ERS 475
Special Readings/Seminar on Select Topics
Fall 2020 · Community Economic Development: Covid, Green Politics and Post-Pandemic Economy
Topics
- Community economic development
- Green politics
- Pandemic-related economic change
- Localism
- Peer production and collaboration
- Social innovation
Readings
- Network Society and Future Scenarios for a Collaborative Economy2014; Palgrave Macmillan; listed reading.
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything2006; Portfolio; listed reading.
- The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy and the World2011; Palgrave; listed reading.
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution2017; listed reading.
- The Zero Marginal Cost SocietyListed reading.
- The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom2006; Yale University Press; listed reading.
Spring 2017 · Amateur Radio: Technics, Ecology and Culture
Topics
- Amateur radio theory and operation
- Canadian radio regulations
- Analog circuits
- Transmission lines and antennas
- Electromagnetic propagation
- Radio technology and society
- Emergency communication
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Fall 2020
- syllabus ↗Spring 2017
- Archived syllabus. Draft document dated May 2020, filed under Fall 2020. Actual header cross-lists ERS/GEOG/ECDEV 615 and ERS 475. Books are selected from topic reading choices.
- Archived syllabus. Distinct experiential special-topic outline. The required textbook was still to be confirmed, so no title is supplied.