WS 347U Science, Gender, and Social Context

Two-term course explores the strengths and limitations of science to describe and predict nature through laboratory and field investigations. These activities will illustrate the transition from a reductionist view of our natural environment to a systems-oriented view. It will place this historical shift in understanding and scientific practice in the contexts of gender, race, and class using selected case studies in environmental management. Includes laboratory and/or fieldwork. This is the first course in a sequence of two: WS 347U and WS 348U. This course is the same as Sci 347U, Sci 348U; may only be taken once for credit.