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Courses Relevant to Tropical Studies at Yale

Yale offers an array of courses for students interested in tropical studies.  A selection of these courses is listed below and is intended to help students navigate the tropical course offerings both within F&ES and at various departments at Yale. Courses listed with an asterisk will not be offered in the 2011-12 academic year; name of the instructor(s) are listed in parentheses. Detailed information including a full list of of F&ES courses and descriptions can be found on the F&ES courses webpage.

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F&ES Graduate Level Courses

Social and Political Ecology

  • F&ES 520a:    Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method   (Dove)
  • F&ES 535a:    Social Science of Development and Conservation (Carpenter)
  • F&ES 836a:    Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development (Scott, McGovern, Sivaramakrishnan)
  • F&ES 869b:    Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change* (Dove)
  • F&ES 876a:    Indigenous Religions and Ecology (Grim)
  • F&ES 877a:    Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and Conservation (Carpenter)
  • F&ES 882b:    The Black Box of Implementation: Households, Communities, Gender (Carpenter)
  • F&ES 902a:    Social Ecology Doctoral Lab (Dove)
  • F&ES 952b:    Property Rights and Natural Resource Management (Doolittle)
  • F&ES 965b:    Advanced Readings: Social Science of Development and Conservation (Carpenter)

Tropical Ecology and Forestry

  • F&ES 652b:   Seminar in Ecological Restoration (Montagnini)
  • F&ES 653b:   Agroforestry Systems: Productivity, Environmental Services, and Rural Development* (Montagnini)
  • F&ES 721b:   The Origin and Radiation of Flowering Plants* (Crane)
  • F&ES 723b:   Seminar in Soil Conservation and Management (Montagnini)
  • F&ES 729b:   Caribbean Coastal Development: Cesium and CZM (Benoit)
  • F&ES 731b:   Tropical Field Botany* (Kelly/Michelangeli)
  • F&ES 732a:   Tropical Forest Ecology: The Basis for Conservation and Management (Montagnini)
  • F&ES 741b:   Introduction to Indigenous Silviculture (Peters)

Climate Change and Environmental Economics

  • F&ES 845a:    Energy Issues in Developing Countries* (Bailis)
  • F&ES 848a:    Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation (Bailis)
  • F&ES 951b:    Managing the Global Carbon Cycle* (Raymond, Bailis)
  • F&ES 963b:    Emerging Markets for Ecosystem Services* (Gentry, Ashton)

International Environmental Policy and Governance

  • F&ES 808b:    International and Comparative Forest Policy and Governance* (Cashore)
  • F&ES 850a:    International Organizations and Conferences (Geballe)
  • F&ES 851a:    Environmental Diplomacy Practicum (Lee)
  • F&ES 854b:    Institutions and the Environment (Cashore)

Sustainable Development and Urban Issues

  • F&ES 857b:    Urbanization, Global Change, and Sustainability* (Seto)
  • F&ES 899b:    Sustainable Development in Post-Disaster Context: Haiti (Geballe)

 

Other Yale Courses Relevant to Tropical Studies

Anthropology

For detailed information, search Anthropology course offerings on the Yale Course Information page.

  • ANTH 545:   Organic Latin American Anthropologists of the Twentieth Century (Burger, Mayer)
  • ANTH 608:   Politics and Culture in Contemporary Indonesia* (Errington)
  • ANTH 720:   Mesopotamian Origins (Weiss)
  • ANTH 773:   Civilizations and Collapse (Weiss)
  • ANTH 942:   Research Seminar in South Asia Anthropology (Sivaramakrishnan)

Environmental Studies

For detailed information, search Environmental Studies course offerings on the Yale Course Information page.
Note: EVST courses are undergraduate level

  • EVST 285:   Political Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Power (Doolittle)
  • EVST 345:   Environmental Anthropology (Dove) 
  • EVST 386:   Environmental History of the  Middle East (Mikhail)
  • EVST 415:   Biotechnology and the Developing World (Blum)

History

For detailed information, search History course offerings on the Yale Course Information page.

  • HIST 807:   Resistance, Rebellion, and Survival Strategies in Modern Latin America (Joseph, Pessar)
  • HIST 820:   Problems in Modern Mexican History (Joseph)
  • HIST 849:   Agrarian History of Africa (Harms)
  • HIST 902:   Impact of Epidemic Disease in Context: Focus on Asia (Summers)

International Relations

For detailed information, search International Relations course offerings on the Yale Course Information page.

  • INRL 566:   Comparative Welfare Policy in Developing Countries (Seekings)
  • INRL 713:   Critical Issues in Developing Countries (Britto)

Law School

For detailed information, see the complete Law School course offerings with descriptions.

  • LAW 20202-01:   Property, Social Justice, and the Environment (Rose)
  • LAW 21650-01:   Transnational Development Clinic (Ahmad/Brescia)

School of Management

For detailed information, see the SOM course offerings with descriptions and the SOM Curriculum.

  • MGT 529:   Global Social Entrepreneurship (Sheldon)
  • MGT 865:   Global Social Enterprise (Sheldon)
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