An interdisciplinary course taught by faculty representing a number of fields. Topics include scientific principles, human populations, resource management, pollution, and environmental ethics. Environmental Studies 225 . Physics and Chemistry of the Environment. The course coheres the basic physical and chemical processes in the earth's atmosphere, biosphere, and the oceans.
Lab is three hours per week.
This course is also listed as Chemistry 120. Electives Biology 340. Lab is three hours per week. A major portion of the field study is centered at the Charles M. Allen Biological Station. Lab is three hours per week.