BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION
Biological Sciences 65 (4 units)
(Fulfills UCI Breadth Requirement II)

A biological perspective on the current environmental crisis. Trace the origin, evolution, and value of biological diversity. Examine extinction and depletion processes caused by overexploitation, habitat loss, and pollution. Conservation through habitat preservation and restoration, captive breeding, and cryopreservation.
Instructor: Dr. Carlos Valerio, Professor of Biology, has served as an advisor at the National Biodiversity Institute (NBio) in Costa Rica since 1993

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Cross-listed: Choose Political Science 143D, or Planning, Policy, and Design 136, or International Studies 120 (4 units)

This course will provide theoretical and practical knowledge concerning environmental issues and sustainable development policies, illustrated with examples and case studies from different parts of the world. A practical approach to policy development, theoretical and practical knowledge related to the environmental problematic and the sustainable development practices would be discussed, with the aid of case studies and relevant examples. Creative and critical thinking will be required and work sessions will be evaluated.
Instructor: TBD

SUSTAINABILITY & EQUALITY: Important Aspects of Environmental Sociology
Sociology 171 (4 units)

This course presents the different experiences in sustainability which have been constructed in the national context within the past few years, both within the public and the private sector. It presents sustainability as a triad composed of economic, social and environmental aspects. Specifically, it examines biodiversity from the institutional and social context, organic agriculture, environmental services, the forest, fishing resources, sustainable development, treatment of wastes, alternative sources of energy, and just commerce. These experiences are presented in the context of models of development which have greatly affected society in social, economic, environmental, cultural, and political forms.
Co-Instructors: Dr. Marino Marozzi, and Rosita Ulate Sánchez, M.B.A.