ENV 507: Agroforestry: Local and Global Perspectives. Students will examine and have an understanding of how different agroforestry systems function with landscapes across multiple scales (plot, watershed, landscape) and how these systems contribute to achieving multiple benefits (environmental, social, economic, etc.). CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 508: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems. 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 quality, full scale, mapping product. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 509/AQU 509: Biostatistics. Basic principles of experimental design and data analysis with emphasis on their applications in environmental studies and aquaculture research. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 511: Energy and the Environment. Integrated study of the environmental impact of human energy use patterns. Overview of current energy resources, current energy production and use patterns, alternative energy production options, and environmental, social, and economic consequences of each. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 513/AQU 513: Aquatic Ecology. This course investigates the interaction of aquatic organisms with their biotic and abiotic environment. Sampling and laboratory methods of limnological analysis will be covered. CREDIT: FOUR SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 515: Environmental Ethics. 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. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 516: Environmental Justice. This course attempts a critical investigation of major issues in environmental justice, including tensions between justice for ecosystems and justice for urban populations; regional as well as global issues are examined. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.
ENV 517: Environmental and Resource Economics. 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 agricultural practices such as livestock farming, aquaculture, and chemical use in row crop farming. CREDIT: THREE SEMESTER HOURS.