BIO 2007 Current Environmental Problems
This course addresses the scientific and social bases of the major environmental problems of our times, including nonrenewable energy sources, global climate change and air pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, ocean pollution and wetlands destruction and loss of biodiversity, landfills and the need to reduce, reuse, recycle. Students will work together in small groups, researching a topic of their choice including an outline, a paper and a presentation of their topic to the class. Included in the content of each report will be the cause and effect and solutions to the environmental problems. This course counts as an introductory Environmental Studies elective as well as a biology major elective course. (3 cr.).