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Course Context
Please briefly describe the context of this course, including the nature of the student body and the role of this course in the curriculum of your school. For example:

"This is an introductory course with no pre-requisites and does not serve as a prerequisite for other courses. Typically, 50% of the students take the course as pre-service elementary teachers, and 50% of the students take the course to satisfy a general education requirement. The course has an optional lab."

Course Content
Please briefly describe the content covered in this course, including sustainability concepts covered, field experiences or projects undertaken, and skills developed. For example:

"Introduction to the Earth System focuses on global-scale human-induced changes: global climate change; destruction of the stratospheric ozone layer; and tropical deforestation, species extinction, and the loss of biodiversity. The discussion of these environmental issues occupies about 40% of the course. Unlike other "environmental" courses, this one sets these issues in the context of the long-term evolution and natural variability of the Earth system. Thus the course is structured around three major themes--the issues of global change, time scales of change, and understanding the Earth as a system."

Design of the CourseCourse Goals:
The goals for each course are used to describe what students should be able to do after they've completed your course. Your goals may range from content knowledge they should master, to skills in which they should be proficient, to changes in attitude you wish to foster.

Course goals are most useful if they are concrete, have measurable outcomes, and provide clear direction for the course. It is helpful to phrase your goals as "Students will be able to..." or "I want students to be able to..."

Example Goals:
In a geologic hazards course, one of the goals is to enable students to research and evaluate news reports of a natural disaster and to communicate their analyses to someone else.

For a course in physical geology, students will be able to integrate different types of data (e.g. topographic maps, geologic maps, cross-sections, stratigraphic columns, photographs, diagrams and/or tables and figures) to reconstruct scenarios that reflect the internal and/or surficial processes that create the widely varying landscapes that we see today and to evaluate potential hazards associated with them.

In a historical geology course, when students are faced with a new piece of geologic information, they will be able to determine how we know this information and what the assumptions are in the analysis.

Please list the goals for your course.

Course Features
What are the main features of your course (for example, the course format or a key assignment) that help your students achieve the learning goals?

An example response: This course has a three-week capstone project where students apply the geology they've learned so far to research the geologic history of their hometown area. To do this, students use maps, aerial imagery, published research and their own observations. The final assignment is a presentation about their hometown geology.

Course Philosophy
What is your teaching philosophy with respect to this course or program and its goals and features? We hope you will make this reflective section the most elaborated part of your course submission. Please describe how you are designing (or designed) this learning experience to help students develop a deeper understanding of their bioregion, of complex issues and systems, and/or of sustainability concepts and practices?

Assessment
How do you assess the degree to which students have reached the goals for this course?

References and ResourcesIf you use a textbook, please provide the book title and author(s).

Please describe other key reading resources that are integral to this course.

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