Geoscience

Survey of four main disciplines of earth science: geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy. Labs serve as vehicles to learn scientific methodology and to provide evidence to illustrate theories presented in lectures. Meets the general education requirement for a 4-credit natural science course with laboratory.

This course explores the way that tribal peoples around the world have approached some of the classic questions of scientific inquiry. Specific topics include -ethnocentrism in science as well as indigenous approaches to logic, math, and knowledge of the physical environment (i.e., geology, astronomy). Special emphasis will fall upon Alaska Native approaches to climate and ecology. Labs serve as vehicles to learn scientific methodology and to provide evidence to illustrate topics presented in lectures. Meets the general education requirement for a 4-credit natural science course with laboratory.

This course is for you if you wonder about the science reports that you hear in the media and wish you understood them better. Topics will range from advances in genetics and medicine, to climate change and the extinction of the dinosaurs, to resource availability and management.

This course will give students an integrated overview of the science of climate change and an analysis of the implications of this change for patterns of daily life in their own circumstance, local environment, and their culture.