<p>I'm an incoming freshmen interested in taking either Americans and the Global Forest or Intro to Culture and Natural Resource Management. Does anyone have experience with these two classes and any opinions on which is better for someone trying to decide on an environmental major or minor? Also, one of the courses has Huntsinger listed as the professor, another says THE STAFF, and the rest are blank. What does THE STAFF mean? Has anyone had Huntsinger and can comment on whether they are a good teacher or not? Thanks</p>
<p>If the latter is ESPM50, I took that this past semester. It was taught by new professor Caroline Finney, who I personally enjoyed a lot. It was previously taught by Kurt Spreyer who everyone loved, even though they seemed (according to ratemyprofessors) to find the material a little dry. Well Caroline did her PhD on White Spaces, Black Faces, or something like that, so I think this course was really well suited for her personal experiences and her area of expertise. It was a pretty easy class, and at least to me really interesting. I had a great GSI. Extra credit too, so pretty easy to get an A.</p>
<p>Sometimes when they list "staff" it means they're still working on who's going to teach the class, and you don't find out who it is until just before school starts. If Caroline is going to remain at Berkeley, I'm pretty sure she'll teach the course again. It was once taught by Sally Fairfax who retired last year. She's another professor that some people didn't like, but others (like me) connected with immediately. In fact, she was really my inspiration for being in CNR in the first place.</p>
<p>Actually, the course increased my interest in ESPM -- I'm currently an Environmental Science major, but this course opened me up to a few other options of serious interest to me. I love the social relation to the environment, and discovered a few other majors that I might seriously consider.</p>
<p>Thanks Beatchick. Have you taken the "Americans and the Global Forest" class? I'm also in CNR and I just found out that for EEP or ESPM we have to fulfill the L&S breath requirement as well so I was thinking that class would be good for the social and behavioral sciences requirement. But I've also discovered the class "crossroads of earth resources and society" which also looks really interesting! I don't know which class to take because all three are really similar but different at the same time and all three seem really interesting. Have you found that you had a lot of time for taking elective classes? </p>
<p>Also, for ESPM50 and C11, they only have one lecture which currently have 160 and 70 seats available (respectively.) Do you think I'd have trouble getting in to c11 with 70 seats left?</p>