Natural Resources Conservation 394EI - EvaluatingEnvironmentalSystems

The course has three main foci: 1. You will reflect in several ways on your past 3-4 years of higher education; 2. You will learn how to analyze almost any of the approaches widely used to measure and assess a multi-faceted environmental concept like `conservation?, (or `sustainability?, or 'green building', etc); and 3. You will develop a solid plan to improve a specific environmental practice at UMass with which you are familiar, and will turn this plan into a strong written proposal addressed to a real decision-maker. Both main projects in the class are team-based. Some background knowledge of statistics will be helpful, but is not required. This course will satisfy the Integrative Experience requirement for BS-NRC and BS-EnvSci majors.

Open to senior and junior ENVIRSCI or NRC majors only. RES-ECON 262 or 263 Enrollment for Juniors will be added started November 21st