Contemporary Environmental Issues ((4 Credits))

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This interdisciplinary course examines a broad range of contemporary global environmental issues, such as biodiversity, pollution, population growth, and global warming, and focuses on how those big issues might affect us locally. It develops students' environmental literacy and enables them to take part in informed debate and action. It explores environmental materials in a variety of media and teaches students how to navigate these materials; how to analyze and evaluate information; how to balance information from a variety of scientific and non-scientific, objective and subjective sources; and how to develop arguments surrounding environmental problems. An understanding of basic environmental issues and concepts that would be gained in a lower-level ecology course is required. This course was previously SMT-274544 Contemporary Environmental Issues. Prerequisites: Introduction to Ecology and Sustainability ( ENSC 1006 ) or Environmental Science ( ENSC 1200 ) or Biology of Ecosystems ( BIOL 2202 ) or equivalents.