AMST 406
Environmental Planning Workshop: Community Project Experience
Fall 2024
Division II
Cross-listed
ENVI 402
Class Details
In this class you apply your education to effect social and environmental change in the Berkshires. Students work in small collaborative groups to address pressing issues facing the region. Class teams partner with community organizations and local & county governments to conduct applied research and to develop solutions. Students will learn experientially and contribute to the community. The field of environmental planning encompasses the built environment (eg: housing, zoning, transportation, renewable energy, waste, neighborhood design), the natural environment (eg: farmland, ecosystems, habitat, natural resources, air and water pollution and climate change), and the social environment (eg: spatial geography, racial zoning, recreation, placemaking, ecojustice, food security, and public health). Skills taught include land use planning, community-based research, basic GIS mapping, developing/conducting surveys, interview technique, project management, public presentations and professional report-writing. The class culminates in presentations to the client organizations. Class hours include time for team project work, client meetings and team meetings with the professor. Recent project topics: https://ces.williams.edu/environmental-planning-papers/
The Class:
Format: seminar/conference; The weekly conference session (1 hour) is dedicated to site visit field trips, team project work, client meetings and team meetings with professor.
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 1286
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 16
Expected: 16
Class#: 1286
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
Response papers (three 1-page papers), in-class exercises, class discussion, small group work, public meeting attendance, project work, final report (due in segments during semester) and final presentation.
Prerequisites:
ENVI 101 recommended or instructor permission; open to juniors and seniors.
Enrollment Preferences:
Environmental Studies majors and concentrators, American Studies majors, Maritime Studies concentrators.
Unit Notes:
Course fulfills senior seminar requirement for Environmental Studies Majors & Environmental Studies Concentrators. American Studies Space & Place elective. Course is an Environmental Studies Concentration elective (ENVI Policy and ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science) and Environmental Studies Major elective.
Distributions:
Divison II
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
AMST 406 Division II ENVI 402 Division II
AMST 406 Division II ENVI 402 Division II
Attributes:
AMST Space and Place Electives
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVI Environmental Policy
ENVI Senior Seminar
EVST Senior Seminar
EXPE Experiential Education Courses
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVI Environmental Policy
ENVI Senior Seminar
EVST Senior Seminar
EXPE Experiential Education Courses
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AMST 406 - 01 (F) SEM Environmental Planning Worksho
AMST 406 - 01 (F) SEM Environmental Planning WorkshoDivision IIW 1:10 pm - 3:50 pm
Class of '66 Env Ctr Room 1041286OpenNone -
AMST 406 - 02 (F) CON Environmental Planning Worksho
AMST 406 - 02 (F) CON Environmental Planning WorkshoDivision IIT 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
Class of '66 Env Ctr Room 1041287OpenNone -
AMST 406 - 03 (F) CON Environmental Planning Worksho
AMST 406 - 03 (F) CON Environmental Planning WorkshoDivision IIR 1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
Class of '66 Env Ctr Room 1041288OpenNone