ENVS 132 - Survey of Contemporary Environmental Issues

Credits: 3

Description
This interdisciplinary course surveys a broad range of contemporary global environmental issues, such as biodiversity, pollution, population growth, and climate changes, and focuses on how those big issues might affect us locally. It develops students’ environmental literacy and enables them to take part in informed debate and action. It explores environmental materials in a variety of media and teaches students how to navigate these materials; how to analyze and evaluate information; how to balance information from a variety of scientific and nonscientific, objective and subjective sources; and how to develop arguments surrounding environmental problems.