Principles and practices of horticulture, emphasizing development, growth, and propagation of horticultural plants and environmental factors that affect these processes.

Ecological foundations of sustainable biological systems, anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem structure and function, and ecological risk assessment.

Managing wildlife in the Southwest, including life histories of small game, fur bearers, big game, and selected nongame specials.

Policy environment and ethics in the practice of biology. Covers ethical reasoning, policy formulation, and regulatory agencies with examples from biotechnology and the environment.

Statistical methods with applications in the biological sciences and natural resource management. Uses computers and the Internet.

Multimedia course for nonmajors surveying contemporary topics in Southwest home horticulture, including landscaping, flower and vegetable gardening, citriculture, interiorscaping, and others.

Landscape technologies and practices including landscape design theory, job costing and bidding, sprinkler and drip irrigation design, landscape installation, landscape valuation techniques, landscape ordinances, and maintenance practices of commercial and residential landscapes.

Interactions between organisms and their environments; structure and dynamics of populations, communities, ecosystems, and landscapes, with emphasis on vegetation.

Examines ecological principles underlying wildlife population dynamics with emphasis on physiology, genetics, nutrition, and habitat factors.

Studies wildlife around the world including biogeography, biodiversity, conservation topics and the complexity of conserving wildlife in both developed and developing nations.

Important wildland plants, including invasive and endangered species, wildlife food species, and species used for ecosystem restoration.

This is an iCourse aimed to simplify and explain the most current scientific research findings on the link between food and human health, and to clear some common misconceptions which do not have scientific backing. Emphasis is placed on the effects of different types of food on our microbiota and overall physiology, as well as several related immediate negative reactions and chronic illnesses. Course content is based primarily on the most current literature in the field, but is simplified and includes reviews of the relevant basic biological principles to aid undertanding of the topics by students in non-science fields.

Biochemical applications and technologies of fermentation including use of fungi and bacteria in fermentation to improve human health and immunity, and produce pharmaceutical drug supplements and medicines, foods, beverages, and alternative fuels.

Applies principles and practices of organic gardening in the low desert, including environmental impacts of modern food production.

Greenhouse structures, environment, and nursery operations. Includes irrigation, nutrition, and other principles relative to production of nursery crops.

Students learn about and practice the principles of sustainable horticulture in an arid climate. Includes capstone projects on sustainability issues related to horticultural practice in arid environments.

Evolution, classification, environmental, anatomical and physiological adaptations, ecology, and conservation of mammals worldwide. Emphasis on the identification, habitat relationships, conservation, and management techniques of Arizona and select North American mammals.

Systematics, evolution, ecology and life history of amphibians and reptiles emphasizing wildlife management methodologies.

Habitat management considerations and practices for big game wildlife species in North America.

Principles of ecosystem management, with emphasis on economic and policy constraints on the planning process. Risk assessment and management.

Remote sensing is an important source of environmental information that can support a deeper understanding of trends and clarify management strategies in a wide range of ecological application. Focuses on the application of satellite and aerial/drone remote sensing in environmental science and management. With this basic background, course participants use remote sensing data to make spatial decision. Presents the concepts of biodiversity and wildlife management parallel to the remote sensing information. Image processing instruction and exercises begin with an analysis of digital imagery and proceed through the three broad classes of processing techniques: preprocessing, enhancement and information extraction.

Apply concepts in population and habitat ecology to real world examples to answer research questions in wildlife conservation. We will master ecological concepts using examples from GPS telemetry, wildlife cameras, and acoustic bat monitors. The course will consist of lectures and active learning of ecological topics. The statistical program R will be an integral component of the class -- a familiarity with R is desirable, but not required to enroll.

This special topics course uses case histories of infectious diseases affecting humans, domestic animals, and wildlife to illustrate how and why certain diseases emerge in populations. Discussion will emphasize how characteristics of pathogens, their hosts, and the environment contribute to the appearance, development, and persistence of infectious diseases. Special emphasis will be given to diseases particularly relevant to this time, including Ebola virus disease and Zika virus disease.

