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Hello Colleagues:

    Here at the College of St. Benedict & St. John's University (MN) we are
in the process of designing a two-semester course for environmental studies
students that will integrate biology, chemistry, and geology with a focus on
applying them to environmental questions. The course will be taken by both
natural science majors and non-majors that are enrolled in our environmental
studies minor. We want all of these students to be exposed to a fairly rigorous
classroom and laboratory (field & lab) experience that illustrates the
application of the scientific process to environmental questions.
    Right now we are in the process of searching for an appropriate text or
texts that cover this material in an integrative manner. The standard
environmental science texts are too basic for our needs. We were wondering if
others who have taught or are currently teaching such an interdisciplinary
environmental science course have suggestions on texts (or combinations of
texts) that have been used successfully (or unsuccessfully). We have found a
couple of candidates, but they tend to be more slanted towards an engineering
viewpoint than we would like.
    If you have suggestions and comments, please respond directly to me. If
I get a good list, I will post it on Ecolog for others who might be interested.

Thanks for you help!
Gordie Brown
dgbrown@csbsju.edu

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Gordon Brown
Department of Biology
College of St. Benedict/St. John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321
(320) 363-3175
(320) 363-3202 [FAX]