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Dec 05, 2024
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ENVT 447 - Energy, Climate and Society Units: 4 ; Breadth Area: GE-UDB; Sustainability The science and technology of societal energy choices as they affect global environmental sustainability, national security, equity, and social justice.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Areas B1-B3. Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 with grade C- (CR) or better. Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UDB - Upper Division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning, Overlay - Sustainability Cross-listed: GEOG 447 Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:
- Articulate an understanding of energy options and technologies, their social and environmental implications, using the vocabulary from the appropriate related disciplines;
- Explain the scientific basis of our understanding of climates impacts of energy use including understanding of data and trends, models and theories, uncertainties and their significance;
- Identify credible sources of scientific information on energy and its environmental impacts and understand what makes them credible;
- Evaluate controversial energy claims using quantitative and qualitative arguments;
- Substantiate the significance of sustainable and socially just energy resource management for the welfare of current and future generations.
UD-B. Upper-division Science Inquiry and Quantitative Reasoning Learning Outcomes
- demonstrate advanced and/or focused science or quantitative content knowledge in a specific scientific field, using appropriate vocabulary and referencing appropriate concepts (such as models, uncertainties, hypotheses, theories, and technologies);
- apply advanced quantitative skills (such as statistics, algebraic solutions, interpretation of graphical data) to scientific problems and evaluate scientific claims;
- demonstrate understanding of the nature of science and scientific inquiry and the experimental and empirical methodologies used in science to investigate a scientific question or issue; and
- apply science content knowledge to contemporary scientific issues (e.g., global warming) and technologies (e.g., cloning), where appropriate.
Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes
- identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
- analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
- describe key threats to environmental sustainability;
- explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.
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