Combines the principles of ecology, planning and restoration in the application of rangeland ecosystem management. Studies fundamental topics such as range plant physiology, range plant ecology, rangeland stocking-rates and grazing systems in considering management practices for rangeland ecosystems

Accurate identify rangeland plants is a fundamental necessity in natural resource management. Resource professionals use their knowledge of plants to implement focused management decisions, and to evaluate management effectiveness. Students will be able to identify common wildland and range plant species by sight including dominant species, invasive species and wildlife food species. Two hundred rangeland plants will be presented according to the class schedule and students will be tested on their ability to identify the plants with weekly quizzes and exams.

The important learner outcomes for this course are:
-Develop a leadership perspective by discussing board member or C-level manager views, decisions, and particularly ethical perspectives surrounding corporate governance and sustainability issues.
-Apply various schools of thought on ethics in business to responsibilities of accounting professionals.
-Examine ethical and non-ethical consequences of decisions made by case subjects.
-Sharpen your analysis skills (both quantitative and qualitative) with respect to corporate governance, ethics, and sustainable business practices.
-Enhance your ability to substantiate your arguments and perspectives using data, theories, and best business practices by practicing reasoned discussion and case analysis.

Site and building design problems. Emphasizes programmatic and environmental determinants and building in natural and urban contexts.

Covers diversity of experiences and relations among racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Advanced study of the concepts of race and racism and how they manifest themselves in the USA, the Caribbean, and Africa. Examines the construction of race, racism, and race relations in Africa and the African Diaspora as well as practices to challenge ethnicity, racism, and racial oppression.

Advanced examination of the challenges that black women have faced historically in America and how they have responded to those challenges socially, politically, economically, and culturally.

Advanced exploration of various dimensions of diversity in relation to educational systems and outcomes. Through sociological and psychological research, case studies and films, students examine how educational inequality is created and reproduced through individual actions and institutional constraints. Also considers the connection between schooling and human rights and ways in which educational inequality may be addressed.

Explores how the relationship between race and space has been important to the development of broad patterns of social inequality in the United States. Through a variety of readings, films and other material, examines how ideas of race and space have been important to the making and maintenance of national boundaries, citizenship, regional histories and spatial typologies such as border, ghetto, suburb and prison.

Readings seminar designed to give students a probing examination of the interface between AHANA Americans and the mass media in the United States.

Impact of national policy and world agriculture on the cost, quantity, and quality of the U.S. food resources.

Beginning class that focuses on the specific microeconomic principles that are needed to understand the food industry, agricultural production, food safety and production of renewable natural resources. Focuses extensively on the detailed information that students need to understand the nuances of specific issues associated with the food, agriculture and renewable natural resources, including a keen understanding of monopolistic competition, the economic rationale for governmental regulation, effects of property rights on renewable resources, agricultural price supports, prospect theory and behavioral economics.

Management and agribusiness issues in the transition of developing countries from subsistence to global operations and competition.

Analysis of agribusiness firm decisions in the ecological, economic, social, and political environments. Special emphasis on ethical issues surrounding food production and consumption.

Information, methods and resources used in the management of global food supply networks. Emphasizes systems of food marketing and distribution from the farm to the consumer.

Critical examination of trends, problems and management functions of food retail managers across various retail institutions. Emphasizes the biological nature of food products and the dietary preferences of consumers.

Introduces the study of American Indian justice issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Primary topics include sovereignty, law, and culture.

Emphasizes understanding of Indian language families and the relationship of oral traditions to culture.

Surveys legal, socioeconomic, political, and educational state of contemporary reservation and urban Indians.

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Emphasizes professional and leadership skills to prepare students for academic and career endeavors after undergraduate degree completion. Explores indigenous perspectives on communication, research, professional and leadership skills. Research focuses on addressing the needs of Arizona Indian Nations and Tribes and culminates in a research paper, in-class presentation and community development poster presentation. Showcases research posters in a research symposium in which guests vote on the most innovative and practical poster proposal.

