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Pedagogical Approach

This course is offered asynchronously online. The course structure and content is meant to facilitate a supportive learning environment. The goal of the course is to facilitate the co-construction of knowledge through discussion, collaboration, and assessments which demonstrate connections between prior knowledge and experiences with new information. 

Learning Outcomes

Students will:

1. Understand the physical processes governing environmental systems and how these processes and systems can influence each other.

2. Understand how societal decision-making and political/economic policies often are predicated on our current understanding of the processes at work within the physical environment.

3. Comprehend how changes in the processes governing environmental systems (due either to “natural” or human factors) may influence the evolution of these systems. 

4. Critically evaluate scientific questions and claims, especially those concerning the environment.

5. Reflect on the importance of scientific, social, economic, and cultural knowledge in assessing environmental issues.

6. Connect physical and social processes with respect to human impacts on physical environments and the effects of physical environments on humans.

7. Identify the location of Earth's major geographic features, and

8. Reflect on their own agency in relation to environmental change.

Assessment

Discussion Forums: 30%

Attendance Threads: 15%

Assignments: 25%

Exams: 30%

Other Information

This collection is a repository for reference materials created by students to share what they have learned and to help future students better understand major concepts and topics.