Fall classes

Well, my media & public affairs class was canceled. That left me with community economic development, science & state, resource & environmental economics, program evaluation and a dance class which I’m auditing.

Program evaluation is a little too perfect a fit to GAO for me not to at least check out the syllabus. Resource & Environmental economics and science & state are both required for the science & environment focus, plus they’re damn cool. Community economic development, I dunno about, but may be worth checking out. On the other hand, there are a couple of classes that seem very intriguing to me. Specifically intro ecology and intro soil science. I’m sure many of you (other than ) think soil science sounds bizarre. But having read as far as I have into Collapse, Jared Diamond’s successor piece to Guns, Germs, and Steel, I’m starting to see just how significant the soil factor is. And just how much of it I don’t get. It’s something for me to consider, anyway.