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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for nonscience majors who are interested in the environment and environmental issues. Topics include an overview of humans and nature (environmental problems and their causes), principles and concepts (matter and energy, ecosystems, risk, toxicology, human health), resources and wastes, biodiversity, and living sustainably. Three lecture hours weekly.
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4.00 Credits
This environmental science course is designed for students who want more hands-on experience with environmental issues that are affecting their communities. Topics may include water supplies and pollution, soil conservation, energy consumption, human population growth and distribution, land-use planning, and exotic species. Discussions focus on ways students can contribute to more sustainable communities, both here at Widener and at home, through citizen participation in activities addressing these problems. Laboratories are mostly group-oriented projects that coincide with lecture material. Each student will research an issue of her/his choosing that is pertinent to the community in which she/he resides and give a presentation to the class. Three hours lecture; three hours laboratory.
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3.00 Credits
A course designed to expand one's awareness of science in general with particular emphasis on the geosciences. The principal topics include the study of Earth, its oceans, resources, and climate; Earth as compared to other planets in our solar system; and the fate of Planet Earth. This course is for nonscience majors. Corequisite: ESSC 113.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed for nonscience majors. The course provides an overview of the whole universe. Astronomy topics include understanding the planets, the Sun, stars and stellar evolution, the Milky Way, galaxies, and cosmology. The history of astronomy, telescopes, the nature of light and gravity are also covered. Students are expected to have basic math and calculator skills. Evening observation sessions using the Widener Observatory are a required part of the course. Three hours lecture; one hour observing. No prerequisites.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a descriptive survey of weather and climate for nonscience majors. Subjects include composition and structure of the atmosphere, solar and terrestrial radiation, temperature, atmospheric stability, forms of condensation and precipitation, pressure and wind systems, severe weather (thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes), weather analysis and forecasting methods, air pollution, the changing climate, world climates, and optical phenomena in the atmosphere. The laboratory component, ESSC 119, is a separate course. Credit will not be granted for both this course and ENVR/PHYS 209 Meteorology. Three hours lecture. No prerequisites.
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory associated with ESSC 103. Selected laboratory and field exercises related to corresponding text topics on Planet Earth. Corequisite: ESSC 103.
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1.00 Credits
This laboratory course is designed to complement ESSC 108. Laboratory exercises include identifying moon features, optics, understanding star properties, spectral analysis, and classification of galaxies. The laboratories are mostly pen and paper exercises to be completed in class. This course fulfills the science laboratory requirement. Two hours laboratory. Corequisite: ESSC 108.
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1.00 Credits
This laboratory course accompanies ESSC 109. Students engage in exercises that involve analyses of daily weather cycles, employing instruments to determine atmospheric temperature and humidity, learning about the forms of condensation and precipitation, studies of global pressure and wind systems, analyses of surface and upper-air weather maps, understanding the nature of air pollution, and classification of world climates. This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences science laboratory requirement. Two hours laboratory. Corequisite: ESSC 109.
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3.00 Credits
This module introduces the subject of facility design and management. The material helps to prepare students and managers to deal with facility-related problems and questions that arise with maintenance and engineering functions.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide an overview of the technology and information management issues facing facilities professionals. The course focuses on two primary applications of technology: (1) The application of technology in support of building operations, focusing on the use of energy management systems, integrated and automated control systems, telecommunications cabling, indoor air quality, etc. (2) The application of technology in support of facilities' function to create a "smart building." This includes the use of computer-aided facilities management, work order, and asset inventory systems. In addition, students are introduced to technology acquisition and the methods used to acquire systems and technology. The process of developing specifications to closing agreements that cover typical acquisitions-including hardware, software, and more complex outsourcing and internet services-is explored. Prerequisite: FAC 350.
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