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Nature and Environment

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Save our Parks: Environmental Law, Policy and Politics

Anthony Rionda

Mon., 6:00P-8:30P

Our National Parks are America’s Crown Jewels. They are worshipped by avid adventurers, campers, road-trippers and the former students of FIU Honor’s Everglades course. The aim of this course (Save our Parks) is to focus on how politics, policy, and law have shaped, saved, and at threatened our most beautiful natural legacy.

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Contemporary Materialities

Niurca Marquez

Wed., 2:00P– 3:15P (HYBRID)

Through a feminist perspective, students will have an opportunity to reconsider the ideas and assumptions that have prevailed about the body. The course includes topics such as the impact of disability experience, the material reality of race, the significance of sexual difference, and the complex interactions between nature and traumatic events such as Hurricane Katrina.

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Every Species is a Masterpiece

Gretchen Scharnagl

Tues., Thurs., 3:00PM - 4:15PM

This class considers how we look at ourselves, and how we look at animals, plants, and fungi, and how this influences how we think of all. What are our varying relationships? We will discover how ancient, ubiquitous, and complicated - the truths, abstractions, and symbology - of our fellow earth dwellers can be.

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Environmental Activism in the Digital Age

Paula Powell

Online

This course will explore the impact of social media on environmental activism, examining how digital platforms shape awareness and advocacy efforts. Students will learn strategies to effectively leverage social media to enhance engagement, mobilize community, and promote sustainable practices. Through case studies and hands-on projects, students will develop critical skills in content creation, campaign management, and digital storytelling, empowering them to drive positive change in environmental issues and foster a more informed public.

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Global Environmental Health and You

Brenda Luna

Thurs., 11:00A-12:15P (Hybrid)

This course examines the relationships between human health and the environment. Students will explore the role of the natural and built environment and their impact on their health, as well as their local and global community’s health.

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Sustainable Development: Framework, Goals and Implementation

Maria Ilcheva

Online

This course will examine the relationship between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), community problems and current sustainable and social solutions. The course will explore how various societal actors are responding to and implementing the SDGs.

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Science and the City

Tolga Erbora

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:00AM-12:15PM

This course looks to explore the past, present, and future of urban planning and the development of societies through scientific and mathematical approaches. Causal relationships leading to present day city-life will be explored, and probabilistic and risk analysis will be used to approach the dynamics of city politics and business decisions. Miami's storied evolution and unique character will be used as a template to carrying out this study. Students will then be prompted to incorporate their background and discipline to develop innovative visions of a plan for the future based on a certain part of Miami's broad ecosystem, integrating modeling, quantitative tools, and creativity unique to them.

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