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| Course Outline | ||
| Section III. Integrative Studies-Interdisciplinary | ||
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| 1. | COURSE NUMBER: PLB 301i | SEMESTER HOURS: 3 |
| COURSE TITLE: Environmental Issues in the Contemporary World | ||
| 2. | COURSE FORMAT: Lectures, films, slide presentations, discussions (faculty). Average class size: 30. | |
| 3. | COURSE OBJECTIVES: The student will: (a) know and understand the levels of the ecological hierarchy; (b) appreciate the integration of natural processes that govern the natural world; (c) appreciate the importance of maintaining a sustaining biosphere for the continued presence of a human population on the earth; (d) understand the pragmatic and realistic difficulties of integrating human societal needs without further compromising ecological processes; (e) become familiar with the ecological background to global environmental problems; and (f) realize the consequences of our individual and joint actions upon the biosphere. | |
| 4. | DETAILED COURSE DESCRIPTION: In this course, the material introduced to the students will stress the ethical, economic, technological and scientific issues and implications involved in environmental decisions. Emphasis will be placed on integrating these multidisciplinary topics into an environmental framework that the non-science major student can understand and appreciate. Students will gain skills in interpreting and understanding everyday coverage of environmental issues in the media through writing critiques of chapters from a number of "classic" environmental science works. In addition, students will prepare an environmental scrapbook in which they include articles that they find in the media, summarize the articles in their own words, and prepare a synoptic essay. Interpretation and critical evaluation skills will be developed through "break-out" discussion groups. Each group will be responsible for addressing environmental issues raised in the textbook's "Environmental Issues and Analysis Workbook," writing a joint summary of their opinions, and critiquing another group's written summary. | |
| 5. | REQUIRED READING: Cunningham and Saigo, Environmental Science: A Global Concern (1992); Saigo, Cunningham, and Phillips, Environmental Issues and Analysis Workbook (1992). | |
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COURSE REQUIREMENTS AND GRADING: - Four exams. |
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| 7. | SUBSTITUTIONS: None | 8/24/98 |
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