4 courses with the subject PHSC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
PHSC 110Environmental Science4
(3 lecture, 2 lab) Course Description This non-majors course provides the student with an introduction to air, water, and soil phenomena. Such topics as ozone depletion, acid rain, and the global warming are studied. National and global environmental impacts are debated using current events as examples. Laboratory experiments plus fieldwork will reinforce concepts discussed in lecture. This course meets the General Education competency of Scientific Reasoning (SR). Text Required (text by instructor choice)
(2 lecture, 2 lab) Course Description This course is an introduction to meteorology for non-science students. Topics included are atmosphere composition, processes causing weather phenomena, elements of weather forecasting, short and long term conditions causing weather/climate change, optical phenomena of the atmosphere and interpretation of weather maps. Conditions permitting, a field trip is included showing the methods used to collect weather data. This course meets the General Education competency of Scientific Reasoning (SR). Text Lutgens, F. K., Tarbuck, E. J., & Herman, R. L. (2019). The atmosphere: An introduction to meteorology with Access ( 14 th ed.). Pearson. Objectives
(2 lecture, 2 lab) Course Description This course is an introduction to the various branches of geology for Liberal Arts students. Topics include rock formation, geologic time, weathering, erosion, river systems, ground water, glaciation, plate tectonics, earthquakes, and volcanism. Laboratory exercises include the study of minerals, rocks, topographic maps, and geologic maps. Emphasis is on rock types, features of the landscape, and the processes which have shaped Western Pennsylvania. This course meets the General Education competency of Scientific Reasoning (SR). Text Reynolds, S. J. & Johnson, J. K. (2022). Exploring geology (6th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. Jones, C. & Norris, J. (2013). Laboratory manual for physical geology (8th ed.). Boston, MA: McGraw Hill. Objectives
(2 lecture, 2 lab) Course Description This is a descriptive, introductory course in astronomy for Liberal Arts students. An overview of the history of astronomy and descriptions of the sky, our moon, the planets of our solar system, the sun, other stars, stellar evolution, and the Milky Way, are included. The College’s 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope is used for solar and night-time observations. This course meets the General Education competency of Scientific Reasoning (SR). Text Bennett, J. O., Donahue, M. O., Schneider, N., & Voit, M. (2020). The cosmic perspective fundamentals (3 rd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Pearson, 2020. Hirshfeld, A. (2020). Astronomy activity and laboratory manual ( 2 nd ed.). Burlington, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning. Objectives
