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3.00 Credits
This is a writing-intensive course where we examine the different components of a grant proposal, discuss different grant formats, identify potential sources of grant funding, and write a grant. Although the emphasis is on Environmental grants, this course will provide the basics for grant writing that are applicable to other disciplines. Individual students will choose a project or idea for which they will write a grant. As we go over each grant component, students will write that portion of their grant. Feedback will be provided at each step so that students will have written a complete grant proposal by the end of the course.
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4.00 Credits
Wildlife management is an applied science that unites human needs and desires with active management of habitats and animal populations. This course introduces students to the diversity of human attitudes towards wildlife and explores strategies employed to protect and utilize wildlife resources for hunting, simple enjoyment, tourism, and ecosystem services as well as to avoid human-wildlife conflicts. The cornerstone of wildlife management is population ecology. Hence, students will gain hands-on experience with the survey, monitoring, and analytic techniques used to determine changes in animal populations through active participation in research at the Barrow Field Station. Using real-world data and case studies, students will be challenged to develop management and monitoring strategies to meet the goals of diverse human interest groups by balancing sound science, ethics, political will, and economic forces.
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4.00 Credits
This course will incorporate environmental awareness with creative artistic responses to issues through the contemporary visual arts. It is intended to stimulate students seeking to learn about art placed in natural environments, art originating from natural objects, as well as to express statements on the environment through art. The primary studio focus will be on students creating their own art works in response to the nature as well as what is learned from readings about contemporary environmental artists and their works. Also listed as Art 260.
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4.00 Credits
An examination of the ethical, social, political, historical, and spiritual dimensions of human relations with nature. Course will explore recent developments in environmental theory, including deep ecology, ecological feminism, social ecology, bioregionalism, as well as alternative conceptions of nature in native and primary peoples. The history of American environmentalism and activism will also be addressed. Also listed as Philosophy 270.
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3.00 Credits
GIS, or Geographical Information Systems, is a class of software that allows information to be geographically referenced using digital maps linked with a database. GIS has become an extremely important tool in support of activities that takes place in a geographical context (e.g., human economic activity and population movement, land use patterns). This is a hands-on course in which students learn to use current software and hardware by collecting geographical data and creating maps. After classroom instruction in basic cartography, the use of GIS software, and GPS (global positioning system) technology, students will collaborate on designing and completing a mapping project.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Offered to examine specific, contemporary environmental issues. Past topics have included Lake Erie, Endangered Species, Conservation Facilities Management, and Environmental Education.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Permission and Sophomore standing.
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4.00 Credits
This course deals with making observations about the natural world around us and developing and communicating ensuing explanations of its structure, composition, and dynamics based on available scientific (mainly geology, paleontology, and ecology) information. Specifically, exploration of regional geological history, the structural features it produced, regional climates, and past and present ecosystems are studied through relevant field trips to areas of interest. Field trip locations include Lake Erie, local rivers, forests, bogs, rock outcrops, marshes, and many areas of the Hiram College Field Station. Additionally, various nature education facilities and organizations will be visited to study how the public is informed and how natural resources are managed at each site. Each student will be required to develop her or his own nature education presentation.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Practical work in the field of environmental studies. Developed jointly by student and instructor. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
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4.00 Credits
This course will examine the economic and environmental impact of individual and organizational actions. Global relationships among economic growth, resource development and environmental quality will be analyzed. Consideration will be given to the issue of sustainability as we study market allocation and depletable, recyclable, reproducible, renewable, and replenishable resources and local, regional global pollution. Prerequisites: Economics 201 (see Correlative Courses) or permission of instructor. Also listed as Economics 338.
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