Field trips and laboratory exercises. Water quality, atmospheric composition, waste disposal, natural resources, the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to environmental problems. Field trips emphasize local environmental problems. Field trip to local cave required. At a lower division level.
Topics vary with interest of student and instructor.
Stresses identification methods. Laboratory exercises and field trips. Field work to emphasize the techniques used in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting structural data. Field trips and laboratory exercises. The course uses several scientific themes to rediscover from the past, and find in contemporary research, the women who have made significant contributions to science.