Sustainability Course Repository

Principles of chemical kinetics and thermodynamics applied to fundamental understanding of aqueous environmental samples, including natural waters, wastewaters, and treated waters; factors controlling inorganic and organic chemical concentrations, acid-base equilibria, and absorption phenomena. Cross-listed with CEEGR 3420 (formerly CEEGR 342).

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Hydrologic data sources, collection, and analysis, including frequency analysis. Precipitation, runoff, evaporation, and transpiration. Analysis of stream flow, hydrographs, flood mitigation, and drainage basins. Cross-listed with CEEGR 3710 (formerly CEEGR 371).

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Social, economic, and engineering factors involved in environmental regulations. National and regional water policies, programs, and administration. Emphasis on national environmental policy act and its implementation. Terminology of environmental inventory, assessment, and impact statement. Cross-listed with CEEGR 3760 (formerly CEEGR 376).

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Introductionduction to water and wastewater treatment processes, air pollution control and hazardous waste management through the understanding of physical, chemical, and biological processes as well as mass balance analyses. Four lec-tures and one laboratory or field trip per week. Cross-listed with CEEGR 4730 (formerly CEEGR 473).

Read more about ENSC-4730 : Principles of Environmental Engineering

This course will Introductionduce students to the major federal laws aimed at protecting the human and natural environments. While discussing some policy issues throughout the semester, the course will focus on the environmental laws as they exist today. After considering some foundations in constitutional and administrative law, the course will proceed to examine the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and hazardous waste regulation. The course will als...

Read more about ENVL-300 : Environmental Law Fundamentals

Climate change remains a defining problem for contemporary human civilization, and yet the United States government has begun a very public retreat from the current global consensus around its causes and effects. In this course, we will examine the scientific underpinnings of climate change and its likely consequences, discuss international and domestic responses to the crisis, and debate the political and ethical issues that have arisen, both before and after the current administration took off...

Read more about ENVL-372 : Climate Change

Introductionduces students to the nature of interdisciplinary ecological inquiry at the heart of the field of environmental studies. Cultivates the capacity for such inquiry by bringing ideas and insights from the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities simultaneously to bear on a range of current environmental issues of both local and global relevance. Course material will be presented through a combination of lectures, films or other media, and discussions, and students will ...

Read more about EVST-1600 : Environmental Perspectives

Natural history is a way of inquiry into nature characterized by systematic empirical investigation and interpretation of botanical, zoological, and geological phenomena in their natural habitats. Students will develop observational, analytical, and interpretive skills in varied field settings through qualitative and quantitative research methodologies that focus on the origins and evolution of selected flora, fauna, and landscape features as well as their integration into ecological wholes. Lec...

Read more about EVST-2100 : Natural History: Theory and Practice

Investigates the geological processes that have built and continue to transform the Earth, shaping the Earth's crust and sculpting its surface. Topics include mineral and rock formation, volcanic eruptions, weathering and metamorphism, and the crucial effects of water on the skin of the Earth. The course will involve cultivating a familiarity and facility with the scientific method involved in geological research, its similarities to and differences from other modes of learning about the natural...

Read more about EVST-2150 : Essentials of Geology

The study of the basic structure and function of natural ecosystem: energy flow and nutrient cycling. Exploration of the earth's major biomes and their importance to human existence. Case studies of human impacts on ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest and the practical application of ecological theory to ecosystem restoration. Four lecture/discussion hours, three laboratory hours per week; one weekend field trip.

Read more about EVST-2200 : Principles of Ecology