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This graduate-level class explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States. It uses environmental conflict to draw attention to competing understandings and uses of "nature" as well as the local, national and transnational power relationships in which environmental interactions are embedded. In addition to utilizing a range of theoretical perspectives, this subject draws upon a series of ethnographic case studies of environmental conflicts in various parts of the world.
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- Science and Technology, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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Plants and Forests
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Eco Art and Culture
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Industrial and Agricultural Impacts
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MIT OpenCourseWare
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This lesson invites teachers and students to discuss and understand reality television as a genre, and to examine its appeal to mainstream television audiences. Students consider the human and social values represented in reality television programs, and engage in activities that help them compare reality television to other genres.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
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KQED Education Network
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This lesson introduces students to makeover television as a genre. Students discuss the conventions of makeover television and the promise of personal transformation, and examine ethical issues presented by these shows. Students examine their own response to the genre and create a makeover show of their own.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
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KQED Education Network
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This lesson introduces students to the way in which images of celebrity are constructed and promoted by media professionals. Students explore what they understand "celebrity" to mean and examine the images of "success" projected by stars. They further explore what this all says about our values and what we believe to be important.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
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KQED Education Network
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This lesson introduces students to confessional television as a genre. Students discuss the conventions of confessional television and explore viewpoint from the perspective of participants and the audience. Students examine their own response to the genre and create a confessional television show of their own.
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- Arts, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Secondary, Post-secondary
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KQED Education Network
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Exploration of formal and informal modes of writing nonfiction prose. Extensive practice in composition, revision, and editing. Reading in the literature of the essay from the Renaissance to the present, with an emphasis on modern writers. Classes alternate between discussion of published readings and workshops on student work. Individual conferences. As the course title suggests, this class is meant to acquaint you with the literary and rhetorical tradition of the essay, a genre which has been described by one scholar as "the meeting ground between art and philosophy," and by another as "the place where the self finds a pattern in the world, and the world finds a pattern in the self". Though the essay is part of a tradition of prose which stretches back to antiquity, it is also a thoroughly modern and popular form of writing, found in print media and on the web.
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- Humanities, Social Sciences
- Grade Level:
- Post-secondary
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MIT OpenCourseWare
