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TULSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
NORTHEAST CAMPUS
COURSE SYLLABUS 2012 (201220)
SPRING BREAK INSTRUCTOR: DAN HOUGARDY, EdD.
COURSE NAME: HUMAN ECOLOGY OFFICE NO: NE A151
GEOG 2153 CRN # NE 22531
BIOL 2123 CRN # NE 20196 OFFICE HOURS: BY APPOINTMENT
DAY (S) & TIME: Four Saturdays. 8:00 TO 5:20 OFFICE PHONE: 595-7473
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DATE: 03/3, 10, 17, and 31 SPICE OFFICE FAX: 595-8116
SPICE OFFICE PHONE: 595-8114
ROOM: HOME EMAIL: (best student contact)
TBA TCC EMAIL:
TO CONTACT THE DIVISION OFFICE:
Division: Science & Engineering TechnologyAssociate Dean: David Sollar
Office: NEC 1130
Phone Number: 595-7542 / TO CONTACT ACADEMIC & CAMPUS SERVICES:
Director: Mike Limas
Office: NEA 151
Phone: 595-7543 Ms. Judy LowtherCampus Security: 595-7562
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
There are no prerequisites.
Course Description:
A study of the interrelationships between man and the natural environment. A close look at the influences of man on the environment with emphasis on global population growth and problems it has created relative to environmental features such as global: soil, water, natural resources, vegetation, wildlife and the atmosphere. Socio-cultural influences on the decision making behavior of individuals, groups, and nation-states in world affairs and their impacts will be explored. Global sustainability will be examined. Some field trips and hiking to wilderness areas probable. Also, driving and car pooling necessary.
NEXT COURSE(S) IN SEQUENCE:
See catalog listings.
Textbooks, supplies, & Other Resources:
Title: Sustaining the Earth, (Optional, See instructor) Edition: 12th Edition Author: Miller, G. Tyler Publisher: Brooks Cole
Textbooks and supplies may be purchased at: TCC Bookstore
Course Objectives: STUDENTS WILL:
1. Through knowledge of resource conservation, individuals will become aware of existing environmental problems, their causes, and available alternatives and technologies of abatement, solution and prevention.
2. Develop an attitude of a “custodial capacity” and formulate decisions and actions of critical resource and environmental conservation.
3. Develop a shift from special interest conservation to total ecosystem conservation through introduction of modern technological applications.
4. Provide experiences which demonstrate safe field experiences and correct use of basic equipment during activities and observation in the field.
5. Provide experiences in which students investigate the interrelationships which exist between living and non-living things and their environments.
6. Provide experiences for students to explore the organization of the physical and biological environment and the systems
designed by men who describe it
7. Introduce the student to the relationships between life needs and life functions.
8. Provide experiences that emphasize the process skill of:
Observation, Measurement, Classification, and Communication
9. Provide opportunities to make inferences, predictions, hypothesize, interpret, extrapolate, and communicate information which is meaningful, useful, and appropriate to the student under question.
10. Provide experiences which demonstrate that matter and energy are continually being redistributed in the physical and biological spheres of the planet.
11. Investigate the ways in which mans impact upon the environment affect all living things.
12. Assess the course of ecological degradation and environmental stress as human demands increase.
13. Provide experiences which students explore conservation as a necessary practice in men’s attempt to protect and wisely use his natural resources.
14. Provide experiences that provide direction in establishing a basis for developing an environmental code of ethics.
15. Introduce the concept of “Global Sustainability” in which the student will demonstrate an understanding of how to secure people the quality of life with-in the means of Nature.
Teaching Methods:
This course consists of lecture, field, and class participation. Students are expected to follow the course outline, to do all exercises in the text unless otherwise indicated, and to review all lecture and textbook notes before class lecture and discussion. You are expected to attend each class session, to take notes, to participate in class discussions, field activities and to do homework and all other assignments.
Evaluation Techniques:
There will be three (3) exams including the final. The final exam will be comprehensive. The exams will be a combination of multiple choice, true and false, fill-in-the-blank, and word problems (essay).
The exams may include both lecture and text material. The amount of material taken from the lecture or text will be at the discretion of the instructor. Short quizzes may be given at the beginning of each session over lecture material.
** NOTE: A “BIOREGIONAL REGIONAL JOURNAL” of the class will be kept.
This journal will count for 20% of total grade.
