
the context of current critical discourse.
Students write a long, research-based paper.
- Teacher: William Pritchard
Scholarly perspectives on environmental problems, and solutions, integrating concepts and analytical, skills drawn from the natural sciences, social, sciences, and humanities. Foundation for all, subsequent courses in the environmental studies, major. Lectures, faculty and guest presentations,, regular online assignments, individual and group, research projects.
Development of research and analytical skills in environmental studies as preparation for upper-division work by majors and minors. Emphasis on formulation, practice, and communication of research. Skills span full range of allied fields, including descriptive and inferential statistics, geographic information systems, survey and interview techniques, qualitative data analysis, and bibliographic research. Lectures, individual and small-group assignments, and course projects. Accompanying lab provides opportunity for students to build analytical skills via real-world research projects. Prospective majors develop concentrations as a central activity in 220.
A planning space for ENVX symposium.