ENVR Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Total Enrollment	Wait List
13671	ENVR 89 - 002 First-Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Amanda Northcross	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1301	1/3	Seats filled	1/3
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
9957	ENVR 205 - 001 Engineering Tools for Environmental Problem Solving	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Barbara Turpin	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2306	Seats filled	31/50	41/60	4/999
Description: Prerequisite, MATH 231. Introduction to mass, energy, and momentum transport applied to environmental problem solving. Students ask and answer policy-oriented questions (define systems, document assumptions, explain the value and limitations of quantitative answers). They will apply these tools to the design of engineered solutions and characterization of natural and perturbed systems. 3 units.
13672	ENVR 205L - 001 Engineering for Environmental Problem Solving: Advanced Problems Lab	Mo 3:35PM - 4:35PM	Barbara Turpin	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	1/5	1/5	2/10	0/999
Description: Corequisite, ENVR 205; Pre- or corequisites, MATH 233; and COMP 110 or 116. An advanced problems lab for students taking ENVR 205 who are interested in more mathematically advanced applications. Must be taken concurrently with ENVR 205. Course features more advanced applications of ENVR 205 course material, including both analytical and numerical approaches. Specifically, environmental applications of the principles of mass, energy and momentum transport modeling, as well as chemical properties that influence environmental fate and transport. Prior or concurrent enrollment in COMP 110/116 and MATH 233 recommended. 1 units.
13673	ENVR 335 - 001 Adv Environ-ECUIPP Lab: Connecting with Communities Through Environmental Research for PH Protection	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Amanda Northcross	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	0/10	Seats filled	0/10	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, ENVR 89 or ENVR 135. Students join the Environment-ECUIPP Lab to research pressing environmental health issues with local communities. The ECUIPP Lab (Environmentally-Engaged Communities and Undergraduate students Investigating for Public health Protection), organized by the Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, is a creative learning community of students, faculty members and practice partners. Students in the Advanced ECUIPP lab continue to develop research skills focusing on data analysis, data visualization and risk communication. 3 units.
1161	ENVR 400 - 001 Seminar Series	We 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Lauren Eaves	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1301	Seats filled	1/75	1/75	0/999
Description: Presents relevant research to the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Topics and presenters are selected from among the departmental graduate students, faculty, and relevant external speakers. Student presenters learn how to present their research to a lay audience while students taking the class for credit learn how to critique a presentation as well as forge professional collaborations across disciplines. Permission of the instructor for undergraduate students. 1 units.
1226	ENVR 416 - 001 Aerosol Physics and Chemistry	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	JASON SURRATT	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2304	4/25	Seats filled	4/25	0/999
Description: Permission of the instructor for nonmajors. Physical and chemical principles underlying behavior of particles suspended in air. Topics include rectilinear and curvilinear motion of the particles in a force field, diffusion, evaporation, and condensation, electrical and optical properties, and particle coagulation. Three lecture hours a week and two laboratory sessions. 4 units.
11887	ENVR 417 - 001 Oceanography	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	CAROL ARNOSTI	Sitterson Hall (inc-Rm FB009	1/5	Seats filled	1/5	0/999
Description: Required preparation, major in a natural science or two courses in natural sciences. Studies origin of ocean basins, seawater chemistry and dynamics, biological communities, sedimentary record, and oceanographic history. Term paper. Students lacking science background should see EMES 103. Students may not receive credit for both EMES 103 and EMES 401. Course previously offered as GEOL 403/MASC 401. 3 units.
