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FALL 2008

TENTATIVE HUMAN ECOLOGY LECTURE CALENDER

Week of….

August 18

Handout Syllabus & Assignments

What is Science

(Introduction to Environmental Science)

Chapter 1

August 25

Introduction to Ecology

(Introduction to Environmental Science)

Chapter 1

Class Discussion: Lessons of Easter Island (pg 8)

September 1

LABOR DAY

Environmental Ethics

Environmental Economics

 Resource Use

(Environmental Ethics and Economics: Values and Choices)

(Resource Management, Forestry, Land Use & Protected Areas)

Chapter 2 & 12

 

September 8

Environmental Policy

(Environmental Policy: Decision Making & Problem Solving)

Chapter 3

Class Discussion: Comparing Costs & Benefits (pg 80)

September 15

TEST 1 September 15

Chemistry & The Environment (From Chemistry to Energy)

Chapters 1, 2, 12, & 3

Chapter 4

September 22

CURRENT EVENT SEPTEMBER 23

Chemistry & The Environment

Cycling Matter (From Chemistry to Energy)

Chapter 4

Chapter 7 pages 186-197

September 29

Speciation

Biodiversity

(Evolution, Biodiversity, & Population Ecology)

(Biodiversity & Conservation Biology)

Chapter 5

Chapter 11

 

October 6

Biodiversit

Chapter 6 & 7

 

October 13

MID-TERM BREAK

October 20

Test 2 Apr October 20

Species Interactions

Ecology

(Species Interactions & Community Ecology)

(Environmental Systems & Ecosystem Ecology)

Chapters 4, 5, 11, 6, & 7

Class Discussion: Viewpoints pg 20-21

Chapter 6-7

October 27

CURRENT EVENT OCTOBER 28

Human Population (Human Population)

 

Chapter 8

November 3

ELECTION DAY NOV 4 CAMPUS CLOSED

Human Population (Human Population)

NO CLASS NOV 4

Chapter 8

November 10

Human Population (Human Population)

Risk---Covered outside of class

(Environmental Health & Toxicology)

Water Pollution

Chapter 8

Chapter 14

 

Chapter 15,16

November 17

HUMAN IMPACT PAPER November 18

Water Pollution

(Atmospheric Science & Global Climate Change)

Chapter 15 & 16

 

November 24

Test 3 November 25

THANKSGIVING BREAK NOV 26 & 27

 

Chapter 6, 7, 8, 14, 15 & 16

NO CLASS NOV 26

December 1

Air Pollution & Climate Change

 

December 8

December 9 Tuesday at 12: 200 points cumulative

 

 

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