Social Sciences Interdisciplinary (SSC)

SSC Courses

• SSC 100LEC Careers in Human Services
  Lecture
  

  Explores the range of professional and graduate school opportunities in human services and related fields.

  Credits: 2
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 102LEC Intro to Internat Politics
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 103SEM Introduction to Health and Human Services
  Seminar
  

  Studies the health and human service system in the United States and locally, as it has been affected by history, changing values, and changes in the economic and political environment. Particularly emphasizes the gerontological, childhood, and community mental health service systems.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 118LEC Introduction to Environmental Studies
  Lecture
  

  Involves an interdisciplinary approach to environmental issues. Explores ecological concepts, human environment, air and water pollution, pesticides, solid waste handling, mineral and energy resources, the nuclear fuel cycle, population and food resources, and environmental control.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 198SEM UB Seminar
  Seminar
  

  The one credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps transition to UB through an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 198 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

  Credits: 1
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the UB seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
  
• SSC 199SEM UB Seminar
  Seminar
  

  The three credit UB Seminar is focused on a big idea or challenging issue to engage students with questions of significance in a field of study and, ultimately, to connect their studies with issues of consequence in the wider world. Essential to the UB Curriculum, the Seminar helps students with common learning outcomes focused on fundamental expectations for critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and oral communication, and learning at a university, all within topic focused subject matter. The Seminars provide students with an early connection to UB faculty and the undergraduate experience at a comprehensive, research university. This course is equivalent to any 199 offered in any subject. This course is a controlled enrollment (impacted) course. Students who have previously attempted the course and received a grade of F or R may not be able to repeat the course during the fall or spring semester.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Other Requisites: Students who have already successfully completed the first year seminar course may not repeat this course. If you have any questions regarding enrollment for this course, please contact your academic advisor.
  
• SSC 208LEC Intro to Child Dev&Learn
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 209LEC Case Management
  Lecture
  

  An applied skills course for the delivery of human services. Considers the roles and functions of case management and various vulnerable client groups as target populations. Involves analyzing cases for client needs and comprehensive service planning. Practice competency, quality of care, and ethical standards are major concerns of the course. Small group activities and community-based interviews are important student learning experiences.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 210SEM Skill Development in Human Service
  Seminar
  

  Introduces specific techniques and skills employed in human services careers.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 212LEC Sociology of Diversity
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 213LEC Social Research Methods
  Lecture
  

  Introduces procedures by which social scientists gather, analyze, and interpret information about the social world. Particularly emphasizes the use of campus-based resources for social service research.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 215LEC Law & Political Process
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 217LEC Environmental Chemistry: Principles and Applications
  Lecture
  

  For Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Environmental Science students; designed to show how chemistry is involved in the identification, analysis, and solution of a large array of environmental problems. Relates basic chemistry to the atmosphere, the ozone layer, global warming, greenhouse gasses, energy production and emissions, water quality and pollution, acid precipitation, nuclear power and waste, nutrition, hydrology, and hazardous wastes.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  Prerequisites: SSC 118
  
• SSC 218SEM Issues in Mental Health
  Seminar
  

  Identifies community mental health service components and explores trends and issues in the delivery of mental health services.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 221LEC Writing in the Law
  Lecture
  

  Examines the legal writing process. Introduces students to the unique organization and structure of the law library, traditional as well as electronic. Requires group research and individual writing assignments.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 225LEC Statistics for Social Sciences
  Lecture
  

  Provides a foundation in statistical techniques for interpreting quantitative social data, including binomial and normal distributions, the Chi-Square test, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 230LEC Communicating for Health and Human Service Professionals
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  Prerequisites: Completion of Communication Literacy 1 or completion of Writing Skills 1 (ENG 101 or placement into ENG 201)
  
• SSC 237LEC Medical Ethics: Social & Ethical Values in Medicine
  Lecture
  

  Applies ethical theories to analysis of important moral problems in health care and medicine. Same as PHI 237.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 238LEC Science, Religion, and Nature
  Lecture
  

  This environmental philosophy course explores the impact of religious traditions and modern science upon our perceptions of nature and how these perceptions ultimately determine our relationship with one another and the world in which we live. Specific areas of focus include nature attunement/magic, mythology, western mysticism, eastern religions, shamanistic traditions, Gaia theory and concepts of Spirit and nature.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 300LEC Sociology of Aging
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 301LEC Cases in Civil Liberties
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 302LEC Protect Civil Liberties
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 303LEC Constitutional Law
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 304LEC Legislative Politics
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 305LEC Applied Child Development and Learning
  Lecture
  

