Students explore hydrology, water resources, and water resource “management," drawing from local, regional, national and international examples. Students investigate scientific and engineering perspectives of water along with the cultural and artistic significance of water as a human right and common heritage. Topics concerning water include: peace and international conflict; laws and policies, the privatization of water; water education; Indigenous peoples' laws and perspectives; gender inequality and access; water and health; and future water supplies under projected climate change scenarios. Engagement with Secwepemic peoples and field components ensure student opportunities to experientially engage with overlapping and, at times contested, histories and terrain of methods coming from the perspectives of Indigenous knowledge, Western science and artists' practices of working outside gallery settings.
Students explore hydrology, water resources, and water resource “management," drawing from local, regional, national and international examples. Students investigate scientific and engineering perspectives of water along with the cultural and artistic significance of water as a human right and common heritage. Topics concerning water include: peace and international conflict; laws and policies, the privatization of water; water education; Indigenous peoples' laws and perspectives; gender inequality and access; water and health; and future water supplies under projected climate change scenarios. Engagement with Secwepemic peoples and field components ensure student opportunities to experientially engage with overlapping and, at times contested, histories and terrain of methods coming from the perspectives of Indigenous knowledge, Western science and artists' practices of working outside gallery settings.
