Each student investigates a specific topic, presents a lecture on this topic to the class, and writes a literature review on the subject. Discussions are used to identify common miconceptions or gaps in knowledge for a particular environmental issue. Environmental Chemistry Chemistry 140 Chemistry of air, water, and soil environments. Influences of human activity and modern technology upon the environment. Identities, sources, properties, and reactions of pollutants.
Chemical approaches to the prevention and remediation of pollution.
Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Economics 326 Development of economic tools to value environmental amenities, analyze pollution control strategies, and guide natural resource use. The class develops a survey to value an environmental amenity and analyzes the policy implications of the results. Spring 2001 and alternate springs Studies in Literature and the Environment English 389 Special topics in environmental literature, such as American nature writing, the Thoreauvian narrative, ecocriticism, and ecoliterature. When Offered Principles of Biology II Biology 112 Introduction to organismal and superorganismal biology. Every fall and spring Vertebrate Field Biology Biology 322 Natural history of vertebrates concentrating on the evolution, adaptations, behavior and ecology of various vertebrate groups, from the fishes through the mammels.