检查自然系统, 人类活动对这些系统的不利影响, and how society deals with these impacts. Topics may include ecology; biodiversity; forests and deforestation; human population growth and control; food production and world hunger; energy resources; and water and air pollution. In addition to the science of these topics, related politics, economics, and ethics are discussed.

自然, 作文, and organization of parties and pressure groups; the role played by these two forces in the political process; history and programs of parties and pressure groups will be 分析d. 此外，当代投票行为的性质进行了审查.

This course focuses on Earth's geologic resources and how they influence man's use of the physical world. Topics include plate tectonics; earthquakes; rock and mineral formation; weathering and erosion; groundwater and surface water; Course Descriptions 213 stratigraphy and energy resources; glaciation and geologic history. Students make observations and 测量s and translate them into meaningful data from which inferences can be drawn. Through hands-on experience, students gain skills of map reading, identification of minerals and rocks, interpretation of geologic and topographic maps.

Laboratory to accompany ENSC 210.

本课程将介绍地理信息系统. 地理信息系统是创建的一系列工具, 编辑, 维护, 分析地图和数据，了解特定地理区域的特征. The course will detail the terminology, concepts, and applications that are commonly used with GIS. 实验室将提供输入和编辑功能的实践培训, ad hoc query and analysis functions, and facilities management functions.

Through a heavily field-based, 实践的方法, this course teaches the physical and chemical components and processes of the Earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate systems, in context of biologic and human systems. 主题包括地上和地下淡水系统, weather and climate mechanisms and phenomena, 能量通量与陆地表面的结构和动力学, 临界区域, 海洋, 和大气, 包括它们对区域和全球气候的综合影响, 以及复杂社会话题背景下的科学传播, such natural resource extraction and climate change. 学生将通过定量和空间分析综合他们的理解, and will advance their abilities in science communication through multiple presentations and written forms of assessment. Through multiple course projects, students will quantitively observe, 分析, 解决, and communicate about complex scientific questions, requiring creative 合成 of new and existing information of varying sources– enhancing student’s skills in quantitative observation, 信息素养, critical inquiry using scientific thinking, and independent and team-based work on multi-week, multi-deliverable projects.

[Dual listed as BIOL 360]: This course involves the study of the interrelationships among organisms and with their environments. 主题包括有机体对物理和化学条件的反应, population growth and regulation, intra- and interspecific competition, 食草性, 捕食, 寄生, 互利共生, 群落结构, 生态系统生产力, 养分循环, 和分解.

The purpose of this course is to examine the NEPA- and NYS SEQRA-based approaches to environmental impact assessment. Students will learn how to design a statistically acceptable monitoring program; how to collect samples; how to prepare and preserve samples for analyses; and how to interpret environmental data in the assessment of impacts.

学生必须完成ENSC440和ENSC441 or ENSC 398 and ENSC399 to satisfy 学位 requirements.

ENSC 440-441 Research I and II (6 cr编辑s)

• Students conduct research in 环境科学 or 政策 under the direction of a faculty member. 学生可以与教师单独安排计划和进行研究. At the end of her/his work, 由学生提交书面报告和公开研讨会, 其中可能包括在科学会议上的演讲. 

ENSC 398-399 Internship (6 cr编辑s)

• The internship is designed to be a pre-professional work-related experience at an off-campus location. Generally taken in the junior or senior year, placements may be obtained within scientific, 政府, 或是倡导组织，或是私人咨询公司和环境实验室. The student intern will be supervised by an on-site professional and by the 环境科学 & 政策 internship coordinator. 实习 must be approved by the Program Director and the Office of 职业服务 prior to their commencement.

This is the capping course in 环境科学 & 政策. The course examines the moral implications of human attitudes regarding other species and the environment. This course explores the historical roots and current world views that have generated the present state of widespread environmental degradation. 生态学、经济学、社会学和伦理学的相互关系也将被研究.