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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Course numbers followed by an ‘L’ are cross-listed with another department or program.
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English as a Second Language |
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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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English as a Second Language (non-credit) |
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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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Environmental Sciences |
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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.
Course Attribute(s):
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.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
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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.
Course Attribute(s):
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 - Basic Start up Business Techniques for Aquaculture Operations
Formerly The Business of Marine Aquaculture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will examine the basics of working in and managing a successful aquaculture operation. Aquaculture is currently the fastest growing segment of the food industry, with more then 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. Students will gain a foundational understanding of how to move from “I would like to operate an aquaculture business” to “I am operating an aquaculture business”. Building on this understanding, students will prepare their own business plans to demonstrate mastery of key aspects of operational efficiency necessary support the vital financial structure of any business. Lastly, through the concepts of entrepreneurship, students will learn how to integrate business concepts to be able to develop and sustain a successful aquaculture business. This course will be organized into three parts: Essentials for a business in aquaculture, operating a business in aquaculture, and moving from concept to execution. This course alludes to but does not deeply discuss the complex and ever changing regulatory, policy, and legal systems that govern operations in this sector.
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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:
Prerequisites: 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.
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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:
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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:
Prerequisites: 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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ENVSCI 422 - Zooplankton Ecology
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Zooplankton can be called the cows of the sea. These animals range in size from 20 um to >1 mm and are the food supply for many commercially important fish, whales and other larger animals. This course will examine the different classes and functional groups of zooplankton with an emphasis on copepods and pelagic tunicates. Zooplankton morphology, physiology and ecology will be discussed in detail and related to larger environmental issues, e.g. global warming, eutrophication. There will be 1-2 field trips and/or laboratory classes to learn current zooplankton methods.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI /ENVSTY 267L or BIOL 290
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ENVSCI 440 - Chemistry of Natural Waters
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A basic description of the chemistry of natural and especially marine waters designed to lay the foundation for more advanced course work. Emphasis will be on the chemical composition of natural waters and the identification of the important chemical, physical, and biological processes controlling their composition. A case study, emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of these processes, will be given at the end of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: CHEM 115 and CHEM 116 and ENVSCI 210
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ENVSCI 444 - Cooperative Education Field Experiences
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
In this program majors are placed in paid work positions. Credit is awarded only to those who complete an approved learning prospectus, including working reports and a substantial research project. Note: No more than a total of 6 credits in ENVSCI 444 or ENVSCI 499 may be counted toward the major.
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ENVSCI 445 - Cooperative Education II
3 - 9 Credit(s) | Practicum |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/54 credits
Description:
For this course, majors are placed in paid work positions in which academic credit is awarded each semester by working at least three hours per week for each credit attempted and by completing an approved learning prospectus including, but not limited to, activities such as reflective assignments, daily/weekly journal entries, supervisor meetings and evaluations,and a final reflective paper. This course is repeatable 6 times for a maximum of 54 credits.
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ENVSCI 450 - Physical Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces the physical processes active in the ocean environment, including coastal and estuarine regions, and investigates the connection between those processes and observed physical characteristics of the ocean.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSCI 478 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/6 credits
Description:
This course provides an opportunity for a qualified, advanced student to work on a specialized topic or research project under the guidance of a sponsoring faculty member (not necessarily your assigned academic advisor) outside of the traditional lecture/discussion/laboratory course framework. This course will not count towards the capstone requirement.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 60 credits and permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 480 - Special Topics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 3 times/9 credits
Description:
This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.
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ENVSCI 499 - Practicum
3 - 6 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A work program opportunity for qualified department majors to obtain practical experience in an approved work position in the field of their interest and training. Students submit critiques of their experience and are supervised by departmental advisors.
