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3.00 Credits
3 credits Personal exploration and analysis of A wide variety of ecosystems will help us develop A whole-systems approach to understanding their distribution integration, overall unity, and continued survival. The use of field guides and ecology texts, discussions with local naturalists, visits to natural history museums and nature centers, and your skills of observation and interpretation enhances our "immersion" into each ecosystem. Wewill focus on the ecolgical consequences on human impact, exploring environmental issues from different perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is A survey of basic ecological concepts and theory. By examining A variety of ecosystems, students learn about biological forces that shape and maintain the diversity and interdependence of the living and nonliving world. The ability to conceptualize geographic processes and principles that have shaped Earth is emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
4 credits/4 credits Prepares students to be effective environmental spokespersons and activists. In this second-year course, students continue their investigations into natural history and geology, focusing on how A better understanding of ecology leads to appropriate land use planning. Conservation biology, environmental geology, and appropriate technology are examined as tools for land use and policy revision. Advocacy skills are honed as students work to enact change at the community, industry, and government levels.
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3.00 Credits
4100 3 credits Blending philosophy with communication, This course empowers students to refine and articulate environmental values and ethics. Environmental literature is examined, seeking new paradigms for understanding the interaction of human and natural worlds. Students work together to bring these ideas into the learning community. Throughout the course, students create A personal journal synthesizing and expanding their own ecological philosophy as they reflect on resource issues, ethical problems, and ways of perceiving the world.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Students explore socio-ecological conditions concerning environmental degradation and potential solutions. They examine ways in which regional environmental decline and resource scarcities interact with global economic pressures, demographic trends, and local, state, and national politics.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Introduces the general principles of cultural anthropology, including the study of various American subcultures, solutions evolved over time by different cultural groups to deal with common human problems, and development of institutions within small groups or established societies. Topics may include A study of prehistory, archaeological excavation, identification of artifacts, correlation of data, and techniques of drawing inferences from the remains of extinct cultures.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits From A regional perspective, students investigate policies and practices by land management agencies, including the confluence of the use of technology, the complexities of economic tensions, and the need for a human ecological perspective for sustaining the Earth's resources. Students have opportunities to interact with key players and participate in analysis of policy decision making processes.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits/3 credits Each learning community explores their own diversity of groups/identities and expands that awareness to the region of the country they are studying. These groups/identities include men/women, people of color, ablebodies and physically different, Jews, Christians, and other religious identities, ethnicity, young/old, sexual orientation, and others. Students identify and practice the skills necessary to be inclusive in their language and behavior to build bridges of understanding to the future.
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3.00 Credits
3 credits Students explore environmental literature, reading A diversity of authors and expressive forms. They compare writing styles, critique rationale, and learn how to discern techniques for conveying information and advocating for A place, species, or issue and apply to their own writing.
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2.00 Credits
2 credits Assists students in communicating about environmental issues and supports expository writing and environmental advocacy. Students examine the effectiveness of various writers and act as peer reviewers for one another as they develop their writing skills. GPSYC 5001 Psychological Foundations for Counseling 3 credits Introduction to basic psychology including normal and abnormal development, cognitive development, learning theory, personality theory, and social psychology. Primarily presented in lecture format. This course is a vestibule requirement and credits do not apply to degree requirements.
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