Content: Earth Sytems Major - Individual Programs
Individual Programs and Flexible Courses
Most students haven’t set their hearts on a particular field the day they enter college: in the ESES program you’ll have the opportunity to discover which disciplines ignite your interest. Because the College and School core academic requirements substantially overlap you can satisfy the requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Major at the same time. Choose from a wide array of classes while getting credit towards the major – classes as diverse as Atmospheric Dynamics, Tropical Ecology, Environmental Law, and Global Inequalities and Social Change. Our advisors will help you craft a program that focuses on your specialized interests.
The choice is vast! This is the list of courses that can be taken for upper level credit, depending on the concentration:
Lists of Advanced Course Options in the Society and Environment Concentration
Environmental Policy/Economics
- ACE 310: Intermediate Natural Resource Economics
- ACE 406: Environmental Law and Policy
- GEOG 466: Environmental Policy
- LA 441: Land Resource Evaluation
- NRES 449: Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy
- UP 405: Watershed Ecology and Planning
- UP 442: Seminar in Environmental Policy and Law
- UP 446: Sustainable Planning Seminar
Studies in Science and Technology
- PHIL 471: Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Issues
- SOC 250: The Construction of Science
- HIST 264: Technology in Western Society
- HIST 363: Scientific Thought I
- HIST 366: Scientific Thought II
- HORT 465: Ethics in Biotechnology
Social Valuation of Environmental Systems
- AGCM 330: Environmental Communications
- AGCM 430: Communication in Environmental Social Movements
- GEOG 381: Environmental Perspectives
- LA 470: Social / Cultural Design Issues
- NRES 472: Environmental Psychology
- NRES 439: Environment and Sustainable Development
- SOC 447: Environmental Sociology
Social Studies of the Physical Environment
- ANTH 401: Latin American Ethnobotony
- CHLH 469: Environmental Health
- CPSC 336: Tomorrow's Environment
- GEOG 384: Population Geography
- GEOG 467: Dynamic Simulation of Natural Resource Problems
- LA 450: Ecology of Land Restoration
- TSM 311: Humanity in the Food Web
Environmental History
- GEOG 425: Historical Geography of American Landscapes to 1880
- GEOG 426: Historical Geography of American Landscapes Since 1880
- LA 315: History of Modern Landscape Architecture
List of Advanced Course Options in the Science of the Earth System Concentration
Water/Hydrology Courses
- CEE 350: Water Resources Engineering
- CEE 437: Water Quality Engineering
- CEE 432: Stream Ecology
- CEE 450: Surface Hydrology
- CEE 454: Groundwater
- GEOG 406: Fluvial Geomorphology
- GEOL 401: Geomorphology
- GEOL 470: Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology
- IB 449: Limnology
- NRES 429: Aquatic Ecosystem Conservation
- NRES 451: Organic Compounds in Aquatic and Interfacial Environments
Ecology and Ecosystems
- ANSC 467: Applied Animal Ecology
- IB 366: Environmental Botany
- IB 405: Ecological Genetics
- IB 406: Evolution of Adaptive Systems
- IB 442: Functional Ecology of Trees
- IB 444: Insect Ecology
- IB 445: Chemical Ecology
- IB 446: Tropical Ecology
- IB 447: Field Ecology
- IB 451: Conservation Biology
- IB 452: Ecosystem Ecology
- IB 453: Population and Community Ecology
- IB 470: Field Botany
- IB 493: Statistical Ecology
- NRES 348: Fish and Wildlife Ecology
- NRES 419: Environment and Plant Ecosystems
- NRES 420: Restoration Ecology
Data and Modeling
- ATMS 410: Weather/Radar Meteorology
- ATMS 411: Satellite Remote Sensing
- ATMS 421: Earth Systems Modelling
- CEE 431: Biomonitoring
- CEE 445: Air Quality Monitoring
- GEOG 460: Analysis and Interpretation of Aerial Photography
- GEOG 468: Biological Modeling
- GEOG 469: Spatial Ecosystem Modeling
- GEOG 477: Introduction to Remote Sensing
- GEOG 479: Principles of Geographic Information Systems
- GEOL 451: Geophysical Methods for Geology, Engineering, and Env. Sciences
- NRES 421: Natural Resources Biometrics
- STAT 400: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Probability I
- STAT 420: Methods of Applied Statistics
- STAT 425: Applied Regression and Design
- STAT 428: Statistical Computing
Engineering and Management Practices
- ABE 456: Land and Water Resource Engineering
- CEE 330: Environmental Engineering
- CEE 440: Solid Waste Management
- CEE 430: Ecological Quality Engineering
- CEE 434: Environmental Systems I
- CEE 446: Air Resources Engineering
- IB 482: Fundamentals in Insect Pest Management
- IB 484: Biological Controls of Insect Pests
- IB 485: Toxic Substances in the Environment
- IB 486: Pesticide Toxicology
Climate and Global Change
- ATMS 300: Weather Processes
- ATMS 301: Atmospheric Thermodynamics
- ATMS 302: Atmospheric Dynamics I
- ATMS 403: Weather Forecasting
- ATMS 447: Climate Change Assessment
- ATMS 449: Biogeochemical Cycles
- GEOG 415: Physical Climatology
Earth Materials
- CEE 447: Atmospheric Chemistry
- CHEM 360: Chemistry of the Environment
- CHEM 460: Green Chemistry
- CPSC 437: Principles of Agroecology
- GEOL 333: Earth Materials and the Environment
- GEOL 380: Environmental Geology
- IB 516: Biogeochemistry