.

  Day/Time: MWF 11am-12pm

• ESPM 167. Environmental Health and Development. Conis.

  Impact of environmental alterations resulting from development programs and other human activities which affect the health of people in developed and less developed parts of the world. Case studies and mitigation measures of diseases associated with water storage utilization.

  Day/Time: TuTh 3:30-5pm

• ESPM 259. Transnational Environmental Politics and Movements. O'Neill.

  Contemporary issues in international environmental politics; impacts of globalization on the environment; comparative transnational environmental movements. Study of current and historical texts. Case studies drawn from around the world with a focus on methods and research techniques.

  Day/Time: W 10am-12pm

• ESPM 260. Governance of Global Production. O'Rourke.

  This course explores critical policy and theoretical questions in the governance of global production. Current trends in the restructuring of industrial production; distributions of environmental, labor, and social impacts from this production; and new strategies for democratic governance are analyzed, including corporate self-regulation, monitoring, certification and labeling, fair trade programs, legal strategies, and international accords and agreements.

  Day/Time: Tu 2-5pm

Environmental Sciences

• Environ Sci 24.1. Sustainability: The Future is Now. Berry.

  This seminar incudes a review of issues involved in sustainability of our resources and environment. Topics to be discussed include green buildings-sustainable architecture, the energy-transportation-air-quality-health connections, managing our wastes, uses and abuses of our water, and impacts of farming and marketing practices on our food and on enhancing use of organics.

  Day/Time: W 4-5pm

French

• French 24.1. Language and Technology. Kern.

  This seminar focuses on relationships between technologies of communication and language use. Starting from an historical perspective on technologies of writing and their relationships to cultures of reading and writing, the seminar will consider current questions about computers, literacy, and language use: How do computer environments affect how we use language? What does it mean to be 'literate' in an age of electronically mediated communication? How do notions of 'text', 'reader', and 'writer' change as new media, new discourse communities, and new literacy practices take hold? What kinds of meaning-making abilities do people develop to participate successfully in communities that rely on forms of electronic communication? How do people acquire these abilities? [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: Th 1-2pm

Geography

• Geography 1. Global Environmental Change. Byrne.

  Day/Time: MWF 11am-12pm

History

• History 30A. Science from Antiquity through Newton. Groppi.

  Almost since the dawn of human civilization, men and women have sought to understand the nature of the world around them. Science, in one form or another, is one of the oldest of human activities. In this course we will be studying the development and content of scientific thought before the advent of what is commonly considered "modern" science. In doing so, we will examine the processes of scientific development six major cultural and geographic groups: Greece (from ancient times through the Hellenistic period), Africa (particularly the Nile River Valley and Sahelian kingdoms), China (from roughly the Song period through the end of the Ming dynasty), India (primarily in the Vedic period and the Gupta-era dynasties), the Islamic Caliphates, and Europe in the medieval and Renaissance periods. The course will end with an examination of the Scientific Revolution, a series of changes in thought and belief in sixteenth-century Europe that is generally considered to mark the beginnings of modern science.

  Day/Time: W 2-4pm

• History 39K. Medicine in American Society Since 1880. Lesch.

  The years since 1880 have witnessed tremendous changes in American society and in medicine. This course will examine some of these changes through readings, discussion, and writing on selected topics that illustrate the relationships between society and medical knowledge, organization, and practice. Topics include the germ theory of disease and its popular meanings and uses, medicine in literature, widespread belief in and use of vitamins, controversies surrounding the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, medicine and race, venereal diseases, the pharmaceutical revolution, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Course requirements include several papers. This seminar may be used to satisfy the Historical Studies or Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement in Letters and Science. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: W 2-4pm

• History 39Z. Hunger: A Modern History. Vernon.

  Hunger is as old as history itself. And yet, while it often appears to be a timeless and unchanging condition, our perceptions of hunger and of the hungry have changed over time and differed from place to place. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, hunger had been viewed as an unavoidable natural phenomenon, or the fault of the hungry themselves. By the middle of the twentieth century, a new understanding of hunger had taken root as humanitarian groups, political activists, social reformers, and nutritional scientists established that the hungry were innocent victims of political and economic forces beyond their control. Hunger was now seen as a global social problem that required new forms of government and welfare if it was to be defeated. This course traces this momentous shift as it first occurred in modern, imperial Britain over the past two centuries. Although the focus is on Britain and its empire, the course is centrally concerned with how and when the war on hunger became globalized through international NGOs and organizations like the League of Nations and the United Nations. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: W 10-12pm

• History 100. Nuclear Berkeley, Nuclear World. Carson.

