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Dartmouth College

Environmental Science

The Introduction to Environmental Science course explores the field of environmental science and encourages participants to understand how environmental scientists think. It addresses some important questions such as: 1. What is the difference between environmental science and environmental studies? 2. How do both differ from environmentalism? 3. Why is energy so important in environmental science? 4. What do you mean by biodiversity? You will also explore what global cycles are and how they impact our lives. You must be aware that the human impact on biodiversity and global change are two of the most important discussion points in environmental science. Have you ever wondered how we are affecting global change and biodiversity? How can we reconcile human population growth, resource demands and sustainability? The effects of global change on humans and natural ecosystems and additional factors in evaluating personal environmental impact will also be discussed in this course.

Status: Water Resource Management
Status: Systems Thinking
BeginnerCourse30 hours

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JH

5.0Reviewed Jun 26, 2023

Excellent course with succinct and thorough introduction of Environmental Science.

JT

5.0Reviewed Oct 2, 2023

Very interesting and informative class. Very nicely presented and easy to understand.

SP

5.0Reviewed Aug 7, 2024

Great information about the environmental studies

MS

5.0Reviewed Aug 28, 2024

I really enjoyed and learned in this journey, thank you to all respected professors

ES

4.0Reviewed Nov 10, 2024

great but assinment grade timing very long process so better to do that much is not good

HH

5.0Reviewed May 6, 2025

I loved this course, it was very informative. I wish more colleges and schools explained the information within this course as Dartmouth did.

AL

5.0Reviewed Feb 10, 2026

Excellent foundation of environmental science, which integrates basic science, systems science etc.

KM

5.0Reviewed Jan 8, 2024

Its fun to learn about different environmental aspects from this course.

AA

4.0Reviewed Sep 19, 2024

Very insightful course to the introduction of environmental and the description of key concepts such as global warming, hydrologic cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, green house gases.

BK

4.0Reviewed Jan 27, 2025

Excellent presentation by famous author. Clean animations and videos, quizzes are actually challenging. A handful of errors were observed.

AA

5.0Reviewed Dec 24, 2024

The materials are very thorough and suit well for a beginner student.

KL

5.0Reviewed Aug 5, 2025

Loved it, very interesting, just make sure to take and review notes

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