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WWU Faculty-led USA Learning Program: Winter Break, Hawaii- Exploring Great Cities: Honolulu- Sustainability in Paradise
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ENVS 368 Exploring Great Cities: Honolulu, Hawaii (4 credits)
Pre-departure Dates: (Background Readings & Discussion held on campus or via Zoom for non-residents):
- Saturday November 5 (10am-3pm)
- Saturday November 19 (10am-3pm)
- Friday Dec 9 (1pm-6pm)
- Saturday Dec 10 (10am-3pm)
Dates in Hawaii - December 11-18, 2022
Contact: See below for all contact information
Quarter of offering: FALL 2022 (Extends into Winter Break)
Join Dr. Patrick Buckley and Dr. James Miller, for this 4-credit, winter break course to Honolulu Hawaii. After preparation at WWU (in person for people residing in Bellingham or by Zoom for those domiciled elsewhere) you will spend 8 days and 7 nights on this field course examining sustainability in one of the world’s great cities.
COVID Information
All students and faculty participating in the Faculty-led Study USA program must be fully vaccinated. Exemptions will not be granted.This information comes from WWU’s Interim Policy: Requiring Proof of COVID Vaccine Status.
3. The University may designate additional requirements for specific in-person programs, activities or courses to have all participants vaccinated because the risk of contracting COVID-19 to the participants simply cannot be mitigated without jeopardizing the essential nature of the program, course or activity. This may impact an unvaccinated individual’s opportunity to directly participate in these activities
Additional COVID information can be found on WWU’s website. Click here
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Program Details
You will explore concepts and themes of sustainability through the triple bottom line the environment, the economy, and the culture. First by learning about the past, then exploring firsthand the present, and finally speculating about what could be the future.From the past you will learn about
- The physical geographic and geological setting and the arrival of the first humans followed by waves of new immigrants right up to the present,
- Introduction of new plants, traditional means of agriculture, and sustainable land use and fish farming
- The growth, flowering, and eventual overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii by colonial forces
- Hawaiian women asserting their rights and religious consequences
- The era of plantation farming and new groups of immigrants and discrimination
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Statehood and the end of the plantation era, “minorities” take control
- Unresolved social justice issues and land claims dating back to the Kingdom
- Current issues of food sustainability and phasing out fossil fuels
- Questions of an economy based on traditional tourism and its social and environmental impacts
- The expanding role of eco-tourism
- Invasive species
- Moving people out of their automobiles in the most congested city in the country
- Social Justice and the recognition of the rights of Native Hawaiians
- Climate change and necessary adjustments – new typhoon patterns, storm surges, droughts…
- 100% renewable energy by 2045
- Increasing local agricultural production for greater resilience and food security
- Balancing the economy with opportunities beyond tourism
DRAFT Schedule 2022.
ENVS 368 (4 credits)
Syllabus2022-ENVS 368 Exploring Great Cities-Honolulu.docx
Instructor
Dr. Patrick Buckley is a Professor teaching courses in human geography including courses with foci on the Pacific Rim and East Asia, the world economy, sustainability, energy and the environment. Research interests include currently building an economic model of the Hawaiian economy to estimate sustainability of the tourism economy and also the impact of a proposed 80% increase in minimum wage, planning for pedestrian and other forms of alternate transportation, creating sustainable learning cities, and grass root cross-border environmental management in our local Fraser Lowland.
Email: patrick@wwu.edu
Phone: 360-650-4773 (takes voice messages not TEXT)
Office: Arntzen Hall 222
Website: faculty.wwu.edu/patrick/
Dr. James Miller
Dr. James Miller (he/him/his/Professor) is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Indigenous Studies with a joint appointment in Canadian-American Studies, Salish Sea Studies and the College of the Environment at Western Washington University. A Kanaka Maoli scholar, architect, and urbanist, James runs a design lab, ’Ike Honua, centering Indigenous knowledge in building resilient communities through architectural and planning frameworks. Under the lens of climate change adaptation, James Miller’s research investigates the role of Indigenous Design Knowledge in the creation of culturally supportive environments through climate migration. Currently, James is investigating the transboundary placemaking of Indigenous communities from the Marshall Islands and the intersection of Oceanic Indigenous knowledge in building community resilience. Miller’s scholarship provides a space for Indigenous knowledge systems tied to the production of the built-environment to be recognized within fields dominated by western-centric world views. He holds a PhD in Sustainable Architecture from the University of Oregon with specializations in cultural sustainability and Indigenous design knowledge.
Email: mille630@wwu.edu
Phone: 360-650-2592
Office: Arntzen Hall 207
Website: https://www.ikehonua.org/
Email: mille630@wwu.edu
Phone: 360-650-2592
Office: Arntzen Hall 207
Website: https://www.ikehonua.org/
Cost
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