G-Ecology

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Overarching course goals are to improve student ecological and environmental literacy, Earth Stewardship, and environmental communication skills in view of learning goals of the Department of Biology and GU Science for All. Students learn about basic ecological and environmental concepts that relate to GU and its environs and their lifetime Earth Stewardships. They study GU’s air, buildings, energy use, gardening and landscaping, invasive and native species, recycling, transportation, and water use as well as nearby urban areas in our current Anthropocene climate-change crisis. Hands-on projects are organism responses to their environments involving house plants and GU woody-plant phenology. G-Ecology has guest speakers and local walks to examine GU’s environment.