Global Environmental Science

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Course No: 18.535; Last Offered: No Data;

Course Description

The history, current status, and predicted future of global impacts of human activity on the natural environment, including climate change, habitat destruction, resource depletion, pollution, and loss of biodiversity. Students will acquire a broad awareness and quantitative understanding of the different impacts by studying the common cause-and-effect processes and fundamental scientific principles that underlie them, including the conservation of mass and energy, feedback loops, and the laws of thermodynamics and population ecology. By applying a historical and evolutionary perspective, students will comprehend the big picture; how thousands of years of human population explosion are now suddenly culminating in a global mass extinction and reduction in the Earth's carrying capacity for humans and other species. The implications of this big picture for sustainable development strategies will be discussed for different types of human communities around the world.

Prerequisites & Notes

  • Prerequisites: Students with a CSCE career need permission to take Graduate Level Courses.
  • Special Notes:
  • Credits: 3;

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