Course List

Spring 2024

• Climate and Financial Markets

  ACCT/BEPP 7640
  Arthur van Benthem

• Environmental & Energy Economics and Policy

  BEPP/OIDD 2630
  Arthur van Benthem

• Environmental Ethics

  PHIL 1343
  Paul Musso

• Environmental Sociology

  SOCI 2300
  Raka Sen

• Forest Histories: The Architectures of Amazonia

  ARCH 7123/ LARP 7803
  Vanessa Grossman

• MATTERS: Connecting Arts + Design to Materials, and Materials to Labor + Land

  DSGN3250-401
  Kaitlin Pomerantz

• Nature, Culture, Environment

  ANTH 2970
  Nikhil Anand

• Planet on the Brink: Climate and Environment Journalism

  ENGL 3423.301
  Peter Tarr

• Public Environmental Humanities

  ANTH 543, COML 562, ENVS 544, GRMN 544, URBS 544
  Bethany Wiggin

• Repairing the Planet: Tools for the Climate Emergency

  PHIL 1571
  Carlos Santana

• River History

  STSC 0668
  John Kanbayashi

Spring 2023

• Ecologies of Belonging

  ANTH 3595/5595 URBS 3595
  Rachel Antoinette Cypher

• MATTERS: Connecting Arts + Design to Materials, and Materials to Labor + Land

  DSGN 5250
  Kaitlin Pomerantz

• Planet on the Brink: Climate and Environment Journalism

  English 3423.401 
  Peter Tarr

• Plant(s) Matter

  LARP 7800
  Sonja Dümpelmann

• Public Environmental Humanities

  ANTH 5440, COML 5440, ENVS 5440, GRMN 5440, URBS 5440
  Bethany Wiggin

• Remediating the Environment

  ENGL 2596, CIMS 2596
  Jane Robbins Mize

• Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities

  ANTH 3100
  Kristina Lyons, Marilyn Howarth

Fall 2022

• Counter the Land: Photography & the Landscape

  FNAR 2160 / FNAR 5032
  Brent Wahl

• Critical Engagements with Science(s) and Justice(s)

  ANTH 541
  Kristina Lyons

• Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystems

  BIOL 2610
  Erol Akcay, Brent Helliker

• Energy and its Impacts: Technology, Environment, Economics, Sustainability

  EAS 4010/5010
  Noam Lior

• Energy, Oil, & Global Warming

  PHYS 0016
  Douglas J. Durian

• Environment and Society

  STSC 1880

• Environmental Ethics

  PHIL 1343

• Global Climate Change

  GEOL 2300
  Irina Marinov

• Humans and the Environment

  BIOL 1640
  Daniel Janzen

• Planning for Land Conservation

  CPLN 6310
  Tom Daniels

• Plants and Society

  ANTH 3240
  Chantel White

• Seeing Green: Environmentalism in Germany and Austria

  GRMN 3212
  Simon Richter

• Sustainability & Utopianism

  GRMN 1160
  Bethany Wiggin

• The Role of Water in Urban Sustainability and Resiliency

  ENVS 1650
  Howard Neukrug

• Urban Environments: Speaking about Lead in West Philadelphia

  ENVS 1615
  Richard Pepino

• Writing and Witnessing

  ENGL 3501
  Rachel Zolf

Spring 2022

• Advanced Journalistic Writing: Science, Technology, Society

  ENGL 158/STSC 118
  Peter Tarr

• Colonial Ecologies

  ANTH-564-301
  Kathleen Morrison

• Disasters in the Ancient World

  ANTH-311-401
  Campbell Grey

• Environmental Justice: Conservation Ethics and Politics

  PHIL070-301
  Kok-Chor Tan

• Humans and the Earth System: How it Works, How We Got Here, and How to Save Our Planet

  ENVS-102-401
  Kathleen Morrison

• Introduction to Environmental Planning & Policy

  CPLN-531-001
  Thomas Daniels

• Latinx Environmental Justice

  ANTH-093-401
  Teresa Giménez

• Literature and the Environment

  ENGL 102-601
  Sherif Hasan Ismail Muhamed

• On the Nature of Gender, More Human Than Human

  GSWS-565-640
  Jacqueline N. Sadashige

• Public Environmental Humanities

  ANTH 543, COML 562, ENVS 544, GRMN 544, URBS 544
  Bethany Wiggin

• Repairing the Planet: Tools For the Climate Emergency

  PHIL-157-401
  Michael Weisberg

• The Climate of Concepts: How Words Build Worlds

  ANTH 199
  Nandita Badami

• The Death of the Sun: Energy, Evolution & Ecology in Victorian Fiction

  ENGL 255-301
  Barri J. Gold

• Tpcs Digital/New Media: Environmental Media

  ARTH-292-401
  Rahul Mukherjee

• Worlding Otherwise: The Ecological Act of Writing

  ENGL 010-305
  Knar Gavin

Fall 2021

• Environmental Humanities: Theory, Methods, Practice

  COML 544-01 ENVS 543-401, ENGL 643-401, GRMN 543-401, SPAN 543-401
  Bethany Wiggin

