SEBS General Honors Students are required to complete two honors seminars by the end of their junior year, at least one of which needs to be a SEBS Honors Seminar. Here are the seminar options offered by SEBS for Fall 2024:
Friday, 2-3:20pm
11:020:296
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One of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century is figuring out how we will feed the world while preserving our planet. This challenge is complicated by population growth, resource limitations, climate change, poverty, food insecurity, food safety, uneven distribution of food production, storage, and technology, as well as politics, policy and war. In this seminar we will ask: What is the history of feeding the world? How do we feed the world now, and what will it take to feed the world in the next 50 years? Through individual and group work, student-led presentations, as well as library-based research, we will explore different ways that people have come to understand these challenges and how students can become a part of the solution.
Note from professor: There will be one 80-min period per week in person. Additional work will be asynchronous and via Canvas.
Thursdays 2pm – 5pm
11:550:296
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Anette Freytag, Professor
Blake Hall 128
Cities, townships, and suburbs in New Jersey are heavily reliant on cars, which hinders the development of daily habits that support healthy and sustainable lifestyles, including opportunities for community interactions like chatting and playing. If you take this class, you will learn about the power of walking and listening, and understand how subversive and how enriching walking, listening, and observing can be.
Walking and listening can help you to develop the means to change your environment, and to practice a “landscape approach” to design and planning. This course will improve your ability to “read” your environment, and open up perspectives on how to build a society in which equity and sustainability are not just buzzwords. You will also gain deeper awareness of how the acoustic dimension of landscapes impacts your health and wellbeing.
To attend this course, students must commit to a regular walking/movement and observation routine — a practice which will also benefit your physical and mental health. Students will also be involved into the “Access Rutgers Gardens” initiative by the Rutgers AIR Collaborative The goal is to create a connection between Cook Campus and Rutgers Gardens and make this valuable resource accessible by foot, by bike and by wheelchairs.
Mon and Thur. 8:30-9:50am
11:573:296
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Research has captured multiple ways that our built environment shapes our health. One avenue through which we know this is the sophisticated use of mapping technologies to show previously unseen patterns across our communities. This seminar will combine hands-on computer exercises using geospatial technologies with lessons about planning and design tools for improving community health.