Current Global Environmental Issues

This reading-intensive course surveys diverse publications explaining the major environmental threats facing the world today as well as the potential and actual sustainable solutions for each. The aim of the course is to have students become aware of the material as well as socioeconomic causes of environmental degradation, the detrimental impacts of environmental degradation on humans and the potential sustainable solutions to the greatest environmental challenges. Prerequisite: EN 102, COM 101, JR or SR standing