• Making the Natural World: An Introduction To Political Ecology

  ANTH 134-001
  Mark Lycett

• Petrosylvania

  HIST/ENVS 245
  Jared Farmer

• PHIL 226: Evolution’s Laboratory

  301 (Penn Global Seminar Version)
  Michael Weisberg

• Planning Responses to Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation

  CPLN-634-001
  Tom Daniels

• The Social Life of Climate Change

  ANTH-171-001
  Nikhil Anand

Spring 2021

• Critical Engagements with Science(s) and Justice(s)

  ANTH-541-301
  Kristina Lyons

• Ecological Thinking in Art and Architecture

  ARTH 577/ ARCH 411/711
  Daniel Barber

• Energy Markets and Policy

  BEPP/OIDD 763
  Arthur van Benthem

• Energy, Oil, & Global Warming

  PHYS 016
  Gary Bernstein

• Environmental & Energy Economics and Policy

  BEPP/OIDD 263
  Arthur van Benthem

• Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film

  GRMN 151-401, CIMS 152-401, COML 154-401, ENVS 151-401
  Simon Richter

• History and Theory of Architecture and Climate

  ARCH 718
  Daniel Barber

• Imagining Environmental Justice

  ENGL 309, COML 308, ANTH 339
  Rebecca Macklin

• Planning for Land Preservation

  CPLN 631-001
  Thomas Daniels

• Public Environmental Humanities

  GRMN 544-401, ANTH 543-401, COML 562-401, ENVS 544-401, URBS 544-401
  Bethany Wiggin

Fall 2020

• Air Pollution: Sources & Effects in Urban Environments

  ENVS 411
  Maria Antonia Andrews

• Animals and America

  STSC 372-301
  Ann Norton Greene

• Architecture in the Anthropocene

  ARCH 111
  Daniel Barber

• August Wilson and Beyond

  ENG 2325
  Herman Beavers, Suzana Berger

• Bodies of Water: Conflicts and Collaborations Around Rivers, Wetlands, and Watersheds

  ANTH 322-301
  Kristina Lyons

• Climate Fiction

  ENGL 016-302
  Paul Saint-Amour

• Critical Birding: Music, Observation, and the Environment

  MUSC 232-301
  Glenda Goodman

• Data Dreams

  STSC 360-301

• Extreme Heat: White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change

  HIST 258-401
  Anne Berg

• Global Climate Change

  GEOL 204-001
  Irina Marinov

• Introductory Soil Science

  GEOL 411
  Alain Plante

• Nature, Culture, Environmentalism

  ANTH 297
  Nikhil Anand

• Petrosylvania: Reckoning with Fossil Fuel

  HIST 245
  Jared Farmer

• Public History

  HSS 502
  David S. Barnes

• Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America

  SPAN 091-401
  Teresa Giménez

• Sustainable Development and Culture in Latin America

  SPAN 391-401
  Teresa Giménez

• Topics in Philosophy of Science: Climate Change: Adaptation, Mitigation, and Resilience

  PHIL 525
  Michael Weisberg

• Transdisciplinary Environmental Humanities

  ANTH 310
  Kristina Lyons, Marilyn Howarth

• Water Worlds

  GRMN 150
  Simon Richter

Spring 2020

• Advanced Readings in Environment and Society

  ANTH 539-301
  Nikhil Anand

• Apocalypse and the Anthropocene

  ENGL 268

• Energy Markets and Policy

  BEPP/OIDD 763
  Arthur van Benthem

• Environmental & Energy Economics

  BEPP/OIDD 263
  Arthur van Benthem

• Forest Worlds: Mapping the Arboreal Imaginary in Literature and Film

  GRMN 151-401
  Simon Richter

• Forest, Grove, Tree: Planting Urban Landscapes

  LARP 780-001
  Sonja Dümpelmann

• Global Environmental History from the Paleolithic to the Present

  History 060
  Marcy Norton, Anne Berg

• History and Theory of Architecture and Climate

  ARCH 718
  Daniel Barber

• Integrative Design Studio: Cultures of Making

  DSGN 317
  Orkan Telhan

• Science, Technology, Society

  English 158-401
  Peter Tarr

• The Role of Water in Urban Sustainability and Resiliency: An Academically Based Community Service Course

