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3.00 Credits
Lectures and workshop designed to enhance students’ confidence in analytical problem solving. Essential techniques emphasizing environmental applications: translating knowledge into abstract and mathematical models, numerical estimates, basic geometry and trigonometry, dimensional analysis, unit conversions, interpreting statistical data, graphic display of information. Conceptual introduction to calculus, differential equations, and complex numbers. Prerequisite: completion or concurrent enrollment in GE math course. Cr/NC only.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Human cultural adaptations in evolutionary/historical perspective. Effects of human technology and social institutions upon the natural environment. Beliefs, values, attitudes in relation to human and non-human environment. Emphasis on critical thinking and ethical implications of human ideas and behavior. Prerequisites: ENSP 200 or equivalent and junior standing.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores major concepts of ecology and examines current environmental issues in light of these concepts. Topics include: relationship between organisms and the physical environment, community-level ecological processes, the structure and function of ecosystems and their distribution on the planet, evolutionary processes, and population ecology. Environmental issues include pest control, deforestation, loss of biodiversity, global climate change, and others. Development of speaking and writing skills is a significant element of the course. Field trip required. Prerequisite: ENSP 200 or permission of instructor.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
A review of the field physical sciences for environmentalists. Develops an understanding of the problems and challenges in environmental control of air, water, soil, natural hazards, and nonrenewable resources by applying scientific principles to practical environmental problems. Prerequisite: completion of lower-division GE categories B1 & B3 and ENSP 200, or permission of instructor.
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2.00 Credits
Designed to introduce ENSP students to theory and techniques of computer-aided environmental communication. The fundamentals of environmental communication will be addressed, demonstrated, and applied through a variety of instructional technologies. Presentation graphics, the Web, and desktop publishing are the three areas primarily addressed.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of philosophical issues; concepts of extending rights to nonhuman entities of nature, and the question of humans’ place in nature; logical and conceptual foundations for an environmental ethic. Prerequisite: completion of GE, area A.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of great American environmental books, including H. D. Thoreau’s Walden, John Muir’s Mountains of California, and more recent works by Mary Austin, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and other environmental authors. The natural, political, artistic, and historical environment of the writers, and cultural results of the environmental movement in various major periods. Prerequisite: completion of GE, category C2 (World Literature).
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
An introduction to soil science emphasizing applications to agronomy, archaeology, botany, ecology, engineering, geography, geology, natural resource planning, hazardous materials management, and water quality. Technical exercises emphasize low-cost scientific analytical equipment. Prerequisite: completion of GE, area B (Natural Science and Mathematics).
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3.00 Credits
An overview of land use planning and associated concerns, such as transportation, open space preservation, housing, economic development, environmental protection, urban design, and public finance. Consideration of the evolving forms and functions of cities, towns, and rural areas and society’s attitudes toward development, environmental concerns, and the appropriate role of government in regulating land use. Course addresses general plans, zoning, growth management, environmental impact assessment, and the local political process relating to planning. Current trends in planning and sustainable community development. Page 194 Environmental Studies and Planning Sonoma State University 2006-2008 Catalog
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of evolving planning thought and processes as a basis for understanding planning practice. Comprehensive planning, incremental, and communicative action models. Planning and local politics. The values and ethics of the professional planner. Mediating environmental and land use disputes. Basic analytical, methodological, and communication skills utilized in urban, environmental, and business planning.
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