Natural Science 0181 - Sustainable Technology

The structures and systems of the Hampshire campus have both obvious and subtle effects on our lives as individuals and as a community. In addition, their design, construction, functioning, maintenance and eventual disposal have long-term effects on the environment and the local and global ecology. We will use these systems to examine a number of ways in which technological decisions can be evaluated in a larger context, and, in so doing, develop tools for evaluating proposals for "greening" our campus. Students will work problem sets, write two papers, read and present original literature to the class, and develop original projects in fields of interest. Evaluations will be based on class participation, problem sets and papers, class presentations and a report on the final project.

Physical and Biological Sciences Independent Work Quantitative Skills In this course students are generally expected to spend at least 6 to 8 hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time.