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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGL 438 - Reading the Graphic: Texts and Images
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Some scholars argue that our culture has become increasingly visual in recent years, and many worry that our ability to understand the complex power of images sometimes lags behind our ability to analyze and use words. This course aims to refine our ability to talk about visual representation, analyzing not only how words and images work together in what we read and see, but also how they collude in photographic essays, graphic novels, and illustrated stories. Classic examples of these genres will be surveyed in the effort to investigate the fascinating relationships between images and words, as well as the roles this relationship plays in our language and our ways of thinking about truth, story-telling, memory, identity, and power.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 440 - History of the English Language
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Where did English come from? How have historical events influenced change in the language? Should change today be resisted or accepted? Who or what determines what is “correct”? Participants learn how to analyze and transcribe speech sounds, use traditional grammar to understand grammatical change, and work with specialized dictionaries that help in analyzing short texts from various periods of English.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 442 - Contemporary English
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A look at the structure and the social dynamics at work in the English language today, chiefly in America. Topics: competing grammars, speech in Massachusetts, effects of social stratification on language, regional and social dialect, language and gender, language and ethnicity, and changes in meaning.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 444 - Literary Translation and Interpretation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is an intensive course that examines literary translation and interpretation, concentrating on both poetry and prose. Instruction focuses on the practice and theory of literary translation, with particular attention given to close reading and interpretation. Readings include classic and recent essays on translation theory, as well as excerpts from a selection of variant sample translations.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 448 - Perspectives on Literacy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the theories of literacy, in its relation to human thinking and to social uses and contexts; and of the practice of literacy, in the teaching, learning, and use of literate behaviors in contemporary American society. The course links the active investigation of literacy issues with related readings, and draws implications for the teaching of reading and writing and for the study of literature.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 450 - Teaching Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Designed for students who are considering English teaching as a career, this seminar is an investigation of why and how we teach literature in the secondary school settings. We will read literary texts from a teacher’s perspective, analyze educational research, develop lesson plans, and respond critically to each other’s work. To clarify and reassess the goals of literature pedagogy, we will attempt to strike a balance between developing practical tools for potential classroom use and examining theories about teaching and learning. We will address teaching literary genres, teaching canonical and non-canonical texts (ranging from those of Geoffrey Chaucer and William Shakespeare to Marjane Satrapi and Zora Neale Hurston), teaching poetic and narrative form, and teaching with unexpected materials. In the spirit of collaboration, this course will draw on our collective interests and educational experiences to identify useful resources and strategies that will assist 21st century-students in their responses to print, visual, and digital texts.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 451 - Teaching Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Designed for students considering English teaching, this seminar examines writing instruction in middle and secondary school contexts. In this course, we’ll explore the relationship between theory and practice by articulation, evaluation, revision, and expanding our own theories of writing and writing instruction, and thinking and how those theories impact the choices we make in the classroom. This class presents the teaching of writing as a mode of ongoing inquiry, observation, and (re)design; in other words, you are not just a teacher, but a teacher-researcher.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
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ENGL 452 - Teaching English With Digital Technology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course addresses the ways that new technologies are changing the teaching of English at the middle and secondary school levels. We will examine the history of writing technologies and consider the ways that scribal proficiency, the printing press, and computer coding have revolutionized our conceptions of writing and the very nature of literacy itself. We will then immerse ourselves in the digital world, contribution to social networks, blogs, and wikis, and evaluation when and how they should be used in our teaching of language, literature, and writing. We will give careful consideration to the philosophical and ethical concerns that accompany these dynamic and collaborative environments. However, the bulk of the course will be dedicated to developing effective strategies for helping our students read, interpret, and produce alphabetic, hyper-, and multi-modal texts. The ultimate goal is the participants will create digital teaching portfolios that reflect their pedagogical beliefs and revitalize their instruction. There questions will be threaded throughout the term: How do Web 2.0 technologies and their multiple modes of representation affect how our students might approach reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing? How can we, as English teachers, prepare our students to engage both actively and critically in a rapidly changing communicative environment while maintaining our traditional curricular focus on literature, language, reading, and writing? How can we most effectively use the technological resources available to us to foster students’ leafing and literacy within 21st century classrooms?
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 457 - Undergraduate Colloquium: Career Development for English Majors
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Through a series of workshops and sequence of assignments, this course helps English majors explore careers in English and prepare materials for a successful job search. Two areas of career development will be emphasized; identifying vocations that capitalize on student skills and abilities; and enhancing self-presentation to prospective employers through work on cover letters, resumes, interviewing and networking skills. In addition, students refine their writing and communication skills in ways intended to benefit them after graduation.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ENGL 458 - Undergraduate Colloquium: Literature in Public Spaces
1 Credit(s) | Field Studies |
Course can be counted for credit once
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This one-credit course encourages students to examine the social life of literature in today’s culture. Students explore literature as it is presented in public settings and critique that experience by writing reviews. The course presents students with a series of guest lectures, reading, film and dramatic presentations, workshops, and organized discussions. To receive a grade, students must attend at least five events and write critical reviews for each event attended.
