Students interested in the environment should explore each issue of the Time Schedule thoroughly, because many appropriate courses are offered at irregular intervals under unpredictable headings. Of particular interest are some of the University Courses. Life and the Global Environment. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in 361. How human beings interact with the natural environment, including the physical and chemical environment and living creatures.
Instruction is by lectures, films, assigned reading, and computer exercises.
Grades are based on homework and frequent short quizzes. Introduction to Environmental Studies. A survey of the environmental state of the world in 1977, including the health of physical systems such as climate and water, of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, and of humans and their habitations. A review of the ways in which earth supports the lives of human beings and an examination of the origins of natural resources and the politics and economics of resource use, how resource consumption has changed with time, and how it varies among contemporary cultures. These themes will be linked by considerations of sustainability and their relationship to the size of the human population, the quality of life, and the integrity of natural systems.