EVPP 201: Environment and You: Issues for the Twenty-First Century

EVPP 201-K01: Env and You: Iss-21st Cent
(Fall 2026)

05:00 PM to 06:15 PM MWW

Mason Korea (119 Songdomunhwa-ro, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon, Korea) G201

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Section Information for Fall 2026

Human activity has improved health, longevity, and prosperity, and, at the same time, strained the natural systems we depend on through pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, and resource depletion. EVPP 201 introduces the science of how the environment works, how it affects us, and how our choices affect it, and pairs that science with the policy questions it raises.

Topics range from ecosystems and human population to food and genetic engineering, water, pollution and climate, energy, and environmental law. Throughout, you will practice the core habit of science, careful observation, reasoned inference, and weighing evidence, using real data, cases, and places, including our own campus and the city of Songdo.

Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Introduces broad aspects of human-environmental interactions in the contemporary world. Topics range broadly from global populations and wastewater treatment to environmental law, and genetic engineering. Includes both science and science policy of the environment. Offered by Environmental Science & Policy. Limited to three attempts.
Mason Core: Mason Core, Natural Science Overview, Encore: Sustainability
Specialized Designation: Green Leaf Related Course
Schedule Type: Lecture
Grading:
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.

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