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  • ENV 491W: Research/Independent Work

    4.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Faculty Students who are eligible for departmental honors can complete independent research work in this course. Work should be comprised of an independent project conducted using research methods in environmental studies, and including original work in the field, laboratory, or other scholarly forum. Students must have completed 12 semester hours of environmental studies courses including ENV-100 or have permission of their adviser to be eligible for independent research. Four semester hours. (I)
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  • ENV 492W: Research/Independent Work

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Faculty See course description for ENV-491W. ( I.)
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  • ENV/ANTH 352: Peoples and Their Environments

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Oboler Human cultural patterns and social institutions are adaptations to particular physical and social environments, and also have impacts on those environments. This course is concerned with the relationship between environments and subsistence systems on the one hand, and social/political institutions and belief systems on the other, using case studies from a variety of traditional societies. We will also consider the relationship between the global ecosystem and problems of Third World development, patterns of peasant production, causes and consequences of rapid population growth, and the fate of indigenous peoples. Prerequisites: ANTH-100 or permission of the instructor. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.)
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  • ENV/BE 213: Economics of Environment and Natural Resources

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Randall Economic analysis is used to inform, analyze, and evaluate current environmental and natural resource policy decisions. Analyses of environmental problems use cost-benefit or efficiency criteria. Topics include externalities, public goods, common property rights, and sustainability. Prerequisite: BE-100. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. (SS.)
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  • ENV/BIO 220: Biology of Maya Mexico

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. E. Dawley, Dr. R. Dawley A study of the environments, fauna, and flora of tropical Mexico and their relation to the Maya people who inhabit that region. We will examine coral reefs, coastal waters, and lowland and highland forests, focusing on animals and plants of particular importance to the ecosystem they inhabit and to the Maya people, past and present. Prerequisite: None. Field investigations accompanied by readings, lectures, and an independent project resulting in a review or research paper. Four semester hours. ( This course is part of the UC in Maya Mexico Program.)
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  • ENV/BIO 250: Environmental Biology

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Sidie A study of the biological basis of environmental issues. Includes ecosystems, communities, populations, water, energy, geologic resources, biodiversity, weather/climate, pollution, agriculture/hunger, soil resources/pests, solid/toxic hazardous waste, toxicology, land use. Prerequisite: BIO-101Q or permission of the instructor. Three hours of lecture. Three hours of lab per week. Four semester hours. (LS.)
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  • ENV/BIO 310: Biological Oceanography

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Goddard, Dr. Sidie A study of the biological bases of ocean science. Topics discussed include: ocean basins, seawater physics and chemistry, currents, waves, tides, upwelling zones, tidal rhythms in organisms, ocean habitats/biota, marine virology, marine microbiology, plankton, trophic relationships, hydrothermal vent communities, coral reefs. Prerequisite: BIO-101Q or permission of the instructor. Three hours of lecture; three hours of laboratory per week. (Course may be conducted in part at a marine field station). Four semester hours. (LS.)
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  • ENV/BIO 320: Biology of the Neotropics

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr.E.Dawley,Dr.R.Dawley A field study of Costa Rican tropical habitats including rain forests, montane forests, seasonally dry forests, and wetlands conducted at research sites throughout the county. Topics include diversity and natural history of key plants and animals, ecological interactions and evolutionary processes, and conservation. May include side trips to cloud forests or coral reefs. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and BIO -101Q. Field investigations accompanied by readings, lectures, and a directed research project. Course will meet 15 hours on campus and three weeks in Costa Rica between the Fall and Spring semesters. Four semester hours.(LS.)
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  • ENV/BIO 330: Marine Biology

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Sidie A field-oriented study of the important marine habitats, including pelagic and benthic zones, and intertidal communities. Topics include marine biodiversity-plants, protists, invertebrates, vertebrates; marine ecology; primary production in the sea; estuaries; plankton; nektron; marine mammals. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and BIO-101Q. Lecture and field investigations. (Course conducted in part at a marine field station.) Four semester hours. (LS.)
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  • ENV/BIO 394: Watershed Investigations and Actions

    3.00 Credits
    Ursinus College

    Dr. Goddard This course combines class time, research, and community action. Scientific and historical aspects of the Darby Creek watershed examined will include a brief survey of creek flora and fauna and physical properties (limnology), land development directly adjacent to the creek starting in the U.S. colonial period and the industries along the creek that lead to the declaration of a Superfund Site along the creek. Laboratory research is an investigation of pollution in a species of creek fish. Community action is a survey of pollution-indicator macroinvertebrate species with elementary schools throughout the watershed. Prerequisite: BIO-201W; or permission of the instructor. Two hours of lecture and 7 hours of laboratory/community action per week. Four semester hours.
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