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Academic Programs
Expanding the opportunities for students to learn about sustainability from a variety of perspectives.
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The University has developed an internal system to identify sustainability-focused and related courses throughout our catalog. This system has identified hundreds of courses across all disciplines which the Sustainability Council is using in the development of interdisciplinary degree programs in sustainability. Currently, students have a variety of options for studying sustainability at UofL, including:
Graduate Degree Programs
- Interdisciplinary Masters in Sustainability
Beginning in Fall 2015, UofL offers graduate students from all backgrounds a unique opportunity to study the full range of issues in sustainability through a new Masters in Sustainability degree program housed in the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies. The official degree designation will be a Master of (Arts or Sciences) in Interdisciplinary Studies: Concentration in Sustainability. The Sustainability Council has crafted this new program with the participation of the following departments and university units: College of Arts and Sciences (Departments of Anthropology, Biology, Communication, Fine Arts, Geography and Geosciences, History, Sociology, Urban and Public Affairs), Brandeis School of Law, Public Health and Information Sciences, and Speed School of Engineering. The goal is to prepare students to address complex regional, state, national and global challenges posed by the intersection of human exponential growth and increasingly limited resources that support society.
Turning Green Degrees into Sustainable Careers (Affordable Colleges Online)The academic objectives of the program include:
a) to promote student understanding of sustainability principles and how they connect social, environmental, and economic issues.
b) to promote student ability to explain how natural, economic and social systems interact to further or impede sustainable societies.
c) to provide relevant analytical tools so students can evaluate how local to global policies interact across spatial and temporal scales to affect built, natural and social environments.
d) to develop interdisciplinary thinking and skills in students in the field of sustainability such that they can identify emerging areas of need and formulate research questions that bridge at least two disciplines across the built, natural and social environments.
e) to train students to conduct research or engage in creative activities on sustainability through use of appropriate qualitative and quantitative methods.
f) to train students so that they can work in groups and demonstrate skills for consensus building on sustainability issues among stakeholders.
All students in this program will be required to complete 33 credit hours of courses and must produce a thesis or portfolio (determined by student's committee). All students will be required to take SUST 600 Introduction to Sustainability, and at least one course from each of three Core Areas: 1. Built Environment, 2. Natural Environment, and 3. Social Environment. Full details and application here.
- Masters Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis in Environmental Education
This degree is offered through the College of Education & Human Development to those individuals who hold a current teaching license. An Environmental Education Endorsement Program is also coming soon. The following courses below can be applied to either of these options, and to the Rank 1 requirements for area of emphasis credits:
EDAP 673-75: Introduction of Environmental Education (3 credits)
EDAP 604-96: Environmental Education Teaching Methods (3 credits)
For more details, contact the College of Education & Human Development
- Graduate Certificate in Environmental Engineering
- Graduate Certificate in Diversity Literacy
- Through the School of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Studies, students interested in exploring advanced studies in a field like sustainability which transcends established academic/institutional boundaries may design a graduate program of Interdisciplinary Studies in consultation with faculty and the Assistant Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies. A program for this degree must involve at least two academic departments/units and it must cross traditional disciplinary organizational structures and programmatic lines of study.
Undergraduate Degree Programs
- Undergraduates at UofL may pursue a Certificate in Peace, Nonviolence & Conflict Transformation Studies. Contact: Director Russell Vandenbroucke, 502-852-8444, r.vandenbroucke (at) louisville.edu.
- Major or Minor in Environmental Analysis (Geography & Geosciences)
- Through the Liberal Studies Program, undergraduates interested in crafting a coherent, interdisciplinary course of study can major in topics such as Environmental Studies and Activism, Green Studies and Earth Ethics, Eco Literacy and Sustainability, Environmental Change, Peace Studies, Pre-Environmental Law, and many more.
- The Social Change Minor is a great complement to any major for UofL students interested in gaining valuable experience for careers in social movements or for a lifetime of engaged citizenship. Core and elective courses help students to pursue their particular interests—for example, the environment, civil rights, politics, deindustrialization, labor, or war & peace—from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Courses in Sustainability
Our most recent inventory of sustainability courses offered at UofL is available here: UofL Sustainability Courses 2013-2015.
Below are just a sampling of the many sustainability-related courses taught at UofL across all disciplines! Explore all of the offerings in with UofL's Course Schedule.
***New Sustainability Courses for Fall 2016:
POLS 399-51 Activism in the Digital Age
Distance Ed / 3 cr. / Professor Matt Evans
How do we change the world? Over 100 years ago, Henry David Thoreau answered this question by suggesting Americans should vote with their whole ballot. This means utilizing the better part of politics – the aspect that could change the world in the face of impossible obstacles through all those activities outside the realm of voting called activism. This online course examines activism through the concrete tactics of activists in groups and social movements within and outside of the US. The class will draw on readings, videos, and other materials to empower students to change the world.
PSYC 404-02 Psychology of Interethnic Relations and Peacebuilding
MW 3:30-4:45pm / 3 cr. / Professor Melinda Leonard
A seminar in psychology that requires Instructor Permission, but is open to all - simply email a request to email@example.com. This course is intended to expose students to the theories (e.g., contact hypothesis, intergroup contact theory, social identity theory) and basic psychosocial elements of peacebuilding (e.g., trust, forgiveness, guilt, tolerance, empathy, anxiety, and depression) as they relate to interethnic relations around the world. Empirical readings and discussion will include an overview of the following: culture, race, ethnicity, identity, prejudice, discrimination, assimilation, acculturation, intergroup conflict, group responses / action tendencies toward interethnic / intergroup contact, and restorative practices in a multicultural world. The overall goal of this course is to provide students with a better understanding of the basic concepts of interethnic relations, restorative practices, and peacebuilding from both an American and global perspective, while delineating the contemporary psychosocial theories and empirical research related to this multidisciplinary field of study. Unlike most psychology courses which generally focus primarily on building knowledge and skills, this course is also designed to increase self-awareness and facilitate system-level change in regard to interethnic relations. Students will be required to complete a project for presentation on Peace Day in September and a final group project.
***New Sustainability Courses for Summer 2016:
UPA 680-50 Sustainable Action Workshop
Session III (July 6 - Aug. 9, 2016) / 3 cr. / Professor Brian Barnes
This new online course combines readings, podcasts, and videos in and about classical and contemporary sustainability theories with hands-on practice in sustainability research and manufacture. Students will focus course projects toward their individual interests, while learning about the foundations of sustainability theory and methods for applying it to design, agriculture, management, construction, systems, development, and other areas. The coursework includes readings by an international cast of authors from many disciplines, all of which will have something to add to a definition of sustainability that each student will create and support. Students will create short videos, participate in weekly discussion board activity, and discover, through research, interdisciplinary thinking, and sustainable action, the value of sustainability for their own lives and communities.
