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Environmental Science –
sci275
(3 credits)
This course focuses on the causes of, impacts of, and solutions to environmental issues. Students identify global environmental issues as well as develop and critique environmental action plans. Topics include ecosystems, energy, populations, resources, pollution, and sustainability.
This undergraduate-level course is 9
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Core Concepts Application
- Evaluate mitigation strategies and solutions to an environmental problem.
- Rationalize a sustainable plan for addressing an environmental issue.
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Energy Issues
- Formulate a plan for energy conservation education.
- Describe challenges associated with energy resource management.
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Terrestrial Resource Issues
- Formulate a sustainable plan to manage a terrestrial resource.
- Describe challenges associated with managing a terrestrial resource.
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Water Resource Issues
- Formulate a sustainable plan to manage a water resource.
- Identify the impact of human activities on a water resource.
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Atmospheric Issues
- Discuss impacts of and solutions for indoor air pollution.
- Discuss a key challenge to controlling air emissions.
- Summarize the causes and effects of an atmospheric issue.
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Human Population and the Environment
- Identify the environmental benefits and challenges of urbanization.
- Explain the factors that produce changes in population size.
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Ecosystems
- Apply the concepts of natural selection and succession to a changing ecosystem.
- Describe living and nonliving components of a biome.
- Discuss the flow of energy in ecosystems.
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Politics and Environmental Risk
- Explain how risk assessment could be applied in a given circumstance.
- Compare and contrast environmental conservation and preservation efforts.
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Environmental Issues and Sustainability
- Relate a current environmental problem with possible causes.
- Describe the history of environmental regulations in the United States.
- Define environmental sustainability.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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