BSU 2002-04 Undergrad Liberal Education Category 10: People and the Environment

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CATEGORY 10: PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

(requires one course, 3 credits)

Goal: To improve students' understanding of today's complex environmental challenges. Students will examine the interrelatedness of human society and the natural environment. Knowledge of both bio-physical principles and socio-cultural systems is the foundation for integrative and critical thinking about environmental issues.

Student Competencies:

Students will be able to

practice the critical thinking skills associated with environmental awareness, including ability to gather and apply factual information, recognition and articulation of the value assumptions made by ourselves and others, consciousness of possible bias in factual information, etc.
explain the basic structure and function of various natural ecosystems and of human adaptive strategies within those systems.
discern patterns and interrelationships of bio-physical and socio-cultural 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.

Courses which satisfy this category include

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)

POL 2925: Political Science Perspective (3 credits)

SCI 2925: Science Perspective (3 credits)

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