Goal 10. People and the Environment
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.
LEP Objective: Examine the interrelationship of humans and the natural worlds from scientific and socio-cultural perspectives and the complex environmental challenges that result. Students can meet this requirement through 1 approved course or experience.
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 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.
Consistent with LEP Student Learning Outcomes, students will also demonstrate their ability to:
Explain the basic structure and function of various ecosystems and human adaptive strategies within those systems.
Discern patterns of interrelationships of bio-physical and socio-cultural systems.
Describe the human institutional arrangements (social, legal, political, economic, and religious) that deal with environmental and natural resource challenges.
Analyze environmental and natural resource issues in light of understandings about interrelationships, ecosystems, and institutions.
Propose and assess alternative solutions to environmental problems including issues involving sustainability.
Requirements: (Minimum 1 course)
course (3), Natural Hazards and Human Society, 3 Cr.
course, Human Ecology, 3 Cr.
course* (3), Environment and Society, 3 Cr.
course* (3), The Living World, 3 Cr.
course* (3), Organismal Diversity, 4 Cr.
course (3), Chemistry and the Environment, 3 Cr.
course (2), Introduction to Environmental Engineering, 3 Cr.
course (8), Energy Resources and Issues, 3 Cr.
course, Introduction to Environmental Studies, 3 Cr.
course, Resource Management, 3 Cr.
course (5), Society and the Environment, 3 Cr.
course, People and the Planet, 3 Cr.
course, Conservation of World Resources, 3 Cr.
course, Environmental Health, 3 Cr.
course (8), Global Social and Environmental Justice, 3 Cr.
course (9), Environmental Ethics, 3 Cr.
course (3), Energy and Environment, 3 Cr.
course, Global Environmental Politics and Policies, 3 Cr.
course (5), Conservation Psychology, 3 Cr.
course (5), Environmental Sociology (Diversity), 3 Cr,.