Environmental Issues

Catalog description

This course introduces students to current environmental issues in a debate style format. Students will be developing critical thinking skills in examinations of the relationship between individuals, society, and the environment using various perspectives [i.e., the humanities, religions (Eastern and Western), philosophical and cultural traditions, and different political and economic systems]. The course focuses on the interplay of personal and cultural values and how they influence attitudes toward the environment. Students are encouraged to develop a "sense of place" that grounds them intellectually, spiritually, and physically in the geographic area in which they live. Three lecture hours per week.