4/28/2024 10:21:39 PM	ENVS 12 Course Outline as of Fall 1985	New Course (First Version)
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ENVS 12	Title:  POPULA/RESOURCE/ENV
Full Title:  Population, Resources & Environment
Last Reviewed:1/27/2020

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
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Catalog Description:

Interactions of population growth, technology, and resources, including land, water, air, energy, minerals, and food.  Global and regional patterns of resource use and environmental impacts.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:

Recommended Preparation:
Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 100 or ESL 100. Eligibility for ENGL 1A.

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Interactions of population growth, technology & resources.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Completion of or concurrent enrollment in ENGL 100 or ESL 100. Eligibility for ENGL 1A.
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1985	Inactive:
Area:	C H	Natural Sciences Global Perspective and Environmental Literacy
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	B1	Physical Science		Fall 1985
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	5A	Physical Sciences		Fall 2008
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1985	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1985	Inactive:
C-ID:
CID Descriptor: ENVS 100	Introduction to Environmental Science	SRJC Equivalent Course(s): ENVS12

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

The successful student will

--Recognize the interdisciplinary nature of environmental studies.

--Acknowledge that most environmental questions do not have simple

 or unchanging answers.

--Appreciate the utility of models, hierarchies, mass and energy

 budgets, and classification schemes.

--Acquire and utilize fundamental science concepts related to mass,

 size, time, energy, equilibrium, evolution, and chemical behavior.

--Interpret graphs and charts of both theoretical and actual data,

 utilizing techniques or interpolation and extrapolation.

--Acquire and utilize a vocabulary of several hundred terms, the

 majority of which will have application beyond this course.

--Differentiate between projections and predictions, and have experience

 in the preparation of each.

Topics and Scope

Ecosystems and species relationships.  Nutrient cycling and energy flow,

matter and energy laws.

Human population.  Demographic variables, exponential growth,

projections, national population policies.

Water, food, land, and energy resources.  Analysis of supply and demand

factors.  Principal producers and consumers.

Air, water, and land pollution, pesticides, radioactivity, and noise.

Basic chemical principles.  Waste management alternatives.

Environmental ethics.  Philosophical considerations in environmental

issues.  Literature of environmental thought.

Assignments:

Weekly reading assignments in text.

Review of lecture notes which parallel, but do not duplicate, the text.

Study of supplementary materials, including charts, outlines, sample

data, and articles from publications.  These total over 50 pages.

Short papers involving library research.

Attendance and written reports of lectures, films, or other

presentations related to course topics, which are given on campus or

at nearby institutions.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 40 - 40%
Written homework, Essay exams
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 20 - 20%
Homework problems, Exams
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 0 - 0%
None
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 40 - 40%
Multiple choice
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 0 - 0%
None

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Miller, Environmental Science, An Introduction

Nebel, Environmental Science

Chiras, Environmental Science

The above texts are common adoptions at 2-year and 4-year institutions

throughout the United States.

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