California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

IGE 223: Promise and Crisis
The Modern World

Instructors
Dr. Jim Manley, Director, IGE
Dr. Susan Kullmann Puz, IGE and Faculty Center for Professional Development

Promise and Crisis: The Main Idea	Evaluation Criteria	Class Group Web Sites
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Course Description: Themes:

Nationalism and internationalism; world wars and nuclear threat; concert of the global village; ecological dilemmas; modernism and post modernism in the arts. © Cal Poly Pomona Catalog, 1994-1995 Issues of the environment, communal organization, social interdependence, ethics & cultural perspectives; environmental sustainability and awareness; environmental education and civic responsibilities of youth.

Selections and Readings

Ways of Living: Cultural Consciousness and the Environment Jacobs, Richard C. (ed), Kendall/Hunt, Dubuque, Iowa, 1996 Selections include writings from Gregory Cajete, Henry David Thoreau, Peter Singer, Edward Goldsmith, Anita Gordon, and David Suzuki.

Related Web Sites

Environmental Search Engine Center for Regenerative Studies

Rainforest Action Network Greenpeace International

• Cal Poly Pomona's Sustainable Earth Exchange Link Information for Educators
• Biodiversity Forum
• White House: Sites on Global Climate Change

Provisional Syllabus

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Email questions, comments, suggestions, or greetings to: Dr. Jim Manley jcmanley@csupomona.edu or Dr. Susan Kullmann Puz, skpuz@csupomona.edu

Last updated November 17, 997