Neighborhood Environmental Science

Catalog description

This course provides a survey of environmental issues and problems, with an emphasis on the facts, principles, and concepts at the heart of those issues and problems. It is a survey of environmental sciences including interactions between humans and the environment and emphasizing attitudes and actions to maintain a healthy ecosystem. This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop critical analysis of environmental issues and how these issues relate to their everyday life in their neighborhoods. The students will explore, discuss, and debate environmental themes. The course will present actual environmental issues and their relationship with science and ecology.