CHS Environmental Experience

AP Environmental Science is designed to be the equivalent of a one-semester, introductory college course in environmental science. Unlike most other college introductory level science course, environmental science is offered from a wide variety of departments in college (i.e. economics, ecology, sociology, conservation biology, etc.). Depending on the department offering the course, different emphases are placed on various topics. Some courses are rigorous courses that stress scientific principles and analysis, and that often include a laboratory component; other courses emphasize the study of environmental issues from a sociological or political perspective rather than a scientific one. 

This AP Environmental Science course has been developed to be most like the former; as such it is intended to enable students to undertake, as first-year college students a more advanced study of topics in environmental science or alternatively, to fulfill a basic requirement for a laboratory science and thus free time for taking other courses.

This AP Environmental Science course will provide students with the scientific principles, concepts and methodologies required to understand the interrelationships of the natural world, to identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, to evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and to examine alternative and sustainable solutions for resolving and/or preventing them. 

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