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ENGL 462 - Advanced Studies in Poetry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Studies in various trends and periods of poetry for advanced students; intensive studies in one or two major poets. Topics vary from year to year.
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ENGL 463 - Advanced Studies in Prose
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
A capstone course offering advanced study of topics that vary from semester to semester, such as particular kinds of fiction or nonfiction (e.g., the historical novel or literary journalism), theory or history of rhetoric, theory of fiction or literary nonfiction, or comparative studies of two or three prose writers. A major research project and its presentation to the class are required.
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ENGL 464 - Advanced Studies in Language and Literary Theory
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
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This course offers students interested in language or literary theory an opportunity to do advanced work in subjects which vary from semester to semester. Possible subjects include: theories of discourse, varieties of present day English, the linguistic structures of poetry, and advanced stylistics.
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ENGL 465 - Advanced Studies in Literature and Society
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This capstone course offers advanced study in topics that focus on the relationship between literature and society; these topics vary from semester to semester. Possible subjects include the exploration of literature’s representation of social structures such as class, periods defined by specific social events such as war, social institutions such as work or home, or cultural understandings of social behavior and beliefs. A major research project and its presentation to the class are required.
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ENGL 466 - Advanced Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
A capstone course offering intensive study of a topic at the intersection of different approaches to or disciplinary perspectives on literature. Topics may include relationships between literature and (1) other arts; (2) cultural, social, or economic history; or (3) the development of fields such as law, medicine, or science. A major research project and its presentation are required.
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ENGL 470L - New England Literature and Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the New England literary tradition from about 1850 to the near present. How have writers and critics contested their differing versions of native grounds and reinvented the New England idea in their works? Consideration of such topics as Native American culture, Puritanism and Transcendentalism, slavery and Abolitionism, immigration and ethnicity, nationalism and regionalism, industrialization, and popular culture. AMST 470L and ENGL 470L are the same course.
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ENGL 477 - English Internship II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A tutorial course for students with approved internships involving substantial writing in professional settings. Students meet every other week with a faculty internship director to discuss writing they have produced a the internship. The writing is accompanied by a breakdown of the steps involved in researching and composing it, the time spent, the extent of the intern’s contribution, and an analysis of what was learned in the process. Course requirements typically include a journal, readings, and end-of-term portfolio, and a summary essay, and may include an oral presentation to a class or student group. For application forms and full information about requirements, see the director of internships. Because potential faculty internship directors make commitments early, students are encouraged to apply during advanced registration. The course awards three hours of credit of a minimum of 25 pages of formal on-the-job writing and ten hours of work per week on site.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 475
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ENGL 480 - History of the Book
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Opening Boston’s rich archival resources to students, this capstone course gives undergraduates the opportunity to work with old, new, hyper, and rare texts. The course offers new perspectives on the book, exploring the book both as a manuscript and visual object and as a printed and edited object. It considers industries of the book, such as publishing and the internet, as well as its cultural effects, such as literacy and the circulation of ideas. In addition to readings in poetry, prose, literary theory, and history, the course is structured by hands-on workshops, library visits, and a self-defined research paper.
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ENGL 489 - Terrorism and the Novel
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Our primary aim in this course is to examine the diversity of ways in which terrorism has been represented in narrative fiction. Topics include: Victorian anarchism, the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland, international responses to 9/11, the collisions between postmodernism and terrorism. This course requires extensive reading in political, historical, and theoretical materials. We will use these materials to pose more general literary questions: How have modern writers engaged questions of political violence? What forms of communication does terrorism authorize and foreclose?
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ENGL 498 - English Honors Seminar
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A course open to and required to all students doing honors work in English. The course consists of an introduction to research methods, a survey of critical methods (with the end of helping the honors student choose an approach for the writing of the thesis), and the reading of all primary and some secondary materials preparatory to writing the thesis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
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ESL 100A - Speaking and Listening I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on developing speaking and listening skills that will help students function in their other academic course work. Students participate in small-group work, make oral presentations, and report on first-hand research projects.
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ESL 100B - Reading Comprehension for College-Level Texts I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course, which focuses on developing reading comprehension skills for college-level reading, must be taken in conjunction with ESL 100C . Students are introduced to a range of texts and asked to develop and analyze their own reading strategies through class discussion and written responses to the texts they read.
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ESL 100C - Academic Writing I
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course, which focuses on critical thinking and the writing process, must be taken in conjunction with ESL 100B . It encourages the expression of ideas through class discussion and journals and introduces students to more formal academic writing. Students learn to write critically about reading, and to develop strategies of brainstorming, revision and organization. They are evaluated on the basis of a portfolio of written work.