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ENVSTY 101 - The Nature of Environmental Problems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to environmental issues and analysis emphasizing comparisons between the sustainable characteristics of ecosystems, both natural and human, and the human impacts on the Earth’s life support systems. Topics include human population growth, food production, use of natural resources, pollution, loss of bio-diversity, and conservation strategies.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSTY 111L - Environmental Concerns and Chemical Solutions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Human society is constantly facing such environmental issues and problems as ozone depletion, air pollution, acid rain, environmental toxins, and renewable energy resources. This course provides students with a foundation in chemistry that can be used to examine these and other environmental concerns. A combination of lecture and group discussion illustrates the science behind these issues, and helps students develop an unbiased view. CHEM 111L and ENVSTY 111L are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
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ENVSTY 130L - Sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This survey course explores multiple dimensions of global sustainable urban development and provides strategies for planning, building, managing, and living in cities while protecting the environment. This survey of the contested nature of sustainable urbanization is accomplished through diverse topics which include but not limited to: the city and vulnerable populations; gender equal cities; strengthening resilience in cities to reduce the risk and the impact of disasters; the inter-connected crisis in infrastructure, urbanization, poverty, social injustice, and sustainable growth of smart cities. sustainable Urban Development in Local Contexts Globally will specifically and directly address race, gender, socio-economic class, and cultural (ethnicity and national origin) diversity as a central theme through a category of difference, as a system of relationality or intersectionality, and as a global/transnational system.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences | Diversity Area: International
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ENVSTY 179GL - First-Year Seminar in the School for the Environment
4 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a one semester four-credit version of the School for the Environment’s First-Year Seminar requirement. Course content will vary by instructor, but will focus on current issues in sustainable human, built, and natural systems of coastal New England. Using this approach, students will become increasingly familiar with the experienced in interdisciplinary discourse, the different ways of knowing, and the interplay between the arts, humanities, economic development, and natural and social sciences that comprise the study of sustainable human, built and natural systems. Successful completion of this course will fulfill the 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. UPCD 179GL and ENVSTY 179GL are the same course.
Course Attribute(s):
First Year Seminar
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only, with fewer than 30 credits when they entered UMass Boston
Students may complete only one 100G course (First Year Seminar)
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ENVSTY 210 - Second-Year Seminar: Conflict and Resolution
1 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Environmental problem solving involves stakeholder interactions in which conflict can arise and must be resolved in order to provide a solution. In this seminar, students will be introduced to the basic understanding of conflict and a working knowledge of the three major forms of dispute resolution - negotiation, mediation, and arbitration that are needed in adaptive management and stakeholder negations associated environmental problems. This course will prepare students for upper-level conflict resolution courses. Coursework will include readings, written reflective exercises with peer-review feedback, and role-playing activities. This course is designed forvertical alignment and cohort developing in the environmental studies and sustainability major.
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ENVSTY 220 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Interdisciplinary thinking is defined as having basic knowledge about each potently relevant discipline to understand its perspective, and access, translate, think critically about, and use its insights. The goal of this course is to prepare students to become interdisciplinary thinkers and problem solvers. By the end of this course, students will be able to explain why a knowledge society needs both disciplinary specialization and interdisciplinary breadth, understand the differences between disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary approaches; identify the defining elements of a discipline and how this information is used tin interdisciplinary works; identify and explain the assumptions of interdisciplinary study; and identify and develop attitudes and skills that are conductive to interdisciplinary critical thinking.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: A minimum of 24 credits
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ENVSTY 222L - Religion and the Environment: Global Stewardship and Practices of Faith Communities
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the influence of religious traditions on environmental ethics across cultures. The course draws on sacred texts of Judeo-Christian, Muslim, Jain, Hindu, and possibly other faiths, and secular perspectives of environmental ethics. From these standpoints, students examine global case studies, from Africa, the Middle East, Europe, America and possibly elsewhere. Students explore how spiritual understandings of the world influence human behavior toward the planet and the ecosystems we inhabit. Through comparisons between religious traditions across cultures and their relationship with environmental ethics, students develop an understanding of how faith systems influence our treatment of the Earth.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
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ENVSTY 230 - Introduction to Sustainability
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of sustainability science, a problem-driven, interdisciplinary scholarship seeking to facilitate the design, implementation, and evaluation of effective interventions that foster shared prosperity and reduce poverty while protecting the environment. Students will explore the dual challenge of the need to understand how societal dynamics and environmental dynamics interact over time AND how they help induce or inhabit the functioning of socio-ecological systems. This course introduces students to theories, concepts, mechanisms, analytical frameworks and tools, research designs, and basic data to help advance the understanding of the dynamic relationship between societal changes and environmental changes. Topics explored will include systems dynamics, historical perspectives on natural resource use, economic growth, and sustainability, quality of life, and use of renewable and non-renewable resources. Students will write a 6 to 10 page final paper on sustainability science problem suitable for Writing Proficiency Portfolio.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Social & Behavioral Sciences
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENVSCI 122 or ENVSTY 101
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ENVSTY 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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ENVSTY 280 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies
2 - 4 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course covers a variety of areas in environmental studies. The topic is announced during preregistration period.
