99-236 Introduction to Environmental Ideas
9 units, Carnegie Mellon University
By recognizing that environmental problems are themselves complex and require insights from both scientific and social perspectives, the Universitywide Minor in Environmental Studies urges students to gain proficiency in different disciplinary habits of thinking about environmental problems. This course fulfills a requirement for the Universitywide Minor in Environmental Studies. This course will introduce students from any undergraduate major at CMU to key methods and approaches for inquiry in the framework of Environmental Studies. Students will build up their ability to recognize and apply diagnostic criteria understand key principles and terms and take part in an informed discussion about ways of seeing, and creating interventions for environmental problems as social and scientific challenges. There are no prerequisites for this course. Students will develop skills and apply concepts to different scenarios of environmental crisis. Preference for course registration goes to students already declared for the Minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.
Prerequisites: none listed
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