{"id":1900,"date":"2021-08-17T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncf.edu\/?post_type=program&p=1900"},"modified":"2024-05-22T06:54:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T10:54:44","slug":"environmental-studies","status":"publish","type":"program","link":"https:\/\/www.ncf.edu\/programs\/environmental-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Environmental Studies Area of Concentration offers insights into climate change, sea-level rise, food insecurity, social justice, urban environments, animal welfare, governing the oceans, and environmental conservation and stewardship.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n

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About the Program<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019re early adopters! New College\u2019s Environmental Studies Program was founded in 1972 \u2013 the first of its type in the United States. Come today and learn new skills from professors across disciplines to help create a better balance between human activity and environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigate topics as diverse as land and marine use policies, water and soil quality, ethical approaches to environmental management, the effects of sea level rise on heritage sites, the role of invasive species, systems modeling, human cognition and persuasion, the green economy, and the use of data analysis to delve deeply into environmental awareness. Be part of the environment on our bayfront campus where our faculty, students, and staff recognize that the landscape of New College of Florida has a history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“New College students are passionate and civic minded. They tend to be solution-focused. My classes are designed to be rigorous, to give them the skills to be really impactful. They\u2019re up to the challenge.\u201d<\/p>\nEmily Heffernan
Associate Professor of Biology and Environmental Studies<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Land Acknowledgement<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The space that we currently occupy, Sarasota, was acquired through the territorial dispossession of Native Nations, including the Seminole and Miccosukee, who have historical claims to this land. We acknowledge that our occupation of this land has come at the expense of their displacement. Indigenous people are contemporary people who live throughout the state of Florida on reservations and in cities, and we acknowledge that they, as well as their ancestors, are our hosts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a public and intellectually rigorous institution, it is our duty to think critically about what our occupation of this land means. We must challenge ourselves to consider our relationship to the land and to ethically engage with the histories and cultures of Indigenous peoples who have called this land home. This is not the end of the conversation, but the beginning of a long and difficult process of mapping a more equitable future.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n

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Featured Course<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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ANTH 3320<\/p>\r\n\t\t

Conservation and Indigenous Knowledge<\/h3>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t
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This seminar focuses on the ways local and indigenous understandings of the environment compliment, complicate, and conflict with goals of conservation. Students will examine the idea of \u201cindigeneity,\u201d compare multiple forms and definitions of \u201ctraditional ecological knowledge,\u201d and consider the multifaceted processes of knowledge production involved in creating cultural and environmental systems of understanding. Course reading will also study the relationship between \u201cindigenous\u201d and \u201cscientific\u201d knowledge, the challenges of community-based conservation paradigms, the on-going debates over indigenous intellectual property rights, and contemporary indigenous environmental rights movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Environmental Studies Curriculum<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n
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Recent Courses<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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  • Climate Change: Philosophy, Politics and Economics<\/li>\n
  • Climate Fiction<\/li>\n
  • Conservation and Indigenous Knowledge<\/li>\n
  • Coral Reef Ecology<\/li>\n
  • Ecopoetics<\/li>\n
  • Environmental Ethics<\/li>\n
  • Florida Natural History<\/li>\n
  • Food, Animals, and the Environment<\/li>\n
  • Food, Fuel, Fiber and Finance: A History of Global Capitalism<\/li>\n
  • Introduction to Environmental Studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n
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