UPA 680-10 Excursion to San Francisco: The Liberal City: Success or Failure as Urban Policy
Session I (May 9-27, 2016) / 3 cr. / Professor John Gilderbloom
Why does San Francisco the most "liberal city" in the nation have so much success in terms of economic prosperity, clean air, water and soil, affordable housing, green transportation, historic preservation, sustainability, homeless policy, public art, architecture, and gay rights? Why does everyone want to live in San Francisco? Why San Francisco is considered one of the greatest cities on earth? What can we learn about the dos and don'ts of the nation's most liberal city? This class will help provide students "policy solutions" that cities like Louisville could enact to fight poverty, pollution, racial division and crime. Students will get to meet the leading thinkers and elected officials of this beautiful and joyous city who have enacted policies that create healthy, safe, affordable, just and sustainable policy. What is the secret sauce that makes San Francisco great? We will have six classroom sessions to discuss the books and research assignments before we leave (May 9-19) and we will stay in San Francisco May 20-27; our hotel/hostel is in the heart of San Francisco Union Square near cable cars, subway system, rail cars and ferries.
Sustainability Courses for Spring 2016:
POLS 399-4 / SCHG 302-4 Sustainability: Principles, Concepts, and Tools ***New
TTh 2:30-3:45pm / 3 cr. / Professor Chad Frederick
There are no prerequisites for this new course designed as an interdisciplinary survey of critical issues in sustainability studies. The primary goal is to equip students with the tools necessary to engage in critical assessments of sustainability as both a theory and as a practice. Does a policy which claims to be sustainable, actually increase sustainability, or does it, for example, merely "move the problem around geographically?" However, the ability to critique sustainability does not necessarily mean an ability to effectively wield sustainability for particular outcomes. This is the paradox between theory and practice. Thus, the secondary goal of the course is to enable students the ability to make use of sustainability as an approach to problem-solving. View the course syllabus here.
HSS 150-16 Eat, Move, Sleep ***New
TTh 10am-11:30am (Feb 18-April 19) / 1 cr. / Karen Newton & Katrina Kaufman
Students will learn and practice ways to eat, move, and sleep to support wellbeing and resilience from specialists in the Office of Health Promotion: Karen Newton, MPH, RD and Katrina Kaufman, MEd, CHES. Discover how small choices really do lead to big changes. The course will be instructed through the concepts and theories presented in the required text: Tom Rath's Eat, Move, Sleep.
PHIL 328 / SCHG 300-1 Environmental Ethics
MWF 11-11:50am / 3 cr. / Professor Avery Kolers
An examination of the moral status of the natural environment and ethical problems of human/environment interaction, including Environmental Justice and Global Climate Change.
ANTH 361-2 / SCHG 302-3 Sustainability: Anthropological Perspective
TTh 1-2:5pm / 3 cr. / Professor Jianhua (Andrew) Zhao
All too often, decision makers target growth, mostly measured by economic indicators, as the cure-all solution to a myriad of conflicts that exist in society. However, studies have shown that growth without consideration of the environment or social equity only leads to recurring crises. This course considers environmental, social, and economic challenges that we face from a different angle: How can we meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs? The goal of this course is to foster systems thinking and take a holistic approach in exploring theoretical and practical issues related to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. A major focus of the course is on ethnographic case studies on sustainability around the world.
***New Sustainability Courses for Fall 2015:
SUST 600 / PLAN 680 / UPA 680 / PADM 683 Introduction to Sustainability
Th 5:30-8:15pm / 3 cr. / Professor Daniel DeCaro
SUST 600 is a core requirement for UofL's new Sustainability Masters Degree Program in the School of Interdisciplinary & Graduate Studies. In preparation for the program, this course introduces students to the theory, principles, and practices of sustainability from multiple disciplines. The course will also help students identify the main problems or questions that will drive their careers, identify concentrations in the natural environment, built environment, and social environment, and find mentors that will guide their career development. The goal of sustainability is to ensure the greatest quality of life for all of humankind, now and into the future (Bruntland Commission 1987). In order to achieve this goal, society must rethink its approach to development and understand how to pursue its ambitions in ways that do not jeopardize the environment or our ability to solve important social, political, and economic problems in a fair and socially sustainable manner (IUCN 1980). This requires an understanding of diverse social, natural, and built dimensions of society, and their connections; it also requires expertise in approaching problems from multiple perspectives and in collaboration from experts from many different backgrounds. This course prepares students to address complex regional, state, national, and global challenges in the domain of environmental sustainability; provides vital exposure to the range of problems in sustainability; and facilitates multidisciplinary collaboration, laying the foundation for successful transition into leadership roles in sustainability.
BIOL 644 Advanced Global Change Ecology
TTh 1-2:15pm / 4 cr. / Professor Margaret Carreiro
In this course we will explore human causes of global-scale changes in climate, air and water resources, and biodiversity, and their impacts on people as well as approaches to address these problems that promote more sustainable and resilient societies. Humanity's technology, economy and growing population have brought us and all other organisms to the threshold of significant planetary-wide change. People now manage many of the earth's ecological systems, and scientists estimate that we shunt approximately 40% of all terrestrial primary production and >50% of the world's accessible freshwater supply towards supporting our species alone! In recent decades science has made exciting progress in understanding how human activities interact with physical, geological, chemical and biological processes that regulate our planet's environment on a global scale. We need to understand the science behind the effects we have on these interactive processes, if we expect to prevent, reduce or manage their unintended negative consequences. In this course you will learn more about how people are changing atmospheric chemical composition, land use (agricultural, urban), and "homogenization" of the world's species and the effects these changes are having on global climate, major elemental cycles, ecosystem functions, biological diversity, and human disease. In addition, you will learn how decisions made by individuals, governments, businesses and other social institutions cause and respond to these rapid environmental changes from local to global scales and how we can make different choices that reduce the negative impacts of our collective behavior on nature and ourselves.