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ESL 100D - Academic Writing II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Like ESL 100C , this course focuses on critical thinking and the writing process. But it builds on and extends this work by the assignment of longer essays that require students to analyze and synthesize the readings. Students are evaluated on the basis of a portfolio of written work.
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ESL 100E - Reading Comprehension for College-Level Texts II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Building on strategies learned in ESL 100B , this course focuses on developing facility with longer, and more complex academic readings.
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ESL 100F - Speaking and Listening II
4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on developing speaking and listening proficiency in academic study. Students are given practice with academic lectures, note-taking, and oral presentations.
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ESL-NC 001 - ESL: The Intensive Course
0 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Intensive course is designed to help people learn English in the shortest possible time. The Program’s Focus is to provide extensive practice in speaking and understanding English.
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ESL-NC 002 - University Preparation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This program provides international students with intensive English language instruction and preparation for sucessful study at American colleges and universities.
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ESL-NC 007 - Winter ESL in Boston
0 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This short intensive English Language experience can serve as an introduction to the spring sessions of either the University Prep or Intensive ESL or as a self contained English Program for those who cannot attend more than four weeks
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ESL-NC 008 - Chukyo Language and Culture Seminar
0 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Chukyo Seminar, open to students of Chukyo University only by inter - institutional agreement, offers an introduction to American Language and Culture through a combination of classroom study and field activities
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ESL-NC 010 - Visiting Scholars
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The Visiting Scholars Program offers participants with affiliations to selected universities that are signatories to inter institutional agreements the opportunity to persue a personalized plan of independent study and research combined with limited English Language.
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ESL-NC 012 - University Learning Skills
0 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The University Learning Skills Course is designed to provide students with the learning skills required to be successful in university studies in an American learning environment. The course offers students a broad introduction to the skills involved in acquiring information and in displaying knowledge to others. It includes the basic knowledge skills required to successfully participate in an undergraduate degree program and to operate effectively in a university context. Aspects of the course emphasize non-academic issues to assist students’ transitions to University and community, in general.
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ENVSCI 102 - World Regional Geography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An overview of world regions in terms of physical environment, human populations and the relationship between them. Topics with a focus on diversity are discussed from an international viewpoint and center on particular countries.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
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ENVSCI 104 - Dinosaurs: A Natural History
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course considers dinosaurs, their evolution, and our understanding of their fossil record. Students will examine the geologic record and the tools used by paleontologists to determine: geologic ages and ancient environments; evolutionary history and extinctions; dinosaurian biology and behavior; and their survival as birds. Mechanisms of global change ranging from plate tectonics to asteroid impact will be discussed.
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Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSCI 105 - Sustainability: It Is Not Easy Being Green
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Sustainability, doing what we can now to preserve the environment for the future, is made up of three pillars: environment, economics, and social equity. The environment pillar refers to the goods and services provided by our planet for survival of humans and non-humans. The economics pillar refers to the reality of ensuring livelihoods are protected and enhanced while the environment is being protected for future generations. The social equity pillar refers to ensuring all groups are treated equally and fairness in environmental-decision making for future generations is front and center. Being sustainable, or green, sounds simple, but in practice is not easy. Often, sustainability is pawned off as a quick fix solution, but is this what is best for the long term? Students in this course will learn about, discuss, and act upon the components of sustainability and their role in sustainability by investigating the opportunities and challenges of sustainability in context of their daily lives, their future, and our future generations.
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ENVSCI 109 - Cultural Geography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Given the extent of today’s era of globalization, it is more important than ever to understand human differences and similarities around the world. Within the broad discipline of Geography, cultural geographers focus on the complex inter-related causes and effects that produce diverse, as well as similar, cultures. Students will become familiar with the geographical perspective, basic concepts, vocabulary, and tools & techniques that form the foundations of cultural geography. Students will learn to use new knowledge and skills to examine why human cultures vary around the world in response to their physical and social environments. Through the selected topics in the syllabus, this course will guide students to study different dimensions of human characteristics, cultures, behaviors, and activities in a variety of global locations and to better understand how cultural differences develop.
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ENVSCI 114 - Introduction to Sustainable Marine Aquaculture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introductory overview of marine aquaculture with a specific focus on the principles of sustainability in the production and distribution of marine-sourced foods. Students will explore the culturing and rearing of marine invertebrates and plants. Building on a general overview of marine aquaculture, the course will cover the physical and chemical properties of the aquatic environment; site selection; aquatic engineering; bivalve culture; crustacean culture; seaweed culture; health and pathology; growth and nutrition; genetics and reproduction; legal, economic, social and environmental considerations. These topics will be covered with both a local and global perspective. The course is designed to familiarize students with the multi-disciplinary nature of sustainable marine aquaculture as a field. We will conclude with a brief overview of the legal, economic, and social considerations and we will look at some of the controversies surrounding marine aquaculture and environmental sustainability.
