EVS 501 - Introduction to Environmental Problems and Policy
Course Description: Introduction to critical and practical skills necessary to identify, analyze, and assess environmental problems. Includes study and review of environmental policy issues.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Interdisciplinary examination into the scope of environmental sciences. Emphasis will be placed upon integrated analysis of environmental principles through investigation of current environmental issues.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: A survey of methods, techniques and instrumentation used in environmental fieldwork. Focus is upon data gathering, analysis, interpretation and application to environmental management. Required field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Development of contemporary skills for gathering field data in coastal environments. Emphasis upon interpreting these data within a management context.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 518 - Fundamentals of Applied Environmental Research
Course Description: An introduction to the fundamentals of applied research methods used in environmental science, including experimental design, hypothesis testing, data analyses and problem solving. Students will gain an understanding of contemporary methods in the environmental field including computer applications for research.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Advanced application of research methods used in environmental science, including experience in both quantitatve and qualitative approaches to research. Students will carry out a research project following select processes including development and design, reasearch implementation, data analysis and reporting, as well as gain an understanding of scientific ethics and safety.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: EVS 518 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Interdisciplinary investigation into the relationship between human society and coastal ecosystems, focusing upon the political, economic, socio-cultural and scientific challenges facing coastal managers. Core principles of coastal management will be used to develop potential solutions to contemporary coastal issues. Required field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 525 - Foundations of Environmental Education and Interpretation
Course Description: Principles, philosophies and methodologies of environmental education and interpretation are examined within both formal and informal educational settings. Extensive field-based opportunities will allow students to not only develop foundational knowledge but to gain practical experience in developing, implementing and evaluating environmental education and interpretation programming. Required field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: A field-based exploration of plants and animals of coastal island ecosystems and related environmental issues. Students will develop readily-accessible, web-based materials appropriate for outreach and education. This course focuses on both science content and pedagogical resource development.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: An in-depth introduction to the issues, debates, and conservation of tropical environments, especially focusing on current ecological, social and economic environmental problems. Emphasis will be on the Neotropics located in Central and South America and the Caribbean, though all tropical locations, Asian, African, Australian, and Polynesian will be covered.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: An interdisciplinary introduction to enviromental field methods and investigation in foreign countries. Focused study on environmental issues and problems specific to host country on local, regional, and global scales. Course integrates field and classroom instruction.
Credit Hours: 1 To 6
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
EVS 540 - Foundations of Environmental Conservation and Management
Course Description: Policies and processes related to environmental conservation and management are examined within the context of the political, economic, socio-cultural and scientific challenges facing environmental managers today. Both regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to environmental conservation and management are examined within the public and private sectors. Required field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Application of tools and techniques of terrestrial wildlife field methods employed by conservation and management professionals, focusing on amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Emphasis will be placed on utilizing these tools to solve contemporary wildlife management issues.
Credit Hours: 4
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
EVS 554 - Remote Sensing for Environmental Management
Course Description: Principles of remote sensing and its use in assessing and enhancing environment management. Students will learn concepts pertaining to remote sensing, principal sensors, data available, utility of the data for environmental management, data acquisition and processing, output data interpretation and use for management decision-making.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: GGY 520 or GGY 522 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequiste courses or permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 555 - Geospatial Analysis for Coastal Management
Course Description: A problem-based approach to GIS, wherein students develop a GIS, manage data acquired from different sources, create new data, derive data and generate desired/required outputs. Students will enhance/develop geospatial analysis skills, ranging from basic GIS analysis to use of different extensions, programs and equipment while working on their own projects. Students will also consider the application and utility of geospatial data and GIS analysis to coastal issues and management.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: GGY 520 or GGY 522 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequiste courses or permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 560 - Using Advanced Technologies to Teach about the Environment
Course Description: This course will focus on the use of new technologies to teach about the environment; current issues and trends in environmental education; the development, implementation, and assessment of new technologies; and effective instructional strategies to teach key environmental principles and concepts.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Existing natural resource laws, institutions and programs are summarized in their historical context and in relation to current natural resource issues. Philosophical underpinnings of policy positions are examined and discussed to facilitate greater understanding of implicit goals. Class presents models of policy creation, implementation, and reform, with specific examples focusing on natural resource management.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Analysis of issues related to the regulatory process, including research methods and current topics in environmental law and policy. Methodology and impacts of current and proposed policies will also be reviewed.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: EVS 501 with minimum grade of C Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Study of resource management focused on protected areas maintained by government agencies and by private non-profit organizations. Emphasis will be on natural area significance, site selection, management plan development, policy formulation, protection options, use conflicts and public relations.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: EVS 520 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequiste course or permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Current topics in sustainabiligy will be analyzed in relation to sociocultural, economic, and political frameworks. Individual and societal responses to environmental issues, ranging from local to global, will serve as the foundation for examining future trends and issues in sustainability.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Study of ASTM guidelines for environmental site assessment, emphasis on historic overview, regulations, and preparation methods associated with environmental site assessment. Lecture and field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 578 - Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HazWOpER)
Course Description: Study of the physical and chemical hazards present at hazardous waste sites and those encountered during environmental clean-ups, as well as OSHA regulations pertaining to those sites. The class will meet the 40 CFR 1910.120 requirements for 40+ hours of training and OSHA certification will be issued.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Training in advanced diving, research diving enriched air nitrox, rescue diving and oxygen administration techniques. Students will receive AAUS (American Academy of Underwater Science) Completion of Training Certificate.
