Course Description
Course content: people, perspectives, values and ecosystems; properties and principles of ecosystems; interdisciplinary teamwork in ecological engineering; status of ecosystems around the world; salmon life history and status; professional realm of ecological engineers; professional ethics in ecological engineering; reasoning about ecosystems and the scientific method; framing ecological problems and conceptual mapping; design of ecological studies; obtaining, analyzing and presenting ecological data; ecosystem monitoring; economics of ecosystems.
Course Objectives
The student, upon completion of this course, should be able to:
- show, compare and contrast how people's attitudes, values and perspectives affect how they interact physically with ecosystems;
- describe and give examples of key properties and principles of ecosystems;
- understand the characteristics of effective team approaches to problem solving and use team approaches successfully;
- explain, at a general comprehension level, the status of ecosystems around the world;
- illustrate ecosystem concepts and impacts using salmon case studies as examples;
- describe the types of professional activities in which ecological engineers may be engaged;
- analyze professional ethical issues and identify professional misconduct;
- demonstrate how ecosystem questions and issues may be investigated using the scientific method;
- explain ecological prlblems and show how conceptual mapping may be used as a tool to show important relationships between elements and issues;
- explain and show, at a freshman level, how ecological studies are designed and how data are obtained, analyzed, and presented;
- describe common methods for monitoring ecosystems; and
- describe predominant approaches for valuating ecosystems.
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