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Oct 10, 2024
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2020-2021 Catalog [PREVIOUS CATALOG YEAR]
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GEO 210 - Society and Environment Description: Interaction among social processes, key environmental issues, and nature's role as a resource at global and regional scales. Application of critical thinking skills to analyze environment-human interactions.
Prerequisites: Reading Proficiency.
Credits: 3 Lecture: 3 Course Content:
- Physical environment, ecosystems, resource use, pollution & climate fluctuations
- Causes and consequences of the population explosion & world hunger including the role of farming & sustainability
- History of the environmental movement and modern environmentalism
- Fundamentals of critical thinking as a skill and a process as it pertains to environmental and social issues
- Critical thinking skills and reasoned arguments
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe the concept of natural resources, their origin and their geographic patterns. (1,2)
- Describe and use elements and aspects of the critical thinking process, including the examination of complex and conflicting ideas about the environment. (1-5)
- Relate the causes and consequences of habitat degradation and pollution including modern and historical human activities. (1-5)
- Describe and model the essential steps and concepts of critical thinking while evaluating environmental data and data sources, including socio-economic and temporal constraints, biases, implications and consequences. (1-5)
- Analyze rehabilitation and mediation measures including environmentalism, recycling, composting and ecotourism. (2-5)
- Explain sustainability and predict the impact of pollution and exploitation of resources on modern lifestyles and future populations. (2-5)
- Apply critical thinking skills when assessing technical, social and individual issues in environment-society interactions. (2-5)
- Explain how open-mindedness to new ideas is crucial to the development of critical thinking skills and that closure is not always achieved in intellectual discourse. (4-5)
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