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Course Schedule Spring 2009

Presentation Schedule

Date

Weekly Topic

Week 1

March 30

Introduction to ENVIRON 170 course

Week 2
April 6

Presenter: Mark Abramson and Heather Burdick, Santa Monica Baykeeper

Title: Stone Canyon Creek Restoration, Science, Policy and Practice

Week 3
April 13

Presenter: Dr. Jenny Jay, Assistant Professor, Civil Engineering

Title: Mercury, arsenic, and pathogens: three pollutants affecting large
populations in developing and developed countries

Week 4
April 20

TBA:

Tentative: No class meeting. Participate in Stone Creek Canyon Restoration, Sat. April 18. Write up experience for website: http://environment170.wordpress.com

Week 5
April 27

Presenter: Dr. Sandra Harding, Professor, Education

Title: Are Environments Gendered?

Week 6
May 4

Presenter: Ileene Anderson, Center for Biological Diversity, Biologist, Public Lands Desert Director

Title: Conservation Biology and Science for Conservation Advocacy

Week 7
May 11

Tentative — Presenter: Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena, CA

Title: Fair Trade and Sustainability

Week 8
May 18

Presenter: Martha Dina Arguello, Director, Physicians for Social Responsibility – Los Angeles

Title: Green Chemistry for Social Responsibility and Public Health

Week 9
May 25

Holiday

Week 10
June 1

Discussion

– Course Review and Assessment

– Blogging wrap up

Speakers are subject to change. Check blogsite http://environment170.wordpress.com/ for updates!


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