LAW 903 Seminar in Land and Ecosystem
W 5:35-7:15pm / 2 cr. / Professor Tony Arnold
This interdisciplinary seminar focuses on an alternative method of planning -- adaptive planning -- that is more flexible, iterative, and decentralized than the typical up-front development of a static, comprehensive plan that could fail if conditions change or communities experience unexpected disturbances. Cities and communities need adaptive planning in order to improve their resilience to a variety of stressors, including extreme weather, flood, drought, economic shocks, unexpected population shifts, heat island effects, stormwater runoff and pollution, and the like. This course will not meet every week. During the first 6 weeks of the semester, students will participate in online course content on adaptive planning and resilience (video lectures, guided readings, discussion threads) and ALSO meet weekly in class to discuss this cutting-edge material in substantial depth. The online lecture will include presentations by experts in the field who are engaged in adaptive planning of land, water, and other resources, from all over the U.S. Students will identify a planning issue in a community and write a paper on whether the community's planning processes are adaptive and how adaptive planning processes can be applied to the community and its issues.
***New Sustainability Courses for Summer 2015:
LAW 839 Seminar in Water Resources Planning
Session I (May 11-15, 2015) M-F 8am-5pm / 3 cr. / Professor Tony Arnold
The interdisciplinary Water Resources Law and Policy Seminar for this Summer Term will focus on urban water issues. Students will work on writing a paper, which will be due near the end of June. This course counts towards the Land Use & Environmental Planning concentration in the MUP program and the credit will count towards both MUP and MAP degrees. In order to register, graduate students need to complete the Form for Graduate Students to Take Law Classes and submit it to Barbara Thompson, the Law School's Director of Student Records, at firstname.lastname@example.com
PADM 683 / UPA 680 / PAS 605 Cultural Competency In Action
Session I (May 11 – June 1, 2015) / 3 cr. / Professor Aaron C. Rollins
In order for public administrators to carry out their mission of serving the public, or community as a whole, they must have the skills to meet the diverse needs of all members of the population. Such skills are commonly referred to as cultural competency. Terry Cross defines cultural competency as, "A set of congruent behaviors, attitudes, and policies that come together in a system, agency, or among professionals and enables that system, agency, or those professionals to work effectively in cross-cultural situations. " A culturally competent system acknowledges and incorporates at all levels – the importance of culture, the assessment of cross–cultural relations, vigilance toward the dynamics that result from cultural differences, the expansion of cultural knowledge, and the adaption of services to meet culturally–unique needs. In this course, we will: Review relevant literature relating to cultural competency; Analyze agencies commitment to cultural competency; and Develop cultural competency policy solutions. Please email Dr. Aaron C. Rollins <firstname.lastname@example.com> with any questions regarding the course.
Sustainability Courses for Spring 2015:
BIOL 660 Advanced Ecology of Urban and Suburban Landscapes
TTh 1-2:15pm / 4 cr. / Professor Margaret Carreiro
Human activities profoundly alter distributions of organisms and ecological functions of natural systems, but in few places do they modify the earth's surface more directly and substantially than in cities. Landscape alteration associated with urbanization not only affect human quality of life, but also offers ecologists new arenas for addressing both basic ecological questions and issues of urgent environmental concern. These include predicting evolutionary, population, community and ecosystem responses to many global environmental change factors like habitat fragmentation, invasive species introductions, and air and water pollution. Urban expansion can provide a mosaic of new combinations of resources, conditions and species for examining the roles of direct and indirect interactions, threshold effects, feedback loops, habitat isolation, and disturbance, in stabilizing or changing the ecological systems that comprise urban green infrastructure. This course also addresses the importance of integrating the social sciences with the biophysical sciences if we are to holistically understand the functioning of cities and associated suburbs, and predict their likely responses to global environmental change. Therefore, this course will also deal with the topics of urban resilience, adaptation and sustainability.
Sustainability Courses for Fall 2014:
SOC 601-01 Environmental Sustainability and Social Change
M 2-4:45pm / 3 cr. / Professor Lauren Heberle
This graduate seminar will provide an overview of U.S. environmental history from both policy and movement perspectives. While our initial focus will be U.S. based, we will also examine the global picture when we delve into climate change. We will address key areas of environmental sustainability and the emergent solutions to the "Wicked Problems" associated with improving and saving our environment. We will do this from an interdisciplinary perspective with an emphasis on a variety sociological approaches to examining our world. Students are expected to have a basic understanding of social science research methods and theory and will be encouraged to bring other approaches to the seminar.
HON 341-05 Following the Fork
TTh 2:30-3:45pm / 3 cr. / Professors Russ Barnett & David Wicks
An interdisciplinary outdoor environmental education Honors Seminar in Social Sciences designed to get students directly involved in local watersheds through paddle trips on urban waterways and discussion of water quality and habitat issues associated with urban environments.
Sustainability Courses for Summer 2014:
UPA/PLAN 680-01 Introduction to the City: Planning, Public Administration and Urban Affairs
Session 1 (May 12- June 2, 3 week) / 3 cr. / Professor John Gilderbloom
A comprehensive overview of the city by looking closely at Louisville's political, planning and policy outcomes of decision making. We will spend time touring the city (walking, biking and bus) and learning about struggling and prosperous neighborhoods. No prerequisites required. Open to all graduate students and advanced undergraduates by permission of instructor.
UPA/PLAN 680-02 Planning, Hazards, and Sustainability
Session 3 (July 9 - Aug 12) / 3 cr. / Professor David Simpson
This course will explore the relationship of urban planning, ideas of sustainability, and issues in natural hazards and disasters. The role of urban planning and development has a tremendous impact on community preparedness and resilience, and further on sustainability of communities long term. A graduate level introductory approach to basic planning practices, as well as an overview of sustainability thinking and approaches. These concepts are then examined as they apply to natural hazards and disasters, looking at events such as Hurricanes Katrina & Sandy. These events (sea rise, flooding, typhoons, severe storms, tornadoes, etc.) are predicted to be on the rise in frequency and intensity as a result of climate changes. What are the key economic, social and political implications of where these ideas intersect? What are appropriate strategies at local, regional and national levels? What are the barriers and incentives to improve community sustainability and resiliency? No prerequisites. Open to all graduate students & advanced undergraduates by instructor's permission.
**NEW** Sustainability Courses for Spring 2014:
ANTH 361-01 Sustainability: Anthropological Perspectives (3cr.)
MW 2:00-3:15pm / Lutz Hall 232 / Professor Jianhua (Andrew) Zhao
All too often, decision makers target growth, mostly measured by economic indicators, as the cure-all solution to a myriad of conflicts that exist in society. However, studies have shown that growth without consideration of the environment or social equity only leads to recurring crises. This course considers environmental, social, and economic challenges that we face from a different angle: How can we meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs? The goal of this course is to foster systems thinking and take a holistic approach in exploring theoretical and practical issues related to environmental, social, and economic sustainability. A major focus of the course is on ethnographic case studies on sustainability around the world.
