This course will fulfill the International Baccalaureate (IB) curriculum requirements for Group 4 Experimental Sciences or Group 3, Individuals and Societies. The course approach strives to be conducive to students evaluating the scientific, ethical and socio-political aspects of environmental issues from a local as well an international viewpoint and promotes a critical awareness of a diversity of cultural perspectives. The IB Environmental Systems & Societies course will enable students to apply the knowledge, methodologies and skills gained from previous science classes and appreciate that environmental issues may be controversial, and may provoke a variety of responses. The Group 4 Project will be utilized to reinforce the relationship among the difference disciplines of science. This is the first year of a two year course at some campuses.