ENS 1150 Intro to Environmental Science Integrated Lab/Lecture
This integrated lab-lecture course will explore environmental-social questions of broad importance to sustainable, healthy, and equitable living in the 21st century and beyond. Through investigations of topics such as biodiversity and the current mass extinction, food and sustainable agriculture, and climate change and its impacts on the world around us, we will come to understand how Earth systems transfer matter and energy over space and time, how human health and environmental conditions are inseparably interrelated, and how societal inequities and injustices are exacerbated by environmental issues. Along the way, we’ll practice asking answerable scientific questions and frame testable hypotheses about environmental phenomena; interpreting data in various forms and use it to craft a scientific argument; and connecting scientific concepts to our diverse lives and academic interests.
Course Types
Science; Lab Science
Notes
No credit awarded for students with credit for /ens-1110'>ENS 1110 and ENS 1113.
- Be able to explain how matter and energy flow through through Earth systems over time and space.
- Be able to explain ways in which human health is impacted by the natural environment.
- Be able to explain why societal inequity and injustice are exacerbated by environmental issues, and describe a few ways this plays out.
- Be able to ask answerable questions and frame testable hypotheses to investigate environmental phenomena.
- Be able to interpret graphs, data, and diagrams and use evidence to craft an argument.
- Be able to connect science to your own life and other areas of academic interest.