ANTH 601-75 Pollution, Health & Culture (3cr.)
W 5:30-8:15pm / Lutz Hall 232 / Professor Peter Little
This course explores the intersection of anthropology and environmental public health. With a focus on the pollution-health-culture relationship, we examine the place of environmental contamination in contemporary medical anthropology, the growing interest in the political ecology of health, the critical role of health in environmental justice struggles, as well as the importance of social structure and environmentally mediated political economy on health. The anchoring questions of the course include the following: Why is there so much controversy over the connection between pollution and disease? What are the implications of disagreements between lay publics living with pollution and public health experts investigating environmental health risk? Who defines which diseases are most important and which toxic substances get addressed? How is environmental illness politicized? What are the social, political, and scientific dimensions of contemporary environmental health movements?
PLAN 680-75 / PADM 683-76 / UPA 680-75 ST: Behavior & Urban Sustainability
Th 5:30-8:15pm / Urban Studies 123 / Professor Daniel DeCaro
The best laid plans for environmental sustainability often fail when planners and administrators do not account for the human dimension of the problem. Recycling bins are great, if people are sufficiently motivated to use them, and a comprehensive mass transit system could greatly boost air quality in the city, if decision makers in state and local government could be persuaded to fund such a progressive undertaking. In this course, students will be introduced to fundamental principles of human behavior needed to address these and other common behavioral obstacles faced during the design and implementation of urban environmental solutions. Students will also work closely with members of the community (e.g., Partnership for a Green City) to develop a behaviorally-informed solution to an important local urban social-environmental problem.
TA 352-01/555-01 Applied Theatre for Social Justice
T/Th 4:00-5:15pm / HPES 133 / Professor Russ Vandenbroucke
This course blends learning and doing. We will study selected forms of Applied Theatre that have been and continue to engage theatre makers and audiences in fostering social justice. These include, Theatre For Development (often used in the developing world), Theatre in Education (an English term for theatre schools and community centers often including teaching and social workers), and Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed, (which strives to help people understand their own agency to empower them to act against forms of oppression they experience). All of these use theatre as a social tool rather than an autonomous result. We will also study some playmaking techniques such as story circles, writing haiku, conducting interviews, and Augusto Boal's theatre of images. Students will eventually divide into ensembles that use applied theatre to address issues of their choosing, which will be performed for the department.
**NEW** Sustainability Courses taught Fall 2013:
M-W 4:00-5:15 pm / Humanities 101 / Professor Peter Little
Since its inception, anthropology has broadly dealt with "ecological" questions, including human perceptions of the natural world and the relationship between "nature" and "culture," as well as the ways human populations use culture as an adaptive mechanism to their habitats and ecosystems. More recently, "environmental anthropology" has grown as a specialization within anthropology, focusing broadly on the study of environmental conflicts and politics from an anthropological perspective. This course provides an introduction to environmental anthropology and explores real world concerns such as socio-natural disasters, climate change, biodiversity conservation, industrial hazards and pollution politics, environmental justice, natural resource conflicts, and the environmental costs of development and consumerism. We focus on environmental issues historically and cross-culturally, but with a primary focus on contemporary globalization and enduring structures of power.
Mondays 5:30-8:15 pm / Humanities 220 / Professor Peter Little
This course explores contemporary global environmental debates from a political ecology perspective. A strong focus within environmental anthropology today, political ecology has both drawn critical attention to the politics of natural resource use and control and informed our understanding of ecopolitical debates provoked by environmental change and plunder. We engage tough questions: what is the social and political constitution of environmental science and expertise; how do environmental science and technology shape social-environmental relations, and conversely how do social-environmental relations shape science and technology. The course draws on perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences to critically explore and discuss, among other concepts and topics, environmental knowledge production, neoliberal ecopolitics, sustainability, ecological modernization, risk society, ecosocialism, climate change, environmental justice, environmentality, and the complex and variegated ways in which these and other topics and concepts enliven the contemporary field of political ecology.
Tu/Th 4:00pm-05:15 pm / Humanities 219 / Professor Rodger Payne
Study of environmental and resource issues on the global level, focusing on the various implications of sustainable development. A global environmental politics class with an emphasis on climate change and resource scarcity. See Professor Payne's blog about this term's textbooks here.
Thursdays 5:30pm-08:15pm / CO236 / Professor Daniel DeCaro
Think of this as a course in "analyzing urban social-ecological systems" in order to develop tailored solutions for the specific social/environmental problems plaguing different urban environments. The unique social, political, economic, and biophysical factors inherent in different urban environments (e.g., Louisville versus New York) influence human behavior in important ways that need to be considered when designing effective solutions for environmental sustainability. In this course, students will learn how to identify, describe, and address these social-ecological differences using Nobelist Elinor Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework. Students will also have the opportunity to work with members of the community (e.g., UofL's Sustainability Council) to apply this framework to help develop a solution to an important local problem.
- New Spring 2013: PSYC414: Environmental Psychology (Dr. Daniel DeCaro)
- See a sampling of some of the Sustainability Courses offered at UofL in 2012.
- See a sampling of some of the Sustainability Courses offered at UofL in 2011.
- UofL Sustainability Courses offered 2009 (pdf)
- The Department of Urban & Public Affairs will now offers these NEW graduate-level courses:
Fall 2012
PLAN680/PADM680/UPA 683: Planning and Sustainability (will be offered on-line)
Spring 2013
PLAN625: Historic Preservation and Sustainability
PLAN 680/PADM680/UPA683: Urban Sustainability
Fall 2013 (proposed)
Legal Aspects of Sustainability
- The Honors program offers a variety of sustainability courses. Past examples include:
- Summer 2011: Global Issues and Sustainability: Focusing on Biodiversity, Water Quality and Energy
- Spring 2011: Designing Greener; Smart Solutions For A Sustainable Society
- Fall 2010: Environmental Communications; Following The Fork
- ANTH 352-01 Food and Body Politic
- PHIL 328/SCHG 300-01 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 305/SCHG 300-02 Environment & Global Justice
- SOC315 Environmental Sociology - Problem identification, policy formulation, and agenda implementation examined from an environmental and developmental perspective. Review of institutions, processes, and social conflict. Includes a voluntary community service component.


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Japan and the United States agreed Thursday to revise bilateral defense cooperation guidelines by the end of next year, for the first time in 17 years, to better deal with the changing security environment.
At the end of a "two-plus-two" security meeting in Tokyo, foreign and defense chiefs of the two countries also said the transfer of some of the US Marines stationed in Okinawa to Guam will begin in the first half of the 2020s as a way to ease Okinawa's burden of hosting the bulk of US military bases in Japan.
