10. Environment & Society. This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to some of the major environmental issues of our time. We will explore some of the multi-faceted topics that are found in this field including: ecosystems and biodiversity, North/South environmental conflicts, air pollution, global warming, environmental ethics and philosophy, ecological footprints, and international policy.

Anth 12. Native Americans and Their Environments.

Hist 16. Environmental History.

Art 32. Environments Workshop.

Art 37. Environments, Arts and Action.

Biol 43. Introductory Biology.

Biol 44. Introductory Biology.

46. Environmental Awareness and Responsible Action. A course facilitated by advanced Environmental Studies majors in conjunction with the professor. We examine lifestyle choices and campus policies in relation to waste management, water usage, energy conservation, and plant and animal habitat. The course is designed to help students understand the pervasion and significance of ecological problems, as well as their causes and solutions. Theoretical investigations of biodiversity, sustainability, bioregionalism, environmental philosophy, and other topics will provide the foundation for informed action in which students will participate in addressing environmental issues at the Colleges and beyond.

48. A Sense of Place. A ‘sense of place’ begins with interactions between people and the world, an develops from the environment within which humans exist. This course engages students in the creative and intellectual process of developing an understanding of critical connections between person and place; between who we are and where we are.

50. Nature Through Film. We examine the ideas of nature and the environment and how they have been explored in film. From wildlife documentaries, to popular dramas of environmental struggles, to cult classics and Disney's animated visions of nature, the human-nature relationship has been depicted through film to transmit particular views of the world. We view and study films, read relevant theory, and actively critique ways in which our worldview has been shaped and impacted by cinema.

Biol 62L. Environmental Science.

Biol 64L. The Living Sea.

Chem 70L. Land, Air, and Ocean Science.

70L. Topics in Environmental Science.

74. California Landscapes: Diverse Peoples and Ecosystem. Explores the diverse ecological and cultural landscapes of California, examining how different groups (Native American, Hispanic, African-American, Asian, and European), have transformed California’s rich natural resources. Topics include: Native Americans of the Los Angeles Basin and the Redwood Forests; Spanish missions; African-American miners in the Sierra; and Chinese and Japanese farmers.

Phys 79L. Energy and the Environment.

85. Social Justice and Natural Resources. Explores the relationship between environmental protection and social justice. Topics include: environmental racism and toxic waste sites in African-American communities; the removal of Native Americans to create national parks; conflicts around nature reserves in parts of Africa and Asia; Hispano land conflicts in the southwest; farmworkers’ exposure to pesticides.

Post 93. Policy Analysis.

94. Building Sustainability: Environmental Assessment at Pitzer College. This course, which provides a hands-on opportunity for students to perform an environmental assessment of Pitzer College, focuses on basic sustainability issues in the “built environment,” including energy, water, landscaping, storm water, solid waste, air emissions, greenhouse gas emissions, urban heat island effects, etc, while introducing students to the basic tools for conducting integrated, measurable and quantifiable assessments of sustainability.

Art 103. Environments Workshop.

104. Doing Natural History. Students will do natural history as we make use of the Pitzer Arboretum and the Bernard Field Station to study ecosystem processes and draw and photograph plant communities. Introduces students to natural histories completed by early naturalists and to the complicated role naturalists played in colonial expansion and the development of biological theories.

Anth 110. Nature and Society in Amazonia.

130. Human Ecology in the Neotropics.

135. Plants and People. Plants play an important role in nearly all areas of human activities and are the basis of human culture. Topics to be covered include plants used for food, medicine, clothing, shelter and poisons, past and present uses of indigenous and introduced plants by Native Americans, current uses of plants growing in California and sustainable plant communities. Course activities include field trips, field identification, and preparation and consumption of certain plants.

137. Plant Classification and Adaptations to the Environment. Plant identification is used as the basis for learning fundamentals of plant diversity, classification, and adaptations. Topics addressed include fire ecology, effects of increasing carbon dioxide levels, impacts of agriculture, conservation, and other subjects relevant to interactions of human populations with the plant world. Classes include frequent field excursions.

140. The Desert as a Place. An interdisciplinary investigation of the desert environment as a place, with some emphasis on Australia and the American Southwest. Correlations between natural and cultural forms, histories, materials, motives, and adaptations will be studied. Topics to be considered will include structural and behavioral adaptations in the natural and cultural ecologies; climate, geomorphology and architectural form; taxonomy, desert flora and fauna and their cultural uses; and various ramifications of the interaction between the desert ecology and cultural consciousness in arid zones.

