ENVS 301 - Environmental Sustainability: An Exploration

5 Credits

With over 7 billion people on a finite world, humans can already see the impact of our consumer lifestyle. By analyzing environmental problems and examining socioeconomic concerns with creating policy, this course will use a scientific approach: An exploration of current issues will use a scientific approach to explore many of these global issues impacting our lives. Students will through hands-on activities collect, analyze, and synthesize real data and use the results to evaluate potential solutions to our current and future conditions.

Program Admission Required Yes Admitted Program BAS
FeesSL SC

Quarters Typically Offered
Summer Evening
Fall Evening
Winter Evening
Spring Evening

Designed to Serve Students working on a BAS program at Highline who need a 300 level science course.
Active Date 20210403T10:08:14

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 24
Shared Learning Environment Yes
Contact Hours: Lecture 44 Lab 22
Total Contact Hours 66
Degree Distributions:
Restricted Elective Yes
BAS

Natural Science

Course Outline

Introduction to Environmental Sustainability
Importance of Biodiversity
Ecosystem Services
Human Impacts
Social justice
Moving into the future

Student Learning Outcomes
Describe the abiotic factors such as climate, temperature or geology, which influence community dynamics and structure in the biotic environment.

Design, conduct and present results of experiments or observational studies focused on specific environmental problems.

Describe how the scientific method can be used to find solutions to various environmental problems.

Correctly use laboratory and field techniques when conducting experiments and observational studies.

Critically evaluate and predict current and future human impacts on local, regional, national, and international scales.

Explore the impact of environmental and business decisions on social justice.

Describe the effect the student’s own personal way of life and the choices they make while living it have on the health of the local and global environment.