Examines how U.S. laws, policies, executive orders, and court decisions have affected Indian nations and peoples in matters of cultural resources and burial rights. Considers the protests, legal battles, and political campaigns Indians have waged to reaffirm their fundamental human rights in the areas of repatriation and sacred sites protection. Examines the ways in which filmmakers and the media present these issues to the public. Assesses the present status of Indian religious rights and cultural resource laws. Sovereignty and its relationship to Indian spirituality is a theme that permeates the course.

Provides an in-depth investigation of the theory and concepts of colonization, decolonization, and Indigenous peoples in America, with brief comparisons with global Indigenous peoples and experiences. Covers classic scholarly works on colonization and decolonization to understand the frameworks in which colonization and decolonization develops, expands, and impacts Indigenous peoples. Through that theoretical understanding, examines and formulates ways in which decolonization can impact and be integrated into Indigenous lives and communities. Students shift from theory to praxis by writing and presenting on an informal grant proposal for a decolonizing project that can be implemented in an Indigenous or non-Indigenous community.

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Critically examines Indigenous languages, their decline and revitalization from a language ecology and a self-determination perspective. Includes historical, sociopolitical, educational, linguistic, sociolinguistic, and cultural issues that have had and continue to impact Indigenous peoples and their languages worldwide and their reclamation efforts. Also examines various epistemologies, theories, ideologies, and practices of Indigenous people (including American Indian, Indigenous Alaskan, Hawaiian, Maori, Quechua). Topics include: language policy and planning, language acquisition, child language socialization, identity development, bilingual education, Indigenous language pedagogy, and current models and approaches for Indigenous language maintenance and revitalization (ILMR).

Surveys environmental design: includes historic examples and the theoretical, social, technical, and environmental forces that shape them.

Surveys ideas relating to landscapes and sustainability and the role of landscape architecture in the creation of humanized environments.

Exercises in basic design, stressing creative problem-solving methods, principles of composition, and aesthetic evaluation. Development of vocabulary for environmental design.

Alternative energy systems and their reliability issues, accelerated life and safety testing, standards and codes, regulatory requirements.

Term projects, overview of solar radiation, operating principles, qualitative analysis on influencing parameters, market trends, basics of PV systems.

Focuses on embedding computational media into the physical world. Students make, tinker and experiment with high-tech and low-tech materials, ranging from electronics (microcontrollers, sensors and actuators) to softer components including textiles, paper, paints, food and organic/living systems. Hands-on, materially oriented work is grounded in theoretical concepts from HCI (Human Computer Interaction), design and information studies to prototype tangible interactive systems.

Extreme heat is a complex, serious public health concern that cities face today, and heat waves are likely to increase in frequency, duration, and intensity. Deadly heat has already affected many regions around the world and poses significant economic, social, and health-related challenges. This project-oriented course is an introduction to the topic of heat and the challenges that it creates for existing and future cities. How do urban heat islands and cool islands form? How can heat be exacerbated or mitigated through urban infrastructure and design? What is the role of shade? We explore this ¿hot¿ topic in 3 dimensions: heat as it can be sensed by biometeorological instrumentation, heat as it is experienced by humans, and heat as it can be modeled using microclimate simulations.

Introduces quantitative techniques as applied to problems in the life and social sciences. Includes challenges like understanding the complexities of the human genome or the implications of globalization for infectious disease, human health, and economic stability.

Examines writings, speeches and texts that provoke radical or even revolutionary social change. At its core, this course asks: What is the radical and what does it do? How do radical writings function as texts, speech acts, inspirational documents, testimonies, accounts of madness, frightening moments, calls to arms, peacekeeping entities or speaking truth to power? Examines injurious speech and provocative writings that span a range of social movements and topics, including radical feminism, radical queer, Black power, indigenous rights, art and performance, anti-technology, animal rights, violence, madness and revolutionary resistance.

Basic aerodynamics, incompressible/compressible airflow, wind tunnel testing, wing theory; analysis of aircraft structures; properties and applications of materials, and aircraft systems.

