BIOL 4100 - Introduction to Environmental Impact Assessment

3 hours

Principles and practices of preparing environmental impact assessments and statements. Addresses how to understand the effects that projects, plans and policies have on the environment and the impact those effects have on specific resources, ecosystems and human communities. Methods for identifying impacts, describing the affected environment, predicting and assessing impacts and selecting the proposed action from a group of alternatives for meeting specified needs are examined.

Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1710 or BIOL 1711; BIOL 1720 or BIOL 1722; BIOL 1760 or BIOL 1761; BIOL 2041/BIOL 2042 or BIOL 2140 or BIOL 2241 or BIOL 2251 or BIOL 2302/BIOL 2312; or consent of department.

May not be repeated at the graduate level as BIOL 5100.