QC ENSCI 111 Weekend Classes and Labs Fall 2004
          Outline             Calendar          Who's who           Grades           
  Dr. Hugh Rance
 
  Textbooks:
 1) Sustaining the Earth - An Integrated Approach
  (with CD-ROM and InfoTrac)
  6th Edition ©2004 ISBN: 0534400868 G. Tyler Miller, Jr.

  2) Taking Sides:
  Clashing Views on Controversial Environmental Issues
  10th Edition Softcover ©2004, ISBN 0072933178
  Thomas A Easton, Theodore D Goldfarb
    

 
DONT FORGET THE SOIL SAMPLES FOR OUR LAB Nov. 13

Mystery Pictures:
Can you explain the appearance of the lower part of the tree trunks of the four aspen?

What do you see behind the cabin-pole pines?
     Topic sequence:   
1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability.
2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Ecology: Connections in Nature.
3. Ecological Concepts: Evolution, Terrestrial and Aquatic Life, and Population Dynamics.         
4. Ecological Concepts: Species Interactions, Succession, and Sustainability.
5. The Human Population: Size and Distribution.
6. Energy.
7. Sustaining Terrestrial and Aquatic Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach.
8. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach.
9. Biodiversity: Sustaining Soils and Producing Food.
10. Risk, Toxicology, and Human Health.
11. Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Air Pollution.
12. Water Resources and Water Pollution.
13. Solid and Hazardous Waste.
14. Environmental Economics, Politics, and Worldviews.      
   ---------- Final         
  Outcomes and Assessment Measures         
                geocol & timescale                                     Glossary