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ENVSCI 120 - Introduction to Environmental Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a broad overview of the physical, chemical, biological, and geological principles underlying the environmental sciences. Students are introduced to natural processes and interactions in the atmosphere, in the ocean, and on land primarily through case studies at the coastal ocean-watershed interface. Majors must also take the co-requisite lab, ENVSCI 121 . Both courses will lay the foundation for understanding the key concepts of required for the major in Environmental Science.
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Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSCI 121 - Introduction to Environmental Science Lab
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers a hands-on, experiential overview of physical, chemical, biological, geological laboratory and field skills needed for the environmental sciences, and serves as a core required course for Environmental Science majors. Students will be introduced to field techniques, internet research, laboratory skills and data analyses. Experiences may include a Boston Harbor cruise, delineation of a local watershed, assessing air and water quality, running computer simulation models, and using GPS/GIS to locate and map spots on the UMass Boston campus. Students must have access to a laptop computer with Excel- and MSWord-compatible software in order to enroll.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENVSCI 120
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ENVSCI 122 - Introduction to Environmental Policy & Management
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The inherent link between human activity and environmental impact highlights the importance of the social sciences in the examination of environmental systems, management and policy. This course introduces students to concepts and assessment methods vital to an understanding of environmental policy and management issues. Topics include environmental values and equity; resource allocation; environmental policy and politics; population dynamics; sustainable development; species and ecosystem-based management; habitat and food source protection; pollution management; and, land use. In-class activities and assignments will focus on three general education skills: critical thinking, critical reading and analysis, and effective communication.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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ENVSCI 124 - Aquaculture Production
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to provide an overview of animal production and associated environmental and regulatory aspects of the industry. The course also introduces aspects of business and market development for cultured products with special focus on marine aquaculture and shellfish.
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ENVSCI 134 - The Business of Marine Aquaculture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the elements of working in and managing a successful aquaculture operation. Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing segment of the food industry, with about half of what we eat from the ocean coming from aquaculture. This is an increasingly competitive space that suffers from a tradition of malpractice and misunderstanding as well as a regulatory culture that lags far behind an innovative rate. Site selection, gear, seed and feed procurement, marketing, and supply chain dynamics are all important elements of a successful aquaculture operation that demand an understanding of regulatory, financial, and marketing and entrepreneurial principles. This course is designed to introduce students to these challenges and equip them with the tools needed to engage within the industry on a sophisticated, successful level.
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ENVSCI 179G - First-Year Seminar in Sustainability
4 Credit(s) | Seminar | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a one semester four-credit First-Year Seminar in Sustainability. This course will focus on current issues in sustainability with a secondary emphasis on student success and professional development. Through case studies and two library-based informative and argumentative papers on sustainability, students will learn about the complexities of balancing the three pillars of sustainability: environment, economics, and social justice. Students also will be exposed to campus offices and professional development artifacts and technologies. Successful completion of this course will fulfill a students First-Year Seminar requirement which focuses on the capabilities of careful reading, clear writing, critical thinking, information technology, oral presentation, teamwork, and academic self-assessment.
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ENVSCI 187S - First Year Seminar in Environmental Science I
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a two-semester sequence, two credits each semester. Successful completion of the sequence will fulfill the students First-Year Seminar requirement. Course content will vary with instructor, but will focus on current issues in environmental science. Using this approach, students will become increasingly familiar with and experienced in scientific discourse, the scientific method, and the interplay between the natural and social sciences that comprise the study of the environment. Within this framework, the course will address all the objectives of the UMass Boston First Year Seminar Program.
Course Attribute(s):
Gateway Seminar
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ENVSCI 188S - First Year Seminar in Environmental Science II
2 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a two-semester sequence, two credits each semester. Successful completion of the sequence will fulfill the student’s First-Year Seminar requirement. Course content will vary with instructor, but will focus on current issues in environmental science. Using this approach, students will become increasingly familiar with and experienced in scientific discourse, the scientific method, and the interplay between the natural and social sciences that comprise the study of the environment. Within this framework, the course will address all the objectives of the UMass Boston First Year Seminar Program.
Course Attribute(s):
Gateway Seminar
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ENVSCI 203 - Field Trips in Environmental Science
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/6 credits
Description:
The Environmental Science are very hands-on sciences based on large-scale, real-world situations that are difficult to replicate in a traditional laboratory. Students will travel to various locations to observe, sample and interact with the environment based on the theme of the trip. The goal of the experience is to introduce students to conduction field observations and develop environmental-based problem solving skills through an immersion setting. Students will learn observations skills, sample techniques, and reasoning skills.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 and ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 210 - Earth’s Dynamic Systems
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The basic principles of this course are embodied in the rock and hydrologic cycles. It examines the igneous, metamorphic, sedimentary, tectonic, and weathering systems of the rock cycle; and the runoff, glacial, ocean, groundwater, and atmospheric systems of the hydrologic cycle. A laboratory component includes one or more field trips to sites where geological phenomena can be viewed. Course is for majors only.
