2024-2025 Academic Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Academic Catalog

SCIE 100 - Environmental Science

4 CR
An interdisciplinary approach analyzing our earthly environment from the vantage point of the biological and physical sciences. The course will focus upon such topics as life cycles, energy, pollution, governmental policy, population and resource depletion and deterioration. Additionally, philosophic and ethical attitudes of our relationship to cultural and natural environment will be examined. Within this framework, humans will be studied as “citizens of earth”.


Requisites: Next Gen ACCUPLACER® reading score of 244, or at least a grade of C in TSRE 55 .
General Education Requirement: Personal and Cultural Engagement - General Education Core
Michigan Transfer Agreement Requirement: Natural Sciences
Course Learning Outcomes:
  1. Discuss the natural environment and its relationships with human activities.
  2. Characterize and analyze human impacts on the environment.
  3. Integrate facts, concepts, and methods from multiple disciplines and apply them to environmental problems.
  4. Acquire practical skills for scientific problem solving, including familiarity with laboratory and field instruments, computer applications, statistical and modeling techniques.
  5. Explain and implement scientific research strategies, including collection, management, evaluation, and interpretation of environmental data.
  6. Evaluate strategies, technologies, and methods for sustainable management of environmental systems and for the remediation or restoration of degraded environments.