Explain how humans are altering the global nitrogen (biogeochemical) cycle [BIOL 1011] Recall basic chemical concepts: bonding, formulas, concentration, the principle of balancing chemical equations, radiometric dating/radioactive decay
Analyze and defend a Political Ecology case study in detail [BIOL 4160] Analyze how current trends in globalization affect the local level of human-environment interactions [BIOL 4160] Analyze the dynamics of power, myth, and knowledge in the use and abuse of natural resources [BIOL 4160] Apply several environmental impact and risk methodologies [BIOL 4001] Appreciate how agroforestry innovations can make positive impacts on economy and environment. [BIOL 3634] Assess Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) impacts with extended spatial-temporal scales [BIOL 4001] Assess and value residual impacts for decision makers [BIOL 4001] Assess the usefulness of a range of environmental indicators [BIOL 3061] Compare several approaches frequently used to explain human-environment interactions and environmental problems (case studies of population-scarcity, markets and commodities, institutions, environmental ethics, risks and hazards, political economy, and the social construction of nature) [BIOL 3061] Compare the political versus the apolitical approaches to environment [BIOL 4160] Conclude holistic, whole system approaches are useful for ecosystem-level ecology (ELE) and environmental problems [BIOL 3061] Contrast a set of environmental management concepts and applications [BIOL 3061] Demonstrate a basic knowledge of human population issues. [BIOL 3060] Demonstrate awareness that science, law and politics play an important role in the conservation and management of marine mammals, threats they face and mitigation options [BIOL 3090] Demonstrate basic environmental ethics. [BIOL 3060] [BIOL 3601] Demonstrate the multiple interdisciplinary roots that have led to contemporary Political Ecology [BIOL 4160] Describe opportunities for employment and cash income generated through agroforestry systems. [BIOL 3634] Design a well-formulated sustainability analysis and present to classmates [BIOL 4065] Diagram causality between the local and global levels in Political Ecology case studies using a chain of explanation model [BIOL 4160] Discover the positive and negative tree-crops-soil interactions (for light, water, and nutrients). [BIOL 3634] Discuss climate change as it relates to fisheries and aquaculture in Canada. Discuss current topics in marine sciences that are at the forefront of fundamental and applied research. [MARI 4350] Discuss the collapse of Canadian Atlantic Cod populations. [BIOL 3080] Discuss the ecological and evolutionary consequences of fisheries exploitation. [BIOL 3080] Evaluate current literature on the applications of biologging methods to a variety of species and ecological topics. [BIOL 4323] Explain the pros and cons of the Tragedy of the Commons (ToC) to current global environmental problems such as climate change and decreasing marine fish stocks [BIOL 4160] Generate a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) framework for plans, programs and policies [BIOL 4001] Identify and discuss conservation issues relevant to birds. [BIOL 3622] Illustrate how resilience theory is useful in environmental management [BIOL 3061] Integrate knowledge of principles and methods into the design of a research proposal that effectively addresses a realistic and unique problem in ecology. [BIOL 4323] Interpret sustainable development as a trans-disciplinary concept [BIOL 4065] Interpret the consequences of climate change on ecosystems and communities, including unexpected and unintuitive consequences, and explain how conservation planning should take climate change into account [BIOL 3065] Outline the five major themes covered in Political Ecology and their applications [BIOL 4160] Predict environmental impacts accurately [BIOL 4001] Provide examples of the key threats to biodiversity, and the causes and consequences of those threats [BIOL 3065] Recommend appropriate management strategies to Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) decision-makers [BIOL 4001] Relate environmental conservation to agroforestry systems. [BIOL 3634] Select Political Ecology tools, models, and themes most useful for analyzing particular Political Ecology case studies [BIOL 4160] Understand environmental impacts of agriculture, forestry, fossil fuels and minerals, and urbanization. [BIOL 3060] Understand environmental stressors, both natural and anthropogenic. [BIOL 3060] Understand sound propagation in water, fundamental sound component analysis (e.g. amplitude, frequency), sound production and receiving mechanisms in various marine mammal taxa and the impacts harmful sound can have on populations [BIOL 3090]
BIOL 2060
