High school juniors and seniors, sign up and earn credit with one of our free environmental science programs.
Full Scholarships are available through the generosity of the DeNaples Family and the Keystone Sanitary Landfill彩票平台市.
Environmental courses available in 2024 for high school students:
地球 & Environmental Systems Geography (GEOG 4)
Understanding fundamental physical processes operating across the 地球 and how these are both impacted and influenced by humans. This environmental course utilizes a 系统 approach to study the structure and linkages among various components of the 地球 system, including the atmosphere, 岩石圈, 生物圈, 水圈, 和人类. Emphasis is placed on the fundamentals of the physical 地球 system, 包括流程, 的相互作用, 反馈, 和周期, with particular emphasis on their geographic dimensions and recent change owing to human influence.
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Be introduced to physical geography and the earth system: tools of geographic inquiry, 系统, 能源, 和辐射
- The 岩石圈: 地球's formation, plate tectonics, structure of the earth
- The 水圈: hydrological cycle, surface and ground water, land and sea ice
- The oceans: physical and biological oceanography and coastal environments
- The 生物圈: biogeography, climate and biomes, eco系统 and ecological change
- 地球 system change: natural cycles, the greenhouse effect, human impacts on climate and the environment, recent and future climate change
地球 & Environmental Systems Geography Schedule
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日期: June 26 - August 7, 2024
- 时间: 星期一 & 星期三，上午9:30.m. ——中午
- 地点: 彩票平台
- 交付: 混合动力 / On-campus + online component
- 学费: Free (includes rental of books)
- 学分: 3
Environmental Science (BISC 3) Overview
We are living in extraordinary times. Our numbers have now become so large, 我们的力量如此强大, and our consumption so rampant that we are despoiling our home. 事实上, over the past half-century environmental scientists have been calling attention to the deterioration of 地球's atmosphere, 地球上的海洋, 地球's forests and 地球's soils, along with the loss of 地球's biodiversity, from the tropics to the poles. The evidence is unequivocal: Planet 地球 is under duress.
We will explore the root causes of today's environmental crisis and, 这样做的时候, 考虑科学, 技术, 社会学, psychological and personal responses to what is, 可议的, the most significant crisis in the history of our species.
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Discover how questions can be powerful catalysts for learning
- Grow in your ability to see both yourself and Planet 地球 from new and liberating perspectives
- Appreciate the power of critical thinking and personal reflection as a means to both personal and global transformation
- Realize that you could choose to play a significant role in the healing of our world
Environmental Science Schedule
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日期: September 4 - December 20, 2024
- 时间: 星期三下午4点.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- 地点: 彩票平台
- 交付: On-campus + online component
- 学费: Free (includes rental of books)
- 学分: 3
Environmental Program Registration Information :
父母/监护人, contact the Center for Business 发展 and 社区外展 for registration information by email at (电子邮件保护) 或致电570-963-2600.