A joint statement said the ministers confirmed they will work to enhance ballistic missile defense capabilities, while urging China to "play a responsible and constructive role in regional stability and prosperity, to adhere to international norms of behavior."
Amid China's rapid military buildup, the ministers called on Beijing to improve "openness and transparency."
The latest revision is designed to meet new challenges in areas such as cybersecurity and space, coming at a time when China's increased maritime assertiveness has raised concern.
The statement said the ministers welcomed efforts toward realizing the joint use of US and Japanese facilities to "strengthen the Self-Defense Forces posture in areas, including Japan's southwestern islands," namely the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea.
The defense cooperation guidelines were created in 1978 at the height of the Cold War to specify the responsibilities for Japan's SDF and the US military in the event of a Soviet invasion, and were revised in 1997 to prepare for contingencies on the Korean Peninsula.
To enhance defense capabilities, the statement said the United States will deploy P-8 maritime patrol aircraft in Japan from December -- the first such deployment outside the United States -- and the unmanned surveillance drone Global Hawk from spring 2014.
The two-plus-two meeting comes as China continues to send patrol ships and airplanes to areas around the Japanese-administered Senkakus in apparent protest against Japan's effective nationalization of the islands, which China claims as Diaoyu.
Japan's security arrangements have been built on the long-standing alliance with the United States, which the ministers called in the statement "the cornerstone of peace and security in the region."
The two countries will meet security challenges "through close cooperation and a more interoperable and flexible force posture," the statement said.
From Japan, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera attended the meeting, while Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Secretary of State John Kerry represented the United States.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is trying to rework the country's defense posture by reviewing defense program guidelines to strengthen the SDF capabilities, and to lift a self-imposed ban on exercising the right to collective self-defense, or coming to the defense of an ally under armed attack.
The joint statement said the United States "welcomed these efforts" made by Japan and will "collaborate closely."
As sentiment against U.S. bases in Japan continues to run high, Japan and the United States discussed a series of measures for Okinawa, which hosts the bulk of those bases, and agreed to go ahead with the planned relocation of the Futenma Air Station from a densely populated area to an offshore area within the prefecture.
The planned relocation "is the only solution that addresses operational, political, financial and strategic concerns," the statement said.
On MV-22 Ospreys' deployment that has met strong opposition due to the tilt-rotor aircraft's checkered safety record, the ministers agreed to move some Osprey training flights out of Okinawa, including abroad, and to proceed with a bilateral agreement to return land occupied by U.S. facilities south of the Kadena Air Base.


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This paper presents a method for spatiotemporal segmentation of long image sequences of scenes which include multiple independently moving objects, based on the minimum description length (MDL) principle. First, a family of motion models is constructed, each of which corresponds to a physically meaningful motion such as translation with constant velocity or a combination of translation and rotation. Then, the motion description length is formulated. When an object changes the type of the motion or a new part of an object appears, the corresponding temporal or spatial segmentation is carried out. Ambiguous segmentation of two consecutive images can be resolved by minimizing the motion description length in a long sequence of images. Experiments on several real image sequences show the validity of our method
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For small businesses, collateral is taking center stage when it comes to grabbing the attention of banks as they begin to loosen their purse strings.
Companies that hold tangible assets like buildings or other types of property are getting a first look by banks, even when their cash flow and creditworthiness aren't as strong as businesses with less collateral.
BoeFly.com, which connects lenders to borrowers, says many of the 570 institutions that use its service are favoring loan applications from restaurants, hotels, manufacturers, retailers and real-estate companies, all of which are typically asset-heavy. "That doesn't mean they're getting the loans, but they are getting a look," says BoeFly Chief Executive Bobby Tannenhauser.
He says companies with less collateral—such as those in the information, technology or professional-services fields—are coming up short.
Banks agree that collateral is increasingly giving some small businesses an edge. Prior to the recession, banks were issuing "a great deal" of unsecured loans but they rarely do today, says Craig Calafati, senior vice president and national sales manager of Celtic Bank in Salt Lake City.
Underwriting metrics, such as collateral, cash flow and credit scores, are being monitored both by the bank managers and federal regulators, he says. So getting a foot in the door at a bank is "much more difficult" without collateral, says Mr. Calafati.
Andrew Fox, founder and CEO of Track Entertainment Inc., learned this the hard way. Late last year, he reluctantly sold portions of his New York-based media and entertainment company to private-equity groups and a former customer. He says it was his only choice after he failed to obtain a $10 million working-capital credit line.
Mr. Fox says the company had $29 million in revenue with about $5 million in investor debt in 2010, and it was profitable and growing, with $1.8 million in income. But he says he was turned down by 20 banks because the company doesn't own any tangible assets that could be used as loan collateral.
"I thought I'd played exactly by the book," he says. "It was very frustrating."
Many small businesses report similar trouble with lenders. Half of small businesses surveyed say it is harder to secure credit today compared with this time last year, according to Greenwich Associates, a research and advisory company that collects data for the financial-services industry. Only 15% of small businesses say the credit conditions have improved.
But businesses with collateral are also getting turned down. Some of the most asset-heavy companies are also the most bankruptcy prone, including hotels, auto dealers and construction-related companies, according to Sageworks Inc., an economic-research firm in Raleigh, N.C., that collects data on closely held companies.
Sherwin Patidar, a vice president at First Capital Bank in Chicago, says many small businesses that hold properties are still struggling in the lagging economy.
"What I see coming through, three to four times a day, is requests for gas station loans and I'm not touching them," Mr. Patidar says. "People have cut back and are not traveling as much. People are not doing the impulse buys inside the stores as much."
Some businesses that typically lack collateral are otherwise well-positioned to meet debt obligations. Based on BoeFly data, professional, scientific and technical services companies, along with management and consulting firms, all received below-average lender requests on the BoeFly site. But they also appear in the top-10 list of industries most likely to repay debts, according to Sageworks.
Such firms may have their own offices and equipment, but more importantly, they are considered recession-proof. Jana Rouble, vice president of Community South Bank in Knoxville, Tenn., says professional services, including doctors and dentists, are having success getting loans at her bank because they "will always be around and be needed."
The best-positioned companies for getting loans, however, appear to be those with collateral that are also posting robust sales, or are part of a well-established franchise.
For instance, Ted Ferkenhoff closed a $300,000 loan for an AlphaGraphics store in Flagstaff, Ariz., in August, after connecting with SunRise Bank of Arizona through BoeFly. AlphaGraphics, a printing shop that caters to businesses, is an international franchise with 260 locations in the U.S.