  Integrates theory and current research with practical aspects of child rearing and family health. Explores developmental processes and behavior of young children as individuals and in group settings.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 306LEC Judicial Politics
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 307LEC Criminology
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 311LEC Soc of the Life Course
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 313LEC Soc of the Family
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 314LEC Public Policy Making
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 315LEC Field Ecology
  Lecture
  

  This is a field oriented course that explores the interrelationships of life with one another and their relationships with the environment that supports them. Classes are conducted both on and off campus and are focused in the areas of environmental analysis, conservation biology and general ecology. Specific class topics range from Wildlife Ecology, Botanical Surveys and Resource Management to varied Habitat Studies, Field Geology and Herbalism.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 316LEC Sociology of Gender
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 317LEC Environmental Politics
  Lecture
  

  Focuses on the relationship between environmental problems and the political process. Explores definitions of an environmentally sustainable society. Then we attempt to answer the question of "how to get there from here." This involves developing a theory of social change by examining a number of case studies. We study local environmental controversies from a political perspective through firsthand involvement or guest speakers. We also look at national environmental conflicts, such as the backlash against mainstream environmentalism created by the "Wise Use" movement and contemporary political forces championing property rights and states' rights.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 318LEC Criminal Justice Systems
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 319LEC Juvenile Justice
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 320SEM Issues in Dev. Disabilities
  Seminar
  

  Explores causation, prevention, advocacy, housing, education, employment, and community services. Defines career opportunities in this area.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 322LEC Intro Medical Sociology
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 325LEC Race and Ethnic Relations
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 326SEM Great Lakes Ecology
  Seminar
  

  The Great Lakes hold nearly 20% of all the available fresh water on the planet. They provide drinking water, hydroelectricity, and both economic and recreational opportunities to millions who live around their shores. This class provides an understanding of the Great Lakes, from their formation to the important role they play in the political and ecological systems of North America. Focuses on historical and ecological aspects, as well as current political and policy issues surrounding the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence ecosystem. Students learn about the geology, biota, ecology, management, and social and political aspects of the Great Lakes, especially the lower lakes (Erie and Ontario). The course uses a multi-faceted ecosystem approach to diverse topics involved with understanding these complex ecological systems.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 329LEC Population Problems
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 335LEC Sociology of Adolescence
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 338LEC Law and Morality
  Lecture
  

  Explores the moral status of legality and the legal status of morality, the status of unjust laws, and the role of moral judgments of lawmakers. Is a good law one that does good?

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 343LEC Violence and the Family
  Lecture
  

  Addresses issues in violence and violence prevention with sections on theoretical definitions and historical context. Topics include the social context of violent behavior in families, child abuse and neglect, abusive parenting, violence against women, abuse of the elderly, violence in communities of color, and the media's influence on the development of antisocial behavior. Explores special problems of child protection services and the justice system's approach toward domestic violence.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 347LEC Urban Sociology
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 360SEM Environmental Impact Statements and Resource Management
  Seminar
  

  Examines the objectives, development, and preparation, of EIS in response to federal/state laws and regulations. Explores the environmental impact assessment process as it relates to the protection and potential impact of natural, cultural and economic resources.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 363LEC The Aging Process
  Lecture
  

  Introduces the aging process. Explores physiological and clinical aspects.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 365LEC The Family Process
  Lecture
  

  Considers the family: What is it? How does it work? How does it fail to work? Provides both United States and cross-cultural perspectives. Explores the theoretical foundation of family therapies.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 373LEC Sociology of Law
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 385LEC Energy, Environment, and Society
  Lecture
  

  Focuses on the relationship between energy use and the associated impact on the environment and society. Explores our dependence upon traditional energy resources such as oil, coal, nuclear and natural gas as well as renewable energy resources such as geothermal, wind, solar, etc. Examines solutions to the difficult process of changing current energy consumption trends.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 390SEM Human Services Administration
  Seminar
  

  Examines the practical aspects of managing a human services organization. Discusses the basic functions of management, including planning, budgeting, personnel, and organizational development. Presents these themes around such functions as team management, the consumer as customer, innovation, and creativity in attaining excellence.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 391LEC Cognitive Science Colloquium
  Lecture
  

  Acquaints students with ongoing research in the range of disciplines affiliated with cognitive science. Primarily requires attendance at the weekly colloquium and symposium series of the Center for Cognitive Science. Requires students to read any relevant literature that has been publicly announced prior to the upcoming colloquium or symposium.

