ENVS 340 - Systems Modeling

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3NS
Computer simulation models are powerful tools for organizing information, gaining insight into underlying dynamics, and predicting the behavior of complex systems. Students will design and construct models as a means of building understanding of a variety of biological, physical, social and environmental phenomena. Models developed will cover topics ranging from physiology to community dynamics to large-scale flows of material and energy. These examples will provide students with systems-thinking skills and a library of analogies that can be broadly applied to problems in the natural and social sciences.

Enrollment Limit: 16
Instructor: J. Petersen
Consent of the Instructor Required? Yes
Prerequisites & Notes
Credit can be counted towards either biology or environmental studies majors. Prerequisites: BIOL 120 or BIOL 102, at least one college chemistry course, comfort using algebraic equations.