2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

BIOL 108 Environmental Science and Stewardship

Our everyday wellbeing and sustenance are connected to our environment in many ways, but many of these connections are not obvious. This course focuses on how human society relates to and depends on the environment. This course incorporates the topics of human population, patterns of resource use, energy, and pollution while considering how to move toward a sustainable future for the Creation. Some aspects of the following disciplines are included: ecology, animal and plant biology, physics, chemistry, oceanography, and atmospheric science. (Three hours of lecture and two hours lab per week.)

Credits

4

Offered

Fall semester of odd calendar years

Notes

Meets the general education laboratory science requirement.