2009 Course Catalog

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Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development (ES900-2AL)

Program: Leadership Institute

BELL is a unique outdoor learning laboratory. The courses draw their curricula from many different disciplines: biology, chemistry, geology, environmental studies, leadership theory... (more »)

2 Weeks
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31

Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Field Ecology (ES900-2CL)

Program: Leadership Institute

BELL is a unique outdoor learning laboratory. The courses draw their curricula from many different disciplines: biology, chemistry, geology, environmental studies, leadership theory... (more »)

2 Weeks
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31

Brown Environmental Leadership Lab: Sustainable Development (ES900-2BL)

Program: Leadership Institute

BELL is a unique outdoor learning laboratory. The courses draw their curricula from many different disciplines: biology, chemistry, geology, environmental studies, leadership theory... (more »)

2 Weeks
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31

Forces of Nature: Hurricanes, Global Warming, and the Science of Weather (GE602-1EA)

Program: SPARK - Science for Middle School

The weather produces some of the most powerful forces on earth. Did you know that a single hurricane has about as much energy as 400 atomic bombs? In this class, we'll take a look... (more »)

1 Week
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31

Where Rivers Meet the Sea: Ecology of Narragansett Bay (BI601-2EA)

Program: SPARK - Science for Middle School

Did you know that for many decades coastal estuaries were thought of as unproductive swamps that were best filled and developed? Today, scientists know estuaries to be some of... (more »)

2 Weeks
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31

Environmental Ethics (PL911-3B)

Program: Pre-College

Environmental ethics is a subfield of philosophy that asks what our moral obligations are with regard to the environment. This course is divided into two halves. In the first... (more »)

3 Weeks
June 1
July 1
Aug. 1
Aug. 31