Credit Hours: 4
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: EVS 501 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: SCUBA certification, medical exam and permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
EVS 582 - Science and Technology of Marine Environment
Course Description: Interdisciplinary introduction to the advanced technological developments, such as sumersibles, robots and technical diving, used to explore and work in the undersea environment. Emphasis is placed on case studies. Involves designing and developing an innovative, creative research plan to address a critical marine environmental issue of the student’s choice.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Application of basic economic principles is used to help understand environmental problems and evaluate alternative solutions. Economic principles will be employed to analyze fundamental environmental issues such as property rights, externalities, conservation, and public goods. Public policy issues such as pollution control, comparing benefits and costs over time, mining, fisheries and forestry management will be evaluated from an economic perspective. Non-market valuation methods also will be covered.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: Field, laboratory, or literature-based research in environmental sciences developed, implemented, and presented in collaboration with selected faculty, staff and/or environmental professionals.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Advanced field placement and experience in non-profit, governmental or private sector. Provides extended opportunities for fieldwork, research or creative projects and includes related theory to practical applications.
Credit Hours: 1 To 6
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
EVS 600 - Continuous Enrollment in Environmental Sciences
Course Description: This course is intended for degree or certificate seeking graduate students who have completed all course work required for their program, but have not finished exit requirement (comprehensive exam, oral and written exam, defense, etc.). Students may register for this course up to 3 times, beyond that, students should complete a form to request permission to extend continuous enrollment. A continuous enrollment form, which is located on the Graduate School website, must be completed to register for this course.
Credit Hours: 0
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Repeat Limit: 2
Course Description: Students work under the direction of a faculty filmmaker to create a motion picture. May be repeated once under a different subtitle.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Repeat Limit: 1
Course Description: Aspects of digital image and video representation and manipulation for motion-picture visual effects. Includes image storage and compression, film and video formats, compositing, filtering, scripting for graphics and visual effects, photorealistic lightin
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Study and practice of motion picture editing aesthetics, technology, and techniques for narrative, documentary, and experimental filmmaking.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: Study and practice of narrative directing, including scene dynamics, communicating with actors, blocking, and capturing performance with the camera.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: Introductory-level production of a short motion picture.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Intermediate-level production of a short motion picture.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Investigation under faculty supervision beyond what is offered in existing courses. For further information, consult the Directed Individual Study section in this catalogue.
Credit Hours: 1-3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 12
Course Description: This course provides an initial yet thorough exposure to the CFA Institute’s Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Conduct. Exposure will also be provided to the Asset Manager Code of Conduct and Research Objectivity Guidelines, also developed by the CFA Institute. Case studies will provide a significant portion of the training, with the goal of preparing students to avoid unethical and unprofessional practices in financial markets.
Credit Hours: 2
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 2
Course Description: This course serves as the capstone course in the MSF program. The fact that an ethics course was selected as the capstone should remind students that technical expertise in finance without the integrity of ethical conduct does not satisfy the needs of our institutions or society in general. In this course students will build on the ethics foundation they developed in FIN 501 - Ethics in the Financial Marketplace to interpret and assess situations in which actions may not be easily discerned as being appropriate or inappropriate. Students will also be reminded that behavior can change as the environment changes. Advanced case studies – some of which will be developed by students in the course – will provide the bulk of the training.
