This class is designed to serve as an introductory course for new and prospective Environmental Science majors while also providing students with other majors/interests a rigorous framework for engaging in environmental inquiry. By focusing on diverse, multidisciplinary forms of inquiry – from scientific inquiry to governmental policy studies to business sector position papers and contributions from the humanities – this course will provide a structured analysis for exploring selected environmental issues and how they are viewed through diverse types of inquiry. The intended outcome is a comprehensive framework students will take with them into future courses that facilitates a broad approach to “inquiring” about any environmental issue or problem and detecting narrowness and bias in the arguments made by others concerning environmental challenges, issues and problems. Students may use only one EV 260 credit towards the social sciences requirement. 1 unit - Hecox