Mar 28, 2024  
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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ES 301 - Seminar in Environmental Science (SR)


Credits: (4 credits)

The Seminar in Environmental Science is an upper-level skills course, designed to allow students with a solid background in environmental sciences to enhance their ability to research and understand scholarly works in multiple disciplines, and to improve presentation and oral communication skills. Successful professional scientists must be able to understand, interpret, and analyze scientific studies in unfamiliar disciplines; they must also be able to present complex scientific information coherently to audiences that can vary widely in background. Through literature research, discussion, and professional format presentation, students hone these essential skills.

This is a Sustainability-Related (SR)   course.

Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to do the following:

  1. Develop and practice the skills of critical thinking to understand their field’s state of the art;
  2. Discuss and critique current scientific work;
  3. Propose alternative hypotheses and discuss their merits (suggest future research directions);
  4. Present scientific concepts in a public forum, in a manner that is understandable to all. 




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