Goal Area 10: People and the Environment

Students will be able to:

• explain the basic structure and function of various natural ecosystems and of human adaptive strategies within those systems;
• discern and analyze patterns and interrelationships of the bio-physical and psycho-social cultural systems;
• critically discern and analyze individual, social, and ecological dimensions of health;
• describe the basic institutional arrangements (social, legal, political, economic, health, ethical, religious) that are evolving to deal with environmental and natural resource challenges;
• evaluate critically environmental and natural re source issues in light of understandings about interrelation ships, ecosystems, and institutions;
• propose and assess alternative solutions to environmental problems;
• articulate and defend the actions they would take on various environmental issues.

AIS	360	Indigenous Peoples and Envrionmental Struggles	3
ANTH	102	Ancient Peoples	4
ANTH	210	Introduction to Archaeology	4
EEC	205	Service Learning: Society and the Environment	3
ENVR	101	Perspectives in Environmental Science	4
GEOG	100	Elements of Geography	3
GEOG	101	Introductory Physical Geography	3
GEOG	210W	Landscapes and Places	3
GEOL	100	Our Geologic Environment
GEOL	108	Oceans of the World	3
GEOL	121	Physical Geology	4
HLTH	101	Health and the Environment	3
PHIL	226W	Environmental Ethics	3
RPLS	282	Wildlife as a Recreational Resource	3
SOC	360	Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Struggles	3
URBS	150	Sustainable Communities	3