BIO 111, 126 - Concepts of Biology: Crisis Earth: Causes, Consequences, & Solutions for a Changing Planet

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement SC (and IL when offered as 126).
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): NP
Prerequisite(s): Students who have taken BIO 160 , BIO 165 , or BIO 175 need permission of the instructor to enroll.
With a growing human population and society’s increasing demands on the planet’s natural resources, we are entering an era of ecological crisis on Earth. This class will explore some of the major crises facing our planet from a scientific and social perspective. Students will develop an understanding of the science needed to appreciate, diagnose, and tackle environmental crises such as global warming, habitat destruction, invasive species, and pollution. The class will also explore the causes of and some solutions to these ecological catastrophes from biological, social, political, and management perspectives. This course is an introduction to many biological and environmental topics and is designed to engage students from different disciplines in the increasingly important effort to solve Earth’s environmental crises.