Description
This course will explore and analyze current global environmental issues and their existing and potential solutions. Human population growth, food production, energy use and conservation, air and water pollution, desertification, deforestation and climate change will be the topics of classroom discussion, class exercises, and field trips. Historic and current knowledge and understanding of each issue; it's relationship to ecological and human social systems, and current potential solutions will be examined. The use of critical thinking skills and a problem solving process will be introduced and practiced throughout the course. Each global issue will be addressed through student research and solution proposals.
The purpose of the course is to introduce students to current global environmental issues and their impact upon human well being, ecological health and contemporary culture. Students will explore and analyze current global environment issues through selected readings, criti