  This course uses a local angle to open up the history of the nuclear age. It starts from California, the San Francisco Bay Area, the city of Berkeley, and the University of California itself. Berkeley's nuclear history extends from launching and managing Los Alamos to sparking impassioned political protest, from maintaining a highly ranked nuclear engineering department to weighing in on problems of sustainability and waste. All these are part of a global nuclear history extending up to the present (and pre-shaping the future). The course will give students the tools to take up a local historical question of personal interest, ending in a research project making an original contribution on any aspect of California or the Bay Area's nuclear history.

  Day/Time: MWF 2-3pm

• History 180. The Life Sciences. Lesch.

  Since 1750 This course will survey the development of the sciences of living nature from the mid-18th to the late-20th century. Topics include scientific and popular natural history, exploration and discovery, Darwin and evolution, cell theory, the organizational transformation of science, physiology and experimentalism, classical and molecular genetics, and the biomedical-industrial complex. Emphasis is on the formation of fundamental concepts and methods, long-term trends toward specialization, institutionalization, professionalization, and industrialization, and the place of the life sciences in modern societies.

  Day/Time: MWF 11am-12pm

• History C192. History of Information. Nunberg and Duguid.

  This course explores the history of information and associated technologies, uncovering why we think of ours as "the information age." We will select moments in the evolution of production, recording, and storage from the earliest writing systems to the world of Short Message Service (SMS) and blogs. In every instance, we'll be concerned with both what and when and how and why, and we will keep returning to the question of technological determinism: how do technological developments affect society and vice versa?

  Day/Time: MW 4-5:30pm

• UCSF 200A. UCSF - Introduction to History of Health Sciences I. Tercier.

  General survey chronologically arranged from ancient times to 1800, with the primary focus on the Western world. This course presents the broad conceptual developments that in each period influenced the evolution of medical knowledge, the promotion of professional activities, and the experiences of illness and health. Note: This course is part of a three-course sequence (fall-winter-spring). The fall course is a prerequisite for the winter course (Introduction to the History of Health Sciences II, 1800-2000), and both are prerequisites for the spring course (Methods in the History of Health Sciences).

  Day/Time: Tu 10am-12pm

• UCSF 201A. UCSF - Disease and the Social Order from the Black Death to SARS. Porter.

  The course explores the comparative impact of disease upon European and North American societies. It will concentrate on the historical junctures at which diseases occurred; unravel the various levels of meaning which surrounded them in terms of their social, moral, and political interpretations; and analyze the patterns of response to them and discuss their historical consequences.

  Day/Time: F 11am-1pm

• History 280B.5. How to get from Modern Science to Modern Politics: Science, Enlightenment Culture and Politics in 18th Century France and Germany. Elm.

  The idea that the progress of the new sciences which emerged from the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century would eventually lead to the substitution of premodern, confession-based politics by modern, science-based political systems was a central element of Enlightenment philosophy and, thanks to permanent revisions, remained at the core of political and historiographical modernism throughout the 19th and 20th century. The history of politics from the early Enlightenment up to 19th century Neoconfessionalism demonstrates, however, that the collapse of the Christian monarchy in France and the rapid succession of political systems which claimed to put Enlightenment thought into practice was an exception. In the great majority of European states, modern science and Enlightenment culture had been successfully integrated into institutional frameworks, which had their origins in early modern confessionalism. The course will introduce the most influential theoretical approaches to the analysis of the interrelation between 18th century science and politics. Its main objective is to give an outline of the development of the natural and social sciences in 18th century France and Germany and to compare the different forms of institutionalization and popularization of science in France and the leading German states. The course will address topics such as the implementation of economic theory in France, Prussia and Austria and Voltaire's attempt to introduce king Frederic II. of Prussia to Newtonian physics. The main emphasis will be on the role of science in French and German literary and philosophical discourse and their respective contribution to the formation of a science-based political culture.

