2000. Integrating Humans and the Environment
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to Environmental Sciences majors only, sophomores or higher. Recommended preparation: NRE 1000 or similar.
Grading Basis: Graded
Designed for students who have had a foundation in the basic concepts of environmental sciences. Exploration of critical environmental issues from a science-based perspective, including climate change, energy resilience, ecosystem services, and sustainability. The challenges, tradeoffs, and potential solutions to problems related to human modification of the environment, and do so from an interdisciplinary perspective.
View Classes »3100. Climate Resilience and Adaptation: Municipal Policy and Planning
Also offered as: ENVE 3100, EVST 3100
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to juniors or higher; instructor consent required. Recommended preparation: ENVE 1000, EVST 1000, or NRE 1000.
Grading Basis: Graded
An interdisciplinary study of climate change focusing on the local, municipal scale: impacts, policy, vulnerability and adaptation with emphasis on tools such as vulnerability assessments that help local communities determine priorities for adaptation efforts.
View Classes »3110E. Brownfield Redevelopment
Also offered as: ENVE 3110E, EVST 3110E
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Not open for credit to students who have passed ENVE 3995 when offered as Brownfield Redevelopment.
Grading Basis: Graded
Interdisciplinary study of the process of investigating, cleaning up and putting back into use abandoned sites with suspected contamination, also known as brownfields. Legal, environmental, financial and social aspects are discussed. Service learning component working with communities on local brownfield sites.
View Classes »3991. Internship
1.00 - 12.00 credits | May be repeated for a total of 12 credits.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Experience in settings not generally available on campus with professionals in the environmental field. Grade will be based upon the recommendation of the field supervisor. Requires contract agreed to in advance by student, internship field supervisor, and program director, detailing expectations for the credits earned. Students taking this course will be assigned a final grade of S (satisfactory) or U (unsatisfactory). A total of six credits may be counted toward the major.
View Classes »3993. Foreign Study
1.00 - 15.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. May count toward the major with consent of the advisor.
View Classes »3999. Independent Study
1.00 - 6.00 credits | May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: None.
Grading Basis: Graded