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Environmental education is more than just information about the environment. Environmental education
increases awareness and knowledge about environmental issues, teaches individuals to think critically;
improves problem-solving and decision-making skills.Access to environmental education will help students
to prepare themselves to face the effects of climate change comprehensively from a responsible citizen’s
point of view, defending and being consistent with these values in all areas.
Environmental education bestows students with appropriate skills, knowledge, behaviors and attitudes to
cope with a rapidly changing world and climate and promotes both personal and systemic transformation
towards more sustainable lifestyles. Through environmental education, they can contribute to all aspects
of climate change policy making, mitigation, and adaptation
Program Specific Outcomes (PSO)
The Environmental Studies major prepares students for careers as leaders in understanding and
addressing complex environmental issues from a problem-oriented, interdisciplinary perspective.
- PO1: To understand and evaluate the global scale of environmental problems
- PO2: To provide students with a broad understanding of the relationship between humans and
their environment
- PO3: To prepare students for their roles, responsibilities and identities as citizens,
consumers and environmental actors in a complex interconnected world.
- PO4: To provide students the fundamental concepts and principles of Ecology
- PO5: To make students aware of the importance of biodiversity and its conservation.
- PO6: To make students analyze about the chemical processes involved in different
environmental problems (air, water & soil).
- PO7: To understand the historic development of international environmental law
- PO8: To make students aware about the global environmental issues and their managements etc.
Subjects
Course Code: ENVS2AECC02
Environmental education is more than just information about the environment. Environmental education
increases awareness and knowledge about environmental issues, teaches individuals to think critically;
improves problem-solving and decision-making skills. Access to environmental education will help
students to prepare themselves to face the effects of climate change comprehensively from a responsible
citizen’s point of view, defending and being consistent with these values in all areas. Environmental
education bestows students with appropriate skills, knowledge, behaviors and attitudes to cope with a
rapidly changing world and climate and promotes both personal and systemic transformation towards more
sustainable lifestyles. Through environmental education, they can contribute to all aspects of climate
change policymaking, mitigation, and adaptation
Course learning objectives:
- CO1: To create the awareness of environmental problems
- CO2: To impart the basic knowledge about the environment and its allied problems
- CO3: To develop an attitude of concern for environment
- CO4: To apply systems concepts and methodologies to analyze and understand interactions
between social and environmental processes
- CO5: Able to recognize the physical, chemical, and biological components of the earth’s
systems and show how they function.
- CO6: It helps individuals to develop an understanding of living and physical environment and
how to resolve challenging environmental issues affecting nature.