  Day/Time: W 4-6pm

• History 280S. Drugs in World History. Osseo-Asare.

  The field of drug history allows us to learn about societies through their shifting relationships to pharmacological substances. In this seminar, we will focus on the multiple histories of major drugs including: Opium, Cocaine, Oral Contraceptives, Khat, Kola, and Viagra. We will trace stories of each substance across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas using articles, historical texts, novels and films. Seminar participants will gain a comparative perspective on how societies regulate, discover, test, and market legal and illegal drugs over time, and how these multiple approaches overlap and inform one another. We will emphasize new research in history of medicine, anthropology, film studies, and public policy that suggests a theoretical framework for further investigations.

  Day/Time: W 2-4pm

• History 290.1. Historical Colloquium: History of Science. Carson.

  Meets together with the UCB-UCSF Colloquium in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

  Day/Time: M 4-6pm

Integrative Biology

• Integrative Biology 24.1. Animal and Human Navigation: Which Way Is Home?. Caldwell.

  A homing pigeon can return to its loft after being shipped one thousand km to a place it has never been. A whale spends its summers in the Bering Sea and its winters near Maui. A female sea turtle returns for the first time to a beach where she hatched thirty years earlier to lay her own eggs. A Monarch butterfly flies south two thousand km to spend the winter in a secluded grove in central Mexico. A limpet returns forty cm to a favorite depression in a rock. The abilities of animals to navigate have intrigued biologists for decades. We will read a series of papers describing how animals navigate and how they use such methods as landmarks, celestial cues, and geomagnetic fields to determine where to go and what route to follow. We will also attempt to replicate experiments that suggest that humans are able to navigate using geomagnetic fields. At the end of the semester, each student will be required to write a short review paper discussing navigation and orientation by an animal of his or her choice. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: M 3-4pm

Interdisciplinary Studies Field Major

• ISF 100E. Globalization of Rights, Values, and Laws in the 21st Century. Cipolat.

  This course, aimed at helping students to anticipate and prepare for the great ethic and legal debates of the 21st century, applies theoretical and methodological tools of social science, jurisprudence, and philosophy to examine the complex interplay between transnational values and international norms governing social interaction. We explore the shifting nature of important international norms in an effort to clarify how their evolution is influenced by transnational value changes, and vice versa. Particular attention is paid to the changing contents of social concepts such as sovereignty, citizenship, human rights, work, marriage, life and war, and how these changes - often unleashed by the powerful forces of globalization - are reflected in the laws governing transnational intercourse. The ultimate questions this course intends to answer are a) whether or not the ever closer interconnection of peoples and nations is inevitably leading to the emergence of a universal value system, and if so, b) whether this homogenization of values can be achieved peacefully and c) what kind of values will ultimately prevail.

  Day/Time: TuTh 9:30-11am

• ISF C101. Economic Geography of the Industrial World. Walker.

  This course will examine the following: industrialization, urbanization, and economic growth in the global North, locational patterns in manufacturing, retailing trade, and finance, geographic dynamics of technical change, employment, business organization, resource use, and divisions of labor, property, labor and social conflict as geographic forces, local, national and continental rivalries in a global economy, and challenges to U.S. dominance. Also listed as Geography C110.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

International and Area Studies

• IAS 115. Global Poverty: Theories and Practices. Roy.

  The start of the 21st century has been marked by a new millennial imagination to make poverty history. This course analyzes the various global campaigns, development practices, and social movements that are concerned with poverty alleviation. In doing so, it situates the millennial imagination in the longer history of 20th century development. Course themes include The Institutions, Paradigms & Critiques of Development; Global Poverty Campaigns & Millennium Development Goals; Agriculture: Land Security & Food Security; The Global Structure of Work; Infrastructure: Water, Sanitation, and Housing; Environmental Justice & Public Health: Human Rights; The Promise of Technology; Political Empowerment & Social Movements; The Ethics of Global Citizenship. Graduate students are welcome and will be able to get graduate-level credit for the course.

  Day/Time: TuTh 5-6:30pm

Journalism

• Journalism 226. Science Reporting. Pollan.

