ENSC 325L - Water & Climate

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
Through a heavily field-based, hands-on approach, this course teaches the physical processes of the Earth’s hydrologic cycle and climate systems, in context of biologic and human systems. Topics include above and belowground freshwater systems, weather and climate mechanisms and phenomena, energy fluxes, and science communication in context of complex societal topics, such as climate change. Through multiple course projects, students will quantitively observe, analyze, solve, and communicate about complex scientific questions, requiring creative synthesis of new and existing information of varying sources- enhancing student’s skills in quantitative observation, information literacy, critical inquiry using scientific thinking, and independent and team-based work on multi-week, multi-deliverable projects.

Offered When: Most spring semesters.
Prerequisite(s): ENSC 101L; junior standing in Environmental Science & Policy or permission of instructor.