Syllabus of Summer Course on “Environmental Politics”

Course Coordinator: Radhika Borde

Contact: radhika.borde@gmail.com

Lecture 1: Course Orientation.

a) Overview of all the topics covered in the course (with a ppt. presentation), along with a brief overview and discussion of the reading list.

b) Orientation with regard to the method of evaluation (10% classroom participation + 75% individual paper + 15% student presentation) – also with a brief overview of how the individual papers and student presentations will be graded (brief overview of how progressive levels of mastery of the subject will be assigned different grades).

c) Classroom discussion focused on students’ awareness of environmental politics in the Czech Republic and globally.

Lecture 2: Environmental Politics and Theory - 1

a) Ppt. presentation on Political Ecology