Theory and performance analysis of gas turbine and reciprocating aircraft engines. Engine accessories, systems, and environmental control.

Examines historical and contemporary issues facing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

Historical, technical, theoretical, environmental, and professional issues in architecture.

Develops awareness of Arabic culture and Islam. Covers a variety of cultural topics, including family, status of women, food, music, and Islam.

Addresses Muslim women scholars' argument that it is not the religion but the patriarchal interpretation of the Quran that have kept Muslim women oppressed.

Upper-level introduction to a variety of issues in contemporary art theory. Over the course of the semester, students travel through a different thematic segment each week. Topics covered include globalization, activism, relational aesthetics, art and ecology, as well as other themes that have found increased relevance as new art forms, media and theory proliferate in the 21st century.

Current global health crises, challenges; tools for describing health and disease; ecological, cultural, social, historical, political-economic factors; comparative health systems.

Introduces concepts and methods of sociocultural anthropology, with illustrative materials from a variety of communities in a globalizing world. Explores the concept of culture and examines a variety of social, political and economic dimensions of how humans organize their lives.

Cross-cultural analysis of the economic, social, political, and religious factors that affect women's status in traditional and modern societies.

Archaeological and historical study of the three best-known ancient cultures of Mesoamerica and South America.

Uses the case of food to explore how culture shapes human well-being, including the impact of political-economic systems on what we have and chose to eat.

From perspectives of anthropology and allied fields, explores critical, social justice, and ethical issues in health care, research, and disparities. Focuses on vulnerable and special populations.

Using the fundamentals of economic anthropology, investigates how culture shapes our relationship to money and decision making. Provides a foundation for thinking about how production, exchange and consumption can be explained by looking at human behavior, thought and culture, and encourages students to apply anthropological knowledge to real-world situations.

Examines the causes of disasters, such as famines and pandemics, throughout human history. Explores cases in which social responses to disaster have helped people survive or led to their demise. Through hands-on activities, students gain experience with popular tools to understand human responses to disasters.

Analyzes how humans use exogenous chemicals to change psychology, biology and behavior, and what positive and negative consequences this has for human health. Explores how such chemical technologies arise through cultural evolution, how societies decide what are appropriate and inappropriate uses of such technologies, how these technologies change what is considered normal biological functioning and behavior, and how these technologies shape human health. Through this substantive topic, introduces basic concepts and tools in two related fields--medical anthropology and epidemiology. A consistent focus in the course is developing tools that can be applied to improve the provision of care and health care policy.

Offers a global survey of ethnobotany, the study of the uses of plants by people. Integrating botany, anthropology and archaeology, students learn about the roles plants have played as foods, tools, medicines and foci of religious devotion and ritual experience across human history.

This multidisciplinary course examines the elements of modern food systems and current ethical issues regarding food production, distribution and consumption. Also provides a foundation for investigating the effects of social inequality in food systems and global and local responses to address those challenges.

Examines the relationship among global policy, population dynamics and human health. Learn about what quantitative indicators (i.e., measures) can tell us about the scope, distribution and determinants of population health problems. The population focus organizes the course according to the broad domains of fertility, morbidity and mortality.

Explores the impact of globalization on local societies and cultures by focusing on the international migration of peoples, the global expansion of capitalism and global mass media and popular culture. Examines both the socioeconomic causes and consequences of globalization, as well as how local peoples around the world have been affected by, participated in and resisted the forces of globalization.

This course will examine the nexus between race/ethnicity, class, and the status of the built and natural environments. The class will explore the proposition that Latino and other ethnic minorities and socio-economically disadvantaged groups bear a disproportionate burden of environmental pollution and its health consequences. Key topics to be considered during the semester include environmental racism, vulnerability and resilience, community organizing, and climate change. Considerable attention will be paid to community-based efforts to deal with environmental problems affecting Latinos in Arizona.

Direct investigations of society, ecology, and health in international settings.

