Ecological Design takes the descriptive science of ecology into the prescriptive practice of design. This is a class about designing ecosystems, understanding how ecosystems work-or don’t work in the case of a poorly designed one. We need only look as far as the nearest parking space to identify ecosystems that were not designed to function as such: the sun that is shining on it is not driving photosynthesis, the water that falls on it runs off rather than recharging the aquifers, and whatever life is cracking through the pavement is there in spite of rather than in real relationship with the narrowly understood purposes of the space. Come prepared to learn by doing, focused on a real world project. Expect to get your hands dirty and learn a flexible and adaptive Ecological Design Process to help you design ecosystems that work for the communities, human and beyond, that are embedded in it.Science and Math (SCIMA) courses develop students' capacity for evidence-based reasoning through the study of life, earth, and physical sciences and of computational and theoretical mathematics. In these courses, students learn to recognize and interpret meaningful patterns of information; to assess the validity of empirical claims, distinguishing between opinion and fact; and to understand the sociocultural relevance of scientific and mathematical thinking.

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