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Ethics and Values Colloquium

This class explores the ethical and value dimensions of problems relating to environmental or technological change, through discussion of a common reading or work on a common class project. The class meets several times during the term for discussion, and each student is required to attend four relevant events on campus or in the community. Some sort of final project, a paper or presentation is also required. Open only to juniors and seniors.

History

Winter 2006 ~ Coffee - Mark Kanazawa
Fall 2005 ~ Coffee - Mark Kanazawa

Spring 2005 ~ Roads, Cars, and Ethanol - Tsegaye Nega and Robert Bonner
Winter 2005 ~ Road Ecology - Tsegaye Nega
Fall 2004 ~ Road Ecology - Tsegaye Nega

Spring 2004 ~ Mary Savina
Winter 2004 ~ Mary Savina
Fall 2003 ~ Mary Savina

Spring 2003 ~ Study of "The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century" by John Ruskin
Winter 2003 ~ Sustainable Architecture: Building an Eco-House at Carleton, part 2
Fall 2002 ~ Sustainable Architecture: Building an Eco-House at Carleton, part 1

Spring 2002 ~
Winter 2002 ~ Interactions Between Scientists and Industry: The Paper Industry as a Case Study
Fall 2001 ~ "All the Wild and Lonely Places: Journeys in a Desert Landscape" Lawrence Hogue

Spring 2001 ~ Greening of the Campus (Suzanne Savanick)
Winter 2001 ~ "Guns, Germs, and Steel" Jared Diamond
Fall 2000 ~ "Pandora's Picnic Basket" Alan McHughen

Spring 2000 ~ Environmental Studies Programs at Other Schools
Winter 2000 ~ "Managing the Environment, Managing Ourselves: A History of American Environmental Policy" Richard N.L. Andrews
Fall 1999 ~ "Nourishing Terrains: Australian Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness" Deborah Bird Rose

Spring 1999 ~ "The Abstract Wild" Jack Turner
Winter 1999 ~ "How Many People Can the Earth Support?" Joel E. Cohen
Fall 1998 ~ "The Mysterious Lands: A Naturalist Explores the Four Great Deserts of the Southwest" Ann Zwinger

Spring 1998 ~
Winter 1998 ~
Fall 1997 ~

Spring 1997 ~
Winter 1997 ~ "Frontiers of Illusion: Science, Tecnhology, and the Politics of Progress" Daniel Sarewitz
Fall 1996 ~

Spring 1996 ~
Winter 1996 ~ "A Green History of the World" Clive Ponting
Fall 1995 ~

Spring 1995 ~
Winter 1995 ~ "Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future" Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jorgen Randers
Fall 1994 ~