GEOG 300 - Sustainable Resource Management

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; Sustainability
The Earth as a source of land, water, biotic, mineral and energy resources. The role of human populations in their use, development and exploitation.   Drivers, trends, patterns and consequences of renewable and non-renewable resource use.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Cross-listed: ENVT 300
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify and describe important natural resources (non-renewable, conditionally renewable and perpetual) that the modern world depends upon.
Identify and describe how and where these important natural resources are created and processed.
Describe and explain the principal ways in which different natural resources are exploited and used.
Describe and explain the broad economic, ecological and political determining factors and implications of those resource uses both geographic and temporally.
Identify, describe and explain the dynamics of global population change and per capita resource consumption trends, and their implications for the future sustainability of natural resources management
Apply research, communication and critical thinking skills to explain critical natural resource management issues and the local, regional and global factors important in their exploitation and conservation.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.