  The focus of the course will be on making the transition from writing for newspapers to magazines, with particular attention to scientific subjects. What's the difference between a subject and a story? When is the first-person appropriate? What is the role of the editor and publication in shaping your story? The arc of the course will trace the process of writing a single long piece involving science reporting: finding and pitching story ideas; reporting in depth and at length; outlining and structuring your story; choosing a narrative voice and strategy, crafting leads and "overtures," and making transitions between your story and its larger contexts. As a group, we'll also work as editors on one another's ideas and pieces. And since reading good prose is the best way to learn to write it, we'll be closely reading a substantial piece of science journalism each week. This workshop is designed especially for second years embarking on a written master's project; students will be expected to complete a first draft by the end of the term.

  Day/Time: Tu 9am-12pm

Landscape Architecture

• LA 221. Quantitative Methods in Environmental Planning. Radke.

  Discussion and critique of the application of quantitative methods to environmental assessment, analysis, and evaluation in environmental planning. Topics to include geographical information systems and data bases, remote sensing, and multivariate analysis. This course emphasizes computer applications and data analysis.

  Day/Time: Tu 11am-12:30pm

• LA 228. Research in Environmental River Planning, Management, and Restoration. Kondolf.

  This course consists of (1) presentation by students of proposals, progress reports, and final results of their independent research projects, and (2) reviews of recently published research papers in the field. Students review recent issues of specific journals for all papers relevant to environmental river planning, management and restoration, and report on the papers to the seminar, broadly reviewing all the relevant papers and going into depth on one. Emphasis is on research methods and new findings. Oral presentation skills are also critiqued.

  Day/Time: Th 5:30-8:30pm

• LA 251. Theories of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. Moural.

  The focus will be on debate and discussion of central ideas in landscape architecture and environmental planning, drawing on primary literature over many decades of thought. This is not a history course, but it will include some literature that goes back to the early years of the field. This course covers the breadth of thinking in the field, including both environmental planning and landscape design as well as other sub disciplines. Each week students will lead a debate on a different theoretical issue.

  Day/Time: Th 5-7pm

Latin American Studies

• Latin Amr Studies 150. Perspectives for Sustainable Rural Development in Latin America. Nicholls.

  The rural population of Latin America faces many ecological, socioeconomic and policy challenges and opportunities in today’s globalized economy. After examining the impacts of conventional, agro-export development models (green revolution, nontraditional export crops, biotechn ology, etc), this course will analyze the elements of a sustainable agroecological development path that emphasizes local production for food security, poverty reduction, cultural identity and natural resource and biodiversity conservation. Technical, institutional, policy and market requirements for a sustainable agriculture will also be analyzed in detail.

  Day/Time: Th 4-7pm

Law

• Law 215.11. Law & Society Workshop. Edelman.

  The Law & Society Graduate Workshop is designed to help graduate students improve their empirical research projects. The Workshop is primarily intended for dissertators and for students working on dissertation proposals, but it may also be helpful to graduate students who are designing research projects (including drafting surveys or interview schedules), writing grant proposals, or revising an empirical article for publication. Depending on the type of project and the stage the project is at, we will address issues such as: motivating and framing the theoretical issue and research questions; logical problems; relevant law & society literature; research design and feasibility; data collection; data analysis; relevant audience; publication options and strategies; presentation style; and funding options. This is a chance to get friendly, helpful, and intensive feedback on empirical projects and to learn to provide critical feedback to others ? an important part of the academic enterprise.Each week, we will read and discuss one participant?s work in progress. Later in the semester, we will discuss revisions based on early feedback. Participants must attend regularly, present their own project at least once, and act as a discussant for several others? projects. The Workshop is open to all graduate students doing empirical work on law & society topics and to visiting scholars who are doing empirical work on law & society. The Workshop is offered on a Credit/No Credit basis.

  Day/Time: Tu 10:20am-12:10pm

• Law 271.2. Biodiversity Law. Biber.

