Academic Team:

Rebecca Lewis (rlewis9@uoregon.edu) 
First-Year Experience Seminar Instructor

Claire Daley (cdaley@uoregon.edu)
FIG Assistant

9 credits

UGST 109 First-Year Experience Seminar - 1 credit
MCK 123: T 9 - 9:50 AM
CRN: 15047

PPPM 205 Introduction to City Planning - 4 credits
Lecture
MCK 129: TR 10 - 11:20 AM 
CRN: 14329
Discussion
ED 116: F 1 - 1:50 PM
CRN: 14334

ENVS 203 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities - 4 credits
Lecture
LIL 282: TR 4 - 5:20 PM
CRN: 11788
Discussion
LIB 41: F 10 - 10:50 AM
CRN: 11791
 

About the FIG:

How does transportation affect climate change?  What can cities and residents do to promote sustainable transportation?  This FIG uses Eugene as a laboratory to examine how transportation affects climate change and what to do about it. Considers the politics and equity implications of shifting to greener ways to travel.    We will explore the city by bicycle, bus, and foot through fun activities and field trips throughout the term. We’ll examine recent investments in bus rapid transit and bicycle infrastructure in the city of Eugene to connect it to the concepts we discuss in courses. 

PPPM 205 Introduction to City Planning - CoreEd or major satisfying course

Introduction to City Planning introduces students to the field of city planning an academic discipline that synthesizes a diverse set of fields, thinks about how the world should ideally be, then figures out how to move in that direction. The course will cover a range of focal areas in the field of planning including: physical and land use planning, public health, housing, community development, social equity, environmental planning and transportation planning. The purpose of the course is to give students a general context of what planning is, the topics it deals with, and to convey that the way cities are designed and function is lively and ever
changing. Ultimately, the purpose of this course is to inspire students to see that the field of city planning is a mechanism to make the world a better place.

ENVS 203 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Humanities - CoreEd or major satisfying course

In this course we will learn about what the Humanities are, as an interdisciplinary field, and how Humanities methods and research contribute to environmental thought and action. The class involves reading and research but also creativity and innovation. It is a lab in which we will think together about the possible futures of our stressed planet and how to harness imagination in the service of sustainability.