This page preserves summaries of graduate courses previously offered by the Energy and Resources Group that are no longer part of our current curriculum. While these courses are not being taught in a given academic year, we maintain this archive so students can see the breadth of coursework ERG has offered over time. For current course offerings, please visit our Graduate Courses page.
Previous Graduate Courses
ENERES C124 – Gender and Environment
Instructor: Youjin Chung
This course examines the centrality of gender and intersectionality in understanding nature-society relations across time and space. During the first half of the semester, students will become familiar with key feminist theoretical approaches to studying environmental problems, including ecofeminism, feminist environmentalism, feminist critiques of science, feminist political ecology, and queer and more-than-human ecologies. In the remainder of the semester, students will apply the theories learned to explore contemporary feminist environmental movements and analyze key topics, such as resource politics, pollution and toxins, environmental and reproductive justice, climate change, and the ethics of care.
ENERES 273 – Social Science Methods
Instructor: Isha Ray
This course aims to introduce graduate students to the rich diversity of research methods that social scientists have developed for the empirical aspects of their work. Its primary goal is to encourage critical thinking about the research process: how we “know,” how we match research methods to research questions, how we design and conduct our information/data collection, what we assume explicitly and implicitly, and the ethical dilemmas raised by fieldwork-oriented studies.