OLS 125 - Environment and Your Values

2 CR

This course helps students explore their personal values and how those values can guide actions that support their community and the environment. Students learn how volunteer efforts make a difference and explore sustainability, climate change, and endangered species. Students see how values and action lead to change. Students also collaborate on a project that reflects their values and supports environmental well-being. Course is graded Credit/No Credit.

Prerequisite(s): OLS 123

Course Outcomes

Identify and define how your values can serve your community
Collaborate on a local environmental problem, and recommend community-oriented solutions
Explore how communities have addressed environmental problems in their neighborhoods
Learn about conserving and restoring endangered species
Understand how sustainability can help reduce climate change
Define renewable/non-renewable sources of energy; discuss their impacts on the environment
Explain the causes and effects of global climate change
Explain the role of volunteers in the environmental movement

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