Mr. Ferkenhoff says the loan is secured by the print shop's equipment, plus he put up personal assets, including his home.
Now, he is building out his lease space and planning to open at the end of February. "It's fantastic, watching the business take shape," he says.
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The goal sounds simple -- to raise awareness about the genocidal conflict in the East African region of Darfur. But how do you do that among the more than 1,700 teenagers who attend Hudson High School? Answer -- you just start talking. That's how senior Liz Lampman began her effort late last year. Lampman said she learned about the conflict and genocide in Darfur through a television news report two years ago and has followed the conflict ever since. "I was shocked to think that it could be happening again.
Hudson Police Sgt. Marty Jensen says he plans to get back to helping his children with their homework now that he has finally completed his own. Jensen graduated with honors from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul last month and was named the class's outstanding student in the School of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. Jensen has been a member of the Hudson Police Department for 20 years, a sergeant since 1996, and he loves his job. So much so that he hopes to be chief someday. To get there he needed more than experience. He needed a college degree.
A burglar was caught in the act Monday, thanks to observation and quick thinking by a next-door neighbor. Ted Mathew Voerding, 39, of Rosemount, Minn., was arrested inside the residence at 520 Hunter Hill Road. Voerding, who was intoxicated at the time of his arrest, was found in a bedroom belonging to the homeowner's roommate, ransacking it. The neighbor had seen the man outside the residence. She watched as a woman who was jogging by stopped and the man went over to talk with her.
The Hudson Community Fund recently awarded $4,800 in grants to local organizations and charities, bringing the total of awards since creating the fund in 1999 to almost $100,000. According to fund board president Susie Gilbert of First National Bank, the idea of the Hudson Community Fund was to provide a way for residents, businesses and families to funnel their contributions and donations to organizations that support the community. Among this year's recipients are Community Action, Operation HELP and Bridge for Youth with Disabilities.
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Despite the hundreds of packages handled daily at Hudson's The UPS Store during this holiday season, one stood out to owner Alvin Snyder and his staff, and for good reason. It was full of the illegal drug known as "khat." The plant's leaves are chewed to induce an amphetamine-like high. Snyder called the Hudson Police Department just after lunch on Dec. 11 to report that his business had received a package earlier that day that he suspected contained illegal drugs. The man to whom the package was addressed was Abdi-Deeq Sheikh Ahmed Imankey, 27, of Minneapolis.
At a special Board of Education meeting last Thursday night, members passed a resolution that could save the taxpayers approximately $200,000 in interest on the $12 million bond issue recently approved for a new elementary school on Coulee Trail. The members approved issuing $9.5 million in bond anticipation notes before the end of 2006.
When Aasha Sunar arrived in Nebraska with her new husband, Peter Vitt, she couldn't speak any English but it didn't stop her from communicating. Eight years later she is a published poet and the author of "Untouchable Jivan, " a book of poems that documents her life growing up in Nepal as a member of Jivan, the untouchable class in this Hindu society. Sunar married Hudson High School English teach Peter Vitt in 1997 when he was a Peace Corps worker in the area where she lived in Nepal. She accompanied Vitt when he returned home shortly thereafter.
Helen McCombie said it was worth every minute of the 30 straight hours she spent ringing at a Salvation Army red kettle last week outside County Market. While the final total is not in, it looks like McCombie raised close to $22,000 during her marathon, including donations ranging in size from $2,000 to 25 cents. She started at 5 a.m. last Wednesday and stayed at it until 11 a.m. on Thursday.
The Hudson Police Department has released a surveillance photo of a man they believe was involved in the Nov. 29 armed robbery of an adult video store in downtown Hudson. They hope someone might be able to identify him. Around 10 p.m. the suspect entered Left of Center at 609 Second St. wearing a ski mask. The suspect pointed a gun at a store clerk and demanded money. The man fled the store with the money the clerk gave him, apparently removing his mask once outside. Police say the robbery was captured by surveillance cameras inside the store as well as an exterior mounted camera.


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348. Sandman
Jack Kirby spent many years working with the great Joe Simon (check out Joe Simon Week in the archives) in the Golden Age and beyond. Their final team-up, however, occurred in 1974, in one single issue– one that would become Sandman #1. It may be the weirdest comic either of them ever did, and it's amazing.
The Sandman is a superheroic guardian of the dream dimension who protects kids from nightmares. He keeps two living nightmares named Brute and Glob captive, and sets them free with the aid of his magic whistle when he needs help. He can transport himself to the real, waking world when needed, and carries magic sand that can put anyone to sleep. The plot of the original issue involves evil dolls made by dormant Nazis who are led by a crazy Japanese dude with a computer brain named General Electric. Only Sandman can save the day—! Strange indeed, but wonderful in its madness. It combined the insanity of 70s Simon with the insanity of 70s Kirby!
The book must have done well, because it led to an ongoing series, this time by Michael Fleisher and Ernie Chua. Equally ridiculous and brilliant, it involved such concepts and characters as the monstrous, Mojo-like Dr. Spider and– wait for it– zombie gorillas!
Kirby returned to the series with #4, working under scripts by Fleisher. From what I understand, Kirby wasn't a fan of his work on this series, but I think it's magnificent nonetheless. The Sandman found himself swept up in the dreams of one boy, Jed Paulsen, again and again, and helped save him from all sorts of menaces and nightmares. Almost similar to Marvel's Sleepwalker, which I also love, but far, far stranger. Heck, in #5, Jed's grampa is killed in a random sea monster encounter, and he's sent to live with other relatives, but still gets to team up with his buddy the Sandman to fight Frog People and stuff, and… Geez, it's a wild series.
The series ended after #6, though there was a seventh issue planned involving Sandman teaming up with Santa Claus to battle the Seal Men that appeared, in some versions, at least, in Cancelled Comic Cavalcade and Best of DC Digest. Don't believe me? See for yourself:
The Sandman is one of Kirby's more obscure works, and probably his most bizarre collaboration. He may not have been happy with it, but I am. Neil Gaiman liked it enough to re-use some of the concepts in his own Sandman series. I'd like to see some kind of collection of the series, myself.
I think it's ripe for a revamping, too. Something this insane deserves a new chance at life! Would anybody here buy a series about a colorfully-garbed guardian of the Dream Stream and his two nightmarish sidekicks protecting the subconsciouses of youngsters across the world? I would. Hmm. Maybe it'd be good for Vertigo…
Um, didn't they kill this Sandman off pretty thoroughly in Gaiman's Sandman series, and then again during Infinite Crisis? Of course, they could bring him back any time …
Did this ever come out in trade?