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ENVSTY 301 - Internship in Environmental Studies
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 6 times/6 credits
Description:
The internship requires a minimum of 100 hours of service doing environmental work with government, non-government, corporate, or research organizations. The program can assist students in finding appropriate internship placements. Each student’s supervisor at the placement organization provides a report on the intern’s performance and students submit a paper to the program director describing their internship experience. The number of credits varies according to the number of internship hours. This course may be taken on a pass/fail basis only.
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ENVSTY 310 - Third-Year Seminar: Professional Development
1 Credit(s) | Seminar |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this seminar course students will develop professionally by learning about resumes, personal statements, job cover letters, public presentations, interview skills and etiquette, reading and evaluating the primary literature, writing reports/proposals, learn how to prepare an internship, job, or graduate school application package. After learning about these topics, students will write and evaluate resumes, personal statements, cover letters, make and present a presentation to the general public, and conduct a mock interview. This course also is designed for vertical alignment and cohort development in the environmental studies and sustainability major.
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ENVSTY 321 - Spiders of Nantucket
2 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course, students will learn about spider biology, anatomy, life history, classification and taxonomy, and ecology through classroom lectures and discussions, field sampling, and laboratory processing and identification activities.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
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ENVSTY 323 - Introduction to Permaculture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Permaculture is the design of food systems and social structures to provide for human needs while restoring ecosystem health. This course will offer a foundation in permaculture history, principles, ethics, design process and application of permaculture design methodology and best practices for whole systems design. The course integrates both research and practical applications to design food systems that have the resiliency of natural ecosystems. Examining the interconnections between environmental, social and economic components, permaculture is informed by the disciplines of systems ecology, ecological design and ethno-ecology. The essential components of diverse food production systems will be discussed in detail, including: patterns in nature, water management, soil rehabilitation, food forests, carbon farming, land restoration techniques and community resiliency.
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ENVSTY 331 - Feeding the Next Two Billion: Solutions for Food Security
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Currently, there are 7 billion people on planet earth. At this population level, humans have already exceeded the earth’s natural carrying capacity, and as a result, food security is a significant issue across the globe. By 2050, it is estimated that there will be an addition 2 billion more people on the earth. With a growing middle class and the push towards more westernized diets, it is not clear how we will meet the food security challenge. This class will provide students with a knowledge base regarding global food production and from this, students will work to understand feasible solutions for feeding two billion additional people. Students also will understand tradeoffs in food systems and will work to develop new solutions for food security.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
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ENVSTY 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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ENVSTY 351L - Architecture and Human Built Environment Interactions
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the connections between architecture and human-made places and spaces and emphasizes student engagement and creative problem-solving. This course is a multidisciplinary and multilayered exploration of how architecture and urban design respond to, and interact with, the numerous forces, such as the culture and environmental contexts, that shape their development and uses case studies from the United States and around the world as examples. Moreover, a broad range of the works of socially-mined architects will be discussed for increasing the awareness of the built environment. Topics will include environmentally conscious architecture, regionalism in architecture, the critical role of architects in reconstruction the built environment after catastrophes, and, how architecture and urban design can foster healthy urban environments.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite:
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ENVSTY 364 - Environmental Justice
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Environmental justice is defined by the state of Massachusetts as the equal protection and meaningful involvement of all people with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies and the equitable distribution of environmental benefits. This course provides an overview of environmental justice as an aspect of U.S. environmental policy. The goal of the course is to give students the ability to develop and articulate informed opinions about environmental justice, to understand how the concept came into use, and to think critically about measuring and solving environmental justice problems. The course uses written assignments, case studies, and role-playing exercises to help students develop the analytical skills necessary to tackle this topic.
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