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Early summer CALS 2022 Summer Term courses

Looking for a Summer Term course that will be completed by the end of June? Check out these online offerings from the UW–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.

For more information about Summer Term and a full list of available courses, visit https://summer.wisc.edu/. See more information about CALS courses on the CALS 2022 Summer Term page.

AGRICULTURAL AND APPLIED ECONOMICS/AGRONOMY/INTER-AG/NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES 350: World Hunger and Malnutrition
Hunger and poverty in developing countries and the United States. Topics include: nutrition and health, population, food production and availability, and income distribution and employment.
May 23 – June 19
Credit: 3
Breadth: Biological Science

ANIMAL SCIENCES/DAIRY SCIENCE 373: Animal Physiology
Covers physiological processes that regulate the body and the anatomy and function of different physiological systems. Includes interactions between organ systems, analysis of a single organ system from the molecular to the organismal, and comparisons of organ systems among different domestic animal species.
May 23 – June 19
Credits: 3
Breadth: Biological Science
Pre-requisites: Biology/Zoology 101 or (Biology/Zoology/Botany 151 and Biology/Zoology/Botany 152)

COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY/FOREST AND WILDLIFE ECOLOGY 248: Environment, Natural Resources and Society
Introduces the concerns and principles of sociology through examination of human interaction with the natural environment. Places environmental issues such as resource depletion, population growth, food production, environmental regulation, and sustainability in national and global perspectives.
May 23 – June 19
Credits: 3
Breadth: Social Science

COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY 260: Latin America: An Introduction
Latin American culture and society from an interdisciplinary perspective; historical developments from pre-Columbian times to the present; political movements; economic problems; social change; ecology in tropical Latin America; legal systems; literature and the arts; cultural contrasts involving the US and Latin America; land reform; labor movements; capitalism, socialism, imperialism; mass media.
May 23 – June 19
Credits: 3 – 4
Breadth: Social Science