1591	ENVR 419 - 001 Chemical Equilibria in Natural Waters	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Orlando Coronell	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	11/15	Seats filled	11/15	0/999
Description: Principles and applications of chemical equilibria to natural waters. Acid-base, solubility, complex formation, and redox reactions are discussed. This course uses a problem-solving approach to illustrate chemical speciation and environmental implications. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1162	ENVR 430 - 001 Health Effects of Environmental Agents	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	KUN LU	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2306	Seats filled	33/60	33/60	1/999
Description: Required preparation, basic biology, chemistry through organic, calculus. Permission of the instructor for students lacking this preparation. Interactions of environmental agents (chemicals, infectious organisms, radiation) with biological systems including humans, with attention to routes of entry, distribution, metabolism, elimination, and mechanisms of adverse effects. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1771	ENVR 451 - 001 Introduction to Environmental Modeling	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	WILLIAM VIZUETE	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	Seats filled	12/30	21/39	2/999
Description: Focuses on how to model environmental transport and chemistry of pollutants. Covers mole balances, rate laws, chemical kinetics, and reactor design. Principles are applied to any environmental system where chemical transformations must be described. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
13674	ENVR 453 - 001 Groundwater Hydrology	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Timothy Weigand	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2305	4/15	Seats filled	4/15	0/999
Description: Required preparation, math through differential equations and some familiarity with fluid mechanics. Conservation principles for mass, momentum, and energy developed and applied to groundwater systems. Scope includes the movement of water, gas, and organic liquid phases, the transport and reaction of contaminants. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
1164	ENVR 468 - 001 Temporal GIS and Space/Time Geostatistics for the Environment and Public Health	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Marc Serre	Hooker Research Cen-Rm 0003	15/34	Seats filled	15/34	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, MATH 232; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Reviews geographical information systems (GIS). Covers geostatistics theory for the interpolation of environmental and health monitoring data across space and time. Uses publicly available water and air quality monitoring data to create maps used for environmental assessment, regulatory compliance analysis, exposure science, and risk analysis. 3 units.
1703	ENVR 525 - 001 Water, Sanitation, Hygiene, and Global Health	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	MICHAEL FISHER	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	11/45	Seats filled	11/45	0/999
Description: Builds on an understanding of infectious and toxic hazards, disease causation, and environmental transmission. Deals with hazard and disease classification; safety, risk, and vulnerability; interventions and their health impact; approaches in different settings; distal factors (e.g., water scarcity, climate change); and approaches to studying unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene. Previously offered as ENVR 682. 3 units.
13768	ENVR 540 - 001 Introduction to Risk Management and Insurance	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Rachel Baum	Howell Hall-Rm 0115	5/30	Seats filled	5/30	0/999
Description: Pre- or corequisite, Two or more of the following classes (or permission of the instructor): MATH 231, MATH 232, STOR 151, STOR 155, BIOS 511, BIOS 512, BIOS 600, ECON 400, BIOL/ENEC 562 . Introduces the motivations, objectives, and principles of financial risk management through the lens of insurance, reinsurance and financial institutions. Students will become familiar with key concepts that shape these industries so they can effectively communicate using industry vocabulary, metrics, and tools. Standards governing financial risk management are introduced as are the different types of risks that financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers analyze when conducting business. Students will make use of software and tools to characterize and price risk in various activities, carry out basic quantitative risk assessments, and learn what drives success and failure in financial risk management. 3 units.
13769	ENVR 541 - 001 Natural Hazards and Financial Risk	MoWe 3:35PM - 4:50PM	Greg Characklis	Gardner Hall-Rm 0105	6/25	Seats filled	6/25	0/999
Description: Pre- or corequisite, At least 2 of the following courses in mathematics or statistics (or permission of instructor): MATH 231, MATH 232, STOR 151, STOR 155, BIOS 511, BIOS 512, BIOS 600, ECON 400, BIOL/ENEC 562; some programming experience (COMP 110, COMP 116, or BIOS 511) helpful, but not required. Society's growing exposure to the financial risks associated with natural hazards (e.g., flood, drought, extreme temperatures) has made it increasingly important to both accurately quantify these risks and develop innovative strategies for managing them. This course provides exposure to the fundamentals of financial risk management with application to natural hazards an emphasis on developing coupled models that consider natural variability, engineered/managed structures and financial/economic factors. Students will learn to (i) model the financial risk posed by extreme events; (ii) understand the merits of various risk management tools; and (iii) develop effective strategies for managing natural hazard-based financial risk. 3 units.