This is one I actually knew what it was before clicking below the fold. Kirby's Sandman rocks.
And not to be snarky, but considering Greg just posted a column talking about continuity porn, isn't Gaiman incorporating this Sandman into his series the height of continuity porn? I mean, most people had never heard of this character, even longtime DC superhero fans. I thought Gaiman's use was great, but I do feel that the same people will praise continuity by one writer and then condemn it by another.
I'm just babbling at this point, aren't I?
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Continuity is a necessary by-product of having a character in a shared universe. I think it's how you use it that matters. With Neil Gaiman's Sandman, it mostly is used to create layering that causes extra resonances if you've read the original sources (whether that be Kirby and Simon's Sandman or Matthew Cable or Prez)… the same way knowing G.K. Chesterton makes Fiddler's Green all the more fascinating.
In the case of the Kirby/Simon Sandman, Gaiman was pulling the late '80s revisionist trick of saying 'There was more going on than you knew' and pulling back the curtain to reveal, in effect, that the entire '70s Sandman series was a lie. Brute and Glob were really running the show and using the Sandman and Jed to develop their own dream realm. It's a crucial detail I'm surprised isn't in the main article.
(Also not in the article is the detail that in the comics there were two Sandmen: Garrett Sandford was the scientist who became the Sandman for the '70s series. Roy Thomas brought him back in the '80s for a couple of appearances and had former Silver Scarab Hector Hall adopt the mantle after he died in Infinity Inc. The amazing thing about the appearance in Gaiman's Sandman is that he took all this into consideration!)
I've never read Gaiman's Sandman, actually, and while I've read up on all the later Sandman retcons and revisions, I wasn't particularly keen to put them in this article, which is more of a celebration of the original series and concept.
I hadn't any idea a G.K. Chesterton analogue showed up in Sandman, either. Now I've got to read it (I just, you know, need 200 dollars to buy the series).
Okay, Bill… you haven't read The Invisibles OR The Sandman?
There are no words.
Well, I've read two volumes of Invisibles…
If you'd like to give me the 320+ dollars to purchase the entire set, you're more than welcome to.
Some libraries carry The Invisibles, Bill. That's how I read the majority of the series.
Most of the libraries around here don't even know what a graphic novel is. I might be able to bum some copies off of acquaintances.
One day, I shall purchase them.
i'm not even sure you are qualified to talk about comics if you have never read Gaiman's Sandman
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Published: Thursday, March 3, 2011 at 7:45 a.m.
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Amanda "Nikki" Day, 26
MILL SPRING — Amanda Nicole "Nikki" Day, 26, of Nature Lane, Mill Spring, died Tuesday, March 1, 2011.
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Vectronix will provide the handheld precision targeting solutions to support the Handheld Precision Targeting Devices (HHPTD) solicitation awarded on July 3rd, 2012. The HHPTD, sponsored by the U.S. Army Rapid Equipping Force (REF), provides dismounted observers the ability to rapidly locate ground targets with a high degree of accuracy allowing target engagement with precision munitions.
As part of the HHPTD program, Vectronix will also deliver an equal amount of STERNA Precision Target Location Systems. The STERNA system is based on Vectronix' new and unrestricted capability to acquire and maintain the true north azimuth in all operating conditions, even in magnetically charged or GPS-denied settings. The system, already tested by the U.S. Army, provides an azimuth accuracy far exceeding that achieved by the current systems used by the Military.
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Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series. As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, lead your people into a new frontier, explore and colonize an alien planet and create a new civilization in space.Read full description
Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ is a new science-fiction-themed entry into the award-winning Civilization series. Set in the future, global events have destabilized the world leading to a collapse of modern society, a new world order and an uncertain future for humanity. As the human race struggles to recover, the re-developed nations focus their resources on deep space travel to chart a new beginning for mankind.
As part of an expedition sent to find a home beyond Earth, you will write the next chapter for humanity as you lead your people into a new frontier and create a new civilization in space. Explore and colonize an alien planet, research new technologies, amass mighty armies, build incredible Wonders and shape the face of your new world. As you embark on your journey you must make critical decisions. From your choice of sponsor and the make-up of your colony, to the ultimate path you choose for your civilization, every decision opens up new possibilities.
Key Features:
Seed the Adventure: Establish your national identity, choosing one of eight different factions, each with its own unique gameplay benefits. Craft your expedition by assembling your spacecraft, cargo & colonists through a series of choices that directly seed the starting conditions when arriving at the new planet. A new quest system guides you as you begin your journey.
Colonize an Alien World: Explore the dangers and benefits of a new planet filled with alien terrain, resources, and hostile life forms unlike those of Earth. Build outposts, establish trade routes and develop flourishing cities to create prosperity for your people.
Technology Web: To reflect progress forward into an uncertain future, technology advancement occurs through a series of nonlinear choices that affect the development of mankind.
Orbital Layer: Build and deploy advanced military, economic and scientific units that provide strategic offensive, defensive and support capabilities from orbit.
Unit Customization: Unlock different upgrades through the tech web and customize your units to reflect your play style.
Contend with Rivals: Wage war, form diplomatic alliances, and engage in espionage in your path to victory against other factions, each with its own leader and different gameplay style.
Multiplayer: Up to 8 players can compete for dominance of a new alien world. Mod support: Robust mod support allows you to customize and extend your game experience.
DirectX®: DirectX® version 11
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Initial installation requires one-time Internet connection for Steam authentication; software installations required (included with the game) include Steam Client, Microsoft Visual C++2012 Runtime Libraries and Microsoft DirectX.
Sorry but this game is not at all good... it feels slow, clunky and boring. It offered nothing exciting to me and I stopped playing it after 2 full games. The problem is the game feels bland and lacking. Whilst the affinity system and tech umbrella are pretty cool, they're let down by the UI and the fact I don't really feel passionate about it like I do with CIV V and EU4. Sadly I'm let down and wouldn't recommend you buy this game.
The major complaints people have about this game are the lack of personality and the price. I'll put aside the price as that is a value issue each people have to deal with on their own. In regards to personality it lacks the connection you have with Civilizations in say Civilization V. The sponsors are just there, you don't learn much about them, you don't have the natural connection you would have if they were "France, Germany, America, Russia" etc. Though several of the sponsors represent those areas the feel of it isn't the same. This could have been fixed with a bit more presentation in story as the game revolves around the idea of leaving Earth due to an event known as the "Great Mistake" but it never explains what that is exactly. There is a lack of presentation in the game that doesn't help matters including not showing the end result of your game. The game simply ends with a paragraph about the victory condition. You have to go into the main menu after the game and look up your score, replay and data on how the game ended. Now with that out of the way, the gameplay is good and it is distinctly different than Civilization V regardless of people claiming it is just a skin or an expansion. It uses the same engine yes and the same style, however the research system, diplomacy system and world mechanics are not the same. The aliens do not play as the barbarians and the miasma that hurts your units changes the early game considerably from the main series of Civilization. The game lacks a bit of soul, but it has enough interesting systems and new victory conditions that is an entertaining departure if it does feel a little unfinished. Best played with the Rising Tide expansion.
