Topic for Fall 2017: Bicycling and Sustainable Cities--Health, Environment and Policy
Examination of bicycle infrastructure, attitudes, and use in urban environments. We will study cycling’s role in transportation, recreation, environmental quality, and public health via case studies from around the world, but with a particular focus on the Fox Cities Region and the state of Wisconsin. Learning will progress through field trips, guest speakers, readings, and frequent class discussions. Students will complete community-based learning projects in groups, in addition to short writing assignments.

Topic for Winter 2018: Sick Cities
This course will explore some of the environmental challenges of densely populated urban areas, particularly the contamination of soil, air, and water systems. We will investigate how those systems came to be polluted, what the impacts are of that contamination, and ways that they might be remediated. We will be discussing the environmental chemistry, human and environmental health, and environmental justice issues relating to environmental problems facing cities all over the world.