ENVR 250 - Environmental Challenges and Current Solutions (Honors)

3 Credit(s)

This honors course is intended for students who are concerned about the problems facing our planet’s environment today. It provides a background for the most serious environmental challenges facing Earth’s inhabitants, both human and non-human, what possible solutions are currently available, and what preventative measures can be taken to mitigate or prevent future disasters. Sessions are run in part lecture, part seminar format, and use current information available in print, in video format, and on the World Wide Web. Topics include the causes and effects of environmental crises in recorded history, and topics of global and regional concern such as deforestation and biodiversity loss, air and water pollution, acid precipitation, global warming, destruction of stratospheric ozone, and solar energy and alternative fuels. This course is open only to students in the Honors Program, and does not fulfill the ENVR technical elective requirement or the CHEM science elective.
3 hours lecture.
Prerequisite(s): No Prerequisites.