ES 107 - Environmental Science

This course is a science-based investigation of the Earth as a system, with application to understanding many issues in contemporary environmental policy. Science is an attempt to discover how nature works. Through careful observation, measurements, experimentation, and modeling, students will explore issues in contemporary environmental science. These include climate change, biodiversity, deforestation, ecosystem structure and function, population, biogeochemical cycling, energy, as well as investigations of environmental problems, their causes, and solutions.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites/Restrictions: ENV and ES Majors/Minors Only (Majors/Minors Only restriction will be released for open registration)

Fee: Yes

LSC/Core: Processes of Scientific Reasoning/ Scientific Inquiry