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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U108. Provides an overview of the fisheries industry of New England. Emphasizes environmental factors controlling the distribution, quality, and abundance of fisheries resources. Discusses the methods and the effects of direct human utilization of the resource as well as the effects of pollution and habitat modification.
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Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U110. Examines the relationship between the form of the ocean basins and their margins, and the major processes forming them. Emphasizes local landforms including New England beaches, spits, barrier islands, and the continental shelf.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U112. Covers the causes and effects of problems resulting from human interaction with the earth and geologic processes. Topics include volcanoes, earthquakes, river flooding, soil erosion, groundwater pollution, landslides, and coastal erosion. Emphasizes land-use planning techniques to minimize environmental problems.
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Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U114. Provides an overview of what we know about the causes, locations, and effects of some of the most important natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. Also examines how loss of life and property damage can be minimized by implementing geologic knowledge. Briefly examines less common but possibly more devastating catastrophes such as large volcanic eruptions, large meteorite impacts, and rapid climate change.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U115. Focuses on the complex mix of interlocking problems that are reaching crisis levels on Earth. Topics include population, resources, environmental degradation, and pollution. Focuses on food and land resources; air, soil, and water resources and pollution; and energy alternatives. Some emphasis is placed on culture, politics, worldviews, ethics, and economics.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U116. Covers the geologic history of the last ice age. Discusses the causes of extreme climate changes during the last fifty million years. Examines the landforms and sediments created by past ice sheets in North America and Europe.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U118. Focuses on astronomy of the solar system. Topics include description of the planets and other objects with discussion of how our understanding has evolved from the days of naked-eye observation to the present day of interplanetary probes.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U120. Discusses the patterns and processes that combine to produce our daily weather and how weather integrates over time to define climate. Identifies natural and human-made causes of climate change.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U122. Utilizes evidence from the sedimentary rock record of the Mesozoic Era to interpret significant biological and physical events in earth history. Changes in the earth's landscape due to variations in climate, mountain building, and sea level provide the background for detailed consideration of the history of Mesozoic life. A particular focus of this biological history is the evolution, classification, paleoecology, and extinction of the dinosaurs.
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4.00 Credits
Retired August 31, 2007; replaced with ENV U190. Offers elective credit for courses taken at consortium institutions.
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