“Education is about finding out what form of work for you is close to being play—work you do so easily that it restores you as you go.” — Mark Edmundson
“The world that I should wish to see would be one freed from the virulence of group hostilities and capable of realizing that happiness for all is to be derived rather from co-operation than from strife. I should wish to see a world in which education aimed at mental freedom rather than imprisoning the minds of the young in rigid armor of dogma calculated to protect them through life against the shafts of impartial evidence.” — Bertrand Russell
Undergraduate lecture-based courses
GGR 209 – Economic Geography
GGR 325 – Business and Industrial Geography
GGR 329 – Environment and the Roots of Globalization
GGR 333 – Energy and Society
GGR 365 – Trade and Globalization
GGR 387 – Food and Globalization
JGE 417 – Research Project
GGR 419 – Geography of Food: Geographical Patterns and Environmental Impacts
GGR 489 – Special Topics in Human Geography – Cities, Industry and the Environment
GGR 489 – Special Topics in Human Geography: (Re)Localization of Food System
Undergraduate reading courses
GGR 489 – Long Distance Trade and Food Security
GGR 499 – Independent Research: Organic Agriculture, Food Security and Local Development
GGR 499 – Special Topics in Human Geography: The Origins of Modern Environmental Thought
INI 435 – Independent Research in Urban Studies: Cities, Knowledge and Information
Graduate courses
GGR 2150 – Advanced Seminars in Special Topics: The (Re)Localization of Food Production: Debates and Controversies
GGR 2150 – Geography of Food: Geographical Patterns and Environmental Impacts
JGE 1609 – Cities, Industry and the Environment
SSM 2020 – Sustainability Ethics
Some wise words from my friend Art Carden: “Dear Student: I Don’t Lie Awake At Night Thinking of Ways to Ruin Your Life” and some common sense from Jorie Scholnik on “5 things you should never say to your professor.”
The philosopher Justin McBrayer has a few thoughts on “Diverse Viewpoints, One Truth”