Course Descriptions - USF Honors College: Honors Natural Sciences IDH 3350 - 003
Subtitle:
Water and Society for Sustainable Development
Day/Time: M/W 9:30 - 10:45 Professor: Eric Weaver/Adit Patel
Description:
This course will addresses water resource fundamentals, and how these affect the evolution, sustainability, and economic viability of societies. Students will be introduced to various case examples where drought limitations, water quality problems, catastrophic floods and conflicts over water allocations are damaging societies and international relations. Current articles and regulation will be reviewed and critiqued in context of current technologies. The course will then discuss modern and developing methods for alleviating such challenges in support of more sustainable societies.
Honors Natural Sciences IDH 3350 - 004
Subtitle:
Agriculturally Led Sustainable Development
Day/Time: T/R 12:30 - 1:45 Professor: Eric Weaver/Neil Singer
Description:
Seven major content areas within food and agriculture are introduced. Two focus subjects are presented for each topic. One week will be devoted to each topic subject. Readings will support historic and recent real world examples to place agricultural development and sustainable food theory in context for the five natural sciences. Lessons will focus on the interconnectedness of economy and society with natural science historical data, to examine the current trends, and forecasts. In class group projects will reinforce study goals. System dynamics will be illustrated, in part, by game theory exercises. Student reports and testing will require demonstration of linkages between key course themes using citations and original research within the natural sciences in support of agricultural development.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Tools of Change
Tools of Change: Power Smart Residential Behavioural Program:
Participants got more successful at saving energy in their
challenges, as shown by the following pie charts. The chart on the left
is for fiscal 2009 and the pie chart on the right is for fiscal
2014/2015. The dark green pie segment show the percentage of people who
were successful with their 10% challenges, while the light green
segments are those who had some savings but less than 10%.
Survey data suggest that participants gained the bulk of their
evaluated savings through changes in four main groups of behaviors:
space heating, space cooling, laundry, and dishwashing. Team Power Smart
members tended to outperform non-members across the full spectrum of
in-home conservation behaviours. Although some differences are
relatively small in percentage points, nearly all are statistically
significant.
Participants got more successful at saving energy in their
challenges, as shown by the following pie charts. The chart on the left
is for fiscal 2009 and the pie chart on the right is for fiscal
2014/2015. The dark green pie segment show the percentage of people who
were successful with their 10% challenges, while the light green
segments are those who had some savings but less than 10%.
Survey data suggest that participants gained the bulk of their
evaluated savings through changes in four main groups of behaviors:
space heating, space cooling, laundry, and dishwashing. Team Power Smart
members tended to outperform non-members across the full spectrum of
in-home conservation behaviours. Although some differences are
relatively small in percentage points, nearly all are statistically
significant.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Grants for next year
USF :: Humanities Institute: Humanities Institute Summer Grants
Each year the Humanities Institute awards up to ten, $5,000 grants to USF faculty to facilitate summer research. Funding for these awards is currently provided by the Office of Research, Innovation, and Global Affairs, after being funded by the Office of the Provost for several years. Summer grant recipients have a long record of producing innovative and compelling research.
Summer 2015 applications are being accepted until March 9, 2015, 5:00 p.m.!
Download the application now.
Click here to view the 2014 grant recipients and their research projects.
Click here to view previous grant recipients.
Each year the Humanities Institute awards up to ten, $5,000 grants to USF faculty to facilitate summer research. Funding for these awards is currently provided by the Office of Research, Innovation, and Global Affairs, after being funded by the Office of the Provost for several years. Summer grant recipients have a long record of producing innovative and compelling research.
Summer 2015 applications are being accepted until March 9, 2015, 5:00 p.m.!
Download the application now.
Click here to view the 2014 grant recipients and their research projects.
Click here to view previous grant recipients.
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