Enrollment Requirements:
Perrequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 225 - Weather and Climate
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course investigates atmospheric processes forming the basis for weather patterns and climatic development on a global scale. Major topics include earth-sun relationships, heating and cooling of the atmosphere, atmospheric circulation, pressure patterns, air mass formation and frontal systems, episodic storms, vertical zonation of climate, and the Koppen System for evaluating and classifying climatic phenomena.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 30 credits
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ENVSCI 226 - Introduction to Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The world ocean covers approximately 71% of the Earth surface and 99% of its livable volume. This course explains how the ocean works starting from the histories of ocean explorations and early scientific knowledge rot ocean formation, currents and waves, effect of Earth’s rotation, coastal and estuarine systems, marine habitats, nutrient-carbon cycle, human impacts and the role of oceans in climate change.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 and ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 256 - Health and Medical Geography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will introduce students to health and medical geography as an applied social science, emphasizing the role that place plays in human health and well-being, and updating the notion that geography is merely an inventory of places. Through basic geographic concepts and tools, this course will examine different aspects of health and medicine that underscore the interactions of humans with each other and with their physical and social environments. Topics include: the role that the physical and human environments play in health and medicine; an introduction to basic spatial analysis methods; map interpretation; models of diffusion; spatial aspects of health care delivery, health care policies, as well as environmental settings and resource issues.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ENVSCI 260 - Global Environmental Change
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the cross-disciplinary (astronomical, geophysical, chemical, and biological) interactions and cycles that cause global environmental change and the impact of human activities on natural earth-ecosystem processes, including global warming, pollution, deforestation, ozone depletion, and biodiversity reduction. Environmental change throughout Earth’s history will be explored to better understand the effects of human-induced changes on the Earth System.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 120 or BIOL 111 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 261 - Statistics for Environmental Science
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on fundamental statistical concepts, methods in data analysis and applications to environmental science. Topics include frequency distributions and graphic representations of data, measures of central location and spread, probability distributions, hypothesis testing, correlation and single and multiple variable linear regression. Environmental Sciences majors may only use ENVSCI 261 or MATH 125 , not both, for fulfilling the “Designated Skills” courses requirement for the major.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Mathematics and Technology
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 114QR or MATH 115 or MATH 129 or MATH 130 or MATH 140 or appropriate placement score
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ENVSCI 267L - Introduction to Coastal Biological Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will survey coastal marine habitats in terms of the organisms that inhabit these regions; the biological processes that dominant within those environments and the impacts of that habitat on humans. The objectives of the course will be for the students to gain an appreciation and understanding of the diversity and function of coastal marine systems in terms of the biological organisms and biological processes that are found there. ENVSCI 267L and ENVSTY 267L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 and ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 270 - Cities and the Environment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces spatial analyses of cities to provide a broader understanding of their historical and current role. Major topics include the application of different geographical perspectives, why and where cities developed, the evolution of cities, how urban function and culture determines their spatial organization, how the economy and transportation drives the change in land use in urban areas, and urban areas in the 21st century.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 280 - Global Society and the Environment
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the spatial distribution of economic activities at local, national, regional & global scales and introduces the inter-related causes-and-effects on the economic use and organization of space. Major topics include the spatial distribution of the major economic sectors, the historical geography of capitalism, the city as an economic node, colonialism and globalization, the geography of the recession, the economy and the environment, and the location of informal economies.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 281 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is concerned with computer handling of spatial data. It covers essential elements of a GIS, hardware requirements, GIS software, data acquisition, data structures, spatial databases, methods of data analysis and spatial modeling, and applications of GIS in solving a variety of environmental and economic problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 299 - Environmental Science Methods and Practice
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class is a general introduction to the practice of environmental science. The course provides students with an overview of the scientific method and process, particularly within the context of coastal environmental science. Students will learn the steps of crafting scientific hypotheses, research design, experimentation, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and presentation. The course includes an introduction to the tools and methods used in the field and laboratory to collect and analyze environmental samples and the application of statistical analysis to these data. Students also learn how to search and review primary literature.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENVSCI 302 - Geomorphology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A topical approach to the analysis of landforms and the processes responsible for their formation. Map and aerial photographic interpretation are used to demonstrate the relationship of underlying structure to destructive and constructive processes at various stages of landform development. Environmental, regulatory, and other applications are discussed.
