Tamkang University Academic Year  109, 2nd Semester  Course Syllabus

 

 

Course Title

 

EARTH'S  ECOSYSTEMS  AND ENVIRONMENT

 

Instructor

 

LEE, MING-HSIEN

 

Course Class

TNUZB0C

GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY REVOLUTION, 0C

 

Details

  General Course

  Required

  One Semester

 

Relevance to SDGs

SDG3 Good health and well-being for people SDG13 Climate action

SDG14 Life below water SDG15 Life on land

 

D e p a r  t  me n t  a  l        A i  m   o f      E d u c  a t  i  o  n

Students will understand recent development of modern science and technology and its impact on human society and global environment. Through the design of course students will also be familiar with broadly-based fundamental technical knowledge and improve.

 

Subject Schoolwide essential virtues

1.  A global perspective. (ratio:70.00)

 

2.  Information  literacy. (ratio:10.00)

 

3.  A vision for the future. (ratio:20.00)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course Introduction

 

Learnning the formation history for our planet Earth and the Evolution of Life on Raeth is a key to understand how matter and creatures mutually influence with each other in making this ecosystem, and is therefore important to maintain sustainable environment for the survival of mankind and civilization.

 


 

The correspondences between the course's instructional objectives and the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor objectives.

Differentiate the various objective methods among the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains of the course's instructional objectives.

 

I.  Cognitive : Emphasis upon the study of various kinds of knowledge in the cognition of the course's veracity, conception, procedures, outcomes, etc.

II. Affective : Emphasis upon the study of various kinds of knowledge in the course's appeal, morals, attitude, conviction, values, etc.

III. Psychomotor: Emphasis upon the study of the course's physical activity and technical manipulation.

 

 

 

 

 

No.

 

Teaching Objectives

 

objective methods

1

Understand the formation of the Earth, evolution of life and environmental issues that mankind faced and facing.

Cognitive

The correspondences of teaching objectives : core competences, essential virtues, teaching methods, and assessment

 

 

 

No.

 

Core Competences

 

Essential Virtues

 

Teaching Methods

 

Assessment

1

 

123

Lecture, Discussion

Testing

Course Schedule

 

Week

Date

Course Contents

Note

1

110/02/22~

110/02/28

Introduction of the course

 

2

110/03/01~

110/03/07

Earth Story 1: The Time Travellers

 

3

110/03/08~

110/03/14

Earth Story 2: The Deep

 

4

110/03/15~

110/03/21

Earth Story 3: Ring of Fire

 

5

110/03/22~

110/03/28

Earth Story 4: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

 

6

110/03/29~

110/04/04

Earth Story 5: The Roof of the World

 

7

110/04/05~

110/04/11

Earth Story 6: The Big Freeze

 

8

110/04/12~

110/04/18

Earth Story 7: The Living Earth

 

9

110/04/19~

110/04/25

Earth Story 8: A World Apart

 

10

110/04/26~

110/05/02

Midterm Exam Week

 

11

110/05/03~

110/05/09

Exam questions discussion and recheck

 

12

110/05/10~

110/05/16

Evolution (First Life Ep1 and Ep2)

 

 


 

13

110/05/17~

110/05/23

Status of the Planet (part 1 and 2)

 

14

110/05/24~

110/05/30

Status of the Planet (part3 and discussion)

 

15

110/05/31~

110/06/06

Special Topics : GMO

 

16

110/06/07~

110/06/13

Special Topics : Seeds

 

17

110/06/14~

110/06/20

Special Topics : Antibiotics

 

18

110/06/21~

110/06/27

Final Exam Week

 

 

 

Requirement

Website http://boson4.phys.tku.edu.tw

Teaching Facility

Computer

 

 

Textbooks and Teaching Materials

website http://boson4.phys.tku.edu.tw

 

References

website http://boson4.phys.tku.edu.tw

Number of Assignment(s)

 

(Filled in by assignment instructor only)

 

 

Grading Policy

   Attendance:                     %        Mark  of  Usual:              %        Midterm  Exam:  50.0 %

   Final  Exam:       50.0   %

   Other〈     〉:            %

 

 

 

Note

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Discussion Topics

GMO

DDT

CFC

Pastic in ocean

Heavy metal

Global warming

Hardest thing for science - Long term side effect

 


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