Advanced students have taken the course and found it very useful and informative. This is a content course in which reading, writing and computational skills needed for successful completion of college-level science course are introduced and practiced. The content emphasizes basic principles of ecology and models of environmental analysis. In addition, students are exposed to a great deal of factual data regarding world population growth, world hunger, global climate change, acid rain, cultural eutrophication, deforestation of the tropics, wetlands alteration and restoration, and biodiversity impoverishment. Students learn to use the models and apply the principles of ecology to develop informed opinions about the above environmental issues.
Some activities are primarily computational.
The first essay is not graded. The final journal grade, the quiz average, and the essay average each count as one-third. Other introductory biological science.