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ENVSCI 305 - Hydrology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Hydrology is the science of dealing with the waters of the earth, their occurrence, distribution, circulation, and chemistry. This course introduces students to the physical science of hydrology in the context of its application to real world problems. Emphasis is placed on understanding the physical processes that form the water cycle (precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, infiltration, and groundwater flow).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 281 and MATH 130 or higher
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ENVSCI 313 - Oceans and Human Health
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course aims to introduce students to the evolving interdisciplinary filed of “Oceans and Human Health.” Lectures will provide background information on human health, the physical environment, and oceanographic processes, presented through a case study approach that will demonstrate the inter-relationships among these three factors. The course will include such current topics as the impacts of global climate change, endocrine disruptors, harmful algal blooms (HABs), toxic dinoflagellates, waterborne and foodborne diseases, and the importance of natural products from the ocean. Impacts (to both humans and the ocean) and remedies will be emphasized.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L and ENVSCI 120 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 315 - Introduction to Environmental Health
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Course introduces students to physical, chemical, and biological hazards found in the environmental and health risks associated with workplace and community exposure to them. Risks to special populations and mechanisms of reducing or controlling these risks are discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Completion of a minimum of 48 credits
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ENVSCI 316 - Coastal and Marine Pollution
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will explore human impacts on coastal and marine ecosystems. Beginning with a brief introduction of coastal and marine ecology and methods for measuring impacts, the course will then investigate the major causes of environmental degradation to coastal and marine ecosystems. Major marine pollutant classes including metals, pesticides, and organic pollutants will be examined by reviewing sources, distribution in coastal ecosystems, toxicology of the pollutants to estuarine and marine organisms, and resulting effects to fisheries, marine communities, and human health. The impacts of nutrients loading, sewage outfalls, oil spills and dredging on environmental quality and the cascading effects on ecosystems will be discussed.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENVSCI 120 and ENVSCI 121 and BIOL 111 and BIOL 112
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ENVSCI 317 - Coastal and Marine Pollution Laboratory
2 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Coastal and Marine Pollution Laboratory (ENVSCI 317) is a two credit laboratory course which accompanies the Coastal and Marine Pollution (ENVSCI 316 ) lecture course. This course will provide hands on exploration of topics of importance in coastal and marine pollution including emerging contaminants and toxicity testing, endocrine disruption and biomarker monitoring, and invasive species monitoring and effects. This laboratory course will enable students to explore experiments in detail while learning elements of experimental design, hypothesis testing, and formal scientific writing through laboratory activities and reports.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENVSCI 316
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ENVSCI 324 - Coastal Zone Management
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is concerned with coastal environmental problems and their solutions. It discusses in general the identification of the component parts of the coastal zone and the development of appropriate policies for their management. Field trips to representative areas are required relative to Mass CZM.
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ENVSCI 325 - Introduction to Biological Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Biological oceanography is a field of study that seeks to understand what controls the distribution and abundance of different types of marine life, and how living organisms influence and interact with processes in the oceans. These include processes from those that occur at the molecular level, such as photosynthesis, respiration, and cycling of essential nutrients, to those that are large-scale such as effects of ocean currents on marine productivity.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L or ENVSCI 226
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ENVSCI 336L - Ecosystems Ecology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will focus on the foundational principles of ecosystems ecology. We will focus on the flow of energy and materials through both the biosphere (plants, animals, and microbes) and the geosphere (soils, atmospheres, and oceans) and the role that humans are playing in altering these key fluxes. We will draw on examples from both terrestrial and marine systems to understand the underlying principles of ecosystem structure and function. BIOL 336L and ENVSCI 336L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 340 - Planning and Land Use Law
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the law as it has developed and applies to the planning process and the regulation of land use in the United States, with emphasis on Massachusetts.
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ENVSCI 341 - The Geochemistry of a Habitable Planet
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Geochemistry is a unique field integrating geology and chemistry to tell the story of a planet. In this class, we will use geochemistry to reconstruct the story of our Earth, a habitable planet. You will learn about the formation of elements in stars, the formation of Earth in the context of the solar system, the differentiation of the planet via igneous processes, the origin of the continents, the effects of water and CO2 on Earth climate, the source of fossil fuel and mineral resources, the origin of life, and our effect on the planet. Along the way, we will explore principles in isotope geochronology, trace element geochemistry, aqueous chemistry, stable isotope geochemistry and chemical proxies in dynamic systems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 120 or CHEM 117 or CHEM 118
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ENVSCI 342 - Laboratory for the Geochemistry of a Habitable Planet
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to introduce the theory, applications,a nd operation of modern instrumental methods for geochemical analysis of earth materials. Students will be introduced to a wide spectrum of instrumental techniques and will gain an understanding of the analytical approach to problem solving. The course aligns laboratory activities with ENVSCI 341 to reinforce key geochemical concepts through discovery.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENVSCI 341
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ENVSCI 345L - Natural Resources & Sustainable Development
