Perspectives & Experiences

After completing the Core and Foundation Courses, Environmental Studies majors complete a minimum of 30 credits of Perspectives and Experiences Courses, with at least 3 credits in each category. Perspectives and Experiences are broken up into six categories:

Human and Social Dimensions Philosophical, literacy, artistic, cultural or ethnographic aspects of how humans envision, value, and interact with the environment.	Bioregional Place-based analysis of environmental issues or problems within the Pacific Northwest bioregion.
Natural Sciences The physical, chemical and biological elements of the environment, including humans.	International Place-based analysis of environmental issues or problems outside of the United States.
Policy and Decision Making The intersection of facts and values as applied to governance, and specifically to environmental problems and decision-making.	Fieldwork Direct engagement with sites or stakeholders out of the classroom for the purpose of collecting assignment-related material.

To request a course not on the approved list be used to fulfill a Perspectives and Experiences requirement, please fill out a completed course substitution petition at: https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/poeadv/148320.

For each course below, click on the course title to view the UW Course Catalog description. Click on the colored dot to view the UW Time Schedule for that particular quarter. An asterisk (*) indicates a special topics course.

2013

Autumn Quarter 2013 Offerings

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Course	Title
ANTH 459	Culture, Ecology and Politics	•			•
BIOL 356	Foundations in Ecology		•				•
CEE 250	Environmental Pollution: Emergy and Materials Balance		•
EDUC 401 N*	Nature-based Learning and Development	•					•
ENV H 311	Introduction to Environmental Health		•
ENV H 451	Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbiological Hazards		•
ENVIR 341 / CHEM E 341	Energy and Environment		•
ENVIR 362 / ESRM 362	Introductory to Restoration Ecology		•		•		•
ENVIR 379 / ESRM 371	Environmental Sociology	•
ENVIR 476 / SMEA 476	Introduction to Environmental Law and Process			•
ENVIR 480	Sustainability Studio			•			•
ENVIR 495 A*	Environmental Innovation Practicum			•
ESRM 210	Introductory Soils		•
ESRM 320	Marketing and Management from a Sustainability Perspective			•
ESRM 325	Environmental Applications of Plants: Bioenergy and Bioremediation		•
ESRM 350	Wildlife Biology and Conservation		•
ESRM 381	Management of Wildland Recreation and Amenities			•
ESRM 403	Forest and Economic Development in an Economic World			•
ESRM 425	Ecosystem Management			•	•		•
ESRM 472	Wetland Ecology		•				•
ESRM 490 B*	Environmental Problems and Market Based Solutions			•
FISH 311	Fish Ecology		•
FISH 323	Conservation and Management of Aquatic Resources		•
FISH 473 / BIOL 473	Limnology		•
FISH 474 / BIOL 474	Limnology Laboratory		•
JSIS 478 B*	Water and Security in the Middle East			•		•
L ARCH 300	Introductory Landscape Architecture Design Studio			•
L ARCH 341	Site Planning			•
URBDP 450	Introduction to Land Use, Growth Management, and Environmental Planning			•

Summer Quarter 2013 Offerings

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Course	Title	Term
ANTH 488	Agroecology	A Term	•	•				•
BIOL 240	The Urban Farm	A Term		•				•
BIOL 317	Plant Classification and Identification	Full Term		•		•
CHID 250 A*	Animals, Ethics and Food; Deconstructing Dominant Discourse	B Term	•
ENVIR 459 / ANTH 459	Culture, Ecology and Politics	B Term	•			•
ENVIR 495 A*	Environmental Writing	B Term	•			•		•
ENVIR 495 B*	Business and the Natural Environment	A Term			•
ENVIR 495 C*	Environmental Interpretation	A Term		•		•		•
ENVIR 495 D*	Global Change	A Term		•		•		•
ESRM 320	Marketing and Management from a Sustainability Perspective	A Term			•
ESRM 321	Finance and Accounting from a Sustainability Perspective	B Term			•
ESRM 416	Field Survey of Wildland Soils	Full Term		•		•		•
ESRM 490 B*	Ecology of the Sierra Nevada	Full Term		•				•
ESRM 491 A*	Ecology of the Natural Forests of the Cascade Range	B Term		•		•		•
GEOG 335	Geography of the Developing World	A Term	•				•
JSIS 478	Global Sustainability Movements	Full Term	•				•
L ARCH 300	Intro Landscape Architecture Design Studio	Full Term			•
L ARCH 498 A*	Reading the Elwah: Exploring Social, Cultural and Biophysical Transitions in the Elwah Watershed	B Term	•	•		•		•

