Interdisciplinary (99). This project is adapting course and curricular materials from interdisciplinary science and policy approaches at Vassar College and Harvard University. The adaptations support a team taught introductory course on Environmental Science and Public Policy to guide students' subsequent curricular choices and instill a sense of how science, technology and social science perspectives complement each other. The intellectual merit of this activity lies in its integration of science and policy perspectives into a single course to reach both science and non-science majors early in their undergraduate years. It is having a broad impact by laying the groundwork for an enhanced public understanding of science and by encouraging women and minority students to pursue science or science-related careers.
