Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

ENV 2990 - Environmental Issues Seminar


Credits: 3

This 3-credit, non-lab introductory enviromental science and environmental engineering technology course is suitable for sicence and non-science majors. Students will survey natural systems, and potential solutions to currernt and future environmental issues on global, regional, and local scales. Embedded in the course are explorations of interdisciplinary topics including, but not limited to, process of science; environmental ethics; attitudes and laws; resource consumption; climate change; biodiversity loss; forests and soils; food systems; agriculture, and fisheries; land use planning; pollution and toxicology; mining and energy; water and waste management; sustainable development; ecological economies; and environmental justice. Active learning is an essential component of this course.

Prerequisite: ENG 1010  or permission of instructor
Cross-listed: ENVE 2990  
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