MIN236
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MIN236 - Materials, Societies, & Choices
Course Description
All human communities consume, produce, recycle, and discard our planet's raw materials. Today's world depends on and interacts with earth materials (minerals, renewable resources, water) in complex ways, through choices, whether explicit or implicit. Choices about materials reflect technologies, cultures, individuals, trade, ecosystems, and geographies. This course explores decision-making in the context of the diverse types and uses of earth materials, their full life cycles, and the challenges that arise from the many needs and perspectives of users, producers, and myriad other stakeholders. Presentations and discussions led by subject matter experts are combined with workshops that introduce and apply decision science to the issues of meeting resource needs in the most environmentally sustainable, equitable, and affordable ways possible.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Attributes
CE - CL (Cross Listed), GEED - EPNAT (Gen Ed: EP Natural Scientist)
Course Requisites
Cross Listed Courses
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No
Typically Offered Main Campus
Fall, Spring
Typically Offered Distance Campus
Not Offered
Typically Offered Online Campus
Not Offered
Typically Offered Phoenix Campus
Not Offered
Typically Offered Sierra Vista Campus
Not Offered
Typically Offered Community Campus
Not Offered