  This class provides an overview of the most important legal tools in the United States for the protection of biodiversity. The course begins with a short overview of the history of wildlife law in the United States. It then turns to a detailed examination of the most important statute for protecting biodiversity in the United States, the Endangered Species Act. The course wraps up with an overview of habitat protection statutes (particularly wetlands protection under the Clean Water Act), constitutional limits on biodiversity protection, and a glimpse at emerging issues such as control of invasive species and international environmental law. Though the class focuses on the legal structure for protecting biodiversity, it will also explore policy questions such as the role of science and politics in decisionmaking, the meaning and value of diversity, and assessments of the success or failure of the ESA.

  Day/Time: ThF 11:15am-12:30pm

• Law 272.3. Climate Change: Law and Policy. Farber.

  Climate change will be a core concern that will influence policy and economic activity for years to come. It raises classic issues of distributional justice, law and science, risk, uncertainty and precaution, federalism, technology policy, and international relations. Students will leave this course with an understanding of the sources and impacts of climate change, the key state, national and international policies, and the role of law.

  Day/Time: Tu 2:20-4:10pm

• Law 272.1. Water Resources Law. Rossmann.

  The course emphasizes western water law with special attention to California. We deal at length with public rights in water, the public trust, area of origin claims, federal and Indian reserved rights, interstate controversies, environmental assessment, and the limitations of the takings clause on reallocations of water use. Water pollution and water quality are addressed only peripherally. The course thesis asserts that water is a distinctive species of property, a community resource that can never be fully privatized and that must be used in the public interest. We explore this remarkable idea.

  Day/Time: Th 2:20-5pm

• Law 273.4. The Law of Hazardous Waste: CERCLA, RCRA and Common Law Claims. Infelise.

  The most common source of environmental litigation is hazardous waste in soil and groundwater. The three principal bodies of law governing these disputes are the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (42 U.S.C. ?? 9601, et seq.) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C. ?? 6901, et seq.), as well as certain common law claims. This class is designed for two kinds of students: those interested in working in the environmental field and those that would like to develop a subspecialty in what will otherwise be a practice emphasizing some other area of law. CERCLA, RCRA and Common Law Claims (formerly known as Environmental Pollution) is designed to immerse students in the complexities of litigation involving hazardous waste. We will identify practical, realistic approaches to environmental advocacy and achieving results in the courtroom. Upon completion of the course, students will have a sophisticated appreciation of the tactical intricacies of litigation involving soil and groundwater pollution comparable to most lawyers with three or four years of experience.

  Day/Time: M 3:20-6pm

• Law 277.3. Globalization and the Regulation of Knowledge: From IP to A2K. Kapczynski.

  This seminar will explore the economic regulation of knowledge in global perspective. The contemporary era is characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge, and particularly scientific and technical knowledge, to all dimensions of human life. Knowledge constitutes the most productive core of the global economy, and it is increasingly central to our abilities to enjoy essential goods such as food, health, communication, and shared culture. Increased rate and velocity of information flow across borders is often claimed to be a central condition of the process known as "globalization." At the same time, knowledge is increasingly subject to regulation through intellectual property [IP] or similar exclusive rights regimes, enforced through domestic and international law as well as technical means. The intersection of these factors has made the economic regulation of knowledge one of the most important and politically charged issues of our time.
  
  The key questions that will frame our discussions are: What are the conditions for just and equitable regulation of knowledge in global context? What conceptual frameworks are used to justify global IP protections and new demands for "access to knowledge" [A2K]? What role does law play in this process, as compared to exertions of technical and economic power? The course will familiarize students with the literature on the global knowledge society, the political economy of international intellectual property treaties, the central arguments for and against the global harmonization of intellectual property laws, and the contemporary literature on the effects of IP harmonization on development and human rights. The course will also include case studies of specific areas of contemporary controversy, such as access to medicines and copyright piracy, and will conclude with an examination of proposals for alternative regimes for the global economic regulation of knowledge.

  Day/Time: M 3:20-6:00pm

School of Information

• Information 141. Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. Hearst.