GRADING SCALE:
97.5-100= A+ 77.5-79.99= C+
92.5-97.49=A 72.5-77.49= C
90.0-92.49=A- 70.0-72.49=C-
87.5-89.99=B+ 67.5-69.99=D+
82.5-87.49=B 62.5-67.49=D
80.0-82.49=B- 60.0-62.49=D-
Below 59.99=F
Attendance:
Each student will be held responsible for all class activities, lectures, assignments, and field outings.
SINCE THIS IS A MINI-SESSION, ATTENDANCE IS VITAL.
Every tardy, hour or fraction of an hour, becomes one (1) absence. Each absence is valued at 1/40th (value 2.5 points) of your final grade. (Breaks included).
late assignments AND MAKE-up work:
If for any reason, the student misses a quiz or test, he/she must make arrangements (outside of class) with the instructor to make up the work. All make-up must be completed before the next class meeting. Field trips cannot be made up!
All assignments are due on the date scheduled whether the student attends class or not. Assignments are considered on time if they are submitted on the day that the assignment is due. Assignments may be left in my mailbox in the Academic and Campus Services Office, Room NE A151.
CONDUCT BOTH FIELD AND CLASSROOM
All students will treat each other with good manners and individual respect!!
10. Course Withdrawal: The deadline to withdraw from a course shall not exceed 3/4 the duration of any class. Contact the Counseling Office at any TCC campus to initiate withdrawal from a course ('W' grade) or to change from Credit to Audit. Check the TCC Academic Calendar for deadlines. Students who stop participating in the course and fail to withdraw may receive a course grade of “F,” which may have financial aid consequences for the student.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Email: All TCC students receive a designated “MyTCC” email address (ex:
). All communications to you about TCC and course
assignments will be sent to your MyTCC email address; and you must use MyTCC email
to send email to, and receive email from, the instructor regarding this course.
Inclement Weather: TCC rarely closes. If extreme weather conditions or emergency
situations arise, TCC always gives cancellation notices to radio and television stations.
This information is also posted on the TCC website (www.tulsacc.edu).
GENERAL EDUCATION GOALS: General Education courses at TCC ensure that our graduates gain skills, knowledge, and abilities that comprise a common foundation for their higher education and a backdrop for their work and personal lives. TCC’s General Education goals are: Critical Thinking, Effective Communication, Engaged Learning, and Technological Proficiency.
CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE: Open and mutually respectful communication of varied opinions, beliefs, and perspectives during classroom or online discussion encourages the free exchange of ideas that is essential to higher learning and to the ability to learn from each other. Use of any electronic device is at the discretion of the instructor.
SYLLABUS CHANGES: Occasionally, changes to the syllabus may be necessary. Students will be notified of any changes to the syllabus in writing.
STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES: TCC provides accommodations for qualifying students in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. For information, students may contact the disabled Student Resource Center, 918-595-7115, or the Resource Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, 918-595-7428V, 918-595-7434TTY.
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Academic dishonesty (cheating) is defined as the deception of others about one’s own work or about the work of another. Academic dishonesty or misconduct is not condoned or tolerated at campuses within the Tulsa Community College system. Tulsa Community College adopts a policy delegating certain forms of authority for disciplinary action to the faculty. Such disciplinary actions delegated to the faculty include, but are not limited to, the dismissal of disrespectful or disorderly students from classes. In the case of academic dishonesty a faculty member may:
§ Require the student to redo an assignment or test, or require the student to complete a substitute assignment or test;
§ Record a "zero" for the assignment or test in question;
§ Recommend to the student that the student withdraw from the class, or administratively withdraw the student from the class;
§ Record a grade of "F" for the student at the end of the semester. Faculty may request that disciplinary action be taken against a student at the administrative level by submitting such a request to the Dean of Student Services.
INSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT: Each student is responsible for being aware of the information contained in the TCC Catalog, the TCC Student Policies & Resources Handbook, and semester information listed in the class schedule. All information may be viewed on the TCC website: www.tulsacc.edu
TENTATIVE COURSE CALENDAR:
AGENDA
HUMAN ECOLOGY BIO 2123/ GEO 2153
DAY 1------MONDAY
8:00 am Welcome -- Coffee, Juice, Donuts, Fruit, etc.
8:15 am Syllabus----- Go Over.
8:30 am Why did I enroll in this class? What do I expect?
9:00 am Who’s Who! Get acquainted.!! We are in this together!
9:30 am Did you know?
10:00 am Break.
10:15 am Definitions to know. Environmental “lingo.”
10:45 am Begin Lecture/Notes
Define “Ecology”
History of Ecology// Man’s Guide to Action/Threats to the Environment.
12:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm News Clips Video / Only One Earth-Part One.
We have become bombarded by Ecos Messages.
