ENVS& 100 Survey of Environmental Science (5 credits)

1. Describe the mechanisms responsible for generating Earth’s major environmental problems.  
2. Situate environmental problems within broader social and natural systems in order to illuminate their ultimate drivers, interconnections, and complexities.  
3. Identify and compare potential solutions to Earth’s major environmental problems.
4. Demonstrate the importance of geographic and temporal scale when evaluating the causes, effects, and solutions of major environmental problems.  
5. Assess the validity of information and arguments used to support environmental positions. 
6. Examine the relationships between environmental protection, economic prosperity, and equity, within society itself and/or within environmental discourse. 
7. Describe the methods used by environmental scientists to collect data and draw conclusions. 

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Information Literacy: Graduates will be critical users, creators, and disseminators of information by examining how information is created, valued, and influenced by power and privilege.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
1. Conceptual Testing (e.g. essay, diagram, etc.)
2. Objective testing (multiple choice, fill in, matching, short answer, and computational)
3. Laboratory exercises
4. Group discussions
5. Extended group assignments
6. Field trip exercises
7. Instructor observation
8. Oral presentations
9. Written reports (field notebook, journal, research paper, photo/sketch essay, portfolio)
10. Self evaluation
11. Peer evaluation