To tackle these issues, to make our communities more humane and sustainable, we need a generation of leaders, thinkers, and doers who are flexible and versed in thinking about issues from multiple perspectives in order to develop more holistic solutions.Īt COA, you might end up focusing most on one discipline, like biology or policy - but we want you to have an interdisciplinary perspective so that as a biologist, you’re thinking about the ways that human behavior, policies, economics, development patterns, and culture (as a few examples) might impact that species you’re interested in. To be a little more specific: problems like climate change, food insecurity, and oppression of various kinds are not just social, economic, political, or environmental problems - they’re problems that cross those different disciplines. The general idea behind human ecology is that by looking at humans as part of complex, interdisciplinary systems, we’ll be able to come up with more thoughtful, nuanced ways to address complex issues. that our government and systems (including higher education) were failing us, failing to generate the kind of holistic, humane, innovative decisions that would lead to a genuinely better world.Įnter COA and human ecology. There was a sense for many across the U.S. When COA was founded in the late 1960s/early 1970s, there were a lot of complex social and ecological issues at play: pollution and the birth of the environmental movement racial segregation/discrimination and the civil rights movement the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement the list goes on.
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