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UNI Environment, Technology, and Society Capstone (Southern Italy) Dr. Chad Heinzel

Syllabus 2012

Lifestyle Challenge - Due in April

Itineraries plus packing list

June 2012

 

Sicily

 

 

Homework

Lifestyle Challenge - Due in April

The on-line group should be able to down load the documents write in answers and e-mail them back to me @ chad.heinzel@uni.edu.

Week 1 Welcome and Logistics

Week 2 No Class MLK Day

Week 3 Christopher Smith - Theme Archaeology of Western Sicily

Activity for week 3 Elymian Survival

Week 4 and 5 Jared Diamond - Collapse - A Tale of Two Farms

 

Week 6 Podcasts

Fragility and the Evolution of Humanity - NPR Being - Host Krista Tippett interviews Xavier Le Pichon Oct. 7, 2010, Very Intersting, Click here to learn more! Please write a summery of the interview (no more than one page) and pesonal reflection (no more than one page). *You may click and listen on your computer or right click and 'Save Target As' to download the mp3 to your computer then to a personal mp3 player

Week 7 - Walter Alverez - The Mnts. of Saint Francis - An Invitation to Rome. We will have a short quiz over this weeks reading during the first 10 to 15 minutes of class (next week)...

Week 8 - The Cosa Nostra and thier relationship to environmental sustainability

Week 9 - Wine, wheat, and olives a Mediterranean poly-culture rooted in geology and soil!.

Week 10 - NO CLASS Spring Break!!!

Week 11 - Developing a Land Ethic Aldo Leopold

Week 12 - Open

Week 13 - Open

 

Slide shows

Places to Explore!

 

Further reading...

Italian History

Lonely Planet

 

Geoarchaeology

Geoarchaeology of the Chuddia River Valley Western Sicily (Heinzel and Kolb)

Landscape Evolution during the Bronze Age (French, Heinzel, et al. )

Palaeobotany

1968 Earthquake

Erosion post-Roman

Sicily tectonics

 

Links to explore

Sicily

Lodging (Palermo 1 night)

The day the Earth shook

Dr. Heinzel's favorite 'ristorante' in Sicily

 

Egadi Islands

La Grotta del Genovese

Favignana

 

Aeolian Islands

Stromboli #1

Stromboli #2

Lodging (Lipari/Canneto 4 to 5 nights)

Lipari

 

 

Rome

BBC Historical Research

Roman Emperors

The British Museum

The Vatican