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Area VII: Focus on the Environment

Minimum 1 Course, 3 Credits

In fulfilling the requirements for this focus area, students will enroll concurrently for the lecture section 2924 People and the Environment and one topic section. Courses in this area develop critical insight into environmental issues, the structure and function of ecological systems, and the interrelations of bio-physical and social-cultural systems.

Lecture Section:

(DEPT) 2924 People and the Environment (0 credits)

Topic Sections:

BIOL 2925 Biological Perspectives on the Environment (3 credits)

BUAD 2925 The Legal Perspective - Environmental Law and Policy (3 credits)

CHEM 2925 Chemistry Perspective (3 credits)

ECON 2925 Economic Perspective (3 credits)

ED 2925 Education Perspective (3 credits)

ENGL 2925 American Nature Writers (3 credits)

ENGL 2926 Writing and Nature (3 credits)

ENVR 2925 The Global Pollution Perspective (3 credits)

GEOL 2925 Earth Science Perspective (3 credits)

GER 2925 The "Green" Movements in Germany and Austria (3 credits)

HST 2925 The Environment and History (3 credits)

MASC 2925 Mass Media Perspective (3 credits)

PHED 2925 Outdoor Ethics and Recreation Activities Perspective (3 credits)

PJST 2925 Global Environmental Justice (3 credits)

PHYS 2925 Physics Perspective (3 credits)

POL 2925 Political Science Perspective (3 credits)

SCI 2925 Science Perspective (3 credits) 

Courses designated as Environmental courses must fulfill three or more of the following objectives.

Students will be able to:

• explain the basic structure and function of various natural ecosystems and of human adaptive strategies within those systems
• discern patterns and interrelationships of biophysical and sociocultural systems
• describe the basic institutional arrangements (social, legal, political, economic, religious) that are evolving to deal with environmental and natural resource challenges
• evaluate critically environmental and natural resource issues in light of understandings about interrelationships, ecosystems, and institutions
• propose and assess alternative solutions to environmental problems
• articulate and defend the actions they would take on various environmental issues