68 courses in the 1977–78 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
There are a number of courses offered in the Faculty of Environmental Studies of an integrative nature which extend across the academic interests of the four units, School of Architecture, Department of Geography, Department of Man-Environment Studies, and School of Urban and Regional Planning. The courses are of general interest and are open to all students in the University. There is no Department of Environmental Studies.
The following persons have wide ranging interests and hence have been appointed to the Faculty of Environmental Studies rather than to a specific Department and/or School.
Professor | P.H. Nash, BA, MA (U.C.L.A.), CE (Grenoble), MCP, MPA, PhD (Harvard), MCIP
Associate Professor R. T. Newkirk’, BA, MSc, PhD (Western)
Adjunct Professor D. B. Greenspan, BA (Toronto), LLB (Osgoode Hall) D. Estrin, BA, LLB (Alberta)
Adjunct Associate Professor D.H. Wood, BComm, LLB (Toronto)
Adjunct Lecturers B. Steele D.G.E. Wicken, Diploma AA
Faculty members cross appointments as shown Planning and Environmental Studies
Course Descriptions Environmental Studies
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Non-technical survey of current approaches to thinking about and refining views of the ‘Future’. The role of images and scenarios, contributions of the arts and concepts of space and time. Impacts of regional science, ekistics, bioethics, synergetics, and prognostics. Paths to “inventing” the future and the comprehensive design of “optimum” environments.
No prerequisite
A discussion of some major environmental problems and issues such as the population explosion, the impact of urbanization of man’s environment, environmental pollution, resouce management, conservation, and environmental planning.
Not available to Man-Environment students
Note Students in the Faculty of Environmental Studies may take this course in their first or second year only.
Tointroduce the main concepts and principles of ecology
. aS a basis for understanding cycling of elements, energetics and structural organization of major ecological systems; population dynamics; impact of natural resource management practices and urban and industrial development on the environment; incorporating environmental quality considerations into development activities; ‘designing with nature”. Prereq: 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students only
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Through actual experience, the student will learn photographic and darkroom techniques, audio recording and sound production. Asmail lab fee will be charged for materials. The student is expected to do much of the course work outside the classroom in field situations and to use initiative in project development.
Prereq: Env Ststudent only or consent of Instructors
Advanced Level
An expanded version of 252 in which the student will choose one or more of the following formats: television, sound, photography, film, slide-tape. The student will develop presentations around a central theme in consultation with the instructors. Much initiative is expected of the student. The student will be required to purchase materials.
Prereq: Env St 252 or consent of Instructors
An introduction to scientific method; descriptive and inferential statistics; sampling design. The course emphasizes the methodological and interpretative problems involved in using selected quantitative methods to investigate selected environmental topics. Prereq: only for students in Environmental Studies
- The course emphasizes programming skills and applications in the context of enyironmental problems. Prereq: Env St271
Guests and University of Waterloo lecturers, expert in their respective fields, discuss specific problem areas related to the environment. Representative topics include impact on groundwater of waste disposal, effect of air poliution on plant life, population problems, viruses in surface water, reutilization of waste materials.
No prereq
An interdisciplinary workshop focusing upon environmental issues in a project or research format. Prereq: 3rd and 4th year students in Environmental Studies; enrolment is by research team only with representatives from at least 3 units of the faculty (max. 7 people) and subject to selection of an advisor and a satisfactory project or research proposal.
Conflict as the core of all aspects of environmental relationships. A review of several current conflicts in: community planning law; ecological law; and natural resource law. We will isolate and define the legal tools available to the interests involved in such conflicts, and seek to understand both the effect and the limits of these tools under current legislation and practice.
Prereq: 3rd and 4th year students —
Analysis of “ideal” environments of the past, including “utopian” communities. Scrutiny of current “concepts” of future environments, including distillation of works of Bell, Clarke, Commoner, de Chardin, de Jouvenal, Dror, Doxiadis, Ehrlich, Forrester, Fuller, Kahn, Mead, Meadows, McHale, Michael, Polak, Theobald, Thompson, Toynbee, and Ward.
Prereq: 3rd or 4th year standing
Course Descriptions 295 Environmental Studies
Examination of ‘‘issues”’ in futuristics and their “methodological” problems, with particular attention to resources utilization. Socio-Cultural Change Theory and Policy Science. Science Fiction, Extrapolation, and Technology Forecasting. Societal indicators, Quality of Life, and Technology Assessment. Probable and Possible Urban Futures.
Prereq: Env St411
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