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Apr 30, 2024
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HSC 065 - Global Science Issues
5 Credits High school course exploring global environmental issues. Introduces Earth’s systems that promote life and major issues, i.e., climate change, pollution, biodiversity, etc. Emphasis on problem-solving, personal responsibility, and action. Counts toward high school Lab Science or Contemporary World Problems credit. S/U grade option. Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs) Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Describe the spread and impact of environmental toxins.
- Apply scientific knowledge and skills to solve problems or propose solutions to global environmental challenges.
- Analyze and describe the living and nonliving factors that affect organisms in ecosystems and the relationships among species within important ecosystems, such as coral reefs, wetlands, and tropical rain forests.
- Analyze and explain the effects human activities have on Earth’s capacity to sustain biological diversity.
- Plan and conduct systematic and complex scientific investigations and evaluate the results of such investigations.
- Identify and articulate sustainable choices and actions that individuals could make that would result in fewer resources being consumed and less pollution.
- Analyze the patterns and arrangements of Earth’s systems and subsystems and how these systems sustain the biosphere.
- Identify the factors that influence weather and climate and how these patterns relate to ecosystems.
- Define the complex, integrated, and regulated processes (such as photosynthesis and energy transfer in a food web) by which organisms use matter and energy to sustain life.
- Analyze local, regional, national, or global problems or challenges in which scientific design can be or has been used to design a solution.
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