  Credits: 1
  Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 405LEC Sociology of Deviance
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 406LEC Law and the Environment
  Lecture
  

  Studies statutory and case law relating to pollution control, natural resources management, government regulation of land use, and the process and logic of decision making in governmental and legal institutions.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 407SEM Health Care and the Elderly
  Seminar
  

  Provides students an opportunity to explore relevant issues in dealing with an elderly population in the health-care arena. Special focus on the frail elderly and aged with chronic medical conditions. Points of interest include incapacitation, consents, confidentiality, ancillary and other services, rites of passage, the health-care team, managing the difficult patient, lethality assessments, family/professional relationships, health-care settings and intercultural communication.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 408LEC Alzheimer's & Dementia
  Lecture
  

  According to the World Alzheimer?s Report (2013) 35.6 million individuals suffer from dementia globally and the costs related to their care exceed $604 billion per year. With the number of cases estimated to triple in the next 40 years, dementia and Alzheimer?s is a healthcare crisis that will affect us all in some way, especially those working in healthcare and human services. This course will prepare students to work in various health and community settings and address the unique needs and concerns of dementia care.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 413LEC Addictions Treatment
  Lecture
  

  This course provides a comprehensive view of the addictions treatment process. It identifies and develops skills necessary to assess and treat individuals in addiction treatment programs. It emphasizes common treatment practices, requirements and regulations expected of treatment programs and professionals.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 414LEC Grant Writing for Non-Profits
  Lecture
  

  Prepares student in human services, environmental studies, and urban and public policy for grant development. Overview of fundraising among non-profits, development of grant-writing strategies, and how to research and create grant proposals in a competitive market. Extensive proposal writing and composition. Integrated with current, ongoing internships if students simultaneously pursue a practicum in Health and Human Service (SSC 496) or and Environmental Internship (SSC 496). Students not pursuing a practicum or internship will adopt and research a non-profit organization appropriate to their field of study.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 416LEC Early Childhood Ed Th& Pr
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 417DIS Clinical Approaches to Multicultural Clients
  Discussion
  

  What are the skills, aptitudes and attitudes necessary to deal effectively and helpfully with clients whose culture is very different from what the provider is familiar with? How can the human service provider respond effectively to clients who have experienced extreme events, including war, dislocation, forced emigration? These questions will be explored by (1) examining the multiple issues affecting refugees and international immigrants to the U.S., to include human trafficking, genital mutilation, rape, war crimes, PTSD, legal issues around refugee status, language and cultural barriers (2) clarifying and examining the student/potential human service provider's existing social and cultural biases (3) employing the concepts of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder to understand the experience and respond effectively to the human service needs of returning US armed services personnel, examining military members, veterans and their families in a "sub-culture" context and understanding the differences, as well as similarities, in symptoms and approach between personal trauma, sexual trauma, combat trauma and vicarious trauma, to encourage more effective intervention, and (4) reapplying the understanding of the problems, concepts and approaches in 3 above to the service response to multi-cultural clients.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 419SEM Wilderness
  Seminar
  

  Focuses on wilderness and biocentrism. Explores the idea of wilderness along three pathways. Part 1 deals with the history of biological wilderness and philosophical wilderness from Spinoza to Leopold to Snyder. Part 2 covers biological and other wilderness qualities. Part 3 examines the social movements related to wilderness and biocentrism. Also explores environmental ethics and morals. Investigates proposals for wilderness restoration, preservation, and expansion. A close examination of indigenous cultures' wilderness beliefs accompanies our study.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 420SEM Child Mental Health
  Seminar
  

  Examines the human service system as it affects the mental health needs of children; also addresses specific needs of special groups.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 421LEC Interventions and Play
  Lecture
  

  This course is designed to introduce students to Play Therapy techniques and help students determine how they can be applied as treatment modalities for Children with Mental Health Issues and Disabilities. Students will review major mental health issues in childhood, explore play therapy as a modality appropriate for children's developmental stage, identify therapeutic strategies, and develop a plan for implementing an appropriate program of treatment

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  Prerequisites: SSC 103 and PSY 101
  
