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Apr 29, 2024
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PREP 063 - Pacific NW Science Issues
5.0 Credits
High school course that explores current environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest with a focus on the interrelationships between humans, plants, and animals. Emphasis on problem-solving, personal responsibility, and action. Counts toward high school Lab Science or Contemporary World Problems credit. S/U grade option.
Prerequisite Oreintation and advising are required before taking this course.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze processes that have caused changes to the features of the Earth’s surface, including plate tectonics, glaciation, volcanism, etc.
- Explain the factors that influence weather and climate and how these patterns relate to Northwest ecosystems.
- Describe 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 and describe the living and nonliving factors that affect organisms in ecosystems and the relationships among species within selected Pacific Northwest ecosystems.
- Describe the process of evolution and the concepts of natural selection, speciation, adaptation, and biological diversity.
- Analyze and explain the effects human activities have on the capacity of Pacific Northwest ecosystems to sustain biological diversity.
- Conduct systematic and complex scientific investigations and evaluate results of such investigations.
- Apply scientific knowledge and skills to solve problems or propose solutions to regional environmental challenges in the Pacific Northwest.
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