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  • ENGR 3400: Engineering Global Practices in Non-Western Countries

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is designed to help students develop the necessary skills to allow them to interpret and understand non-western cultures and enable them to successfully work in a global industry. Design, business, manufacturing, problem solving, quality control, and supply chain management developed in non-western countries will be observed and studied. Theories, practices, copyright and patent protection, research protocol review boards, political practices, etc., will be examined. Discussions will include alternative views of engineering and modern technology to stimulate reflections on their characteristics from a global perspective. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Notes: Pre-visit orientation will be held to provide introduction to culture and language of the host country. Credits: 3 hours Semester Offered: Summer I and II
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  • ENGR 3700: Engineering Global Practices in Western Countries

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is designed to help students develop the necessary skills to allow them to interpret and understand other western cultures and enable them to successfully work in a global industry. Design, business, manufacturing, problem solving, quality control, and supply chain management developed in other western countries will be observed and studied. Theories, practices, copyright and patent protection, research protocol review boards, political practices, etc., will be examined. Discussions will include alternative views of engineering and modern technology to stimulate reflections on their characteristics from a global perspective. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: Sophomore standing. Notes: Pre-visit orientation will be held to provide introduction to culture and language of the host country. Credits: 3 hours Semester Offered: Summer I and II
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  • ENGR 4040: Service Learning Engineering Design III

    1.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    Continuation of ENGR 303 with increasing responsibilities related to defining a project, interactions with clients, project management, project budgeting, and analysis and evaluation of multiple design solutions. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: (ID 4330 and Junior standing), or (ENGR 3030 and Junior standing, or permission of instructor. Credits: 1 hour
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  • ENVS 1100: Nature and Society

    4.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of environmental studies designed for majors and minors in the program. Through a survey of environmental topics, students will examine changing human relationships to the nonhuman world, diverse approaches to environmental problems, and environmental literature from the humanities to the sciences. The course is reading and writing intensive, and also includes a required weekend camping trip. Credits: 4 hours
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  • ENVS 2150: Environmental Systems and Cycles

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course presents an overview of the fundamental physical, biological, and geochemical processes governing the movement of energy and matter in the environment, and the constraints imposed by these natural systems on human activities. Topics include the properties and use of energy resources, synthetic chemical and their biological effects, the chemistry of natural and polluted water, food production and population, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global climate change. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: CHEM 1000 or CHEM 1100. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 2250: Environmental Ecology

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course focuses upon the study of living systems of various sizes and degrees of complexity. Emphasis is on how individual organisms, natural populations, biotic communities, and ecosystems vary, how they are interconnected, and how human activities influence the complex interrelationships within and among them. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: Either BIOS 1120 or BIOS 1510; ENVS 1100 or ENVS 2150, or with approval of a program advisor. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 2260: Field Environmental Ecology

    1.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    An introduction to the major natural ecosystems of southwest Michigan, and modern ecological methods used in their study. Exercises and activities will be conducted largely in the field, primarily at the Pierce Cedar Creek Institute. Course content will complement lecture material presented in ENVS 2250. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVS 2250 or concurrent enrollment. Credits: 1 hour
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  • ENVS 3000: Environment,Technology,and Value

    4.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    An introduction to the physical and biological bases of the environment and the historical, anthropological relation of Homo Sapiens within those parameters, the impacts of the rise of modern industrial societies and human populations with an examination of the driving values causing and caused by these developments, the environmental movement and the alternative projected futures. At the discretion of a program advisor, ENVS 3000 may be substituted for ENVS 1100 for those students wishing to take an environmental studies major or minor. Students may not enroll in ENVS 3000 after successfully completing ENVS 1100. Credits: 4 hours
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  • ENVS 3200: Major Environmental Writings

    3.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course uses selected readings of classical works in the environmental field, together with current works of significant import, to introduce students to the wisdom and the variety of voices speaking on behalf of the environment and environmentally responsible courses of human action. This course is approved as a writing-intensive course which may fulfill the baccalaureate-level writing requirement of the student's curriculum. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ENVS 1100. Credits: 3 hours
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  • ENVS 3400: Environmental Policy

    4.00 Credits
    Western Michigan University

    This course explores why environmental policy is necessary and how environmental policy has been made, is being made, and might in the future be made in the United States. The emphasis is on environmental policy and regulation at the national level, but regional, state, and local approaches/initiatives will also be considered. In addition to considering the policy process (the how), we will also review the state of environmental policy (legislation and effectiveness) and explore the policy evaluation process (the tools and techniques policy makers use to make better decisions cost-benefit analysis, risk analysis, and environmental impact assessment). A substantial part of the course will also be devoted to considering emerging alternatives that are based on the principles of sustainability and the challenges involved in institutionalizing them. Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisite: ECON 2010 or GEOG 2440. Credits: 4 hours
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