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This class introduces the economic approach to sustainable growth and economic development by, among other things, examining questions surrounding natural resource management. The first third of the course focuses on the role economics can and cannot play in examining natural resources issues, schools of thought concerning the extent to which natural resources are scarce, and what sustainable economic growth means. The second third of the class focuses on exposing you to the tools economists and policy decision makers use to examine natural resource issues. Finally, the final third of the course focuses on applying the concepts you have learned to specific natural resource issues. ECON 345L and ENVSCI 345L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ECON 100 or ECON 101 or ENVSCI 120 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 346 - Global Ecology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course reveals key examples of the vast network of long distance ecological connections across the biosphere. Emphasizing a visual, interactive, and interdisciplinary approach, students explore the impacts of air currents, symbiosis, bacteria as global organism, biogenic depositions, algal interactions, and climate disruption. Students are also introduced to inspiring science-based grassroots and indigenous leaders around the world.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 55 credits
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ENVSCI 349L - Economic Approaches to Environmental Problems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to the economist’s approach to solving environmental problems. The course examines applicable economic theories, then uses them to develop a framework for analyzing a wide range of environmental issues. Topics include benefit/cost analysis; measurement of environmental damages; and current government approaches to solving air, water, and solid waste pollution problems. ECON 349L and ENVSCI 349L are the same course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ECON 100 or ECON 101 or ENVSCI 122 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 350L - Green Germany: Environmental Thought and Policy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will introduce students to German conceptions of nature and to the environmental debates and policies that have emerged from those ideas. Over the course of the last two centuries, environmental thought has had a major impact on German politics, history and culture. Comparing German perspectives and policies to those of other countries, this course will foster an understanding of the factors that have shaped German national identity, sustained the country’s environmental movement and elicited Germany’s current image as a world leader in environmental policy.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 357 - Coastal Watershed Ecology and Conservation
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Watersheds are natural terrestrial boundaries in which water flows from a high point divide to low point catchments of lakes and streams. The coast is the interface where the land meets the ocean and thus coastal watersheds provide the upstream linkage to the coastal transition from the terrestrial landscape into estuaries and the open ocean. Thus, studying coastal watersheds provides invaluable insight into coastal environmental processes and issues. In this course, students will be exposed to the physical and chemical properties of water, the physiography of groundwater, wetlands, flowing water, and lakes/reservoirs, and the ecology and conservation of aquatic systems in watersheds with particular attention paid to coastal watersheds.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 210 or ENVSCI 226 or ENVSCI 260 or ENVSCI 267L or BIOL 290
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ENVSCI 358 - Coastal Watershed Ecology and Conservation Laboratory
1 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this laboratory course students will gain physical, chemical, and ecological analytical, quantitative, evaluation, and written communication skills to conserve and manage coastal watersheds.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENVSCI 357
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ENVSCI 359 - Wildlife Ecology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Wildlife ecology is the scientific discipline of applying ecological principles to the study of wildlife species and their habitats which feeds into conservation and management decisions. In this course, students will be exposed to foundational wildlife ecology principles and primary literature on topics such as food and nutrition, home range and habitat use, dispersal, distribution, species interactions (e.g. population growth, competition, predation, parasites, and pathogens), behavior, and responses to environmental perturbations.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: BIOL 290 or ENVSCI 210 or ENVSCI 226 or ENVSCI 260 or ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L
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ENVSCI 360 - Computer and Analytical Cartography
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Topics include cartographic design, cartographic transformations, digital data formats, software for automated cartography, generation of computer maps, and cartographic modeling.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 281 or ENVSCI 380 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 364 - Environmental Management and Sustainability
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines current national environmental problems facing both private and non-profit organizations from a management perspective. These problems include hazardous materials and waste, clean air and water quality. The course also explores the relationship between environmental protection and health and safety issues such as biosafety and worker protection.
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ENVSCI 368 - Social-Ecological Systems Dynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will advance students understanding of social-ecological systems, how social-ecological systems change over time, and how a systems dynamics modeling approach is ideal for understanding social-ecological systems. Students will focus on fundamental concepts of system dynamics and the modeling process by using real-world environmental issues. System Dynamics is an ideal methodology for studying sustainability research questions because it provides the qualitative and quantitative tools (i) for understanding the feedbacks, accumulation, nonlinearities, surprises, delays within social ecological systems; (ii) for tracing the roots of the problem by studying in depth the structure and the processes underlying the relationships between social and ecological systems; (iii) for testing alternative policy and management scenarios and designing sustainable pathways of development.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite:
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ENVSCI 372 - Introduction to Remote Sensing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is an introductory course on the principles and techniques of remote sensing. It covers the physical principles of electromagnetic radiation, remote sensing systems, interpretation of aerial photographs, satellite remote sensing data, thermal and radar imagery, and applications of remote sensing. Students cannot receive credit for both EEOS 370 and ENVSCI 372.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 375 - Urban Planning
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A case method approach to urban planning. Students are supplied with a standard “request for a proposal” for a master plan. As an end product, they must present and submit a proposal for review. Class work focuses on how to use the planning process to design a master plan and on various approaches to designing zoning ordinances and land-use controls.
