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Open to grades 11 and 12.

Prerequisite: Successful completion of a Regents level Science exam (85 or higher in course). 

IB Environmental Systems and Societies (ESS IB) combines many different sciences and subjects into one umbrella including Geography, Ecology, Environmental Science and Chemistry.  ESS IB examines the human population and main human impacts on a local and global level. Through studying environmental systems and societies (ES&S) students will be provided with a coherent perspective of the interrelationships between environmental systems and societies; one that enables them to adopt an informed personal response to the wide range of pressing environmental issues that they will inevitably come to face.  It provides students with vast knowledge about some of the most popular topics and issues today. 

As an interdisciplinary course students can study this course and have it count as either an “individuals and societies” or a “science” course, or both.  Available only at standard level (SL).  This course will enable students to satisfy the requirements of two groups (group 3 and group 4) while studying one course