ESP 890: Modeling Environmental and Social Systems
ESP 890: Modeling Environmental and Social Systems
Fall | Mondays 12 pm – 1:40 pm | 286 Giltner Hall
Dr. Arika Ligmann-Zielinska (arika@msu.edu)
This course examines how researchers in different disciplinary fields and interdisciplinary settings model environmental and social systems. In addition to learning to effectively communicate strategies for modeling complex, interrelated systems, students will learn to understand and assess the application of select modeling approaches to the environment-social systems nexus. This course aims to provide students with the skills necessary to critically evaluate contemporary interdisciplinary research on the relationship between environment and social systems and how to incorporate critical tenets of these approaches in their research. Prerequisites for this course include ESP850 and two elective modeling courses: https://espp.msu.edu/education/modeling_certificate.html