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ESC 125 Environmental Science Course Objectives

1. To provide an overview of current environmental issues from local and global perspectives.
2. To develop an understanding of the nature and impacts humans have made on ecosystems and how we can help prevent future impacts.
3. To develop a sense of the scientific process and the critical thinking skills involved in scientific inquiry.
4. To encourage scientific literacy using an interdisciplinary approach involving biological, chemical, and ecological principles.
5. To enable students to realize that science is fun!
6. To define science (and non-science) and review the scientific method from an environmental perspective.
7. To illustrate how physical components (matter and energy) are linked with the biological environment.
8. To review levels of biological organization, emphasizing populations, communities, and ecosystems.
9. To present basic principles of ecology and describe how living things interact with their environment.
10. To describe qualitatively and quantitatively the extent and controls of global human population growth.
11. To describe renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, their consumption by the human population, and the generation of environmental pollutants as a result.
12. To review the chief types of air pollution and water pollution and methods of prevention and treatment.