Introduction to Environmental Sciences

Catalog description

This is a multidisciplinary course that will bring together data collected from various scientific fields to help students understand the environment, current environmental problems and solutions to these problems. The course will cover topics that include biodiversity conservation, agriculture-related environmental impacts, environmental effects of human populations and urbanization, the consequences of society’s dependence on fossil fuel and solutions using alternative energy sources, environmental waste or pollutants affecting land, water and air and lastly environmental economics, ethics, policy and sustainable living.