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Ecology and Society
Online continuing education in sustainable development
Objectives | What You Will Learn | Benefits | Cost | About the Instructor
Ecosystems. What are they? How do they work? How do they change? Where do you fit in? This self-paced online program answers these questions and gives you a glimpse into renewable resources, energy, pollution and its prevention, and moves you toward the conditions required for a sustainable future!
Objectives
- Awaken curiosity about the world you live in
- Expand your knowledge about how the world works
- Translate your new knowledge and understanding into personal actions and self-realizations.
- Measure your growth and understanding of ecology with “take-until-you-understand-it” mastery exams
What You Will Learn
- Symbolic tools of thinking, communicating and inquiring about ecology
- How to synthesize and interpret basic facts about the human and natural ecosystems using a diversity, interrelationships, cycles, and energy (DICE) conceptual organization
- Articulate information about ecosystems based on the conceptual organization, principles of ecology, past cultural development, the existing social order, and economics
- Evaluate consistency and reasonableness in decisions and judgments about hypothetical or simulated conflict situations between humans and natural ecosystems.
Who Should Attend
- Biology and environmental science educators working for public and private schools and for state departments of natural resources personnel seeking professional advancement.
- Undergraduate and graduate students seeking degrees in science education, environmental interpretation, or natural resource management, but do not have the opportunity to take a traditional course.
- Biologists working for city, state, and federal agencies.
Benefits to You!
- Strategies to reduce the size of the human foot print on the planet Earth.
- Access to a course pretested by thousands of students.
- Instruction delivered completely online
- Self-paced to fit your lifestyle needs
- 65 professional development hours (6.5 CEUs) in 6 months
Cost
- Affordable at only $750
- Purchase required textbooks:
- Wright, R. T. 2005. Environmental Science: Toward a Sustain
able Future. 10th ed. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 712 pp. ISBN: 0-13-230265-9 - Adams, C.E. 2005. Study Guide for Environmental Science: Toward a Sustainable Future. 10th ed. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, NJ. 289 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-13-179049-0
- REGISTER NOW!
Instructor
Dr. Clark E. Adams is professor and departmental director of human dimensions in wildlife management research and conservation education programs, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences, Texas A&M University. He designs and directs teaching and research programs leading to undergraduate and graduate degrees in wildlife sciences with a conservation education emphasis. Developing curricula that integrate natural resources into public school and community education programs is just one of Dr. Adams’ passions. His research provides empirical evaluations of human attitudes, activities, expectations and knowledge concerning wildlife and their habitats.
If you have questions about Ecology and Society, please contact Dr. Clark Adams, clark.adams@tamu.edu.