SOC2022 PV: Land and Community

This course is an introduction to landscapes - especially the Vermont landscape - from an ecological and a cultural perspective. It explores connections between community and place, analyzing landscapes as both living nature and products of human use. Students will study ecological and social conditions that produce landscapes, and they will learn to identify landscape features from pictures and in the field. In this course, students will have the freedom to choose places to explore, focusing on the relationship between healthy natural communities and healthy human communities. They will also examine how certain situations can lead to the destruction of places and resources (the so-called “tragedy of the commons”) and how the land we share can be protected by cultural bonds and social institutions/ Students should be prepared to spend a certain amount of class time outdoors in a variety of terrain. Credits: 3.000

WRT1011 Lecture Min Credits: 3.00