Homework #1
Your first homework assignment has four parts:
1. First, the easy part. Send email messages to Bill Auberle and Bill Jeffery so we can capture your addresses and set up the appropriate lists for email. You can use one of the email links on the [Syllabus] page or the [Email] page of this Web Site or you can send email using your usual email system to the addresses on the hard copy of the Syllabus you have received.
2. Explore the various parts of the ENV 410B Home Page. You found your way here to the first homework assignment, but what else can you find by exploring the links? For example, click on the ["Resources"] button and see what you can find there. What do you think of it? You can use the "Enter Feedback" button below to send us your comments and suggestions.
3. Select one environmental policy issue that interests you and prepare a brief (no more than one page) written summary of that issue. Before you begin Class #2, send us a copy of the summary.
The topic can be any environmental issue related to water, whether the issue is of national, regional, or local importance. The most important thing is that the issue be something you personally find interesting. Good sources of information include newspapers from your home town, reginal or national newspapers, journals and magazines, or the Internet.
Your written summary should include the following information:
a. Briefly describe your topic, summarizing the facts necessary to understand the issue you have selected and tell us where you found your information;
b. Briefly state the environmental policy issue, dilemma, challenge, etc. presented by those facts and explain why it interests you.
4. One of the
disadvantages of taking a class via the Internet rather than being together in a
classroom, is that it is difficult for us to get to know each other. One thing you
can do to help is the final part of your first homework assignment: Write a one to
two page summary biography of yourself. Who are you? Where do you live? Where do you
work or go to school? What education, experience, or interest do you have in environmental
issues? What would you like to learn from this class? What would you like us
and the other students to know about you? (A picture also would be nice if you have
a way to produce a digital image, but that is not required.) We will post copies of
what you send here on the ENV 410B website, so do not include any information you
do not want to become available to anyone who might find this site.
Syllabus