The Program

At the end of the GIS Class poster session, Kohrt Common, Townes Science Center

This year reprents the third edition of this program and the first one involving Earth and Environmental Sciences department.  The broader theme for this semester is the humans, the natural environment, health, and sustainability.  The topics cut across disciplinary boundaries and include, urbanization, health and the environment, poverty, gender, nutrition, medical geology, climate, development, policies, natural hazards, natural resources, sustainability, plate tectonics, agriculture, water, sanitation, pollution, mining etc., you get the picture.

The four courses offered for this program that cover the above mentioned topics are:

1. AST 282 - Poverty, Gender, and Development in India
2. EES 201 - Introduction to GIS
3. EES 360 - Geology and Sustainability of India
4. IDS 280 - Urbanization, Health, and Environment of India

The reading list for these courses are extensive and are interconnected.  All four courses have been designed to integrate so that students get a more complete picture of every issue we discuss in class.  

We are spending 6 weeks on campus covering all the contents and preparing students to understand the complexities and interrelationships.  We will depart for India in first week of October and spend the rest of the semester in India and return in mid-December.