  ENVS 410-301
  Howard Neukrug

• The “Rights of Nature” in Times of Conflict and Transition

  ANTH 031
  Kristina Lyons

• Topics in Design & Theory: Landscapes of Extraction and Sequestration

  LARP 780-003
  Nicholas Pevzner

• Wastes of War: A Century of Destruction

  History 234
  Anne Berg

Fall 2019

• Air Pollution: Sources & Effects in Urban Environments

  ENVS 411
  Marilyn Howarth, Maria Antonia Andrews

• Animals and Religion

  RELS 212-401
  Allison Covey

• Animals in Science, Medicine and Technology

  STSC 379 / HSOC 379
  Ann Norton Greene

• Documentary Experiments in Urban Research

  URBS 344, ANTH 344, CIMS 344

• Environmental Humanities: Theory, Methods, Practice

  COML 544-01 ENVS 543-401, ENGL 643-401, GRMN 543-401, SPAN 543-401
  Bethany Wiggin

• Environmental Media

  ENGL 392-402 / CIMS 392-402
  Rahul Mukherjee

• Global Cities, Climate Changed: Urbanization in Most of the World

  ANTH 294
  Nikhil Anand

• Making the Natural World: An Introduction to Political Ecology

  ANTH 134-001
  Mark Lycett

• Seeds & Weeds: The Knotty Natures of Botanic Gardens

  LA 780-002
  Karen M'Closkey

• The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics

  ANTH-317
  Kristina Lyons

• Topics in Theory & Design: Post-Carbon Futures & the Green New Deal

  LARP 780-003
  Nicholas Pevzner

Spring 2019

• Colonial Ecologies

  ANTH-564
  Mark Lycett, Kathleen Morrison

• Documentary Experiments in Urban Research

  URBS-334 / ANTH-344 / CIMS-344

• Environmental Ethics

  PHIL 079-301
  Derek Skillings

• Experimental Ethnography at the Interfaces of the Arts & Sciences

  ANTH-551
  Kristina Lyons

• Field Studies in Aquatic Microbial Ecology

  BIOL 464
  Byron Sherwood

• History and Non-Human Actors

  History 670-302
  Marcy Norton

• History and Theory of Architecture and Climate

  ARCH-719
  Daniel Barber

• More Human Than Human

  GSWS 492
  Jacqueline N. Sadashige

• Planting Empire

  STSC 207-301
  Lawrence Kessler

• Public Environmental Humanities

  GRMN 544-01/COML 562-401/URBS 544-401/ANTH 543-401
  Bethany Wiggin

• The Horse in World History

  HIST-234
  Oscar Aguirre Mandujano

• The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics

  ANTH-317
  Kristina Lyons

• Topics in Design & Theory - Landscapes of Extraction and Sequestration

  LARP 780-003
  Nicholas Pevzner

• Toxicity in Context

  STSC 381-401
  Britt Dahlberg

• Victorian Environments

  ENGL 200-304
  Zach Fruit

• Water Worlds: Cultural Responses to Sea Level Rise and Catastrophic Flooding

  GRMN 150
  Simon Richter

Fall 2018

• Climate Fictions

  ENGL 016.302 (Freshman seminar)
  Paul Saint-Amour

• Converging Landscapes: Art, Ecology, and History

  FNAR-307 / FNAR-507
  Paul Farber

• Data Dreams

  STSC-360

• DH & the Environment: Environmental Activism with Indigenous Communities

  ANTH 581/ RELS 581
  Timothy Powell

• Disasters in the Ancient World

  ANTH 311-401
  Campbell Grey, Lauren Ristvet

• Environment and Society

  STSC-168

• Environmental & Occupational Health

  PUBH 503
  Marilyn Howarth

• Environmental Crisis and Contemporary Fiction

  ENGL 200-306
  Shawn Worthington

• Environments and Health

  HSOC 458
  Meghan Crnic

• Integrative Design Studio

  FNAR-268/ FNAR-568/ IPD -568
  Orkan Telhan, Karen Hogan

• Liquid Histories and Floating Archives

  GRMN 152/ ANTH 154-401/ENGL 052/ENVS 152/ HIST 152
  Bethany Wiggin

• Making the Natural World: An Introduction to Political Ecology

  ANTH 134-001
  Mark Lycett

• Molecular Anthropology

  ANTH 211-401
  Theodore Schurr

• Philosophy of Biology: Evolution's Laboratory

  PHIL-226 (Penn Global Seminar)
  Michael Weisberg

• Religion and Ecology

  ANTH 211-401
  Allison Covey

• Water in the Middle East Throughout History

  ANTH 110-401
  Emily Hammer

• Eat, Prey, Love: Humans and Other Animals in Historical Perspective

  HIST 385
  Marcy Norton