Historical framework of importance of water basins, legacy between water basins and human evolution, effects of agriculture, forestry, industry and urbanization.

Urbanization impacts on water resources with a focus on rainwater management, water quality, point and non-point sources of pollution, drinking water and waste water, riparian buffer zones, cumulative effects, and application of beneficial management practices. Equivalency: SOIL_V 516.

Current and emerging issues relevant within the general context of land and water systems, and the significance of professional credibility and exposure.

This course invites researchers, educators, citizens, and leaders to explore literacy and language through an ecological lens—connecting theory, practice, and lived experience. More broadly, it encourages participants to consider what it means to be ecological in everyday practices across disciplines and contexts. Grounded in systems perspectives, complexity, and relational and affective ways of knowing and being, the course challenges dominant Western models of education and research, including individualism, reductionism, and linear thinking. Instead, it centres dynamic, interconnected approaches to how literacy and learning create meaning in our research and in our lives – exploring what being ecological might mean on a planet facing uncertain futures.

This course will prepare students to work effectively with library and/or archival practices that involve, in many forms, ongoing developments in Indigenous languages, governance, litigation, cultural materials, oral histories, stories and legislation that apply to Indigenous communities. Credit will only be granted for one of LIBR_V 564 and ARST_V 585. Equivalency: ARST_V 585.