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LSA Course Guide Search Results:
ALL, Fall 2008, Other Req/Grp = Theme_Sem (all)
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Fall 2008 LSA THEME SEMESTER: Energy Futures: Society, Innovation and Technology
The LSA Energy Futures theme semester is part of a University-wide Initiative on Energy Science, Technology and Policy, established by U-M Vice President for Research.
Coordinated by LSA's Center for the Study of Complex Systems and LSA Student Government, the theme semester will feature internationally renowned scholars in political science, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology, public policy and survey research, who will examine the cultural, historical and social aspects of energy policy.
The Theme Semester will highlight the historical importance of technological innovation in the evolution of society’s use of energy and society’s ready adoption of the labor-saving devices and machines rendered possible by harnessing the combustion of fossil fuels. An important sub-theme will be how technological innovation originates, how it drives economic growth, and how it comes to be imbedded in our culture and way of life. With technological innovation as a springboard, we will explore social innovation and opportunities for how social innovation can arise to become a central means to address “The Energy Problem.”
First-year students will read the book "Power to the People: How the coming energy revolution will transform an industry, change our lives and may even save the planet," as part of an energy-focused summer reading program.
The proposed activities in the Theme Year will include the following components:
- An undergraduate course on the social sciences of energy (CMPLXSYS 250 – Social Systems and Energy).
- An undergraduate humanities-based course on the theme “Energy in Literature”
- A public lecture series given by distinguished scholars, addressing themes of social sciences in energy
- Accompanying the lecture series will be a Community Reading project.
- A UM Art Museum/Natural History Exhibit Museum exhibit: a photographic portrait of energy in society
- Commission an original Theater production on a theme of energy and the social perspective.
- Undergraduate writing prize on the theme of social aspects of energy.
- Explore the creation of a student-created “Energy Café” focused on the social-cultural aspects of energy.”
- Create a student “University President’s Society for the future of energy and society”.
- Incentives for LSA social science departments for (mini )courses on aspects of energy and innovation diffusion.
- University-wide competition on finding innovative ways that the university, or units within it, can use energy more efficiently.
www.lsa.umich.edu/energyfutures/
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Title
Section
Instructor
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Term
Credits
Requirements
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AOSS
105
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Our Changing Atmosphere
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Liemohn,Michael Warren
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Reqs:
BS, NS
Other:
Theme
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AOSS
171
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Introduction of Global Change: Physical Processes
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Kling, George W
Instructor:
Poulsen,Christopher James
Instructor:
Allan,J David
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
Reqs:
BS, NS
Other:
Theme
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ARCH
423
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Introduction to Urban and Environmental Planning
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
D'Anieri,Philip James
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Other:
Theme
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ARCH
603
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Sem Arch History
Section
001,
SEM
Architecture and Image 20th to 21st Century
Instructor:
Zimmerman,Claire A; homepage
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FA 2008
Credits:
1 - 3
(Non-LSA credit).
Other:
Theme
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AUTO
533
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Advanced Energy Solutions
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Wooldridge,Margaret S
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
(Non-LSA credit).
Reqs:
BS
Other:
Theme
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AUTO
533
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Advanced Energy Solutions
Section
881,
LEC
Instructor:
Wooldridge,Margaret S
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
(Non-LSA credit).
Reqs:
BS
Other:
Theme
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BIOLOGY
110
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Introduction of Global Change: Physical Processes
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Kling, George W
Instructor:
Poulsen,Christopher James
Instructor:
Allan,J David
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
Reqs:
BS, NS
Other:
Theme
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CEE
230
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Energy and Environment
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Lastoskie,Christian M
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
(Non-LSA credit).
Reqs:
BS
Other:
Theme
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CHEM
105
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Our Changing Atmosphere
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Liemohn,Michael Warren
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Reqs:
BS, NS
Other:
Theme
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CMPLXSYS
250
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Social Systems and Energy
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Simon,Carl P
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Other:
Theme
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CMPLXSYS
281
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Applied Complex Systems: Emergent Challenges
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Page,Scott E
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
Other:
Theme
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ECON
330
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American Industries
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Adams,William J
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
Reqs:
SS
Other:
Theme
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ECON
395
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Topics in Economics and Economic Policy
Section
001,
LEC
Transportation Policy
Meets 9/2-10/23. (Drop/Add deadline=09/22/08*)..
Instructor:
Porter,Richard C
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FA 2008
Credits:
2
Other:
Minicourse, Theme
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ECON
431
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Industrial Organization and Performance
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Shy,Oz
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Other:
Theme
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ECON
462
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The Economics of Development II
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Thornton,Rebecca Lynn
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Other:
Theme
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EDCURINS
382
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Introduction to Environmental Education for Sustainable Development
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Zint,Michaela T
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
Other:
Theme
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EDUC
737
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Topics Educ Studies
Section
002,
SEM
Instructor:
Mesa,Vilma M
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FA 2008
Credits:
3
(Non-LSA credit).
Other:
Theme
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EECS
406
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High-Tech Entrepreneurship
Section
001,
LEC
Instructor:
Islam,Mohammed Nazrul
Instructor:
Dhar,Orijit
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
(Non-LSA credit).
Reqs:
BS
Other:
Theme
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ENGR
100
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Intro Engineering
Section
400,
LEC
DISORDER AND COHERENCE: FROM LIGHT BULBS TO LASERS.
Instructor:
Singh,Jasprit
Instructor:
Bowden,Thomas Edwin
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
(Non-LSA credit).
Other:
Theme
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ENGR
100
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Intro Engineering
Section
600,
LEC
Design for Energy Sustainability.
Instructor:
Thompson,Levi Theodore
Instructor:
Fowler,Robin Revette
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FA 2008
Credits:
4
(Non-LSA credit).
Other:
Theme
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