When you have completed Environmental Studies 243/Global Studies 243, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Describe the major issues of global environmental change.
  2. Describe complex systems theory and explain how it applies to issues of global environmental change.
  3. Outline the basic anthropogenic factors that drive global environmental change, and discuss the probable future effects of these factors.
  4. Discuss uncertainties in the science of global environmental change and explain the implications of these uncertainties.
  5. Critically assess major social initiatives designed to mitigate global environmental change.
  6. Analyze scientific and mainstream media releases concerning global environmental change.
  7. Define sustainable development, and explain how such development is possible in a rapidly changing environment.