Global Ethical and Environmental Issues in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management
Instructor: Andrew Groover, Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural & Environmental Sciences
Description: This seminar will focus on environmental and ethical issues of interest to students as informed members of society, and as future professionals responsible for making decisions about agriculture and natural resource management. The course will examine the environmental movement, climate change, biofuels, transgenic agriculture, the politics of food, and other issues that have major impacts on society. Students will gain an appreciation for the complexities in the role of science in defining and addressing major problems. Students will also see how science and research intermeshes with ethical, political, and societal issues.
Format:Each week’s topic will be introduced by a short reading assignment, and will be discussed in an open format lead by student teams. Grading: Participation (50%). Each student will pick one of the covered topics and write a short report on how they think the problem should be addressed (50%).
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