Students enrolled in the Research and Thesis Track take between 8 and 13 credits of elective courses, dependent upon their research plans.
Students enrolled in the Non-Thesis Portfolio Track take 23 credits of elective courses, at least 8 credits of which must come from laboratory courses. Up to nine credits may be taken from departments other than GEV.
Students enrolled in the Non-Thesis, Capstone Track take 17 credits of elective courses, at least 8 credits of which must come from laboratory courses. Up to nine credits may be taken from departments other than GEV.
GEV Elective Lecture Courses (3 credits unless otherwise noted)
- GEV 7100 Remote Sensing for Environmental Analysis
- GEV 7101 Land Use and Environmental Assessment
- GEV 7102 Sustainable Environmental Systems
- GEV 7103 Environmental Policy and Law
- GEV 7104 Coastal Environments
- GEV 7105 Sustainable Urban Systems
- GEV 7106 Ecosystems Services
- GEV 7107 Advanced Environmental Geology
- GEV 7108 Climate Variability
- GEV 7109 Paleoclimates
- GEV 7110 Sustainable Development
- GEV 7111 Agricultural Sciences
- GEV 7112 Environmental Health
- GEV 7113 Soil Science
- GEV 7114 Air Pollution
- GEV 7115 Energy Systems
- GEV 7116 Coral Reefs
- GEV 7117 Water Resources
- GEV 7118 Energy Policy
- GEV 7119 Oceanography
- GEV 7120 Geology
- GEV 7121 Global Change Science
- GEV 7122 Ecosystem Ecology
- GEV 7123 Green Science
- GEV 7124 Biomimicry
- GEV 7125 Tropical Ecology
- GEV 7126 Process Geomorphology
- GEV 7127 Environmental Systems
- GEV 7128 Environmental Systems Management
- GEV 7129 Environmental Toxicology
- GEV 7200 Advanced Quantitative Analysis
- GEV 7201 Spatial Analysis of Environmental Systems
- GEV 7202 Geo Statistics
- GEV 7203 Environmental Modeling with GIS and Remote Sensing
- GEV 7204 Geospatial Project Management
- GEV 8300 Environmental Laboratory and Field Topics (1 credit; topics include: Geospatial Field Methods, Environmental Public Health, and Wetland Field Research).
GEV Elective Lab Science Courses (4 credits)
- GEV 7040 Intro to GIS*
- GEV 8310 Advanced Topics in Environmental Lab Science I
- GEV 8320 Advanced Topics in Environmental Lab Science II
- GEV 8321 Microbial Processes
- GEV 8322 Ocean and Coastal Environments
- GEV 8323 Watershed Biogeochemistry
- GEV 8324 Environmental Systems
- GEV 8325 Environmental Ecology
- GEV 8326 Environmental Geology
- GEV 8327 Geomorphological Environments
- GEV 8328 Climatology
- GEV 8329 Global Change Research
- GEV 8330 Field Methods for Environmental Science
- GEV 8331 Field Research
- GEV 8332 Sustainable Environmental Systems
- GEV 8333 Water and Waste Water Management
- GEV 8334 Biogeochemistry
- GEV 8335 Hydrology and Water Resources
- GEV 8336 Aquatic Environmental Ecology
- GEV 8337 Terrestrial Environmental Ecology
- GEV 8338 Environmental Chemistry
*Required for students without prior GIS experience as a pre-requisite for GEV 7041
Electives in Other Departments
Chemistry Courses (3 credits)
- CHM 7515 Environmental Chemistry
- CHM 7595 Advanced Analytical Chemistry
- CHM 7515 Advanced Biochemistry
- CHM 8643 Toxicology
Biology Courses
- BIO 7105 Vertebrate Ecology (4 credits)
- BIO 7151 Biogeochemistry Lecture (2 credits)
- BIO 7152 Biogeochemistry Lab (2 credits)
- BIO 7805 Biostatistics and Experimental Design (4 credits)
- BIO 7555 Molecular Ecology and Evolution (4 credits)
- BIO 7705 Plant Ecology (4 credits)
- BIO 7755 Plant Ecophysiology (4 credits)
- BIO 7955 Biodiversity and Systematics (4 credits)
- BIO 7970 Special Topics in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (2 credits)
- BIO 7980 Advanced Topics in Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology (3 credits)
- BIO 7980 Advanced Topics (Molecular Ecology) (3 credits)
- BIO 7980 Advanced Topics (Behavioral Ecology) (3 credits)
- BIO 7980/7982 Advanced Topics (Global Change Ecology, lecture / lab) (4 credits)
- BIO 8940/8941 Advanced Topics (Tropical Field Ecology, lecture / lab) (4 credits)
Public Administration Courses (3 credits unless otherwise noted)
- MPA 8100 Decision-Making
- MPA 8300 Leadership Ethics
- MPA 8400 Strategic Planning
- MPA 8500 Effective City Management
- MPA 8550 Urban Politics
- MPA 8600 Effective Nonprofit Management
- MPA 8800 Managing Public Networks
- MPA 8900 Public Policy
- MPA 8299 Special Topics in Public Administration (1 credit; suggested topics: land use and zoning, economic development strategies, program evaluation, performance measurement)