GEOL 1340 - ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES: MINIING AND GAS DRILLING ISSUES (W)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is the same as GEOL 1339, but it fulfills the University Writing Requirement. This term’s focus is on mining issues. Mining and oil and gas extraction has a long, important and sometimes dark history in Pennsylvania. Almost since the first black chunk was pried from the first mine, coal has been king in the keystone state. It has fueled industries, heated homes, and powered trains and river tugs. It has been politically powerful. It has also colored streams, creeks and rivers orange and left them dead. It has scarred the rolling Allegheny hills, first with strip mines and now with “valley fills.” how is mining’s environmental legacy being addressed? How effective are current laws in regulating the industry? What’s the latest, best, mining technique, and what is its public impact? What has been industry’s response? What impacts, what’s different and the same about the latest extractive industry in the state: Marcellus Shale natural gas development. Guest speakers from industry will be scheduled.”
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PLAN: Environ-Geologyor Environ-Studies or Geologor Environ-Science (BS); PREQ: ENG 0102 or ENGCMP(0002 or 0006 or 0020 or 0200 or 0203 or 0205 or 0207 or 0208 or 0210 or 0212 or 0213 or 0214) or ENGFLM 0210 or FP (0003 or 0006)
Course Attributes: Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)

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