CPSG200 Science & Global Change Sophomore Colloquium
The Search for Solutions: Resiliency in the Decade of Consequences
Colloquium CCC 1250 Mon. 3:30-4:50 pm
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SCHEDULE OF LECTURES AND EVENTS

Week Date & Topic

Week of 8/30 8/30 Colloquium: Welcome Back; Logistics of Class; Resiliency in the Age of Consequences
9/3 Scholars Block Party (2-4 pm, Cambridge Community Quad)
Week of 9/6 9/6 Colloquium: None - LABOR DAY
Week of 9/13 9/13 Colloquium: Lecture: Agents of Change & Geoengineering; Overview of Practicum Options; Review of S4S Team Project
9/13 Reading: Drawdown pp. ix-xv
9/19 CANCELLED: EXCURSION: Fossil hunting at Bayfront Park, Chesapeake Beach, MD
Week of 9/20 9/20 Colloquium: Future Shock: The Unexpected Impacts of Technology
9/20 Reading: Drawdown "Energy", "Transport"; Sagan Chap. 22
Online Lecture: Communicating Science: Science & the News Media
9/24 Quiz 1 due
9/24 S4S Team Project Team List/Topic Choice & Team Project Contract due
Week of 9/27 9/27 Colloquium: Examples of Science Communcation
9/27 Reading: Sagan Chaps. 17-19
10/1 Science & the Media Report due
10/2 EXCURSION: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD
Week of 10/4 10/4 Colloquium: Science on the Fringes
10/4 Reading: Drawdown "Coming Attractions"
Online Lecture: An Examination of Climate Change Deniers and Other "Science Skeptics"
10/8 Quiz 2 due
Week of 10/11 10/11 Colloquium: Denialism in-class
10/11 Reading: Drawdown "Building and Cities", "Land Use", "Materials"; Sagan Chaps. 23-24
Online Lecture: The Culture of Science: Who Does Science?
10/15 "Search for Solutions" draft presentations due
Week of 10/18 10/18 Colloquium: Who Pays for Science?
10/18 Reading: Drawdown "Food"
Online Lecture: Natural History Matters: Common Misunderstandings Within the Environmental Community
10/23 EXCURSION: Philip Merrill Environmental Center, Chesapeake Bay Foundation Headquarters, Annapolis, MD
Week of 10/25 10/25 Colloquium: "Search for Solutions" Presentations I
10/25 Reading: Drawdown "Women and Girls"
10/29 Quiz 3 due
Week of 11/1 11/1 Colloquium: "Search for Solutions" Presentations II
Week of 11/8 11/8 Colloquium: "Search for Solutions" Presentation III
11/12 Student Evaluations and S4S Within-Team Peer Evaluations due
11/13 EXCURSION: American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
Week of 11/15 11/15 Colloquium: Energy & Environment Policy Choices in-class
11/15 Practicum Proposal due
11/19 Quiz 4 due
Week of 11/22 11/22 Colloquium: Global Energy & Environment Policy Simulation in-class
11/24-26 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week of 11/29 11/29 Colloquium: Mad Science in Culture and in History
11/29 Reading: Sagan Chap. 25
Week of 12/6 12/6 Colloquium: Lecture: Science as a Defense Against Tyranny
12/10 Quiz 5 due
Week of 12/13 12/13 Colloquium: The World Set Free: The Enlightenment and the New Revolution
12/13 Final Quiz, SGC 3-Semester Review, Learning Contract, Excursion Report due