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- Introduction to Environmental Studies
- A survey of environmental studies examining ecological, socioeconomic, political, aesthetic, and technological factors that
influence the quality of life on Earth.
- Race, Class, and Pollution Politics
- Examines communities affected by major toxic contamination threats in the U. S., evaluating race and class factors in levels of
governmental and private-sector responses and actions. Investigative research methods utilized at case study sites provide skills necessary for assessment of any environmental threat for protective action.
- Environmental Issues and Biology
- The natural environment is currently stressed by a variety of human actions. This course examines the nature of these environmental
problems and their impact on living organisms, both human and non-human species.
- Principles of Ecology
- Principles relating to ecosystem structure and functions; properties and interactions of populations; adaptations and environmental influences;
organization and development of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
- Arctic and Alpine Ecology
- Biology of arctic and alpine environments, limiting physical factors such as geomorphology and climatic history), and human interaction with
cold stressed environments, especially the arctic.
- Global Ecology
- This course involves the study of ecological principles and problems at the biosphere level. Presents a worldwide approach to populations, biotic
resources, ecologic interactions, land use, deforestation, desertification, species extinctions, pollution, environmental quality, global change and environmental ethics. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural sciences.
- Tropical Marine Ecology
- Biology and ecology of marine ecosystems, emphasizing those occurring in tropical regions such as coral reefs. Studies how these ecosystems
are changing and the future impact of human stress on the marine environment. For non-Biology majors. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: natural sciences.
- Conservation Biology
- Applies principles of population ecology, population genetics, biogeography, animal behavior, and paleobiology to the maintenance of global
biodiversity and natural systems Resulting theory is then applied to conservation policy and management techniques.
- Medical Ecology and Environmental Health
- Concerns the ecology, evolution, and environmental relationships of disease. Emphasizes zoonotic infections, i.e., animal
diseases transmissible to humans, such as encephalitis and Lyme disease; and environmental factors in chronic diseases.
- Geographical Ecology
- Ecological and faunistic distribution of animals on a world basis. how number and kinds of species vary from region to region and how we can
account for this variation. Patterns of distribution of animals in terms of historical geological, evolutionary, and ecological processes that have caused them.
- Ecological Perspectives on Global Change
- Discusses evolutionary and recent geological history of modern environmental problems, using natural changes in climate,
biotic diversity, drought, desertification, flood, forest destruction, etc. to show the range and frequency of such events as a perspective on modern reports. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: critical thinking.
- Respiratory Adaptations to the Environment
- Investigates the evolutionary development of respiratory gas exchange systems, including the physical properties of gases
and their exchange in burrows, water, high altitudes, and space, and models of how respiratory mechanisms have evolved in these environments. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: critical thinking.
- Plants and Human Affairs
- Considers plants as living entities and as essential to human survival, as well as to human well-being and the quality of life. Covers medical
botany, forensic botany, plant foods, and human ecology. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: critical thinking.
- Field Techniques in Environmental Science
- Field and laboratory course in assessing the abiotic and biotic environment. Emphasizes field techniques in climatology,
surveying soils, hydrology, geomorphology, plant and animal ecology, and environmental law.
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