2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog (Updated Spring 2021) 
    
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ENVS 221 Principles of Environmental Science

Credit 3
This is an interdisciplinary course that examines human influences on the world’s environments. This course integrates biological, physical, and chemical sciences to study the problems affecting our environment and engages social, political, and economic concepts to understand why these problems exist and the complexity of these issues. Various topics will be discussed, including ecology of natural systems, population growth, air and water pollution, global climate change, extinction of species, use of water, land, and food resources, energy use, toxic compounds, solid wastes, and legal and economic aspects of environmental degradation. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 112 CHEM 112 . This course is for science majors only.



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