  The World Wide Web brings much of the world's knowledge into the reach of nearly everyone with a computer and an internet connection. The availability of huge quantities of information at our fingertips is transforming government, business, and many other aspects of society. For most people, Web search engines (such as Google and Yahoo) are technologies which have enormous influence on how people find and think about information. They are the gateways, (or some might argue, gate keepers) to this vast sea of information. With the rising importance of search engines come new legal, business, and policy questions and considerations. This course will examine these issues via a series of lectures from experts in academia and industry. Students will first gain an understanding of the basics of how search engines work, and then explore how search engine design impacts business and culture. Topics include search advertising and auctions, search and privacy, search ranking, internationalization, anti-spam efforts, local search, peer-to-peer search, and search of blogs and online communities.

  Day/Time: M 10:30am-12:30pm

• Information 290.5. Green Product Development: Design for Sustainability. Agogino, Beckman, and Shedroff.

  The focus of the course is management of innovation processes for sustainable products, from product definition to sustainable manufacturing and financial models. Using a project in which students will be asked to design and develop a product or service focused on sustainability, we will teach processes for collecting customer and user needs data, prioritizing that data, developing a product specification, sketching and building product prototypes, and interacting with the customer/community during product development. The course is intended as a very hands-on experience in the "green" product development process.

  Day/Time: MW 11am-12:30pm

• Information 296A-2. Seminar on Social Entrepreneurship in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICDT). Braund/Schwittay.

  What is social entrepreneurship? In spite of the current popularity of the term, there is little agreement on the practices it entails. Alternatively, a broad variety of business and nonprofit practitioners call themselves social entrepreneurs. This has led Sally Osberg, CEO of the Skoll Foundation, and other leaders of the field, to call for a more precise definition. This seminar provides a theoretical and practical introduction to social entrepreneurship in the area of ICT for Development. From the emerging literature on the subject and guest speakers, students will explore the larger political and social context of social entrepreneurship, the possibilities for creating social change through market-based models, sources of innovation, and how to measure social impact. Students will also gain practical experiences through a semester-long project addressing a local social problem. Through expert workshops on product design/development, community engagement and business development, field trips and group presentations, students will learn hands-on how to design social enterprise solutions, as well as the potentials and pitfalls of using ICT to address social problems.

  Day/Time: W 11:00am - 2:00pm

Mass Communications

• Mass Comm 24.1. Keeping Informed in the Digital Age. Goldstein.

  This seminar will explore what keeping informed means in the digital age. It will also offer strategies on how to be well informed. [FSS Seminar]

  Day/Time: M 12-1pm

Molecular Cell Biology

• MCB 90E. Brain, Mind, Music, Culture. Presti.

  Music has a deep and mysterious impact on human behavior. This seminar will explore music, the brain, the human mind, and how they are related. Content will range from the biophysics of sound sensation and the neurophysiology of auditory perception to an exploration of the evolution of music, from its roots to modern genres.

  Day/Time: W 3-4pm

• MCB 90A. Biology Research Informs Society: Society Decides What's Next. Kane.

  Research in the biological sciences provides new information daily about how the natural world works. Society and the political leadership influence what to do with the information and what additional research will be funded. This seminar will explore examples of this science-society interaction historically and in our current events. The necessity for a scientifically literate society will be emphasized.

  Day/Time: Tu 1-2pm

Natural Resources

• NR 24.1. Dean's Night Out - People and the Environment. Gilless.

  You will be introduced to the different approaches for examining the environment and finding solutions to major environmental and natural resource problems. Some sessions will feature guest speakers who will speak informally about their work, their preparation for it, and the problems it addresses. Following presentations, participants will have an opportunity to participate in informal Q & A interactions with speakers.

  Day/Time: Th 4:30-7pm

• NR 24.2. Global Environment Theme House Freshman Seminar. O'Neill and Silver.

  The goal of this Freshman Seminar is to bring students and faculty together to explore issues such as global environmental change, policy and management of natural resources, sustainable rural and urban environments, and environmental leadership. The seminar will provide students and faculty a forum to exchange ideas, challenge one another's thinking, and share experiences in a small group setting. Students will have the opportunity to do research and teach their peers about regional to global environmental issues in preparation for Theme Program field trips and guest speakers. Course enrollment is restricted to Global Environmental Theme House participants. Obtain CEC from the instructor.

  Day/Time: Th 5-6pm

Optometry

• Optometry 39B. The Developing World: Profound Challenges, Needs, and Opportunities—An Example Applied to Eye Care in India. Enoch.