I really wanted to like Beyond Earth. Sadly, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't. Out since October 24, this latest instalment in developer Sid Meir's now thirty-six title franchise of empire building games carries a hefty AAA price tag. Beyond Earth keeps the premise of its predecessor, Civilization V (Civ V). During the game, you start with one city and expand into an empire, either working with other civilizations to expand your economy and improve your security, or warring against them. The most obvious difference between the games is that, while Civ V, like almost all previous Civilization titles, casts you in the role of a real country as you play through 7,050 years of history, in Beyond Earth you are a colony on another world that is sponsored by a fictional nation of future Earth. In Civ, each city can produce one thing at a time: either a building or a unit. Buildings give a specific advantage to your civilization, while units can move and perform a task like constructing farms or fighting enemies. In addition to managing your cities, buildings, and units, you organize national projects like researching new technologies and spying on enemy nations. You oversee diplomacy, trade with allies, and explore your world. Even simple changes are managed poorly. Take Beyond Earth's infantile unit names, for instance. The guys at Firaxis, the game's developer, seemed to give this project to children. The game has a unit called the "Rocktopus," which is a combined rocket and octopus that shoots lasers form space. The cringe-worthiness that is the Rocktopus is quite the deviation from Civ V's serious and descriptive unit names, like "Swordsman" and "Cannon." Much else of Beyond Earth has also descended into a meaningless technobabble, with units like the "Holomatrix" or the "Evolved Xeno Titian." This highlights a broader problem with the game: since the names of things in Beyond Earth are essentially meaningless, my actions in the game no longer feel like accomplishments, like building the Great Pyramids in Civ V was, but dull meaningless abstractions that aren't worth my time. While this is certainly a striking change, it is not the only one. Firaxis has also reduced the length of a game by about one third, not by making the game play quicker but by cutting out two thirds of the content and making it twice as slow. Many gameplay features were stripped down: In Civ V, your civilization's happiness influences productivity; acquiring luxury resources is essential to maintaining your happiness levels. In Beyond Earth, happiness is replaced with health, which serves the same function, but there are no luxury resources, making it to difficult, costly, and often impossible to maintain a healthy civilization. Beyond Earth also did away with religion. In Civ V, religion could grant you benefits if you converted other civilizations. It also affected diplomatic relations – nations of the same religion will often band together. This was yet another layer of complexity that Beyond Earth lacked. Also, city states were replaced with stations. In Civ V, you could ally with a city state: in return for resources, the city state would defend you in times of war. In Beyond Earth, it is possible only to trade with stations. This, however, is rarely a sound strategic move – stations just end up cluttering the map. Beyond Earth did manage one gameplay improvement, though: aliens. Beyond Earth's aliens replace Civ V's barbarians. In Civ V, barbarians would attack whenever possible, forcing you to maintain at least a small military even when you were on good terms with surrounding countries. Aliens, on the other hand, are a far more interesting opponent: they won't attack unless you encroach on their territory. They're less aggressive but more powerful, and how to handle them is an interesting choice. One of the new features in Beyond Earth is the tech web, which replaces the tech tree from Civ V. Instead of each technology allowing one or two more to be researched, one in the tech web unlocks as many as seven new choices. Choosing what to research quickly becomes overwhelming, especially as many of the technologies have cryptic names. In Civ V, when you research sailing, it's easy to know you'll be getting the ability to build ships. But "Transcendental Math?" While Beyond Earth makes it perfectly clear that researching this unlocks the "Transcendental Equation," the game doesn't provide any context as to what I can use that for. The soundtrack in Beyond Earth, like Civ V's, falls flat in comparison to Civ IV's Grammy Award winning theme "Baba Yetu," which draws on rich corals and a powerful percussion section to bring a feeling of grandeur to the game. Baba Yetu, along with the 103 other songs from 21 composers that make up Civ IV's soundtrack, make it one of the greatest game soundtracks ever made. Meanwhile, the music from Beyond Earth is slow and static. While it has great moments, they are crowded out by hours of uninteresting auditory mush. It doesn't distract from the game, but it doesn't add to it either Another thing Beyond Earth is lacking: a graphics update. Even though Beyond Earth was released to run on graphics cards almost three times more powerful than the hardware available when Civ V was released, they have the same graphical quality. Beyond Earth is also not fully debugged. Many textures fail to load on startup, causing much of the terrain to appear black while the game finishes loading. When the game displays a unit icon, it will sometime display another on top of it, causing a distracting graphics glitch. While there are good elements to Beyond Earth, it's a game that tries to capitalize on the popularity of its predecessors, not provide a new experience to fans. It's a half-baked experience that adds nothing new to the series and lacks the balance and sophistication of Civ V.
Being a clone of Civilization V is not necessarily a bad thing - Civ V was a lot of fun after all. But Civilization: Beyond Earth is not at all adventurous in trying to offer anything on top of what was already made for Civ V. This is like a glorified mod, with the new features being quite insignificant compared with the overwhelming sameness of the core gameplay. It's still Civilization, and Civilization has that addictive quality that keeps you coming back, so on that alone it can be recommended. But unless you really like the idea of playing Civ V on an alien world, there's nothing you'll get out of this game that you wouldn't get from just playing Civ V instead.
If you're debating between this and Civ 5, go with the latter. Quick notes on gameplay concepts: UI leaves a bit to be desired - for example, you can display trade routes on the map, but I couldn't find a quick and easy way to get a list of what trade routes are up, other than building a new trade unit. Tech umbrella instead of a hierarchy - great idea, but it's easy to get lost in the sauce as you expand research outward. Affinities - I like that everyone is more homogeneous at the beginning and then specialize as time advances, but it "feels" like it shouldn't take so like to advance in affinity ranks. The combat is my biggest critique - siege weapons are critical in a game where you can't stack more than one combat unit on a tile, but given that 1) most capitals are located by water and 2) 90% of ranged units only have a range of 2 means that it's rather difficult to achieve the domination victory. I hope that the upcoming expansion really fleshes out and fixes some of the gameplay issues.
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