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Agriculture

• EVSA 6010 - Environmental Agriculture. Lec. 3. Cr. 3.
  To provide a summary of the actual and/or relative environmental impacts of existing and emerging agricultural production technologies.
   

Biology

• EVSB 6010 - Environmental Biology. Lec. 3. Cr. 3. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Biological concepts, community and ecosystem structure and functions, population biology, water pollution, land and wildlife resources, endangered and threatened species, resource management, human impact, and environmental economics. This course cannot be taken for credit toward graduation by students with a degree or concentration in biology or wildlife and fisheries sciences.
   
• EVSB 7050 - Environmental Risk Assessment.   Lec 2. Lab. 2.  Cr. 3.  Prerequisite:  BIOL 6060, EVSC 6010, or consent of Instructor.  Assessment of ecological risk associated with new chemicals and effluents, existing chemicals and mixtures of chemicals, and human actions.
   
• EVSB 7060 - Environmental Toxicology.   Lec 2. Lab. 2. Cr. 3.
  Prerequisite:  BIOL 6060, EVSC 6010, or consent of instructor.  A study of the mechanisms of toxicity in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, including the measurement of response, uptake, metabolism, and excretion of toxicants; design and interpretation of toxicity tests, hazard evaluation, risk assessment, and toxics reduction plans; fate and transport processes and advanced approaches in automated, computer-assisted monitoring will be evaluated.
   
• EVSB 7110 - Environmental Approaches to Fisheries Management.  Lec 3. Lab. 2. Cr. 4. Prerequisite:  WFS 5710 and BIOL 6630, or consent of instructor.  An indepth analysis of current fisheries management practices assessed from the ecosystem perspective.   Topics will include watershed management, fish population dynamics and bioenergetics, fish habitat assessment and restoration, and case studies.
   
• EVSB 7120 - Endangered Special Biology.  Lec 3. Lab 3. Credit 4
  Prerequisite:  EVSB 6010 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.  An overview of the biology, ecology, management, and recovery of threatened and endangered species. Legal, social, and ethical ramifications of biodiversity conservation will be surveyed. Details of species recovery will be emphasized using case studies and student projects.
   
• EVSB 7130 - Wetland Ecology, Lec. 3, Cr. 3. Prerequisite: EVSB 6010 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. Ecology and legal issues concerning the management of wetland habitats species.
   
• EVSB 7140 - Wildlife and Fisheries Nutrition, Lec 3. Cr. 3. The nutritional and foraging ecology of weld fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
   
• EVSB 7210 - New and Re-emerging Environmental Human Pathogens. Lec 3. Cr. 3. Prerequisite:  Aspects of newly emerging human pathogens, including protozoa, bacteria, and viruses from various environmental sources. Students will study case histories of outbreaks and learn state-of-the-art methods of detection of pathogens in food and water and how to identify and enumerate pathogens.
   
• EVSB 7220 - Molecular Ecology and Evolution Seminar. Lec. 1. Credit 1. Prerequisite: BIOL 213 and BIOL 415, or consent of instructor. Review of current literature concerning application of modern molecular techniques to solve ecological and evolutionary questions. Course may be taken a maximum of 3 times for credit.
   
• EVSB 7230 - Molecular Ecology and Evolution. Lec. 3.Lab 3.Credit 4.
  Role of molecular techniques in the study of ecology and evolution, including techniques used to study phylogeny, microorganism detection, population structure, gene flow, and kinship.
   
• EVSB 7240 - Computers and Molecular Ecology, Lec. 2, Lab 3, Cr. 3. Prerequisite: EVSB 7230 or equivalent, or consent of instructor. The use of application of computer programs and Internet databases for studying molecular ecology and evolution.
   
• EVSB 7310 - Plant Ecology.  Lec. 3 Lab. 3 Cr. 4.   Prerequisite:  BIOL 2130, 5240, and consent of instructor.   Interrelationships between plants and their environment and evaluation of community structure.
   
• EVSB 7320 - Aquatic Botany.  Lec. 3 Lab. 3 Cr. 4.   Prerequisite:  EVSB 7310 or consent of instructor.  Anatomy, ecology,   morphology, physiology, reproductive biology, evolution, and taxonomy/systematics of aquatic plants.
   
• EVSB 7900 - Research Design in Environmental Biology. Lec. 2. Cr. 3 Prerequisite: Consent of research advisory committee. Literature investigation and development of an original research proposal outside the student's doctoral dissertation research.
   
• EVSB 7970 - Topics in Environmental Biology. Lec. 2-8. Cr. 1-4. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Special study in an approved field under the supervision of a member of the graduate faculty. Course may be taken for credit more than once for a maximum of 6 hours of credit.
   
• EVSB 7990 - Research and Dissertation. Cr 3, 6, 9.
   
• EVS 7910 - Seminar

Chemistry

• EVSC 6010 - Environmental Chemistry. Lec. 3. Cr. 3. Prerequisites: Graduate standing in environmental science; one year of general chemistry. A broad-based course applying the fundamentals of chemistry to the environment. This course cannot be taken for credit toward graduation by students with a concentration in chemistry.
   
• EVSC 7110 - Water, Soil and Air Chemistry - Part I.  Lec 3. Cr. 3.
  Prerequisite: CHEM 5520, 5710 or consent of instructor. Composition of waters and soils; kinetics and thermodynamics of environmental chemical and physical processes in waters and soils.  Equilibrium modeling exercises are employed to prepare students for professional activities, and to reinforce course material.
   
• EVSC 7120 - Water, Soil and Air Chemistry - Part II Lec 3. Cr. 3.
  Prerequisite: EVSC 7110 or consent of instructor.  Electrochemistry and solubility of soil minerals.  Kinetics, reaction dynamics, photochemistry, and heterogeneous phase chemistry of troposphere and stratosphere.  Students will become familiar with watershed modeling and the use of geographical information systems in environmental chemistry.
   
• EVSC 7210 - Organic Chemistry in the Environment Lec 3. Cr. 3.
  Prerequisite: CHEM 3520, and 6210 or consent of instructor. Introduction to specific organic compounds, their physical and chemical properties, chemical and photochemical transformation reactions and mechanisms in the environment, and literature case studies effectively used in their decontamination.
   
• EVSC 7900 - Research Design in Environmental Chemistry Lec 3. Cr. 3.
  Prerequisite: Full Standing in Ph.D. program in environmental science, completion of core courses, and consent of research advisory committee.  Literature investigation of a current area of environmental research leading to the development of a research proposal on a topic not related to students doctoral dissertation research.
   
• EVSC 7970 - Special Topics in Environmental Chemistry Lec. 1-3. Lab 0-3. Cr. 1-4.
  Prerequisite: Full Standing in Ph.D. program in environmental science or consent of instructor. Timely topics in environmental chemistry. Course may be taken for credit more than once.
   
• EVSC 7990 - Research and Dissertation. Cr 3, 6, 9.
   
• EVS 7910 - Seminar

Earth Sciences

• EVSG 6010 - Environmental Geology. Lec. 3. Cr. 3. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Introduction to geology and the application of geologic knowledge to issues and potential solutions of problems arising from the interaction of human activities and natural earth processes.

Sociology

• EVSS 6010 - Environmental Social Policy. Lec 3. Cr. 3. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Social, political, legal and scientific issues that influence environmental policy decisions.