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Covers key scientific and technical topics and emphasizes quantitative skills of problem solving. Topic areas include: mass and energy transfer; environmental chemistry: mathematics of growth; risk assessment; water pollution; and air pollution. The course aims to provide a solid foundation in important scientific aspects of environmental problems, complementing policy-oriented courses. Above all the course is designed to make students literate and comfortable with the language used to describe and analyze physicochemical processes. Study journals and homework problems are used to encourage literacy. Math skills emphasized.
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One of the next frontiers in environmentalism is the urban environment and the ways that the social, physical, and built environments can influence human health. This course explores that frontier, looking at risks that the built environment can pose to human health; roles that science can play in assessing these risks; and challenges of that approach. We will also look at urbanization and early public health movements; current trends in globalization and urban growth; susceptible populations and disparities in urban health; the health effects of urban sprawl; social capital and other aspects of the urban environment that can be health promoting; food and the urban footprint.
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This course explores the challenges associated with climate change, energy and development from multiple perspectives, disciplines and scales. The course explores the evolving science of climate change, the uneven distribution of climate change impacts throughout the world, the challenges of integrating science into effective climate policy, energy technology innovation, technologies and policies for climate change mitigation and climate change adaptation, and the associated conflicts between and diversity among challenges of developed and developing countries. This is a graduate-level course, required for all ES&P graduate students.
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This course will explore current issues in global health from a multidisciplinary perspective, with emphasis on the tools of epidemiology. At a time of immense global changes, we will examine the changing spatial and temporal patterns of disease in developing and industrialized countries; the major social, political, economic, and environmental determinants of health and health disparities; public-health approaches to global health problems at the population level; and major obstacles to health improvements. Using statistical data we will investigate how changes in land use, urbanization, migration, and other factors are changing patterns of heath worldwide. The course has a seminar format with class discussion and student presentations. Case studies will include problems related to environmental health, such as air pollution and respiratory conditions; infectious diseases, such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS; and chronic conditions, such as type 2 diabetes.
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Studies approaches to regulating hazardous chemicals in air, water and food. The course is built around the three general types of interventions that have been practiced by regulatory agencies over the last three decades: shifting to safer technologies; issuing licenses to pollute in the form of industrial emission permits; and setting standards for air, water and food contaminants. The scientific controversies in setting standards and issuing permits are presented vis-Ã -vis the legislative mandates, the need for benefit-cost accounting and the scientific uncertainty. The strengths and weaknesses of command-and-control system versus the incentive-based system with regard to industrial enterprises are also discussed. Emphasizes recent efforts to decrease government involvement in corporate environmental management and to shift towards an incentive-based regulatory system. While focus is on public policies in the United States, international comparisons with Western European and Eastern European countries are included. The course has a seminar format, with weekly student presentations and class discussions. Required for environmental science and policy master's degree students.
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A required course for senior environmental science and policy majors, this seminar offers an opportunity to integrate the strands of the environmental science and policy major. The product will be a completed research project and a poster presentation. A research proposal for an honors project or a master's thesis is optional but strongly encouraged. Specific topics for investigation are chosen largely on the basis of student interest from a broad array including global environment threats, energy and other resource issues, community brownfields, and technological risk assessment and management. Unlike a regular course, student presentations constitute a major portion of class meetings, with the instructor as a facilitator of discussion and as a general resource for the group.
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Students must be seniors or second-semester juniors and must have completed a substantial fraction of their major requirements.
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Honors in environmental science requires directed research for at least two semesters under the supervision of a faculty member of the program, a thesis, and an oral presentation.
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Permission of the ES Director.
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Academic experience taking place in the field with an opportunity to earn credit.
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Students construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite:
Permission of the instructor.
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This seminar-sized course introduces students to three or more types of literary form (fiction, poetry, and one other genre). Students will learn the most important tools of literary analysis, including the uses of metaphoric language, sound effects, rhetorical devices and will practice writing effective essays that analyze elements of literary form. Meets the Verbal Expression requirement.
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