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ENVSCI 381 - GIS Applications and Spatial Databases
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to give students an overview of GIS applications, an understanding of spatial and relational database concepts, and the practical experience of using GIS to solve real works problems. The course will include both lecture and lab components. The lab will use ESRI’s ArcGIS software, its extensions, and ArcSDE, as well as the database applications Microsoft Access 2003 and SQL*Plus. Students will complete a final project involving data collection, analysis and display.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 281 or EEOS 380 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 383 - Water Resources Management: Principles, practices, and problems.
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the global use of water across different sectors of the economy and the management of these resources. Specific attention will be paid to sustainable use of water resources. The course integrates the principles that underlie water resource management, the problems that have arisen, and some possible solutions for the future.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or ENVSTY 101
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ENVSCI 384 - Climate and Energy: Law, Policy, and Management
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines legal, public policy and management issues related to Climate Change as well as those related to the development of renewable energy. It begins with an international overview of the social-economic forces shown to influence climate change, the legal and economic mechanisms that have emerged to address such change and the evolving global energy portfolio (particularly efforts to develop renewable energy). Current laws as well as evolving energy and climate change associated policies and regulations will be considered. Students participate in discussion of readings in the climate change and energy management literature, select and critically review an environmental or energy program from a climate change management perspective, and present their findings to the seminar.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or ENVSTY 101 or ECON 101 or MGT 130 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 387 - Climate Change Adaptation Planning
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Anthropogenic climate change will continue for centuries. Since all human and natural systems depend upon climate, this means that all systems must adjust or adapt to the changing climate and its nonstationary conditions. This class discusses and analyzes the impacts of climate change, various adaptation strategies, and the different theories and processes of adaptation planning. The goal is to give students the knowledge and skills to participate in impact, vulnerability, and adaptation projects and research.
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ENVSCI 390 - Changing Coastal Environments
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine natural and anthropogenic processes affecting the coastal zone and nearshore environment. Environmental Science principles and their application to design and planning will be emphasized. Topics will include coastal ecosystem biodiversity and conservation, coastal wetland development, sediment movement in estuaries and long-shore, natural disturbances regimes including coastal storms, flooding, and erosion. Applications of ecological principles for landscape design, planning, restoration, recreation, management and conservation at regional scales will include stormwater management, hardened coastlines, sediment and toxics management, marsh restoration, energy development. No pre-requisites are associated with this course. It is open only to UMass Boston students admitted to the Nantucket semester program offered in collaboration with CAPS. The program serves junior and senior students across the environmental fields including CSM and CLA majors and as such the complete listing of course permutations that would meet pre-req requirements is not possible. All students admitted to the program are evaluated based on academic preparation (completion of minimum 30 credits including at least 1 introductory science course and mathematics course), faculty references, student application essays, and formal interviews.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENVSCI 391 - Biology of Whales
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a comprehensive review of the biology, ecology, and management of cetaceans. a thorough grounding in cetology and populations biology will prepare students to understand conservation problems presented as case histories. Students will also complete an independent research paper on a topic related to cetacean conservation. Hands–on activities may include the dissection of a small cetacean and a shore–based whale watch in Massachusetts Bay.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 393 - Ecophysiology and Conservation of Fishes
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course combines fundamental lessons on fish ecology and physiology with an applied conservation focus, centering on anthropogenic disturbances threatening biodiversity in today’s aquatic ecosystems. After an initial review of the basic physical properties of aquatic environments, we examine the diversity and specialization of form and function among fishes, as well as basic lessons on reproduction and life history. Next we explore the physiological systems within fishes that enable an aquatic existence. Whenever possible, we integrate case studies on anthropogenic threats and their direct and/or indirect effects on physiology, fitness, survival and ultimately the conservation and management of different fish species. Students will be encouraged to think about how particular aspects of anatomy, physiology, and life history among the 28,000+ species of fish influence their relative ability to withstand specific conservation threats. This is a combined lecture and laboratory class. Students are required to register for both the lecture and laboratory section.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L or BIOL 290
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ENVSCI 406 - GIT Data Collection and Field Methods
4 Credit(s) | Lecture, Field Studies, and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course has 3 components: lecture, lab, and field data collection. The course is conducted at the UMass Boston campus for the first 2 weeks and at the UMass Boston field station on Nantucket for the third and final week. The course covers basic Geographic Information Technologies (GIT) and applications used to research, map, and analyze landward and coastal phenomena.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequities: ENVSCI 281 and ENVSCI 381 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 421 - Wildlife Conservation and Management
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting wild plant and animal species and their habitat and wildlife management is the management of wildlife populations in the context of the ecosystem. In this course, students will be exposed to lecture and laboratory activities associated with wildlife conservation and management topics of census techniques, how to test hypotheses experimentally, how to evaluate alternative models as tools for conservation and management, the three major aspects of wildlife management: conservation, sustained yield, and control, and wildlife ecosystem management.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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