This course explores environmental science as both a system of knowledge and a hands-on approach to research. We will survey major topics in environmental science, including biodiversity, ecology, air quality, water quality, pollution, human impacts, climate change, and energy. As an introduction to hands-on research, the class will engage a citizen-science phenology research project that traces the impacts of climate change on life cycles of plants. Finally, we will test the implications of our research for creative practice in art and design fields.As part of the 2000-level Science and Math (SCIMA) curriculum, this course develops students' capacity for evidence-based reasoning and their ability to recognize and interpret meaningful patterns of information; to assess the validity of empirical claims, distinguishing between opinion and fact; and to understand the sociocultural relevance of scientific and mathematical thinking.This course fulfills the SCIMA 2000 requirement.

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