ENSC 255 - Environmental Research and Writing

This course is an immersion into scientific, reading, thinking and writing. Throughout the course, students will engage at an increasingly professional level with cutting edge scientific research and will come to understand one aspect of environmental sciences at a deep, granular level. The core of the course is setup as an Oxford Style Tutorial designed to maximize student and professor interactions and push participants to engage deeply in a subject within their discipline while honing, reading, thinking and communication skills. The majority of the course is based around discussions with the professor and a small group of students. For each discussion session, students will alternate between writing and reviewing work that focuses on selected scientific articles and will culminate in a final project synthesizing skills and knowledge. 

Prerequisite(s): WRIT 101   and (ENSC 121  ; or GEO 101 ; or  GEO 103 ; or GEO 107  )
fall/spring