12724	ENVR 570 - 001 Uncertainty, Decisions, and the Environment	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	ANDREW YATES	Venable Hall-Rm G307	1/5	Seats filled	1/5	0/999
Description: Required preparation, one course in probability and statistics. Use of quantitative tools for balancing conflicting priorities (such as costs versus human health protection) and evaluating uncertainties when making environmental decisions. 3 units.
13675	ENVR 575 - 001 Global Climate Change: Science, Impacts, Solutions	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Jason West	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0133	8/25	Seats filled	8/25	0/999
Description: This class addresses the importance of climate change in its entirety. The first half of the course addresses climate science, followed by climate change impacts, energy and mitigation technologies, economics, and international politics. Improving communication and quantitative skills is emphasized through homework, in-class presentations, and a research paper. 3 units.
1772	ENVR 582 - 001 Sanitation for Development	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Musa Manga	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1303	3/22	Seats filled	3/22	0/999
Description: Over a million children die yearly from diarrhea, in part because 2.0 billion humans do not have access to a basic toilet. This course presents the problems and context of inadequate sanitation in the developing world, and, more importantly, the types of solutions and approaches available to reduce these problems. 3 units.
1378	ENVR 630 - 001 Systems Biology in Environmental Health	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	REBECCA FRY	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	29/45	Seats filled	29/45	0/999
Description: Required preparation, one year of biology. Environmental systems biology examines how environmental stressors influence the components of a biological system, and how the interactions between these components result in changes in the function and behavior of that system. 3 units.
1165	ENVR 661 - 001 Scientific Computation I	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	BOYCE GRIFFITH	Phillips Hall-Rm 0383	1/2	Seats filled	1/2	0/999
Description: Requires some programming experience and basic numerical analysis. Error in computation, solutions of nonlinear equations, interpolation, approximation of functions, Fourier methods, numerical integration and differentiation, introduction to numerical solution of ODEs, Gaussian elimination. 3 units.
1166	ENVR 668 - 001 Methods of Applied Mathematics I	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Pedro Sáenz	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	0/2	Seats filled	0/2	0/999
Description: Requires an undergraduate course in differential equations. Contour integration, asymptotic expansions, steepest descent/stationary phase methods, special functions arising in physical applications, elliptic and theta functions, elementary bifurcation theory. 3 units.
11698	ENVR 671 - 001 Environmental Physics I	TuTh 8:00AM - 9:15AM	Cass Miller	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	2/8	Seats filled	2/8	0/999
Description: A first graduate-level course in physical principles relevant to environmental systems. Topics include dimensional analysis, tensor calculus, conservation of mass and momentum. Applications are considered from natural and engineered systems and across all relevant media. Focus is on the development of mechanistic representation of environmental systems. 3 units.
1647	ENVR 705 - 001 One Health: Philosophy to Practical Integration	Mo 4:40PM - 6:40PM	Mamie Harris, Megan Lott	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2304	7/9	Seats filled	8/10	0/999
Description: This course explores the intersection of human, animal, and environmental health and facilitates the understanding of health as an inexorably linked system requiring multidisciplinary collaborative efforts. The One Health concept demonstrates the importance of a holistic approach to disease prevention and the maintenance of human, animal, and environmental health. 1 - 3 units.
1547	ENVR 722 - 001 Toxicology Seminar III	Mo 3:00PM - 4:00PM	ILONA JASPERS	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0228	0/5	Seats filled	0/5	0/999
Description: Presentations by outside invited speakers, local faculty, advanced graduate students, and postdoctoral trainees. Topics will cover all areas of research in toxicology. One hour per week. 1 units.