Critical examination of citizenship, national belonging and identities by examining contemporary social issues and discourses from global and comparative perspectives. Aims to understand complexities of national belonging that go beyond legal, formal citizenship, such as how cultural, racial/ethnic, class and gender differences challenge the limits of national citizenship. Explores case studies that show how members of different societies demonstrate their positions as legitimate national citizens in different and often conflicting ways, especially in order to defend social justice and human diversity.

Role of culture in health, illness, and curing; health status, provider relations, and indigenous healing practices in United States ethnic groups.

Covers topics of immediate or special interest to a faculty member and students.

Explores key concepts in Western and non-Western thinking now intersecting in the Anthropocene to influence human interactions with and descriptions of Nature. Humans may protect Nature, but simultaneously use/overuse resources and drive change in social-ecological systems. Examines evolving assumptions about Nature, values/world views, progress, change, uncertainty, rationality, knowledge, tradeoffs and control/management, using a range of theoretical lenses (e.g., environmental/ecological/historical anthropology, culture, geography, ecology, economics, institutions, economic development, complex systems and sustainability science). Also studies a set of iconic Human-Environmental challenges and examines how theories and assumptions explain behaviors and human, ecological and policy outcomes. In turn, focuses on lessons that emerge for interdisciplinary scholarship. Encourages students to apply methods, concepts and theories to their evolving research questions.

Explores changing organization of pre-Columbian civilizations in Mesoamerica through interpretive issues, such as regional analysis, chiefdoms, urbanism, and exchange.

Physical anthropology and archaeology. Evidence and processes of human evolution and of culture change. Primates. Fossil hominids and their tools. Race, variation, and heredity. Environment and human biology. Prehistoric culture and society.

Covers epidemiologic methods for the control of conditions such as infectious and chronic diseases, mental disorders, community and environmental health hazards, and unintentional injuries. Other topics include quantitative aspects of epidemiology, including data sources, measures of morbidity and mortality, evaluation of association and causality, and study design. A background in basic biology and a basic understanding of the principles of human diseases helpful in succeeding in this course.

History of discoveries and changing interpretations of human evolution. Earliest ancestors to emergence of modern humans. Humanity's place in nature.

Integrates theory and practice of social sciences (including anthropology, demography, and human geography) to understand environmental contexts of health, particularly urban.

Students will learn about ASU's mission as the New American University, the importance and benefits of an entrepreneurial approach to problem solving, solutions to sustainability challenges, and the importance of social embeddedness. Additionally, through various course discussions and assignments, students will examine the concept of academic integrity and its potential impact on their future, gain awareness of the value of engaging in research activities, and learn about taking an interdisciplinary perspective.

Scientific principles relating to comfort and environmental control. Heat and moisture transfer. Solar/natural energies for heating, cooling, and lighting.

Theory, analysis, and application of passive and low-energy systems in order to maximize comfort and minimize energy consumption in buildings.

Computer simulation of building thermal behavior. Software review. Detailed study of selected simulation models using case study projects.

Heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. Loads, psychrometrics, refrigeration cycle, air/water distribution, controls, energy performance standards, and utility rates.

This course will employ advanced whole-building analysis tools in a computer lab setting, to develop insight into the rules of energy-efficient sustainable design.

This course will critically review several of the Green Building Practices that are currently in operation in the U.S. To date these practices have been primarily voluntary, however recently several regulatory standards have been developed. On the voluntary side we have; U.S. Green Building Council¿s (USGBC) Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) System, The Green Building Initiatives (GBI) Green Globes, International Living Future Institutes Living Building Challenge and the EPA¿s Energy Star. On the regulatory side we have the ASHRAE 189.1 Standard, International Green Construction Code (IGCC), California¿s CalGreen Code as well as several Federal Executive Orders. Students will come away from this course with a very good understanding of these practices and how they could apply them in practice.

This course is meant to provide an introduction to various renewable energy sources. Special emphasis will be placed on solar energy, Arizonas most plentiful energy resource.

Principles of biology. Cannot be used for major credit in the biological sciences.