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Official Course
Description: MCCCD Approval: 6-26-2007 |
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ENV101 2007 Summer I – 2008 Summer II |
LEC 4.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 3.0 Load Occ LAB 0.0 Credit(s) 3.0 Period(s) 2.4 Load |
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Introduction
to Environmental Science |
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Interdisciplinary analyses of interactions among living
and non-living environmental components, focusing on human influences.
Scientific methods of investigating and solving environmental problems are
introduced. Prerequisites: None. |
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MCCCD
Official Course Competencies: |
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ENV101 2007
Summer I – 2008 Summer II |
Introduction to Environmental Science |
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Use scientific knowledge and logic to understand and
examine environmental problems (I) |
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Develop scientific approaches for studying the
environment, including the design of scientific research studies. (I) |
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Collect and analyze samples as part of a scientific
inquiry. (I) |
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Write a
technical report that describes questions, methodology, results, and
discussion of a scientific study of the environment. (I) |
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Describe Earth's biodiversity and tell how the environment,
working through natural selection, produced it. (II) |
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Describe the
role of biotechnology in increasing ecosystem carrying capacity for humans
from scientific, economic, ethical, and moral perspectives. (II) |
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Identify different ways by which humans view their
relationship with the natural world. (II) |
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Describe levels of organization and interactions within
ecosystems. (III) |
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Describe populations and natural communities as units of
structure and function. (III) |
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Describe the relationship of climate and elevation to
biomes; their structure, resiliency, and global importance. (III) |
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Identify
structure and function of atoms and molecules in organisms and tell how they relate
to food webs and nutrient cycling in ecosystems. (III) |
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Describe the concept of carrying capacity in a finite
world. (IV) |
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Describe patterns of population growth and their
consequences to the ecosystem and species. (IV) |
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Identify human impacts on ecosystems and human policy on
managing natural resources. (IV) |
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Identify types
of pollution in the environment, their sources, and the problems they cause
from a community and species perspective. (IV) |
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Describe the threats to global freshwater supplies and
their consequences on biomes and species. (IV) |
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Describe the concept of global warming, its cause, and
consequences on biomes and species. (IV) |
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MCCCD
Official Course Outline: |
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ENV101 2007
Summer I – 2008 Summer II |
Introduction to Environmental Science |
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I. Scientific Investigation
A. Scientific inquiry 1. Process 2. Product B. Science versus dogma II. Environment and
Diversity A. Biodiversity 1. Evolution 2. Speciation B. Biotechnology 1. Genetic diversity 2. Biodiversity C. Perspectives 1. Scientific 2. Economic 3. Ethical 4. Moral III. Basic Environmental
Principles A. Levels of organization B. Ecosystems 1. Organization 2. Interaction 3. Nutrient cycling
ecosystems C. Communities 1. Populations a. Structure b. Function 2. Natural a. Structure b. Function D. Biomes relationships 1. Climate a. Structure b. Resiliency c. Global importance 2. Elevation a. Structure b. Resiliency c. Global importance E. Organisms, Molecules,
and Atoms 1. Structure 2. Function IV. Environmental Problems A. Earth's carrying
capacity 1. Finite world 2. Population growth
consequences a. Ecosystem b. Species B. Human impact 1. Pollution types 2. Management of natural
resources 3. Perspectives a. Community b. Species C. Global threat to water
supplies 1. Causes 2. Consequences a. Biomes b. Species D. Global warming 1. Causes 2. Consequences a. Biomes b. Species |