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4.00 Credits
A comprehensive survey of critical issues in environmental systems science, focusing on human population; the global chemical cycles; ecosystems and biodiversity; endangered species and wildlife; nature preserves; energy flows in nature; agriculture and the environment; energy systems from fossil fuels to renewable forms; earth's waters; earth's atmosphere; carbon dioxide and global warming; urban environments; wastes; and paths to a sustainable future. This course is a gateway to the environmental studies major and minor, and one of its core courses. It covers a very significant amount of demanding material, to prepare students for upper-level courses. This course is challenging, and students should expect a steep learning curve. Teaching assistants are available to help students along the way.
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4.00 Credits
A systematic survey of central concepts and issues relating to environment and society, including environmental history and concepts of nature and the environment; the rise of environmentalism; environmental skepticism; anthropogenic global change; population and consumption, ecological footprint analysis, and other environmental indicators; environmental justice; public goods and collective action problems; regulatory regimes; environmental politics; environmental movements; environmental courses Honors Students who receive a GPA over 3.65 in the major and overall and complete the Honors Seminar in Environmental Studies (ENVST-UA 950) will graduate with departmental honors. Minor To complete a minor in Environmental Studies, a student must receive a C or better in five courses (20 points): Environmental Systems Science (ENVST-UA 100), Environment and Society (ENVST-UA 101), and three electives chosen from the distribution lists. Program in Environmental Studies values; environmental protest and disobedience; and the future of environmentalism. This course is a gateway to the environmental studies major and minor, and one of its core courses. It covers a very significant amount of demanding material, to prepare students for upper-level courses. This course is challenging, and students should expect a steep learning curve. Teaching assistants are available to help students along the way.
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4.00 Credits
Covers the geological and biological history of the earth, including the cosmic context of earth history, the large-scale structure of the universe, the history of the universe, the origins of stars and planets, and the Goldilocks problem, or why the earth is habitable. Major topics include the origin of the earth, highlights in the development of the planet, the geological history of the earth, and the record of the earth's climate over various time scales. Also covers the history of life on the earth; the origin of life; evolution and natural selection; the evolution of life from simple forms to complex organisms; and the origin of intelligence on the earth and possibly elsewhere in the universe. The principles and methods by which we reconstruct earth history and the evolution of life are stressed.
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4.00 Credits
Equips students with the basic scientific and historical background needed to understand the causes and consequences of global warming and the proposed solutions. Topics include the nature of energy and fossil fuels; the growth of population and energy consumption per capita; weather and climate; ice ages and their astronomical cause; the greenhouse effect; evidence for abrupt climate changes in the past and their human impact; modeling and prediction of climate change; and the environmental and social consequences of unchecked global warming. Explores a range of proposed solutions, their potential capacities and limitations, and their costs and benefits. These solutions include renewable energy technologies, increased efficiency of energy use, storage and transport, carbon regulation, nuclear energy, and "advanced" technologies. Critically reviews the scientific and public debates on global warming.
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4.00 Credits
An introductory course that examines topics in environmental science. It considers a range of topics, including environmental systems, design, planning, Program in Environmental Studies monitoring, and modeling. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
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4.00 Credits
Over half of the human population lives within 100 km of a coast, and coastlines contain more than twothirds of the world's largest cities. As a result, the world's natural coastal environments have been substantially modified to suit human needs. This course uses the built and natural environments of coastal cities as laboratories to examine the environmental and ecological implications of urban development in coastal areas. Using data from multiple coastal cities, student teams will use field-based studies and Geographic Information System (GIS) data to examine patterns and processes operating in coastal cities. This course uses the local terrestrial, marine, and built environments as a laboratory to address these issues, and team projects requiring field work form a core component of the learning experience. As part of the NYU Global Network University initiative, this course is being offered simultaneously in New York and Abu Dhabi, and students collaborate extensively with students from their sister campus through the duration of this course.
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4.00 Credits
An advanced course that examines topics in environmental science. It considers a range of topics, including environmental systems, design, planning, monitoring, and modeling. Topics will vary from semester to semester.
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4.00 Credits
Scientific discovery is an ongoing process, and important new findings relevant to earth system science and the evolution of life are continually reported in scientific journals. For each new scientific discovery, students read, discuss, and report on original recent journal articles (as well as articles that take conflicting views) and texts that review the subject matter as already known. The goal is to give students an understanding of the dynamic nature of scientific knowledge and a deeper understanding of current questions in earth system science and biological evolution.
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4.00 Credits
The growing intensity of the interaction between humanity and the natural systems of earth is leading us to a future in which we must better understand the dynamics of nature's life-support systems and the past, present, and future of our dependency on those systems. Topics covered include energy, agriculture, water, population, consumption and waste production, and indicators of sustainability. This is an inquiry-based course. There are overviews of the main topics and then student-initiated investigations of specific, focused aspects of those topics.
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4.00 Credits
Examines our current view of the earth, in its cosmic setting, as a system involving interactions among the atmosphere, oceans, solid earth, and life. Emphasis is placed on the dynamics and evolution of these systems over time and predictions for the future. The subject matter includes new observations from space; geophysics and plate tectonics; the circulation of the oceans and atmosphere; cycles of elements essential for life; the coevolution of climate and life on earth over the past 4,500 million years; and the Gaia hypothesis. Emphasis on current global environmental problems, such as the greenhouse effect from increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide and other gases, the effects of deforestation, and the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer.
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