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| Stevan Harrell Professor of Anthropology Curator of Asian Ethnology, Burke Museum Faculty Associate, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology stevehar@u.washington.edu |
David S. Battisti Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Associate Vice Provost and Director, Earth Initiative david@atmos.washington.edu |
This is a three-quarter Honors Program class sequence about our planet in science, culture, and politics. Fall Quarter will cover The Physical Earth; Winter Quarter Life on Earth; Spring Quarter the Human Earth, though there is much overlap and we basically just put in stuff we think is interesting. Class sessions will consist of various mixtures of lectures, discussions, exercises, and debates. Student grades are based entirely on the paper assignments. There will be about four paper assignments each quarter; you must do all four to pass the class, regardless of the grades you get on the first three. Class readings are from the required texts , at the University Bookstore, from electronic reserve, and from some materials available directly on the internet. Reading summaries, assigned on each unit's reading pages, are required to pass the class, but will not be graded.