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• SCI 362 Entire Course

• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 1

• Which environmental school of thought
  anthropocentric, biocentric, deep ecology or
  ecocentric fits with your personal sense of
  environmental ethics? Why?

• SCI 362 Week 1 Individual Assignment Terms and
  Definitions Worksheet
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• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 1
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• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 2
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• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 3
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• SCI 362 Week 2 Individual Assignment Case In
  Point Analysis
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• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 1
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• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 2
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• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 3
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• SCI 362 Week 3 Individual Assignment Energy
  Summary

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• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 2

• SCI 362 Week 1 DQ 3

• Which environmental school of thought
  anthropocentric, biocentric, deep ecology or
  ecocentric fits with your personal sense of
  environmental ethics? Why?

• What are the philosophical differences between
  Theodore Roosevelt and Aldo Leopold? With which
  person do you most agree? Why?

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• SCI 362 Week 1 Individual Assignment Terms and
  Definitions Worksheet

• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 1

• SCI 362 Week 1 Individual Assignment Terms and
  Definitions Worksheet
• ResourceUniversityMaterial Terms and
  Definitions Worksheet
• CompleteUniversity Material Terms and
  Definitions Worksheet located on your student
  website.

• What are the advantages of using the scientific
  method to study environmental issues? What are
  the dangers of not using the scientific method?
  When is it inappropriate to use the scientific
  method?

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• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 2

• SCI 362 Week 2 DQ 3

• What are the sources of your values and ethics?
  Have your values and ethics changed with time?
  Why did they change or not change?

• How is human population growth related to
  environmental sustainability? Is sustainable
  growth possible with no ceiling on population
  growth? Why or why not?

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• SCI 362 Week 2 Individual Assignment Case In
  Point Analysis

• SCI 362 Week 3 Case Study Thesis Statement

• Select one Case-In-Point presented in Ch. 35 of
  Environment.
• Write a 700- to 900-word analysis of the selected
  case. In your analysis, include the following
• Identify any unintended consequences of
  humankinds activities that have led to
  environmental problems.
• Describe how scientific or technological
  activities are exacerbating or improving the
  existing situation.
• Discuss how a proper application of the
  scientific method could have helped the problem.

• Locate articles related to your selected case
  using the University Library and other resources.
• Answer the following questions to evaluate each
  chosen article
• Who is the author, or authors?
• Who is the intended audience?
• Is the information relevant to the subject of the
  case study?
• How credible is this source?
• What evidence does the author use?
• Is the information reliable?

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• SCI 362 Week 3 DQ 1

• SCI 362 Week 3 DQ 2

• Explain what the term peak oil means. Do you
  think we have arrived at this point yet? Why or
  why not? What do you think the economic and
  geopolitical effects of peak oil will be? What
  would you do if the price of gasoline reached 10
  per gallon?nclusion.

• What are the pros and cons of plug-in hybrid
  gasoline-electric vehicles? Would you buy one if
  it were economically feasible? Why or why not?

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• SCI 362 Week 3 DQ 3

• SCI 362 Week 3 Individual Assignment Energy
  Summary

• Given that society benefits from nuclear power,
  how should we distribute the burdens that go
  along with these benefits, such as nuclear waste?
  Should nuclear waste storage facilities be
  located where the energy is generated, or should
  they be located where the energy is used, even if
  that means within a large urban center? Should
  they be located in an area where the risks are
  lowest, even if the people in that area do not
  benefit from nuclear energy? Explain.

• Resource Environment
• Read the Case-In Point articles in Ch. 11, 12,
  13 of the text. Write a 300- to 350-word summary
  of each case for a total of 900 to 1,200 words.
  Be sure to address the following details
• Identify each type of energy source and its
  relative abundance and environmental impact.
• Evaluate the economic and ethical issues of each
  energy source emphasized by these three cases.

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• SCI 362 Week 4 DQ 1

• SCI 362 Week 4 DQ 2

• Do you agree or disagree with the idea that
  climate change is an environmental justice issue?
  Why?

• Identify a local environmental problem. What are
  the environmental-justice questions surrounding
  this problem? Why is environmental justice
  important to discussions of this problem?

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• SCI 362 Week 4 DQ 3

• SCI 362 Week 4 Individual Assignment Managing
  Environmental Issues Simulation Paper

• What is the difference between ecofeminism and
  ecosystem ecology? Do you agree with the tenets
  of ecofeminism? Why or why not?

• Complete the Managing Environmental Issues
  simulation located on your student website.
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• Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you
  discuss the relationship between this simulation
  and environmental justice. Include the following
• Identify each of the stakeholders.
• Describe the ethical thinking or philosophy of
  each stakeholder.
• Identify the conflicting or competing priorities
  of each stakeholder.
• Describe how these tensions can be understood as
  environmental justice issues.

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• SCI 362 Week 5 DQ 1

• SCI 362 Week 5 DQ 2

• What do you think is the proper role of the state
  and federal governments in fostering alternative
  energy sources? Should the government be involved
  in promoting conservation efforts for individuals
  and businesses? Why or why not?

• How would you describe the physical world you
  want to leave for your children and
  grandchildren? How do you hope it will be better
  than the world you inherited from your parents
  and grandparents?

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• SCI 362 Week 5 DQ 3

• SCI 362 Week 5 Ethics and the Environment
  Presentation

• Which environmental school of thought
  anthropocentric, biocentric, deep ecology or
  ecocentric fits with your personal sense of
  environmental ethics? Why?

• Prepare a 10 to 15-minute oral presentation
  accompanied by 10 to 20 Microsoft PowerPoint
  slides illustrating the learning teams Ethics
  and the Environment Case Study. Submit a
  10-20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
  with presenter notes to the Learning team Forum
  by Monday, Day 7 of Week Five.

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• SCI 362 Week 5 Individual Assignment Climate
  Change Regulation Paper

• SCI 362 Week 5 Team Assignment Environmental Case
  Analysis

• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper, in Word
  Document format, in which you discuss government
  regulation of climate change, . Include the
  following
• Explain various viewpoints on climate change.
• Explain and justify, briefly, your viewpoint on
  the issue of climate change.
• Describe command and control regulations versus
  incentive based regulations, and provide the
  advantages and disadvantages of each.

• Submit a 1,250- to 1500-word comprehensive
  environmental case study examining your
  faculty-approved case study in a Word Document
  format.
• Include a reference page with at least 6
  references.
• Use the following resources to prepare for this
  assignment
• RoutledgeEncyclopedia of Philosophy, available
  through the University Library

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• SCI 362 Week 5 The fall of the Soviet Union and
  communist governments in Central and Eastern

• Briefly outline the economic history of the
  Soviet Union from 1917 to 1928 Do not use more
  than 1 page on this. What were the main issues
  among different schools or oppositions during
  the Great Industrialization Debate? When Stalin
  finally abolished the market system in the late
  1920s, how did the Central Planning System
  actually work? What were the main problems of the
  Central Planning System? What were social
  responses to the failing Command Economy?

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