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| Semester: | Fall 2025 |
| Number: | 0125-101-002 |
| Instructor: | Ryan Ehrhart |
| Days: | Tuesday Thursday 1:40 pm - 2:55 pm |
| Note: | Traditional In-Person Class |
| Location: | Garden City - NEX 157 |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
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Ryan Ehrhart for
Fall 2015* |
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| Description: |
Students will investigate today’s major environmental issues, exploring causes and consequences and discerning who experiences these consequences the most. Students will debate how we should respond to environmental challenges, discussing technological solutions and to what extent environmental problems are inextricably linked with economic, political, social, and cultural issues. (Learning Goals:L;Distribution Reqs:Social Sciences) |
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1. Students will learn to identify relevant information:What is the environmental problem? What are the causes of the problem? What are the consequences? (And who are the specific groups suffering the consequences?) What are the solutions or potential solutions to the problem? What are the geographic parameters of the problem?2. Students will learn how to access information:How can you access: books (print and electronic); journal articles; newspaper and magazine articles (electronic); and websites?3. Students will learn how to evaluate information:Does the information you have obtained pass the CRAAP Test? CRAAP = Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, and Purpose (created by Meriam Library, California State University, Chico). Currency: The timeliness of the information. Relevance: The importance of the information for your needs. Authority: The source of the information. Accuracy: The reliability, truthfulness, and correctness of the content. Purpose: The reason the information exists.4. Students will learn how to use information appropriately and ethically:How do you paraphrase and how do you do a direct quotation? How do you create parenthetical in-text citations for each instance when you get information or ideas from a source? How do you create a list of works cited in a proper bibliographic format?5. Students will improve critical thinking skills:Through asking critical questions, finding unstated assumptions in the texts and readings, and assessing arguments, students will develop their abilities in critical thinking.6. Students will improve communication skills:Students will apply correct language usage and the conventions of academic writing and referencing. They will frame problems in comparative contexts. They will organize, communicate and defend ideas in oral class discussions and oral debates with slide presentations.7. Students will expand their understanding of global citizenship:Students will investigate topics that are interdisciplinary in approach and global or comparative in nature. They will critically examine current and emerging environmental issues in local, regional, national, and international contexts. They will examine how environmental issues often affect different groups of people in different ways according to their class, gender, ethnic/racial category, occupation, or other status. Students will gain an understanding of how environmental processes influence and are influenc *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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