Global Change 2 Winter Schedule of 2011 Lectures
Week
Date
Day
1
1/4
Wed
Course Organization and Instructional Team
All
1/6
Fri
Roadmap of GC: Human Impacts + LectureTools
Allan
Module 1: Trends and Systems
2
1/9
Mon
Global Sustainable Development
Gladwin
1/11
Systems Thinking
1/13
Ethics of Global Change
3
1/16
MLK day NO CLASS
Module 2: Population and Resrouces
1/18
Population Growth over Human History
1/20
Demographic Transition: An Historical Sociological Perspective
4
1/23
Human Appropriation of the World's Food Supply
1/25
Human Appropriation of the World's Water Supply
Module 3: Threatened Ecosystems
1/27
Desertification
5
1/30
Global Deforestation
2/1
Global Health: Emergence of Infectious Diseases
2/3
World Dams: Ecological and Social Consequences
6
2/6
Midterm #1 (Intro and Modules 1-3)
Module 4: Energy
2/8
Energy 1: Today
2/10
Energy 2: Tomorrow (same notes as energy1)
7
2/13
Energy 3: Systems and Policy (same notes as energy1)
Module 5: Climate
2/15
Climate 1: The Climate System
2/17
Climate 2: Observations and Trends (same notes as above)
8
2/20
Climate 3: Human Impacts (same notes as above)
2/22
Climate 4: Ecosystem Impacts (same notes as above)
2/24
Toward a Sustainable Human Future
van der Pluijm
2/25-3/4
No Class- Spring Break
Module 6: Threatened Biodiversity
9
3/5
Declining World Fisheries
3/7
Threats to Biodiversity
3/9
Nature reserves, Parks and Protected Areas
Module 7: Global Megaforces
10
3/12
3/14
3/16
11
3/19
3/21
3/23
12
3/26
Midterm #2 (Modules 4-7)
3/28
Equality: Global Poverty
3/30
Stability: Global Insecurity
13
4/2
Megaforce Integration
Module 8:
Thinking of the Future
4/4
Global Complexity: Synthetic Thinking
4/6
Global Uncertainty: Resilient Thinking
14
4/9
Global Transitivity: Foresight Thinking
4/11
Global Depravity: Moral Thinking
4/13
Global Sparsity: Creative Thinking
15/Summary
4/16
Sustainability at UM
4/19
Thur
Final Exam: Thursday, April 19 1:30-3:30 in Angell C