1:30 pm 3rd World Poverty. GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY!
2:00 pm A Year of Environmental Awakening.
2:30 pm 2000’s Decade For Decisions. The Most Important Generation to Ever Live on this Planet!!
3:00 pm Break (maybe)
3:01 pm Political Climate
3:30 pm Green Business and Global Economy.
4:00 pm Only One Earth-Part Two.
5:00 pm Discussion/ * Home Work/Plan
5:20 pm Malthusians vs Cornucopians------DISMISS
AGENDA
HUMAN ECOLOGY BIO 2123/ GEO 2153
DAY TWO------TUESDAY
(Format may be altered as aggression warrants)
8:00 am ` Welcome Back……20% Finished!!!
8:30 am Animal and Plant Extinctions.
9:00 am Discussion
10:00 am Break.
10:15 am Pollution. How many pollutions are there? Interrelatedness of the pollutions.
10:30 am Air Pollution
11:00 am Water Pollution
11:30 am Societal Stress. Major factors.
12:00 pm LUNCH
1:00 pm Human Population
2:00 pm Implications of Population// Consumption of Resources.
2:30 pm Urban sprawl / Importance of the Estuary.
3:00 pm Break
3:03 pm Global Warming / Ozone Depletions
3:30 pm Implications.
4:00 pm Perspectives on all of this.
4:45 pm Plan for Tomorrow. / Motor Pool!
5:20 pm Dismiss
AGENDA
HUMAN ECOLOGY BIO 2123/ GEO 2153
DAY THREE……WEDNESDAY
(TODAY WE BECOME ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS)
8:00 AM MEET IN THE CLASSROOM.
8:05 AM Leave by car pool to:
8:30 am MOHAWK DRINKING WATER TREATMENT PLANT
(High Security)
9:00 am Northside Wastewater Treatment Facility
5665 North 105th East Avenue
(north on HWY 169 to 56th St. North, Exit, turn west, ½ mile to entrance, turn north,
park in available spaces, …….follow your nose. (Kip Martin, 595 4552)
10:00 am Quarry Landfill ( Note: A stop before entrance.)
4041 North 41st East Ave. (Park beside weight office)
Follow slowly…watch for TRUCKS. (Pete Schultz, 437-7773)
11:00 am Follow the leader to Wetlands Drainage Project.
East of Quarry. How do you drain a wetlands??
@12:00 pm LUNCH (scatter, but stay connected.) (Stay out of the casino!!)
1:00 pm AB Jewel Drinking Water Treatment Facility
18707 East 21st Street
Follow the leader. Very high security!!
3:00 pm Back to classroom. Take a break.
3:05 pm Water Quality Education Project.
Blue Thumb of Tulsa….. Tulsa County Conservation Commission
Eliminate the wasteful disposal of material that is useful.
Environmental consciousness//Innovation. Sewer in a Suitcase. Classroom activity.
Point sources of water pollution. Non-point sources of water pollution.
5:00 pm Plan for Field Trip on Thursday.
5:20 pm Dismiss
AGENDA
HUMAN ECOLOGY BIO 2123/ GEO 2153
DAY FOUR------THURSDAY
8:00 AM CONTINUE…..BRING NOTES UP TO DATE.
9:00 AM Urban Sprawl and Estuary Degradation.
9:30 am Implications. The best way to kill an organism is to destroy its habitat.
10:00 am An Inconvenient Truth by Albert Gore DVD
11:00 am Global Warming and Implications. The Politics. The Economy. Religions. The Environment.
12:00pm LUNCH
1:00 pm Weather Permitting: Stone Age Camp Site. Field Trip to Red Bud Valley.
Note: Various biomes in Red Bud Valley. This valley supplied all needs of early man.
3:00 pm Back to classroom. Break.
3:05 pm Activity: Town Pump. Activity: Inoculation question.
4:00pm Activity: City Council Meeting
5:00 pm Bring Notes Up to date.
5:20 pm Dismiss
AGENDA
HUMAN ECOLOGY BIO 2123// GEO 2153
DAY FIVE-----FRIDAY
(YOU DID IT !!!!! However, knowledge can be disturbing)
8:00 am Lecture
9:00 am Lecture and discussion.
10:00 am Break
10:03 am Guest Speaker!
12:00 pm LUNCH
1:00pm Resume Lecture / Finish Notes / Discussion / Come to a stop Spot.
2:00 pm Group Activity
300pm FINAL EXAM
520PM DISMISS and (Clean Up Room)
(MAY THE “FORCE” BE WITH YOU!!)
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