production options, and environmental, social, and economic consequences of each.

ENV 699 MES Capstone Research Project (6 cr. hr.)

The independent research capstone project would be designed in collaboration with an interdisciplinary advisory committee of two or three selected KSU faculty/research members. KSU MES students will have the opportunity to select topics from a number of on-campus projects or work on existing specific problems with one of the state environmental agencies or develop new projects based on the new Henry County EEC.

Elective Courses (15 credit hours)

ENV 508 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (3 cr. hr.)

This graduate course will expose students to the concepts, software, data and analysis processes of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Students will develop a real world, working knowledge of GIS through hands-on work with mapping software, its potential, its limitations and future trends in the mapping industry. MES graduate students will develop a real world project that examines spatial data and utilizes modeling software to create a production quality, full scale, mapping product.

ENV 513 Aquatic Ecology (4 cr. hr.)

This course investigates the interaction of aquatic organisms with their biotic and abiotic environment. Sampling and laboratory methods of limnological analysis will be covered.

ENV 515 Environmental Ethics (3 cr. hr.)

This course explores a wide range of issues in contemporary environmental ethics. Employing one of the most respected anthologies in the field, the course will engage such important issues as the nature of environmental ethics, who counts in environmental ethics, and is sustainability possible.

ENV 517 Environmental and Resource Economics (3 cr. hr.)

This course will cover topics such as application of microeconomics on environmental problems, elements of renewable resource and forestry economics, cost-benefit analysis of environmental renewal projects, economics of the environmental impacts of different

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