Credit Hours: 1
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: FIN 501 (may be taken concurrently) Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 1
Course Description: This course provides students a deeper understanding of the equity valuation process and how to derive the required rate of return. This course will also teach students how to apply multiple approaches to various valuation methods and conduct a fundamental analysis of a sector, industry, or company.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course provides an exposure to many of the asset classes identified in the alternative investment space. Categories include: hedge funds, private equity, commodities, real estate, and infrastructure. These asset classes provide the potential for diversification benefits as well as enhanced returns. Because of these attributes, an increasing number of institutional as well as private wealth managers are including meaningful allocations to one or more of these categories. A better understanding of the risks as well as the rewards attached to these investments is the focus of this course.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course begins with the microeconomic topics of supply and demand analysis of the firm and consumer, types of market structure, and pricing strategies under different market structures. We then move to the macroeconomic theories of the business cycles, aggregate output, sources of economic growth, types of macroeconomic equilibria (e.g. long-run full employment and short-run recessionary and inflationary gap), monetary and fiscal policy, international trade and capital flows, and currency exchange rates.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course provides a deeper understanding of derivatives and their characteristics with a detailed examination of each market and its contracts. Students will learn to apply the tools used by financial analysts to estimate the value of futures, forwards, options, and swaps and use these derviative instruments in various strategies.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course provides a deeper understanding of the fixed income asset class. We start with the characteristics of fixed-income instruments and a detailed examination of markets in which the instruments are traded. Students will learn to apply the tools used by financial analysts to estimate the value of bonds, as well as to assess their riskiness in various strategies.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course is designed to teach students the most important tools and concepts of Corporate Finance. Learning how managers apply techniques to maximize or increase shareholder value. Topics include dividend policy, share repurchases, business risk, and capital structure.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course is an introduction to the principles of financial statement analysis. It emphasizes tools that are used to analyze a company’s financial statements such as how a manager might undertake to make decisions for his or her firm, how an analyst might make investment decisions regarding the company, and how a loan officer might decide whether or not to extend credit.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
FIN 540 - Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning
Course Description: This course applies statistical and quantitative methods in a finance and investments context. The course provides a real-world introduction to quantitative methods and blends theory and practice using hands-on applications of topics such as probability and probability distributions, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, time-series analysis and more.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: This course applies statistical and quantitative methods in a finance and investments context. The course provides a real-world introduction to quantitative methods and blends theory and practice using hands-on applications of topics such as probability and probability distributions, sampling and estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, time-series analysis and more.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 3
Course Description: Survey of methods, techniques, and applications of basic crime scene processing and investigation. Topics include: an understanding of physical evidence, processing various types of crime scenes, assessing crime scenes, basic crime scene photography, crime scene sketching and mapping, and crime scene reporting, crime scene processing skills (using light technology, various fingerprint lifting techniques, shooting scene documentation and reconstruction, bloodstain pattern analysis), documenting the body as a crime scene, assessing special crime scenes, the role of the crime scene analysis and reconstruction, and utilizing forensic science specialists.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Introduction to proper behavior and proceedings in a criminal trial to include: being recognized as an expert witness, understanding the Daubert case and how it affects scientific testimony, and the ethics of forensic science and proper disclosure and testimony. Additionally, the students will research and discuss several challenges that have been brought before the court regarding forensic science and its reliability and accuracy.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
FSC 503 - Seminar in Crime Scene Investigation Professional Development
Course Description: Exploration of topics related to launching a career in crime scene investigation as a well-prepared, polished professional. Emphasis on creating the professional demeanor; building and maintaining a high standard of morals, ethics, and personal integrity; honing strong oral and written communication skills through resume-writing, job-seeking strategies, and job-interviewing; exploring concepts related to team-building and stress management as well as goal-setting for future career growth.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Overall introduction to crime scene photography and the use of several methods and techniques to properly document a crime scene with photography. Topics include: composition, the four cardinal rules, overall, midrange, and close-up, exposure, depth of field, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, electronic flash, low light, laser trajectory, alternate light sources, special photography situations, and digital imaging.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Fundamentals of death investigations and the role of the crime scene investigator at a death scene. Topics include: scene documentation, assessment of the body at the scene, searching the scene, natural diseases, traumatic injuries, identification methods, the medicolegal autopsy, and utilizing forensic science experts.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Develop aptitude in conducting research on the published literature on a focused forensic science topic specifically related to crime scene investigation, evidence collection, and/or evidence preservation. Enhance critical thinking and writing intensive proficiency while also strengthening oral communication skills through the semester project involving the composition of a research paper and a presentation on the selected topic. This research-based course ensures CSI professionals learn how to keep abreast of new findings in the forensic science field and critically evaluate them.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
GGY 520 - Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems
Course Description: Purpose, use, and development of GIS. Theoretical basis for spatial data models and the integration of these data to solve problems. Two lecture and two laboratory hours each week.
