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  • EN 485: Senior Project

    3.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Advanced study of a topic chosen by the student and approved by the department. The project requires completion of a critical paper. Required of all senior English majors. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and 221 and 250 and Senior English Majors Only. 2 units - Hayward, Mason.
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  • EV 120: Topics in Environmental Science

    3.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Selected topics of current societal interest that relate to our environment offered when interest and opportunity arise. Counts as one unit of natural science credit, a few of which may meet the lab or field requirement. Only one such unit may be counted toward the natural science requirements. Block 2: Topics in Environmental Science: Environmental Justice in the Southwest. Conflicts and commonalities between practicing environmentalists (pastoral cultures of New Mexico and southern Colorado) and card-carrying environmentalists. Course topics include historic, economic, and social origins of conflicts between these rural cultures and urban environmentalists and today's response by pastoral cultures to re-create equitable economics that sustain environment and culture. Field trip to New Mexico and southern Colorado. Prerequisite: ( field trip) (Writing Intensive). (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as American Cultural Studies 200 and Sociology 190 and Southwest Studies 220.) 1 unit - Varela.
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  • EV 121: Introduction to Environmental Science

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    This course provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field at a level appropriate even for non-science majors, applying concepts, methods, and models from many disciplines to the major problems facing a sustainable management of the environment. The complex interactions of the "biosphere," the human systems that make up the "sociosphere," and the physical Earth systems that support them are considered. (Does not meet the field/lab credit.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • EV 127: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems

    5.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Explores the basics of computer-based information analysis and manipulation. Teaches students fundamentals of basic GIS tasks: mapmaking, spatial analysis, and database creation. Students learn to use software that links these three functions together. Computer-based exercises are used both in class to teach fundamentals, and in labs that assist students to learn and use basic GIS tools. (January half-block.) .5 unit - Perramond.
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  • EV 128: Introduction to Global Climate Change

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Introduction to the contemporary Earth climate system and evidence for near-future changes, focusing on the role of the atmosphere, oceans and land surface. Course includes the use of mathematical models to describe complex systems and the role of policy, economics and ethics in mitigating human impact. (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Scientific Investigation of the Natural World requirement.) 1 unit - Department, Fricke, Kummel, Taber.
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  • EV 135: Meteorology

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Basic physics principles introduced and used to study dynamic processes in the atmosphere: atmospheric energy flow, solar radiation, green house effect, large-scale circulation of the atmosphere, small scale processes including clouds and storms, weather forecasting, humanity's impact on weather and climate. Laboratory and field experiments and trips will be utilized. (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • EV 141: Sustainable Development

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Investigates the concept of sustainable development by first introducing the necessary economic terms and concepts. It next explores traditional economic models of production and distribution. Finally it introduces the concept of sustainable development (meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs). It includes fieldwork to explore the behavior of traditional economic models and examples of sustainable development. Counts as one unit of social Science credit, but not as a natural science credit. Prerequisite: No Economics credit after Economics 150, 151, 152 or 160 and May not be counted toward Econ or Poli Econ majors. (Also listed as Economics 141 and Southwest Studies 141.) 1 unit - Hecox.
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  • EV 155: Introductory Earth Systems Science

    1.00 - 9.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    An overview of the Earth's surface systems including lithosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Course will also examine fluxes among these systems such as soil-forming processes, hydrologic processes, and biogeochemical cycles. (Meets the laboratory/field requirement for natural sciences.) (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Scientific Investigation of the Natural World lab or field requirement.) (Not offered 2008-09.) 1 unit.
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  • EV 161: Environmental Sociology

    1.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    (Meets the Critical Perspectives: Diverse Cultures and Critiques requirement.) (Also listed as Sociology 130.) 1 unit - Roberts.
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  • EV 207: Independent Research in Environmental Science

    3.00 Credits
    Colorado College

    Independent research based on laboratory or field investigation in a cross-disciplinary field. (Research focused on problems that may be addressed by a departmental discipline should be taken in those departments.) Prerequisite: At least one course in Environmental Science, consent of both the instructor and the Environmental Science director and Registration at least four weeks prior to the block in which the research is to be initiated. Cannot be counted as the advanced elective for the Environmental Science major. May be taken for a block, January half block, or as an extended- format course. Does not meet the Studies in Natural Science or any Computer Science requirement. 1 unit - Hecox, Kummel.
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