GE Credit Courses Fall 2007

Announcing GE Courses with Current Environmental Topics

Fall 2007

ATM 6, Fundamentals of Atmospheric Pollution, 3 units
GE credit: SciEng
Instructor: Anastasio
Effects of human emissions on the atmosphere: smog, ozone pollution and ozone depletion; indoor air pollution; global warming; acid rain. Impacts of these problems on ythe earth, ecosystems, and humans. Strategies to reduce atmospheric air pollution.

ATM 10, Severe and Unusual Weather, 3 units
GE credit: SciEng, Wrt
Instructor: Grotjahn
Gain an understanding of nature’s power and fury and an appreciation of the role atmosphere plays in your life. A course for non-experts!

ERS 100, Principles of Hydrologic Science, 4 units
GE credit: SciEng
Instructor: Grismer
Prerequisite: Chemistry 2B, Mathematics 16B, and Physics 7A or 9A. Topics include hydrology (surface and ground water), hydraulic flow, through porous media, water in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum, water quality, flow through open channels, and representative water-resource problems.

ERS 121, Water and Society, 3 units
GE credit: SciEng, Wrt
Instructor: Silk
Prerequisite: Physics 10 or Geology 1. The role of water as an essential natural resource in contemporary society. Aspects of the sceintific method, including descriptions of natural phenomena, measurement techniques, and predictive models. Supply and use of water for municipalities, agriculture, industry, wildlife and recreation.

SAS 4, Water in Popular Culture, Science and Society 3 units
GE credit: SciEng, SocSci, Wrt
Instructor: Pasternack
Importance of water in many aspects of society as revealed through a survey of its depictions in film.

SSC 10, Concepts of Soil Science, 4 units
GE credit SciEng, Wrt
The global ecosystem, soils as natural bodies formed by interactive environmental processes; soil response to use and management; conservation practices for sustainable use of soil resources; role of soils in current agricultural and environmental issues.