检查自然系统, adverse impacts of human activities upon these systems, 以及社会如何应对这些影响. Topics may include ecology; biodiversity; forests and deforestation; human population growth and control; food production and world hunger; energy resources; and water and air pollution. In addition to the science of these topics, related politics, economics, and ethics are discussed.

自然, 作文, and organization of parties and pressure groups; the role played by these two forces in the political process; history and programs of parties and pressure groups will be 分析d. Also, the nature of contemporary voting 行为 is examined.

This course focuses on Earth's geologic resources and how they influence man's use of the physical world. Topics include plate tectonics; earthquakes; rock and mineral formation; weathering and erosion; groundwater and surface water; Course Descriptions 213 stratigraphy and energy resources; glaciation and geologic history. Students make observations and 测量s and translate them into meaningful data from which inferences can be drawn. 通过亲身体验, 学生获得阅读地图的技能, 鉴定矿物和岩石, 解释地质和地形图.

实验室附ensc210.

This course will provide an introduction to Geographic 信息rmation Systems. A Geographic 信息rmation System is a series of tools to create, 编辑, 维护, and 分析 maps and data about features that occur over a specific geographic area. The course will detail the terminology, concepts, and applications that are commonly used with GIS. Hands-on training will be provided in the labs for input and 编辑 functions, 特别查询和分析功能, 设施管理功能.

通过大量的实地考察, 实践的方法, this course teaches the physical and chemical components and processes of the Earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate systems, 在生物和人类系统的背景下. Topics include above and belowground freshwater systems, 天气和气候机制和现象, energy fluxes and the structure and dynamics of the land surface, 临界区域, 海洋, 和大气, including their combined influence on the climate regionally and globally, and science communication in context of complex societal topics, 比如自然资源开采和气候变化. Students will synthesize their understanding through quantitative and spatial analysis, and will advance their abilities in science communication through multiple presentations and written forms of assessment. 通过多个课程项目, 学生将进行定量观察, 分析, 解决, 就复杂的科学问题进行交流, requiring creative 合成 of new and existing information of varying sources– enhancing student’s skills in quantitative observation, 信息素养, 运用科学思维进行批判性探究, 独立和团队合作的多周工作, multi-deliverable项目.

[Dual listed as BIOL 360]: This course involves the study of the interrelationships among organisms and with their environments. Topics include organism responses to physical and chemical conditions, 人口增长与调控, 种内和种间竞争, 食草性, 捕食, 寄生, 互利共生, 群落结构, 生态系统生产力, 养分循环, 和分解.

The purpose of this course is to examine the NEPA- and NYS SEQRA-based approaches to environmental impact assessment. Students will learn how to design a statistically acceptable monitoring program; how to collect samples; how to prepare and preserve samples for analyses; and how to interpret environmental data in the assessment of impacts.

学生必须完成ENSC440 and ENSC441 or ensc398和ENSC399满足学位要求.

研究I和II(6学分)

• Students conduct research in 环境科学 or 政策 under the direction of a faculty member. Students make individual arrangements with a faculty member to plan and conduct the study. 在她/他的工作结束时, a written report and a public seminar are presented by the student, which may include a presentation at a scientific conference. 

实习(6学分)

• The internship is designed to be a pre-professional work-related experience at an off-campus location. 通常在大三或大四学习, 可以在科学的范围内获得安置, 政府, or advocacy organizations or with private consulting firms and environmental laboratories. The student intern will be supervised by an on-site professional and by the 环境科学 & 政策实习协调员. 实习 must be approved by the Program Director and the Office of 职业服务 prior to their commencement.

这是环境科学的封顶课程 & 政策. The course examines the moral implications of human attitudes regarding other species and the environment. This course explores the historical roots and current world views that have generated the present state of widespread environmental degradation. The interrelationship of ecology, economics, sociology, and ethics will also be studied.