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3.00 Credits
Widespread concern for a cleaner environment and sustainable practices has put new demands on business. Exploration of philosophical, theoretical, strategic, and policy issues facing organizations in relation to the natural environment. Same as BOS 335. Forbes
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A course in basic and applied forest ecology, with particular emphasis on forest communities, ecosystems, and landscapes. Topics include forest environments, tree physiology and growth, ecosystem productivity, biogeochemistry, disturbance regimes, regeneration processes, and the history of eastern North American forests. The laboratory includes local field trips, multi-week projects, and a voluntary trip to New England over fall break. Prerequisites: BIO 110, BIO 220, and permission of the instructor. Same as BIO 342. Sipe
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Exploration of variables involved in global change, ranging from natural drivers of change to humanity's direct effects on geochemical cycles and biological communities. A portion of the course deals with climate change. The global impact of humans on the Earth's natural resources is surveyed in a scientific framework. Possible ways in which humans might mitigate these impacts are addressed. Prerequisites: ENV/GEO 114 or BIO 110 or permission of the instructor. Same as ENV 344. Richter, Williams
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Lithologic, stratigraphic, and structural geologic examination of classical areas; preparation of reports and geologic maps on topographic and aerial photographic base maps in areas of sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous rocks; examination of mineral localities. Approved courses are offered by other institutions and accepted for credit with grade. The grade earned in this course will count in Franklin & Marshall GPA calculations, regardless of whether it is being taken as a required course for a major or minor or not. May be taken for one or two course credits. Prerequisite: permission of department chair. Staff
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A Very Wreck of a World: speculative cosmologies, descriptive natural history, and the origins of a science of the Earth. The age of the Earth and our "Place in Nature": a fall from grace, limitlesshorizons and the Victorian commitment to progress. National and social origins of the science and scientists. Relation of new geological concepts to the Industrial Revolution and contemporary cultural themes, including their expression in the arts. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. Same as STS 384. Thomas
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An investigation of attitudes toward the natural environment from a historical perspective, and the evolution from conservation to contemporary environmental concerns. This course pays particular attention to places-the Hudson River Valley and the Chesapeake basin, for example-as well as toideas and attitudes. Same as AMS 401. Schuyler
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3.00 Credits
The nature of fossils. Analysis of growth and variation in fossil assemblages. Systematic methods. Reconstruction of the modes of life of extinct organisms. Paleoecology, paleobiogeography and biostratigraphy. Fossil record of evolutionary patterns and inferred processes in the history of life. Laboratory, field trips. Prerequisite: GEO 221 or permission of instructor. Thomas
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3.00 Credits
Global tectonics: seismological, geothermal, geomagnetic and geochronological evidence of crustal and mantle history and processes; mantle bulk properties and convection; plate tectonics; sea floor spreading; application of plate tectonics to continental masses; tectonic models. Prerequisite: GEO 231. Ismat
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3.00 Credits
Readings, lectures, discussions and student presentations address critical issues underpinning modern environmental problems. Primary literature specific to some of these problems is employed. Working within this framework, students apply their accumulated knowledge of environmental studies and science to propose, conduct and write up a semester long research project exploring a local, regional or global environmental problem. Williams
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of key problems of contemporary interest in the Earth's geologic history. Topics addressed have included the origin and stabilization of the North American craton and the magmatic, stratigraphic, and structural histories of the Cordilleran and Appalachian orogenic belts. Prerequisite: senior standing in Geosciences. Thomas
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