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Session
Term
Course #
Course Title
2021-2022
I1
eu/envs 5011A
Food, Land, and Culture
Examines food, land, and culture from a critical interdisciplinary environmental perspective. Students have the opportunity to pursue their own interests related to food politics, planning, sustainable and alternative agriculture, human-animal relationships and ethics, from a local and or global perspective.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): M. Stiegman
2021-2022
O2
eu/envs 5016A
Protected Area Management
This course explores protected area management, which is a form of environmental management focusing on an area of land and/or freshwater/sea especially dedicated to the protection and maintenance of biological diversity, and of natural and associated cultural resources, and managed through legal or other effective means. Integrated with ENVS 4446. Exclusion: Students who already took ENVS 4446. Crosslisted BIOL 5073
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): S. Colla
2021-2022
I1
eu/envs 5106A
Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, Sexuality and the Environment
Overview of theories exploring racism, colonialism, gender and sexuality in relation to each other and to a range of urban and other environments. The course employs an intersectional perspective that foregrounds feminist, queer, transgender and other subjugated knowledges of racial capitalism, anti-Blackness and settler colonialism.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): J. Haritaworn
2022
W
eu/envs 5543M
Nature and Society in the Industrial World: Global Environmental History since Industrialization
This course examines the relationships between people and their environments from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. It considers the global ecological consequences of industrialization and the growing human footprint on Earth from a historical perspective, drawing from the field of environmental history. Crosslisted HIST 5543.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): J. Bonnell
2021-2022
SU
eu/envs 6102A
MES Research Proposal
This course assists students in the transition from MES II to MES III, with emphasis on the design of the substantive and integrative experiences to be undertaken in MES III (including expectations of the Major Project, Major Paper, or Thesis) and the ways that students may demonstrate mastery of the subject matter.
Instructional Format: IDS
2021-2022
I2
eu/envs 6121M
Community, Energy and Planning
Examines the relationship between sustainable communities and sustainable energy systems. In the context of climate change, environmental, ethical, and social concerns, the course considers the flexibility and adaptability of landscape, communities and city-building processes, and integrated and multi-scalar responses and approaches to policy-making and implementation.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): L. Brand Correa
2021-2022
I1
eu/envs 6140A
Environmental Education
Examination of Environmental Education' in the widest sense, including definitions of environmental education, and the history of environmental education, its underlying assumptions, and current practices and constraints in its implementation. Alternative visions of a socially critical model of environmental education are explored.
Instructional Format: LECT
Instructor(s): M. Martin
2021-2022
SU
eu/envs 6275A
International Political Economy and Ecology Summer School
The Graduate Program in Political Science, Graduate Program in Geography and the Faculty of Environmental Studies jointly hold an annual summer school in the month of June or July where an issue within the field of international political economy and ecology has been explored under the guidance of York faculty members and guest scholars with particular expertise. Students are drawn from our graduate program, from other Canadian universities and from abroad. Each session consists of a lecture course and an associated workshop. Successful completion of the summer school will serve as a credit towards a student's MA or PhD program. Previous summer schools have focused on the ecology of post-Fordism, global finance, economic restructuring and the world city. Crosslisted POLS 6282 3.0, and GEOG 5395 3.0.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): U. Lehrer
2021-2022
S1
eu/envs 6300A
Convergences, Disparities, and Fault lines: Research in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
This course introduces students to debates and perspectives on Latin American and Caribbean studies and links theory with practice in the field. Supported by numerous CERLAC Fellows from a range of disciplines, students from different graduate programs and areas of study will collaborate together in teams on applied research projects to work on their own research. This core course will provide an opportunity for deeper student engagement in CERLAC and a strong relationship with the work of the researchers and scholars at the Centre.
Instructional Format: REMT
Instructor(s): H. Ford-Smith
2021-2022
S2
eu/envs 6349M
Cultural Production Workshop
Combines active media analysis with the production of images/text around environmental issues. Students critically explore the production process through media observations, readings, and audio-visuals, visits to production sites, and interviews with imagemakers. There are opportunities to develop hands-on skills in photographic or video production. The central learning experience of the workshop involves a media production applying analytical insights, technical skills, and creativity.
Instructional Format: SEMR
Instructor(s): A. Gosine
2022
F
eu/envs 6401A
Disasters: Concepts and Causes
This course examines natural disasters from an interdisciplinary point of view, particularly considering why there seem to be more natural disasters, and how and why decisions made by people create vulnerable communities.
Instructional Format: LECT
2022
W
eu/envs 6401M
Disasters: Concepts and Causes
This course examines natural disasters from an interdisciplinary point of view, particularly considering why there seem to be more natural disasters, and how and why decisions made by people create vulnerable communities.
Instructional Format: LECT
2022
W
eu/envs 6481M
Activist Video-Making
A course focused on the production of collaboratively-produced video works on selected social and political/environmental subjects. Crosslisted FILM 5020B.
Instructional Format: STDO
2021-2022
SU
eu/envs 6599A
Individual Directed Study
Individual study activities in subject areas not addressed in current Environmental Studies course offerings, devised and carried out under the supervision of a faculty member and arranged to suit the requirements of the students individual Plan of Study. Normally intended for students at the MES II level. Maximum 18 credits per program
Instructional Format: IDS
2021-2022
SU
eu/envs 6699A
Experiential Learning
Individual study activities in subject areas not addressed in current Environmental Studies course offerings, devised and carried out under the supervision of a faculty member and arranged to suit the requirements of the students individual Plan of Study. Normally intended for students at the MES II level. Maximum 18 credits per program
Instructional Format: FDEX
2021-2022
SU
eu/envs 7899A
MES Major Research
Approved research toward the submission of Major Paper, Major Project, Portfolio, arranged and conducted under the supervision of a faculty Supervisor. MES students take the course for 0 credit. Only MES/JD students take the course for (transfer) credits (normally 12).
The Graduate Program in Environmental Studies at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to learn more.