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): Completion of the Foundation requirements for your declared Biological Sciences major or Department consent. If major is outside of Biological Sciences, follow the Foundation requirements for the Biology BA.

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