{"id":3615,"date":"2017-07-12T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2017-07-12T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T19:08:54","slug":"new-graduate-course-soil-517-land-and-water-resources-evaluation-2017w-term-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-3615","title":{"rendered":"New Graduate Course: SOIL 517 Land and Water Resources Evaluation &#8211; 2017W Term 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">The Master of Land and Water Systems program is offering a <i>new course<\/i> this fall that is open to all graduate students, with instructor permission.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/files\/2017\/07\/SOIL-LWS-517-Syllabus-2017W.pdf\">SOIL-LWS 517 Syllabus 2017W<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><u><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">SOIL\/LWS 517.001 Land and Water Resources Evaluation<\/span><\/u><\/b><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">This course focuses on a \u201csystems\u201d approach to assessing and evaluating land and water resources. It provides guidance in critical reading, methods and approaches to assessing and interpreting information based on different values and governance systems. The aim is to provide students the opportunity to develop processes and experiences by which they can facilitate their academic disciplinary experience into a more holistic framework. <i>Course syllabus is attached.<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">The course is <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">offered <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">by Les Lavkulich and Julie Wilson of the Master of Land and Water Systems program. It will be of interest to your Masters students as well as senior undergraduates with an interest in the land-water-energy nexus. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><u><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">TIME AND PLACE<\/span><\/u><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">Winter Term 1<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">Mon Wed 9:00 \u2013 10:30 am<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">MCML Room 358<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">Note: MLWS students must enroll in the LWS section. All other students must enroll in the SOIL section.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-CA\" style=\"margin: 0px; color: #1f3864; font-family: 'Whitney Book'; font-size: 11pt;\">Contact: <a>lml@mail.ubc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Master of Land and Water Systems program is offering a new course this fall that is open to all graduate students, with instructor permission. \u00a0SOIL-LWS 517 Syllabus 2017W SOIL\/LWS 517.001 Land and Water Resources Evaluation\u00a0 This course focuses on a \u201csystems\u201d approach to assessing and evaluating land and water resources. It provides guidance in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3617,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions\/3617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}