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1.00 Credits
A course which provides students with a hands-on experience on what was covered in the lecture of ENSC 145. Topics include measurement, density, moisture and dry matter content of leafy vegetables, seed germination, respiration, cell structure, acids and bases, soils, and the student's own environment. Co-requisite: ENSC 145.
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3.00 Credits
This course details the fundamental principles of wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal. It emphasizes advanced treatment methods for producing effluents and solid matter of the quality required for disposal or reuse in agricultural and urban settings. The course also provides discussions of problems encountered in wastewater distribution as well as environmental and human health issues related to disposal and reuse of treatment products. The laboratory session will focus on the principles of wastewater collection and wastewater aeration as well as the calculations required for water plant operations. Co-requisite: ENSC 223.
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1.00 Credits
This course details the fundamental principles of wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal. It emphasizes advanced treatment methods for producing effluents and solid matter of the quality required for disposal or reuse in agricultural and urban settings. The laboratory session will focus on the principles of wastewater collection and wastewater aeration as well as the calculations required for water plant operations. Students will have opportunities to go on field trips to local water treatment facilities. Co-requisite: ENSC 221.
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3.00 Credits
The introduction to environmental science and sustainability course is an interdisciplinary course designed for non-majors. It introduces students to how the wellbeing of humans is integrally linked to the wellbeing of the other species with which we share the planet. The course focuses upon the fundamental principles of environment and sustainability concepts. The course content includes environmental impact, water quality, energy and water use efficiency, transportation, built environment, ecosystem services, biodiversity, climate change, and green business. It will enable students to make an informed decision on their day-to-day activities to protect the environment.
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3.00 Credits
A study and survey of those concepts which define and explain the interrelationships between organisms and the ecosystem. Students will be able to examine the campus ecology. With a focus on the human impact on environmental processes, the class will consider the living (biotic), non-living (a biotic), and the interdisciplinary nature of ecological problems and their resolutions. While considering sustainability and stewardship, the course topic will include water resources, energy, forests, and biodiversity. The course will also discuss the relationships between human society and natural ecosystems as they relate to the sustainability of both. Relevant scientific, socio-economic, and ethical issues will be addressed in connection to current events such as climate change, energy policy, and land use change/urban planning. The course examines the effect of human populations and socio-cultural variables on contemporary environmental changes at global and local scales with an emphasis on sustainable use, management, and conservation of natural resources, biodiversity, and ecosystem services. Co-requisite: ENSC 251.
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1.00 Credits
The course is an interactive learning course in which the students conduct and participate in processes designed to enhance skill and knowledge development. Students will examine and describe their own ecology as well as the Van Ness campus ecology. Co-requisite: ENSC 250.
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4.00 Credits
This course will instill awareness of soils as a basic natural resource, the use or abuse of which has a considerable influence on human society and life in general. Students are made aware of the concept that we grow with soil. It is an introductory course that presents basic concepts of all aspects of soil science including: soil genesis and classification; physical, chemical, and biological properties; soil - water relationship; soil fertility and productivity, soil conservation and soil management. It also discusses soil's role in environmental science and non-agricultural land uses. Pre-requisite: ENSC 145.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to teach students the principles of sustainable agriculture and the use of these principles to replace today's agricultural practices that are dominated by high inputs of inorganic synthetic chemical fertilizers and toxins in attempts to control disease and insects, which at the same time pollute our air and water resources. This course will instruct students how to implement the sustainable agricultural approach of environmental, economical, societal, and intergenerational sustainability by adopting an integrated system of agricultural production that lessens the dependence upon synthetic chemicals such as inorganic fertilizers and toxic pesticides. Pre-requisite: ENSC 145. Co-requisite: ENSC 353.
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1.00 Credits
This course is designed to give students hands-on knowledge on how soil-plant relationships are affected by environmental factors such as air, water, and light. It is also designed to show students how agricultural practices such as soil and soil components, adding soil amendments for maintaining soil fertility and comparing the sustainable agricultural principles of growing plants with organic composted materials in lieu of inorganic commercial nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium. Pre-requisite: ENSC 146. Co-requisite: ENSC 352.
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3.00 Credits
Students learn how toxic materials can impact their health and the health of plants and animals around them. We can be exposed to toxic materials through many routes and they can affect us in a variety of ways such as acute and chronic diseases, reproductive failure, or low survival in animal and plant populations. There are a wide range of materials that can be toxic to humans, from industrial chemicals, lead in water, radioactivity, pesticides, and pollutants in our air, food or water. By contrast fish can find changes or levels of salinity changes to be toxic. We will examine these impacts and the various ways that our society seeks to reduce these risks, including work with the District (of Columbia) Department of Health. Pre-requisite: CHEM 111. Co-requisite: ENSC 355.
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