ENTS 261: Field Investigation in Comparative Agroecology

Instructor: David Hougen-Eitzman
Environmental Studies
Winter 2011
Red Panda
Students on the 2009 winter break seminar take a break from visiting farms to visit the Chengdu Panda Breeding Center. This is a red panda.
Libby Nachman '12
December 2009
Course Description
This course is the second part of a two-term course sequence beginning with Environmental and Technology Studies 260. The course begins with a two-week visit in December to Beijing and Sichuan province. Field work will include visits to Chinese farms at the forefront of an incipient sustainable agriculture movement in China, as well as discussions with Chinese sustainable agriculture researchers. In regular weekly meetings during the winter term on campus, data will be analyzed and presented in oral and written reports.