GGY 522 - Remote Sensing in Environmental Analysis
Course Description: Use and interpretation of aerial photography and other remote sensing techniques in environmental analysis. The course emphasizes problem identification, digital image analysis, and interpretation of images through laboratory exercises. Three lecture and two laboratory hours each week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Advanced theory and application of the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spatial data collection, data structures, data management and relational databases, spatial analysis, and display of geographic information in a computer-based environment. Lectures, demonstrations, and lab exercises. Two lecture and three laboratory hours each week.
Credit Hours: 0 TO 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: GGY 520 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequsite course or permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 5
GGY 526 - Environmental Geographic Information Systems
Course Description: Overview of environmental applications of GIS and completion of a GIS project; planning a GIS project; development and analysis of the data, and oral and written presentation of the results. Research topics may include atmospheric studies, oceanographic, hydrology, ecology, biology, resource management, and hazard risk assessments. Two lecture and three laboratory hours each week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: GGY 520 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequsite course or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Advanced theory and application of remote sensing techniques and software applications for environmental sciences, geography, earth sciences, hydrology, archaeology, and forestry. Includes satellite data collection, advanced classification methods, hyperspectral and microwave image analysis, and satellite elevation data construction. Two lecture and three laboratory hours each week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: GGY 422 (min grade D-) or GGY 522 Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Prerequsite course or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
GGY 529 - Aerial Drone Applications in Geosciences
Course Description: This course will provide an introduction to the various applications of unmanned aerial systems (UAS, also known as drones) in the geosciences field and will consist of four main modules. The modules will be structured to begin with an introduction to remote sensing and photogammetry, followed by basics of UAS regulatory frameworks, then we will dedicate at least 40% of the class period to field data collection using small UAVs and will wrap up the course with an introduction to UAV-collected data processing using state of the art software and processing tools. Apart from understanding what it takes to fly a drone both from a technical, applied perspective, as well as from a regulatory lens, the course will provide students with an opportunity to consider for both the opportunities and risks/pitfalls presented by the use of UAV technology. Graduate students will be required to complete a work plan of ways drone technology can be applied to their specialty, associated annotated bibliography, and plan a data collection exercise that can help advance their thesis/final project work.
Credit Hours: 2
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 2
Course Description: Study of the changing distribution patterns of plants and animals on a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Topics include abiotic and biotic controls on the distribution of life, disturbance, ecological communities, dispersal, invasion, speciation, extinctions, biogeographic realms, human impacts on biodiversity, and conservation. 3 lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: A systems approach to understanding past, present and future human impacts on the natural environment, including changes and impacts on the hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere and cryosphere. A team-based learning experience emphasizing socio-environmental synthesis and concept application through a series of case studies discussions.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: This multi-disciplinary approach to planetary water management includes the history of water resource issues; natural hydrospheric water processes; water quality constituents in ecosystems and human health; water project construction and management; environmental impact of water quality, quantity, and management; and applications of water laws, allocations, economics, and conflict resolution. The course satisfies elective requirements for the Master’s in Geoscience degree at UNCW in the Geospatial concentration and the earth processes and global change concentration.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: This course will cover advanced topics not covered in other GGY course offerings. Specific topics will vary by instructor, but could include python programming in ArcGIS, automating workflows through Model Builder and scripting, open-source geospatial software such as Q-GIS, statistical modeling in R, developing web-enabled cartography, and field work design and sampling strategies using GPS and other mapping technology. May be taken more than once for credit. Variable credit (1 - 3).
Credit Hours: 1 To 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may be repeated Maximum Repeatable Hours: 6
Course Description: Survey of ancient sedimentary environments with an evaluation of the criteria used in their recognition in the rock record. Specific ancient sedimentary sequences are examined and compared to their modern counterparts. Three lecture hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Petrology, stratigraphy, field camp. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Classification and description of sandstones and mudrocks and evaluation of their diagenesis. Application of principles to economic deposits. Laboratory exercises concentrate on microscopic and X–ray techniques of analysis. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Optical mineralogy. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: An examination of sedimentary, igneous, and metamorphic carbonate rocks with emphasis on observation, description and interpretation. Plus an in depth look into how carbonate petrology is applied in the exploration and exploitation of natural resources including hydrocarbons, base metals, precious metals and industrial minerals. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Optical mineralogy or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Principles and methodology underlying the physical and chemical processes affecting the genesis of igneous rocks in various tectonic settings. Topics include the application of thermodynamics, chemographic relationships, and phase equilibrium to the differentiation of magmas and the crystallization of igneous minerals, and geothermobarometric and geochronologic investigation of igneous rocks. Two lecture hours and three laboratory hours per week. Field trip(s).
