SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ecological Footprint, The Foundations, Chemical Industry

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Ecology
• Course: SOCECOL E8
• Professor: John M.Whiteley

Document Summary

E8 is a social and behavioral science general education breadth course. That means that a faculty committee at uci has selected it as one of the classes which contribute to the intellectual foundations for an educated person. Courses in this category aspire to six outcomes for students who successfully complete the class. 1 demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the principles, sources of knowledge about, and interpretations of human behavior. 2 explain how people organize, govern, understand and explain social life. 3 demonstrate an understanding of contemporary and historical perspectives on human behavior. 4 explain and understand the scienti c methods used in the acquisition of knowledge. 5 undertake the testing of competing theories in social and behavioral sciences. 6 critically evaluate methods, ndings and conclusions in the research literature on human behavior. E8 is organized in terms of speci c objectives.