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| Course: ENV101 First Term: 2008 Fall
Final Term: Current
Final Term: 2018 Summer
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Lecture 4 Credit(s) 3 Period(s) 3 Load
Laboratory 0
Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
2 Load
Subject Type: OccupationalLoad Formula: S |
| MCCCD Official Course Competencies | |||
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| 1. Use scientific knowledge and logic to understand and examine environmental problems (I)
2. Develop scientific approaches for studying the environment, including the design of scientific research studies. (I) 3. Collect and analyze samples as part of a scientific inquiry. (I) 4. Write a technical report that describes questions, methodology, results, and discussion of a scientific study of the environment. (I) 5. Describe Earth`s biodiversity and tell how the environment, working through natural selection, produced it. (II) 6. Describe the role of biotechnology in increasing ecosystem carrying capacity for humans from scientific, economic, ethical, and moral perspectives. (II) 7. Identify different ways by which humans view their relationship with the natural world. (II) 8. Describe levels of organization and interactions within ecosystems. (III) 9. Describe populations and natural communities as units of structure and function. (III) 10. Describe the relationship of climate and elevation to biomes; their structure, resiliency, and global importance. (III) 11. Identify structure and function of atoms and molecules in organisms and tell how they relate to food webs and nutrient cycling in ecosystems. (III) 12. Describe the concept of carrying capacity in a finite world. (IV) 13. Describe patterns of population growth and their consequences to the ecosystem and species. (IV) 14. Identify human impacts on ecosystems and human policy on managing natural resources. (IV) 15. Identify types of pollution in the environment, their sources, and the problems they cause from a community and species perspective. (IV) 16. Describe the threats to global freshwater supplies and their consequences on biomes and species. (IV) 17. Describe the concept of global warming, its cause, and consequences on biomes and species. (IV) | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Competencies must be coordinated with the content outline so that each major point in the outline serves one or more competencies. MCCCD faculty retains authority in determining the pedagogical approach, methodology, content sequencing, and assessment metrics for student work. Please see individual course syllabi for additional information, including specific course requirements. | |||
| MCCCD Official Course Outline | |||
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I. Scientific Investigation
A. Scientific inquiry 1. Process 2. Product B. Science versus dogma II. Environment and Diversity A. Biodiversity 1. Evolution 2. Speciation B. Biotechnology 1. Genetic diversity 2. Biodiversity C. Perspectives 1. Scientific 2. Economic 3. Ethical 4. Moral III. Basic Environmental Principles A. Levels of organization B. Ecosystems 1. Organization 2. Interaction 3. Nutrient cycling ecosystems C. Communities 1. Populations a. Structure b. Function 2. Natural a. Structure b. Function D. Biomes relationships 1. Climate a. Structure b. Resiliency c. Global importance 2. Elevation a. Structure b. Resiliency c. Global importance E. Organisms, Molecules, and Atoms 1. Structure 2. Function IV. Environmental Problems A. Earth`s carrying capacity 1. Finite world 2. Population growth consequences a. Ecosystem b. Species B. Human impact 1. Pollution types 2. Management of natural resources 3. Perspectives a. Community b. Species C. Global threat to water supplies 1. Causes 2. Consequences a. Biomes b. Species D. Global warming 1. Causes 2. Consequences a. Biomes b. Species | |||
MCCCD Governing Board Approval Date:
6/26/2007 | |||