First class is on August 31, 1999.
Holidays/Holy Days:
Last Class - December 6
Reading Day - December13 - No Class
Finals - December 14-18
Text Assignments in:
Lecture Text: Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions, 11th Ed. by G. Tyler Miller Jr., Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 815 pages, 2000.
1. Environmental Problems and Their Causes
2. Critical Thinking: Science, Models, and Systems
3. Matter and Energy Resources: Types and Concepts
22. Solid and Hazardous Waste
15. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
16. Nonrenewable Energy
Mid Term
18. Air Pollution
19. Global Warming and Ozone Loss
20. Water Pollution Cooperative Project Reports
24. Sustaining Ecosystems: Deforestation, Biodiversity, and Forest Management
Cooperative Learning Reports and Papers
26-3 Transportation (Section)
Final Exam
Additional chapters relating related to lectures and assigned as independent reading to be discussed in class with related topics:
10. Population Dynamics: Carying Capacity, and Conservation Biology
11. Human Population: Growth, Demography, and Carrying Capacity
If time permits
Not Likely to be covered
6. Evolution and Biodiversity: Origins, Niches, and Adaptation
7. Geographical Ecology, Climate, and Biomes
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