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ST-PoliGeog&PoliEcol/COVID-19 Semester: Fall Year: 2020 Subject Name: Geography Course Number: 397V Institution: UMass Amherst COVID-19 is a wide and profound socio-environmental process with political, economic, social, cultural and environmental dimensions and impacts. This course brings the tools and insights of political geography and political ecology to think critically about COVID-19 and people's responses to it. The course will include readings on the tools and methods of political geographers and political ecologists,up-to-date scholarly readings related to COVID-19, and a host of current news sources. Students will research impacts and responses in their local area, and in an interconnected or comparative other part of the country or world; and they will research and contribute to a response to COVID-19 that is about sustaining human lives and communities, while also promoting social and environmental justice. Instructor Permission: Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only. Crosslisted Section ID: 68843 Link to Campus Courses Schedule #: 68842 Course Sections Year - Any -2021202020192018201720162015201420132012 Term - Any -FallSpring Subject Course Number Institution - Any -Amherst CollegeHampshire CollegeMount Holyoke CollegeSmith CollegeUMass Amherst Section Number ST-PoliGeog&PoliEcol/COVID-19 Sect # Credits Instructor(s) Instructor Email Meeting Times Location 01 3.0 Eve Vogel evevogel@geo.umass.edu M W 2:30PM 3:45PM Fully Remote Class