  The developing world and its profound problems will remain with us throughout our lifetime. Continued population growth, rapid aging of these populations and provision of care for the aged; questionable adequacy of harvests, greatly increased health needs (for example, the HIV-AIDS epidemic); often inadequate schooling; the caste system, and religion and the family as foci of society; the roles and needs of men and women; and many other problems all contribute to the complex of issues that need to be faced in these environments. While these problems are enormous, individuals (singly or working together) can make a difference. There are opportunities, and these people are both cooperative and willing to share in their development. One must limit oneself to a defined problem set. In this symposium, we will explore this complex of issues, and the teacher will define those things he was/is able to achieve (and problems and difficulties encountered) in the field of eye and vision care during more than a decade of active participation in India. With India's population passing the one billion mark, the importance of addressing the very great needs of India and other developing countries are emphasized. Individuals will be encouraged to participate actively in discussions, and to examine situations in other countries to better understand both existing problems and opportunities. Students will be asked to prepare oral presentations and written materials on related issues of personal interest. This course is also listed as South and Southeast Asian Studies 39C (CCN: 83112). This seminar may be used to satisfy the International Studies or Social and Behavioral Sciences requirement in Letters and Science.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2:30-4pm

Peace and Conflict Studies

• PACS 125AC. War, Culture, and Society. Sanders.

  This course examines the experience and meaning of war in the formation of American culture and society. It considers the profound influence war has had in shaping the identities and life chances of succeeding generations of American men and women. It will take special note of the role of race, ethnicity, and class as prisms that filter this process. This course also explores how different interpretations of democracy and nationalism have served as a catalyst for social conflict and change in racial and ethnic identity and relations, especially as reflected in war.

  Day/Time: MW 2-4pm

Public Health

• Public Health 116. Seminar on Social, Political, and Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine. Duhl.

  An interdisciplinary approach to health and medicine administered through the Health and Medical Apprenticeship Program (HMAP). Guest lecturers will speak on the social, political, and ethical aspects of health and medicine; students will then discuss and present analyses of the reading materials as well as issues raised by the speakers. Public Health 116 was formerly IDS 130.

  Day/Time: M 4-6pm

Public Policy

• Public Policy 190.8. Environment and Technology from the Policy and Business Perspectives. Taylor.

  The natural environment and technology are inextricably linked. The natural environment provides both the initial inputs as well as the ultimate disposal locations for the technologies that drive today's economy. As a result of the close relationship between the environment and human technology, technology has at times been cast as both the ultimate villain and the ultimate hero in environmental policy circles. This class introduces students to many features of the relationship between technology and the natural environment over time. It explores past (for the most part) environmental policy issues, such as acid rain and ozone depletion, through the lens of specific technologies that were important to both policy and business interests. It introduces some of the environmental strategies that are being used by both policy-makers and business to affect technology development and adoption today (e.g., Energy Star, TQEM). And it delves into the climate change debate, an ongoing issue on the environmental policy agenda in which harnessing the forces of technological innovation will be crucial to environmental progress. Taught concurrently with PP290-9.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

• Public Policy 259. Cost-Benefit Analysis. Ryan.

  This course focuses on the application of economic tools to the analysis of a wide range of contemporary policy issues. It is intended to help students become sophisticated consumers of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and related methods. While applications will be emphasized throughout the course, the underlying theory and analytical techniques will be developed rigorously as well. Areas to be explored will include environmental policy, natural resource management, health care policy, research and development, and health and safety regulation. Practical professional skills will be emphasized as well: these will include visual presentation of data and concepts, writing clear and concise memos, using spreadsheet software to solve problems, and working successfully on teams.

  Day/Time: M 5-8pm

Rhetoric

• Rhetoric 1A. Rhetorics of Life. Ferguson.