13676	ENVR 730 - 001 Computational Toxicology and Exposure Science	MoWe 10:10AM - 11:25AM	Julia Rager	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1304	22/35	Seats filled	22/35	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, Basic knowledge of environmental science, chemistry, and biology is required, familiarity with excel and basic data software, and students are required to be willing to run R/Rstudio and other example coding packages, with script largely already provided for. This course provides an introduction to the field of computational toxicology and exposure science. Students will be equipped to understand databases and tools that can more efficiently evaluate chemical-biological and chemical-disease relationships. Students will be expected to use excel and R/Rstudio, and run script that is provided by the instructor as a gentle 'welcome' to the coding environment. The course is designed for students in public health, toxicology, exposure science, epidemiology, and related disciplines. 3 units.
1167	ENVR 749 - 001 Biochemical Toxicology	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Gregory Smith	Rosenau Hall-Rm 0235	0/4	1/6	1/10	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, CHEM 430; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Required preparation, one course in biochemistry. Biochemical actions of toxicants and assessment of cellular damage by biochemical measurements. Three lecture hours per week. 3 units.
12331	ENVR 753 - 001 Programming for Environmental Applications	Fr 3:35PM - 4:40PM	Greg Characklis, Timothy Weigand, YASH AMONKAR	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1302	0/18	Seats filled	0/18	0/999
Description: Corequisite, ENVR 755. A one-credit course designed to give new graduate students the tools to apply the Python programming language to their own research and work. The course covers introductory material including the variable types and data structures and progresses to more advanced capabilities, such as regression analysis and optimization. The course is heavily focused on bi-/weekly assignments meant to reinforce the lectures and highlights basic applications in environmental science. Companion course to ENVR 755. 1 units.
9883	ENVR 763 - 001 Mathematical Modeling I	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	ROBERTO CAMASSA	Phillips Hall-Rm 0224	0/2	Seats filled	0/2	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, MATH 661, 662, 668, and 669. Nondimensionalization and identification of leading order physical effects with respect to relevant scales and phenomena; derivation of classical models of fluid mechanics (lubrication, slender filament, thin films, Stokes flow); derivation of weakly nonlinear envelope equations. Fall. 3 units.
1851	ENVR 777 - 001 Air Quality and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar	Mo 12:20PM - 1:10PM	WILLIAM VIZUETE, Jason West	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2302	0/15	Seats filled	0/15	0/999
Description: This course gives students practice organizing a scientific presentation and speaking in front of an audience and promoting interdisciplinary interaction. Students will research topics and organize presentations for faculty and other students. The topics may be any aspect of air quality and atmospheric sciences. 1 units.
13692	ENVR 784 - 001 Community-Driven Research and Environmental Justice	We 1:25PM - 3:15PM	Courtney Woods	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 1305	22/34	Seats filled	22/34	0/999
Description: In this course, students will learn from community residents who challenge public health scientists to conduct research on environmental and occupational hazards that impact their health. 3 units.
1741	ENVR 795 - 001 Critical issues in work, worker and workplace health	Tu 12:30PM - 3:30PM	LAURA LINNAN, Maija Leff	TBA	2/20	Seats filled	2/20	0/999
Description: This course prepares students to contribute as members of an interdisciplinary team to protect and promote workers' health. Students will learn that work is a social determinant of health and explore the context in which worker health protection/promotion practitioners work. Students will be able to summarize key regulations and policies that impact work and worker health. 3 units.
10715	ENVR 797 - 001 Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene	Tu 6:00PM - 7:00PM	LEENA NYLANDER-FRENCH, John Staley	TBA	0/20	Seats filled	0/20	0/999
Description: Provides broad understanding of industrial hygiene. Major emphasis is recognition of hazards in the workplace, evaluation of measurement of those hazards, and application of control strategies. The course will focus on introductory level industrial hygiene concepts associated with the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, control, and confirmation of control of occupational health hazards. 3 units.
13766	ENVR 992 - 003 Master's Technical Report	We 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Joe Brown, WILLIAM VIZUETE	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2306	1/28	Seats filled	1/28
Description: The technical report requirement for M.S.P.H., M.P.H., and M.S.E.E. candidates is satisfied by the extensive study of a problem in environmental sciences and engineering. 3 units.