Spring Quarter 2013 Offerings

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Course	Title
ARCHY 320	Archaeology of the Northwest Coast	•			•
BIO A 201	Principles of Biological Anthropology	•
BIOL 305	Science Communication: Video Storytelling in Biology		•
BIOL 317	Plant Classification and Identification		•		•
BIOL 492	Teaching of Biology	•	•
EDUC 401 K *	Inner Pipeline Seminar: Education for Sustainability	•					•
ENVIR/FISH 330	Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems		•
ENVIR 385/ POL S 385	Political Ecology of the World Food System			•		•
ENVIR/PHIL 416	Ethics and Climate Change	•
ENVIR/COM 418	Communications and the Environment	•
ENVIR 480	Greening Up the University's Investments			•	•		•
ENVIR 495 B / ENGL 365 *	Living in Place: Literature and the Environment	•
ENVIR 495 F *	Growing Stuff: Ecology of Resource Extraction Ecosystems	•		•	•		•
ENVIR 495 G *	Plastics Unwrapped: Speaker Series and Dicussion Seminar		•	•
ESRM 315	Natural Resource Issues: Old-Growth and Forest Management		•		•
ESRM 401	Spring Comes to the Cascades		•		•		•
ESRM 465	Economics of Conservation			•
ESRM 479	Restoration Design		•				•
ESS 305	Geology of the National Parks		•
FISH 310	Biology of Shellfishes		•
FISH 424	Biology and Culture of Aquatic Organisms		•	•
FRENCH/LIT 228	The Imagination of Water	•				•
GEOG 370	Problems in Resource Managment			•
GEOG 380	Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease	•				•
GEOG 480	Environmental Geography, Climate and Health	•				•
JSIS 482 A	Business in the Arctic: Working with Law and Policy in Resource Development			•		•
JSIS 482 B	Indigenous Land Claim Treaties in North America and the Arctic			•		•
L ARCH 363	Ecological Design and Planning			•
OCEAN 220	Introduction to Field Oceanography		•				•
SMEA 485	Pacific Recreation and Tourism Issues	•				•
URBDP 300	Introduction to Urban Planning			•
URBDP 498 D*	Transportation and the Environment			•

Winter Quarter 2013 Offerings

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Course	Title
ANTH 361	Anthropology of Food	•
ANTH 487	Cultures and Politics of Environmental Justice	•
ANTH 475 A*	NW Native Peoples and Flora of the Pacific NW	•	•		•
BIOL 356	Foundations in Ecology		•
BIOL 476	Conservation Biology		•
CEP 498 A*	Shaping Your Urban Future: Local Planning, Governance, and Leadership			•
ENGL 365	Literature and Discourse on the Environment: "The Human Animal"	•
GEOG 270	Geographies of International Development and Environmental Change	•				•
GEOG 271	Geography of Food & Eating	•
GEOG 280	Geography of Health and Healthcare	•				•
GEOG 302	The Pacific Northwest			•	•
GEOG 461	Urban GIS			•
GEOG 462	Coastal GIS			•
JSIS 478 C*	Growth and the Environment			•		•
JSIS 478 F*	Energy and Sustainability in East Asia			•		•
JSIS 486 A*	Climate Change and Global Health in SE Asia			•		•
LIT 298	Topics in Literature and Culture: Literature, Culture and the Environment	•
EDUC 401 P*	Environmental Alternative Spring Break			•			•
EDUC 401 K*	Pipeline Seminar: Education for Sustainability			•			•
FISH 311	Biology of Fishes		•
FISH 478	Topics in Sustainable Fisheries		•	•
ENVIR 313	Environmental Earth Science		•
ENVIR 433	Environmental Degradation in the Tropics	•				•
ENVIR 480	Sustainability Studio: Zero Waste Campus: from You to UW			•	•		•
ESRM 311	Soils and Land Use		•		•
ESRM 321	Finance and Accounting from a Sustainability Perspective			•
ESRM 400	Natural Resource Conflict Management			•
ESRM 450	Wildlife Ecology and Conservation		•
ESRM 458	Management of Endangered, Threatened, and Sensitive Species			•
ESRM 473	Restoration in North America		•
SMEA 480	Human Dimensions of Fishery Management			•
ENV H 472	Environmental Risk and Society		•

