ENVS 340 - Systems Modeling: Systems Thinking

FC NSMA QFR

4 credits
Models provide powerful tools for organizing information, gaining insight into underlying dynamics, and predicting the behavior of complex systems. Students will learn to design and build conceptual models together with computer simulation models as a means of building understanding of the common principles underlying a diversity of biological, physical, social, and ecological systems. Students will develop ‘systems-thinking’ skills by learning to identify feedback loops controlling the flows and storage of information, energy, money, and materials. Comfort using algebraic equations required.

Prerequisites: (BIOL 100 or BIOL 103 or BIOL 200 or BIOL 604) and one course in CHEM.

Sustainability
Undergraduate Research Intensive