Environmental Science, Society, and Sustainability

Catalog description

An introduction to environmental science, including a discussion of ecological principles and their application, energy systems, pollution problems, environmental policy and decision making, and the scientific and ethical implications of human impacts on the environment. Lab exercises focus on experimental ecology and the basic techniques used to describe and measure environmental quality. This course serves three functions: (1) it is the entry level course for environmental science majors; (2) it may be taken for foundational core lab science credit; and (3) biology majors may count it as a 200-level biology course when calculating course hour requirements in biology. Three hours of lecture and two hours of lab per week. Meets the foundational core life science requirement.