• SSC 428SEM Health Law
  Seminar
  

  Explores legal aspects of human services focusing on the constitutional right to privacy, the right to die, involuntary hospitalization and treatment of the mentally disabled, and entitlements. Covers family law, the rights of the elderly and the disabled, and laws concerned with special education.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 430LEC Human Rights
  Lecture
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
  
• SSC 431SEM Topics in Human Services
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 432SEM Topics in Legal Studies
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 433SEM Topics in Environmental Studies
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 434SEM Topics in Urban and Public Policy
  Seminar
  

  Allows students to explore up-to-date information and current debates in their chosen field. Topic titles and offerings vary from semester to semester. Students should check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs to determine how the course may be used to fulfill major requirements.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 441LEC Wildlife and Wildlands Management
  Lecture
  

  Wildlife and Wildlands Management will focus on the application of ecological principles to studying and managing wildlife populations with emphasis on habitat management. This course serves as an introduction to wildlife ecology and management and focuses on the wildlife of North America. The course begins with a brief examination of the history of wildlife management and wildlife policy in North America. The majority of the class will focus on important wildlife species, wildlife ecology, population biology, and other subjects of importance to wildlife management. Special problems such as endangered species preservation, genetic diversity conservation, predator management, control of nuisance and alien species, and other non-game species will be covered. We will discuss case histories and current issues of wildlife management on public and private lands. Science, of which wildlife conservation is a part, allows us to understand how living systems function. This knowledge further allows us to determine our role in maintaining healthy ecosystems. We also consider the attitudes of humans toward wildlife and their demands and impacts on North America's wildlife resources.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 442SEM Environmental Movements
  Seminar
  

  Provides a comprehensive analysis of the environmental movement in the United States. Rather than focusing on whether the protection of the environment is "right" or "wrong" the course critically examines the past, present and future of the environmental movement including Conservation, Preservation, Deep Ecology, Environmental Justice, Ecofeminism and Ecotheology. The course will examine the methods used by grassroots, environmental organizations. Throughout the course what is discussed will be applied to several local environmental concerns.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring
  
• SSC 443SEM Law, Legal Writing and Advocacy
  Seminar
  

  Law, Legal Writing and Advocacy introduces undergraduates to the practical written and oral application of legal principles by giving them basic tasks a lawyer would perform. Students gain a basic knowledge of the legal system and the lawyers' role in it. They are given hypothetical factual situations that involve legal issues. They are asked to analyze the factual situation and to present the legal issues involved from different perspectives: the defense, the plaintiff/prosecutor, the judge, and law enforcement.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 446SEM Environmental Sociology
  Seminar
  

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Varies
  
• SSC 448LEC Animals, Zoos, and Ecology
  Lecture
  

  Introduces the study of animal behavior. Explores natural behaviors and the factors affecting those behaviors by covering such topics as the evolution of behavior, the nervous and endocrine systems, biological rhythms, social systems, reproductive behavior, and more. Course participants examine and understand animal behavior through lectures, readings, short projects, and direct observation of the animal populations on zoo grounds.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall
  
• SSC 479LAB Environmental Education Field Studies
  Laboratory
  

  This course is designed to prepare students as environmental educators and field ecologists. Students will experience a series of lectures and fieldwork in the areas of environmental education teaching strategies and techniques, outdoor games and activities, curriculum development and field ecology studies. Students will also have an opportunity to participate in a teacher training program through a variety of youth ecology camps with a local environmental education organization.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Summer
  
• SSC 493LAB Ecology of Unique Environments
  Laboratory
  

  This course is focused upon week-long field ecology studies at unique and threatened environments throughout the United States. Participants will experience a wide variety of interpretive programs regarding the history, ecology and politics of these environments. At present, these expeditions are conducted during the Winter in the Florida Everglades and in the Summer to either the Adirondack Mountains of New York or Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.

  Credits: 3
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 496TUT Internship
  Tutorial
  

  Community internship, health and human services internship, or environmental studies internship. See the appropriate SSC advisor for details.

  Credits: 1 - 6
  Grading: Pass/Not Pass (PNP)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
  
• SSC 499TUT Independent Study
  Tutorial
  

  Various instructors offer independent study. Check with the Office of Interdisciplinary Degree Programs each semester.

  Credits: 1 - 4
  Grading: Graded (GRD)
  Typically Offered: Fall, Spring