141. Progress and Oppression: Ecology, Human Rights, and Development. This class is concerned with the state of tribal peoples and ethnic minorities around the world. Particular attention is given to environmental problems and their effects on diverse peoples. We explore case studies of the cultural and environmental consequences of rainforest destruction, tourism, energy development, national parks, and war. We critique programs to assist oppressed peoples and the environments which sustain them. Participants are asked to choose a geographical, cultural, and topical area and make recommendations particular to the problems and the needs of that region.

143. Exhibiting Nature. An exploration of how natural history and anthropology museums, botanical gardens, zoos, national parks, and the like present a view of nature and human societies.

144. Visual Ecology. This course explores how ecological insights, issues, and concerns are investigated, illuminated, and manipulated through visual media. Examples include nature photography (both fine art and documentary), documentary films, and photographic essays.

146. Theory and Practice in Environmental Education. Students are trained in principles of environmental education, and serve as instructors to children from elementary schools in Pomona and Claremont. Participants work in teams to develop and teach effective environmental curricula at the Bernard Biological Field Station. In addition to teaching environmental ethics, local ecology, and critical ecological concerns, course participants serve as role models of environmental sensibility and community involvement. Enrollment is provisional until after the first class meeting when course applications are distributed.

147. Community, Ecology, and Design. This course is geared toward envisioning and creating an ecological future. We study aspects of community planning, architecture, urban design, and transportation in an exploration of alternatives to current patterns of social living. Combining ecological design principles and social concerns, this course offers environmental perspectives, concrete examples, and practical experience for making our communities socially healthy and ecologically benign.

148. Ethnoecology. This course investigates the ecological priorities and concepts of various peoples, from so-called "fourth world" hunters and gatherers to "first world" scientists. What we isolate and consider as ecological knowledge includes those aspects of culture that relate to environmental phenomena directly (e.g., resource exploitation) and indirectly (e.g., totemic proscriptions). Thus, this ecological knowledge affects subsistence and adaptation. Ethnoecology-the study of cultural ecological knowledge-begins, like the science of ecology itself, with nomenclatures and proceeds to considerations of processes. In this course we study beliefs about the relationship between humans and the environment as expressed in both Western science and the traditions of Native peoples, and we explore where these cultural systems of knowing intersect and diverge.

149. Ecology and Culture Change. This course studies relationships between changing natural systems and changing socio-cultural systems. We will investigate the approaches to ecological and social dynamics (change, degradation, evolution, revolution), with a focus on the factors which link ecological and human processes. Theoretical and applied perspectives on change will be studied at both the micro and macro levels. Emphasis will be placed on evaluating and understanding how peoples create and respond to change. Global issues of ecology and intercultural communication will guide our inquiries.

150. I Read the News Today, Oh Boy. A seminar examination of how environmental issues are portrayed in the news media.  Specific issues will be determined by the current news, but general concerns include representation of the environment, habitat destruction, consumerism, development, environmental justice, politics and the environment, local and global topics, media bias, and environmental perception.

Biol 146L. Ecology.

Biol 145. Evolution.

Biol 155. Animal Behavior.

Biol 159. Natural Resource Management.

162. Gender, Environment and Development. Examines the intersection of theories of environmental degradation, economic development and gender. Social theories to be examined include: modernization theory, dependency and world systems, women in development vs. women and development, cultural ecology, eco-feminism, political ecology and feminist political ecology, gender and the environment, and population.

Anth 164. North American Archaeology.

Anth 168. Humans and Their Environments: The Prehistoric Perspective.

Biol 169. Marine Ecology.

Biol 176. Tropical Ecology.

Biol 180L. Neotropical Ecology.

Econ 172. Environmental Economics.

Post 176. Environmental Policy.

179. Worldview and Natural History. This seminar strives to increase understanding of how worldviews are situated in the landscape, and how indigenous cosmologies function as storehouses of critical knowledge of the natural world. Students will engage in substantive, collaborative research on a selected topic. Areas of focus include symbolic systems, traditional ecological management, Aboriginal Australia, and Botswana.

Post 181. The Politics of Water.

199. Senior Thesis.

See also, at Pitzer and the other consortium colleges, appropriate courses in Anthropology, Biology, Economics, Environment, Economics and Policy, Environmental Analysis, Geology, Government, International and Intercultural Studies, Political Studies, and Science Technology and Society.