ENVT 101 - Environmental Challenges of the 21st Century

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-4; Sustainability
Are earth and humanity at the turning point of Environmental Armageddon or Sustainability and Social Justice? A study of Anthropogenic impacts, environmental limits, societal implications, and possible alternatives.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-4 - Lower Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

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

Describe the nature and magnitude of major human impacts on the global environment and how they affect its ability to support human and economic well-being.
Describe the multiple causes of dominant ecological impacts threatening human welfare, including the contributions of technology choices, population size, and behavior.
Explain how individual choices result in a tragedy of the commons, and strategies to avoid such outcomes.
Catalog a broad array of approaches to environmental problems solving; provide specific key examples for each approach.

GE-4. Lower-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Electives Learning Outcomes

Explain how social, political, and economic institutions and/or principles intersect with each other.
Describe how people produce, resist, and/or transform social, political, and economic institutions/principles.
Investigate contemporary and/or historical events/issues from a social science perspective.

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.