2012

Autumn Quarter 2012 Offerings

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Course	Title
ANTH 461	Historical Ecology	•				•
BIOL 315	Biological Impacts of Climate Change		•
BIOL 356	Foundations in Ecology		•
BIOL 492 B*	Teaching of Biology	•
CEE 250	Enviornmental Pollution: Energy and Materials Balance		•
EDUC 401 N*	Nature-based Learning and Development	•					•
ENV H 311	Introduction to Environmental Health		•
ENV H 451	Ecology of Environmentally Transmitted Microbiologial Hazards		•
ENVIR 341 / CHEM E 341	Energy and Environment		•
ENVIR 362 / ESRM 362	Introductory to Restoration Ecology		•		•		•
ENVIR 379 / ESRM 371	Environmental Sociology	•
ENVIR 384 / POL S 384	Global Environmental Politics			•		•
ENVIR 416 / PHIL 416	Ethics and Climate Change	•
ENVIR 476 / SMA 476	Introduction to Environmental Law and Process			•
ENVIR 480	Sustainability Studio			•			•
ENVIR 495 A*	Environmental Innovation Practicum			•
ENVIR 495 C*	Land Use Planning and Permitting in Practice			•
ESRM 210	Introductory Soils		•
ESRM 250	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Forest Resources
ESRM 320	Marketing and Management from a Sustainability Perspective			•
ESRM 350	Wildlife Biology and Conservation		•
ESRM 381	Management of Wildland Recreation and Amenities			•
ESRM 425	Ecosystem Management			•	•		•
ESRM 470	Natural Resource Policy and Planning			•
ESRM 472	Wetland Ecology		•				•
ESRM 490 B*	Environmental Problems and Market Based Solutions			•
FISH 323	Conservation and Management of Aquatic Resources		•
FISH 452 / OCEAN 452	Spatial Information Technology in Ecosystem Sciences
FISH 473 / BIOL 473	Limnology		•
FISH 474 / BIOL 474	Limnology Laboratory		•
GEOG 335 / JSIS 335	Geography of the Developing World	•				•
GEOG 360	Principles of GIS Mapping
JSIS 478 B*	Water and Security in the Middle East			•		•
JSIS 478 J*	Rise of Global Cities and the Challenges of Economic and Environmental Change			•		•
L ARCH 300	Introductory Landscape Architecture Design Studio			•
L ARCH 341	Site Planning			•
L ARCH 361	The Human Experience of Place	•
SMEA 430	Development and the Enviornment	•
URBDP 450	Introduction to Land Use, Growth Management, and Environmental Planning			•

Summer Quarter 2012 Offerings

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Course	Title	Term
BIOL 240	The Urban Farm	A Term		•			•
BIOL 317	Plant Classification and Identification	Full Term		•		•
ENVIR 459 / ANTH 459	Culture, Ecology and Politics	B Term	•			•
ESRM 250	Introduction to Geographic Information Systems in Forest Resources	A Term
ESRM 320	Marketing and Management from An Environmental Perspective	A Term			•
ESRM 321	Finance and Accounting from An Environmental Perspective	B Term			•
ESRM 490 B*	Ecology of The Sierra Nevada	Full Term		•			•
ESRM 491 A*	Ecology of the Natural Forests of the Cascade Range	A Term		•		•	•
GEOG 360	Principles of GIS Mapping	B Term
L ARCH 300	Introductory Landscape Architecture Design Studio	Full Term			•
L ARCH 498 A*	The Olympic Peninsula and the Elwah River	B Term	•			•
URBDP 498 A *	Exploring the Washington State Food System	A Term	•			•

Spring Quarter 2012 Offerings

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Course	Title
ANTH 469C*	Arctic Perspectives on Global Problems	•				•
ANTH 479B*	Public Policy and Environmental Health: Hanford			•	•
BIOL 240	The Urban Farm		•				•
BIOL 315	Biological Impacts of Climate Change		•
BIOL 317	Plant Classification and Identfication		•		•
BIOL 492B*	Teaching of Biology	•
EDUC 401K*	Inner Pipeline Seminar: Education for Sustainability	•					•
ENV H 311	Introduction to Environmental Health		•
ENVIR 330 / FISH 330	Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems		•
ENVIR 371 / ANTH 371	Anthropology of Development	•
ENVIR 416 / PHIL 416	Ethics and Climate Change	•
ENVIR 418 / COM 418	Communications and the Environment	•
ENVIR 480	Sustainability Studio: Carbon and Climate Change			•			•
ENVIR 495A*	Environmental Pedagogy
ENVIR 495B* / ENGL 365	Living in Place: Literature and the Environment	•
ENVIR 495C* / POL S 333A	Political Ecology of the World Food System			•		•
ESRM 250	Introduction to GIS in Forest Resources
ESRM 315	Natural Resource Issues: Old-Growth and Forest Management		•		•
ESRM 401	Spring Comes to the Cascades		•		•		•
ESRM 465	Economics of Conservation			•
ESRM 479	Restoration Design
ESS 301	Geology of the Northwest		•		•
ESS 421	Introduction to Geological Remote Sensing
EURO 490K*	EU Environmental Policy: Coming of Age			•		•
FISH 312	Fisheries Ecology		•
FISH 447	River Ecology and Watershed Management		•
FRENCH 228 / LIT 228	The Water Crisis in Literature and Film	•				•
GEOG 271	Geography of Food and Eating	•
GEOG 335 / SIS 335	Geography of the Developing World	•				•
GEOG 360	Principles of GIS Mapping
GEOG 370	Problems in Resource Management			•
GEOG 380	Geographical Patterns of Health and Disease	•
GEOG 480	Environmental Geography, Climate and Health	•
L ARCH 363	Ecological Design and Planning			•
L ARCH 450	History of Environmental Design in the Pacific Northwest			•	•
POL S 335A*	Poverty and Hunger in the Global Food System			•		•
SMEA 485	Pacific Recreation and Tourism Issues	•				•
URBDP 300	Introduction to Urban Planning			•

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