Environment Protection
This Value added course is to facilitate students understanding of complex environmental issues from a problem-oriented, interdisciplinary perspective. Understand core concepts and methods from ecological and physical sciences and their application in environmental problem-solving. Appreciate key concepts from economic, political, and social analysis as they pertain to the design and evaluation of environmental policies and institutions. Appreciate the ethical, cross-cultural, and historical context of environmental issues and the links between human and natural systems. Appreciate that one can apply systems concepts and methodologies to analyze and understand interactions between social and environmental processes. Reflect critically about their roles and identities as citizens, consumers and environmental actors in a complex, interconnected world.