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| Title | Offering | Standing | Credits | Credits | When | F | W | S | Su | Description | Preparatory | Faculty | Days of Week | Multiple Standings | Start Quarters |
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Paul Pickett
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Program | JR–GRJunior - Graduate | 4, 8 | 04 08 | Evening | Su 12Summer | The United Nations has declared the access to affordable, clean water to be a human right. Yet around the world billions of people cannot exercise this right. In addition people in the developing world often face challenges of drought, floods, and degradation of aquatic ecosystem services. This class explores the challenges of water in developing countries, emerging issues, and potential solutions. Issues to be explored include Integrated Water Resource Management, governance, privatization, gender equality, social justice, climate change, water security, and appropriate technology.Graduate students and undergraduate students registering for 4 credits will explore these topics in in the first session. Undergraduate students registering for 8 credits and graduate students (still as part of their 4 credits) will expand on the class work from first session by participating in a sustainability field study in El Salvador—a 7-day field trip to the Jiquilisco Bay region with an EcoViva ( ) delegation. Participants will live in the communities and learn about local development programs including flood preparation and recovery, sustainable agriculture, water supply infrastructure, community organizing and youth development, and environmental management (mangrove ecosystems and sea turtle conservation).Students wishing to enroll in the second session field study in El Salvador will need to pay a non-refundable deposit prior to June 1, 2012. If a minimum enrollment of seven students in the second session is not attained, the field study will be canceled.For more information, see the and . | Paul Pickett | Mon Wed | Summer |