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Optical mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Principles and methodology underlying the study of metamorphism and metamorphic facies in varying rock compositions, and petrotectonic settings. Topics include metamorphic phase equilibria and diagrams, geothermobarometry and P-T—time paths, metamorphic mineral crystallization and recrystallization, and textural relationships in metamorphic rocks having variable protoliths and histories. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week. Field trip(s).
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Optical mineralogy, petrology, structural geology, or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: A survey of the parameters of sedimentation. Emphasis on the processes involved in the formation of sedimentary rocks, including their origin, transport, deposition and lithification of rock–forming minerals. Techniques of physical and chemical analyses of sediments are stressed. One lecture and six laboratory hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Petrology. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Classification and description of siliciclastic carbonate, chemical, and carbonaceous sedimentary rocks. In-depth study of sedimentary depositional environments. Advanced aspects of weathering, erosion, transportation, deposition, burial, and lithification. Laboratory exercises concentrate on microscopic and chemical analytical techniques. Field trips; fees may be required. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Analysis of natural and anthropogenic global climate change. Historical and geological records of climate including sediment, tree ring, and ice core analysis. Physics and chemistry of climate including Earth’s energy balance, global carbon cycle, climate modeling, atmospheric composition and dynamics. Three lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: General chemistry, college physics, and calculus with analytic geometry. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Students read and discuss recent, seminal, and historical primary literature on the ancient ocean. Topics include archives and methods of reconstruction of ocean environmental conditions, from geological timescales to Ice Ages to El Nino.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Properties, uses, and engineering significance of solid earth materials and water. Principles of stress and strain and related material responses. Methods, techniques, and instrumentation of engineering geologic investigations. Three lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Permission of instructor Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Geology of ground waters and related aspects of surface waters. Methods of groundwater resource evaluation, protection, exploitation, and contaminant remediation. Three lecture and three laboratory hours per week.
Credit Hours: 4
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Two semesters of college calculus and petrology, or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Paleobiology and geological history of microorganisms, emphasizing the classification and systematics of major microfossil groups. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Invertebrate paleontology or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Principles of ecological faunal analysis as primarily applied to the marine fossil record. Emphasizes the integration of form and function, taphonomy, and community development through time, and sedimentology/stratigraphy as a synthetic approach to paleoenvironmental, paleobiological and evolutionary analyses. Applications to biostratigraphy are considered. Three lecture hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Invertebrate paleontology or consent of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Analysis of the historical, geological and biological basis of biostratigraphy emphasizing the application of biostratigraphic principles and techniques in the development of high-resolution relative time scales. Three lecture hours per week. Field trips.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Invertebrate paleontology, stratigraphy, or permission of instructor. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Climatic change throughout geologic time, with an emphasis on Quaternary climate change. Topics include an overview of Earth’s climate system, tectonic-scale, orbital-scale, millenial-scale, and future climate change. 3 lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Survey of the rocks, structures, natural resources, and tectonic histories of different regions of North America, such as the Precambrian shield, Appalachians, and Cordillera. Syntheses of theories of orogenesis. Three lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Structural geology, stratigraphy. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Origin and analysis of earth structures. Solution of advanced structural problems involving stress, strain, rheology, folding, and fracturing of rocks. Rock mechanics, finite strain, and fabric analysis of deformed rocks. Review of techniques. Directed field or lab problems and examples from literature. Two lecture and two laboratory hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Structural geology. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Examination of current ideas and their development as global tectonics theories. Plate tectonic controls on orogeny, orogenic belts, magmatism, sedimentation, and metallogeny of major geologic regions of North American and other areas of the world. Three lecture hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: Structural geology, stratigraphy, petrology. Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated
Course Description: Multidisciplinary analysis of factors controlling sedimentary basin formation and evolution. Interpretation of subsidence mechanisms and sedimentary processes through basin-scale analysis of the stratigraphic record. Advanced aspects of sequence stratigraphy, sediment provenance, and the tectonics of sedimentary basins. Field trips; fees may be required. Two lecture and three laboratory hours per week.
Credit Hours: 3
Corequisite Courses: None Prerequisite Courses: None Additional Restrictions/ Requirements: None Course Repeatability: Course may not be repeated