Spring 2025
ENS 202 - Natural Sciences and Policy J. Anthony Stallins University of Kentucky Dept of Geography |
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| Jan | 1. The world through body, mind and context: where science and policy begin |
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| Day | Date | Quiz reading | Powerpoints | |
| Tues | 1/14 | Introduction Philosophy of science Scale and sampling |
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| Thurs | 1/16 | The Lost Norse (Science) | ||
| Tues | 1/21 | |||
| Thurs | 1/23 | Who Would Kill a Monk Seal? (NYTimes) | ||
| Tues | 1/28 | Birds Aren't Real or Are They? (NYTimes) | ||
| Thurs | 1/30 | Test 1 | ||
Feb |
2. Order, disorder and complexity: how conceptualizations of change relate to policy |
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| Tues | 2/4 | |||
| Thurs | 2/6 | |||
| Tues | 2/11 | |||
| Thurs | 2/13 | |||
| Tues | 2/18 | |||
| Thurs | 2/20 | Test 2 | ||
3. Human cognition and behavior as part of sustainability policy |
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| Tues | 2/25 | |||
| Thurs | 2/27 | |||
| Mar | Tues | 3/4 | ||
| Thurs | 3/6 | |||
| Tues | 3/11 | |||
| Thurs | 3/13 | Test 3 | ||
| 4. Sustainability as the coexistence of (all, most, some) life forms |
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| Tues | 3/25 | |||
| Thurs | 3/27 | |||
| Apr | Tues | 4/1 | ||
| Thurs | 4/3 | |||
| Tues | 4/8 | |||
| Thurs | 4/10 | Test 4 | ||
5. The Anthropocene sciences of environmentalism and/or ecomodernism |
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| Tues | 4/15 | |||
| Thurs | 4/17 | |||
| Tues | 4/22 | |||
| Thurs | 4/24 | |||
| Tues | 4/29 | Prep day | ||
| May | Thurs | 5/1 | Reading day | |
| Tues | 5/6 | Test 5 (8:00 - 10:00 am) | ||