  This course is designed to train students in the skills of college-level academic reading, critical thinking, argumentation and written composition. Through close analyses, as well as extensive peer commentary and rewriting, students will learn to make sophisticated arguments about a variety of philosophical, scientific, literary, and visual texts. In an effort to particularize this aim, our course will consider life as a philosophical question, one that, as many argue, defines the modern worldview. We will ask: What is life? What gives life its specific definition? For instance, is life simply the metabolism and reproduction of certain carbon-based compounds? Or is it, perhaps, at a more profound level, a certain kind of information? Maybe life concerns an impulse or purpose that cannot be reduced to modern scientific conceptions at all. How, moreover, is life to be distinguished from what it is supposedly not? How does life differ from mere matter, for instance, which is supposedly inert? How is life different from death or the dead? Furthermore, how do questions of life relate to other concerns of living, such as psychology, aesthetics, technology, politics, ethics, and even space and time? Rather than settling on one single answer to these complex and vexing inquiries, however, our primary interest will be to think about how texts-others and our own-figure such questions; that is, how various rhetorics give shape and meaning to life.

  Day/Time: M/W/F 9:00am

• Rhetoric 189.1. Digital Media-Story, Performance and Game. Gutterriez.

  In this course we will examine a wide range of digital media practices including hypertext, interactive drama, videogames, literary interactive fiction, socially constructed narratives in multi-user spaces, and artificial intelligence-based story generation. Through a mixture of readings, discussion, and project work, we will explore the theoretical positions, debates, and design issues arising from these different practices. Topics will include the rhetorical, ludic, theatrical, and narrative dimensions of digital media as well as their political and legal ramifications.

  Day/Time: W 3-6pm

Scandinavian

• Scandinavian 24.1. Ecology and Culture in Scandinavia. Rugg.

  The Scandinavian countries are known internationally for their concerted efforts to preserve their environments, which in the case of Iceland, Norway, and Sweden remain largely wild. Referring to theoretical essays on deep ecology and ecocriticsm, this course will consider how the ideas of "nature" and "environment" are formulated through cultural concepts and practice, in literature, film, and other arts. How does the Scandinavian attitude to the environment take form, and how does it differ from that of other cultures? How does the threat of global warming, which has some of its earliest and most serious affects in the Arctic region, find expression in Scandinavian culture?

  Day/Time: MF 12-1pm

Sociology

• Sociology C126. Social Consequences of Population Dynamics. Wilmoth.

  Introduction to population issues and the field of demography, with emphasis on historical patterns of population growth and change during the industrial era. Topics covered include the demographic transition, resource issues, economic development, the environment, population control, family planning, birth control, family and gender, aging, intergenerational transfers, and international migration. Also listed as Demography C126.

  Day/Time: TuTh 2-3:30pm

• Sociology 128AC. Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment. O'Rourke.

  Overview of the field of environmental justice, analyzing the implications of race, class, labor, and equity on environmental degradation and regulation. Environmental justice movements and struggles within poor communities and communities of color in the U.S., including African Americans, Latino Americans, and Native American Indians. Frameworks and methods for analyzing race, class, and labor. Cases of environmental injustice, community, and government responses, and future strategies for achieving environmental and labor justice. Also listed as Environ Sci, Policy, and Management 163AC.

  Day/Time: MW 2-3pm

• Sociology 143. Policy, Economy, and Society. Fligstein.

  Focus on three major themes of the contemporary United States: government, resources, and cities. Stress on the importance of transition from the 1960's. Examination of how each sector is influenced by policy currents, economic trends, and social conflicts.

  Day/Time: MW 4-5:30pm

• Sociology 172. Development and Globalization. Gold.

  A comparative analysis of socio-economic and political change, focusing on the poor countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Offers both a basic descriptive understanding of processes of change in these countries and an introduction to major theoretical perspectives on development and globalization.

  Day/Time: TuTh 12:30-2pm

• Sociology 190.3. Sociology of Culture, Knowledge and Expertise. Stampnitzky.

  This seminar will introduce students to selected topics in the sociology of culture, knowledge, and expertise, including theories of cultural production and reception, professionalization, the organization of scientific fields, science and the state, and the role of experts in the media and the political sphere. The goals of the course will be, first, to enable students to draw upon sociological theories of knowledge, culture, expertise to gain a better understanding of the problem of “terrorism” and the role of experts in the public construction of “terrorism” as a problem in the United States. And second, to prepare students to apply these theories in an independent research project, which addresses some aspect of production of knowledge about “terrorism,” or about the construction of knowledge and expertise on some other topic of interest.

  Day/Time: M 4-6pm

 

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