The goal of the Agriculture Integrated Environmental Science course is to provide students with the scientific principles, concepts and methodologies required to understand the interconnected elements of the natural world, identify and analyze environmental problems both natural and human-made, evaluate the relative risks associated with these problems, and examine alternative solutions for resolving them or preventing them while always maintaining a goal of sustainability in a dynamic system. Founded on knowledge gained as a result of laboratory work, applied chemistry concepts, field studies, direct instruction, observation, outside reading assignments, and guest speakers, students will evaluate, discuss, assess and troubleshoot decisions regarding policies and practices in agriculture, both ocally and globally. Students will first explore and work with the concept of sustainability as it is widely accepted, adding to the concept personal understanding within their sphere of interactions. They will look at sustainability through Environment, Economics and social Equity. The course will follow the format of an environmental science course that uses agriculture as the focus for labs, debates on issues and policies, case studies and current events as it touches on general environmental science course topics. The overarching unit topics will be Earth systems and resources, the living world, population, land and water use, energy resources and consumption, pollution and global change. (One-year course-10 units