TH 619 - Science and the Environment

This course is designed to help students from any educational discipline understand today's major environmental problems, including environmental degradation, climate change, ocean acidification, water and air polution, biodiversity, and habitat loss. The course examines the inputes necessary to appreciate how close cooperation among key disciplinary fields, including theology, is required in order to achieve a more comprehensive view of both the environmental challenges we face, but also the complex synergies among them.

This course is second in the 5-course sequence of the International Graduate Certificate in Christianity and an Integral Ecology: A World to Live and a Life to Love.

It is offered as a hybrid online/on-site course with July 17-21, 2017, at Saint Joseph's College.

Prerequisites & Notes
TH 618 Environmentalism & the New Evangelization

Assignment Overview

Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to do the following:

Articulate the major environmental problems of our time, including dimensions of complexity and conflict;
Identify the core of the environmental debate and the ecological situation;
Identify and utilize the limits and complementarity of technical, economic, and environmental policy to address conflict areas;
Shape basic ethical frameworks necessary for the conservation of nature.

Credits: 3 Offered: July 1, 2018, with one week on site at Saint Joseph's College, Standish, Maine

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