t h e c o l l e g e at r i n d g e understand and interpret scientific information and be able to make reasoned decisions, as voting citizens, based on that information. The Oceans course will consider topics related to ocean origins, structure, sediments, water chemistry, atmospheric and oceanic circulation, waves, tides, coasts, and marine life. This course combines lab, lecture and discussion. ES/GL120 Global Change: Weather, Climate and the Atmosphere 4 credits Science is a process that strongly informs human choices that have global impacts. In this course, students will be guided by their own curiosity, because without curiosity there can be no science. Students who successfully finish this course will be able to: (1) critically research and understand the interrelationship between global climate change and the atmosphere and human actions; (2) critically evaluate the validity of claims, positions, etc., made by businesses, government agencies, or other various groups using a systematic method (that is, the scientific method); (3) articulate and communicate, both individually and in a group setting, your position on important human global issues that have scientific concepts at their roots; and, (4) recognize that science strongly informs these human social/political issues that have scientific concepts at their roots. Specific topics considered in this course include atmospheric chemistry, pressure and temperature systems, humidity and precipitation, cloud development, atmospheric circulation, weather forecasting, extreme weather events, climate change and air pollution. This course combines lab, lecture and discussion. ES203 The CSA Farm and Sustainable Food Systems 3 credits This course constitutes Session I in the Sustainable Agriculture Summer Program, and is conducted collaboratively by the Sustainability Coordinator, an environmental educator who will introduce students to concepts and examples of local food systems within the larger context of sustainability, and experienced local farmers who will instruct students in the principles and practice of sustainable agriculture at a community-based agriculture (CSA) model farm. Relevant readings, discussion and reflections based on “seed” questions will challenge students to think about how sustainable agriculture relates to, and can help solve, issues of environmental integrity, economic viability, and social equity across multiple scales. Projects and discussions are related in multiple ways to current sustainability initiatives in the Monadnock Region. This course may be taken alone or as a segue to The Campus Garden and Community Resilience (Session II). ES204 Campus Garden and Community Resilience 3 credits This course, Session II in the Sustainable Agriculture Summer Program, is conducted collaboratively by the Sustainability Coordinator, an environmental educator who will introduce garden-based lessons with the larger contexts of campus and community sustainability, and a number of community practitioners experienced in conservation, organic gardening, local food and campus organizing. Relevant readings, discussion and reflections based on “seed” questions will challenge students to think about how campus gardening relates to, and may help solve, issues of environmental integrity, economic viability, and social equity across multiple scales. This course may be taken alone or as an extension of The CSA Farm and Sustainable Food Systems (Session I). ES/GL205 Environmental Geology (laboratory) 4 credits Provides a broad overview of the environmental impacts associated with resource extraction and use, with soil use, and with water use. Particular attention is paid to the roles of human population growth and growth in per capita consumption in these various environmental impacts. Prerequisite: GL101 or ES101 or ES103. ES210 Evolution of Environmental Thought 3 credits Surveys human understanding of and attitudes toward the natural environment as expressed by naturalists and writers from the 1600s to the present. Emphasis is placed on the development of these ideas as it took place in North America. Prerequisites: permission of instructor; sophomore, junior, or senior standing.
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