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Environmental
Research Production
BIOL
560 seminar
Instructor:
Dr. Carlos Robles
Winter
2007
All
day on Fridays with a long lunch to accomodate co-enrollment
in BIOL 510
In
an informal workshop atmosphere, concepts and practice
is provided in the basic survival skills of science
production - including prospectus and grant writing,
reading and critiquing manuscripts, and giving effective
Power Point presentations. Participants practice skills
using material from their thesis research.
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Beginning
graduates welcome.
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Winter
2007
Environmental
Policy, Law and Society
Sociology
487
Mondays
and Wednesdays 9 - 10:40 am in King Hall B-4012
Professor
Elaine Draper, Ph.D., JD
Office
in King Hall A-3047, (323) 343-2299
This
course will consider themes and doctrines in environmental
policy and law, such as the public trust doctrine, environmental
justice, EPA regulation, andtoxic tors, alongwith questions
of punitivedamages, economic incentives,and criminal prosecultion.
We will sutyd specific environmental cases and controversies,
suchasthose over MTBE, Agent Orange, and approaches to cancer
alleys in Texas and Louisiana. We will also examine the
somtimes hotly contested issues of class actions, proof
of causationand guilt, and rules of evidence concerning
environmental pollution. Environmental issues concerning
water, for example, will concernthe Exxon Valdez oil spill,
water pollution in Santa Barbara Bay, Mono Lake water rights,
groundwater pollution in Woburn, Massachusetts,and leaking
Superfund hazardous waste sites. We will give special attention
to the interaction between environmental policy, law, and
society throughout the course.
Register
for Soc 487-01 and attend class the first day.
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