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EWRT 141 Beginning Poetry Writing
All courses are for unit credit and apply to a De Anza associate degree unless otherwise noted.
4 Units
Credit course - Does not apply to De Anza associate degree.
Advisory: EWRT 200 and READ 200, or ESL 261, 262 and 263.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
Development of poetry writing skills through practice and exposure to a variety of poetic forms.
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. E Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
This course examines how nature and wildlife in urban spaces face different constraints than that of “untouched” wilderness and aims to introduce the intersection
EWRT 200 Fundamentals of Writing
Credit course - Does not apply to De Anza associate degree. Requisite/Advisory: None.
Five hours lecture (60 hours total per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
5 Units
of nature and human-constructed civilizations. Students will learn about the methods of analysis in urban ecology and apply their knowledge to a case study.
ESCI 54 Environmental Analysis 3 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours lecture (36 hours total per quarter).
This course explores the data analysis techniques, protocol, and equipment utilized in Environmental Science. Students will apply the data analysis techniques utilized in the preservation, protection, and restoration of environmental systems.
ESCI 56 Plant Survey Techniques 3 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours lecture (36 hours total per quarter).
This course examines the plant survey techniques and plant community ecology principles utilized in wildlife science corridor and landscape design, preservation, or restoration. Students will apply these plant survey techniques to assist in the preservation, protection, and restoration of native species and ecosystems.
ESCI 57 Wildlife Monitoring 2 Units
Advisory: EWRT 211 and READ 211, or ESL 272 and 273.
Six hours laboratory (72 hours total per quarter).
This is a wildlife monitoring field studies lab course exploring wildlife movement and wildlife corridors. Students apply the principles of Conservation Biology, Landscape Ecology, and Ecosystems Management to assist in the preservation, protection, and restoration of native species and ecosystems.
ESCI 58 Landscape Linkages for California 2 Units
Advisory: EWRT 211 and READ 211, or ESL 272 and 273.
Six hours laboratory (72 hours total per quarter).
This is a landscape linkages field studies lab course exploring wildlife movement, habitat utilization, data collection, and analysis in California. Students apply wildlife tracking principles and techniques as well as relevant state and federal legislation and policy to an actual statewide corridor case study to assist in the preservation, protection, and restoration of native species, ecosystems, and landscape connectivity statewide.
ESCI 60 Restoration Ecology 5 Units
(Formerly ESCI 20.)
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to ecological restoration. Includes review of ecological theories as necessary for restoration based projects. The Cheeseman Environmental Studies serves as a laboratory for students project based, experiential learning.
Practice focused, purposeful writing in several formats to different audiences with a variety of sentence structures responding to, engaging with or inspired by written or visual texts. Edit writing to correct errors in the major conventions of Standard Written English.
EWRT 211 Preparatory Writing Skills
Credit course - Does not apply to De Anza associate degree. Requisite/Advisory: None.
Five hours lecture (60 hours total per quarter).
Pass-No Pass (P-NP) course.
5 Units
Develops the abilities necessary for college-level writing by introducing students to critical thinking via text-based analysis. Essay construction including thesis statements and paragraph organization and development, as well as focusing on the mechanics of writing, such as sentence-level skills will be covered.
Environmental Science
ESCI 1 Environmental Science 4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
An introductory course designed to expose students to environmental science. Human interactions with the environment and their consequences for living and nonliving systems will be examined. Topics will include evolution, ecology, biodiversity, human population dynamics, natural resource use, pollution, environmental degradation, climate change, marine and freshwater resources, and environmental policy.
(One-day field trip outside of scheduled class time may be required for this course.)
ESCI 1L Environmental Science Laboratory 1 Unit
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.) Prerequisite: ESCI 1 (may be taken concurrently).
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5. Three hours laboratory (36 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to environmental science as a branch of the sciences including the scientific method and its relation to the scientific field in a laboratory and field setting. Applications of scientific, environmental, ecological and sustainability principles as they relate to human societies will be explored.
ESCI 77
ESCI 77X
ESCI 77Y
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor and division dean.
Three hours laboratory for each unit of credit (36 hours total for each unit of credit per quarter).
Individual research in environmental science. Specific projects will be determined in consultation with the instructor. Outside reading and a written report required.
Environmental Studies
E S 1 Introduction to Environmental Studies 4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
An introductory study of environmental issues, their underlying causes and potential solutions from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering science, history, culture, philosophy, and ethics, law and regulation, politics, economics, and management practices. Topics include current environmental issues related to nature/wildlife preservation, natural resource use and conservation, pollution control and prevention, and energy use and climate change. Students learn how their personal and career choices and actions can protect nature, preserve natural resources, prevent pollution, reduce energy demands and decrease climate change impacts for the benefit of current and future generations.
(One field trip may be required outside of class time.)
E S 2 Introduction to Sustainability 4 Units
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture (48 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to sustainability through environmental, social, and economic evaluation. Students will learn the influence of societal resource use, distribution, and waste on earth. Climate change, power dynamics, and leadership are observed as influences on sustainability.
ESCI 50 Introduction to Urban Ecology 4 Units
ESCI 19 Environmental Biology
5 Units
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to environmental biology as a branch of the environmental sciences and its relation to the scientific field. Review of the principles of environmental biology, ecology and conservation as they relate to natural resource use, the biodiversity crisis, pollution, human population, climate change and the impacts on all cultural, ethnic and gender groups.
(Field trip outside of scheduled class time may be required for this course.)
ESCI 21 Practices of Environmental Stewardship 5 Units
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
A focus on the California Floristic Province, emphasizing the ways California’s biodiversity is sampled and studied. Includes hands-on fieldwork surveying vegetation and animal populations, discussion of societal impacts of biodiversity loss and conservation, and the importance of biodiversity conservation today. (Off-campus field trips may be required.)
Special Projects in Environmental Science
1 Unit 2 Units 3 Units
ESCI 30 Introduction to Conservation Biology
5 Units
(See general education pages for the requirement this course meets.)
Advisory: EWRT 1A or EWRT 1AH or (EWRT 1AS and EWRT 1AT) or ESL 5.
Four hours lecture, three hours laboratory (84 hours total per quarter).
An introduction to biodiversity and conservation biology as a branch of the environmental sciences. This course will focus on species richness, genetic diversity and ecosystem diversity through the exploration of contemporary biodiversity and conservation issues. Adaptive, community-based conservation techniques applied to develop practical problem-solving approaches to the biodiversity crisis including habitat fragmentation and biological monitoring. In addition cultural, economic and philosophical aspects of biodiversity conservation will be explored.
(Off-campus field trips will be required.)
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