May 02, 2024  
2018-2019 Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

Lower Division Courses numbered 1–99 are designed primarily for freshmen and sophomores but are open to all students for lower division credit. (Graduate students requesting to enroll in lower-division undergraduate courses will not receive unit credit nor will the course fulfill degree requirements.) Upper Division Courses courses numbered 100–199 are open to all students who have met the necessary prerequisites as indicated in the catalog course description. Preparation should generally include completion of one lower division course in the given subject or completion of two years of college work.

GRADUATE COURSES

Courses numbered 200–299 are open to graduate students. (Undergraduate students must obtain the signature of the instructor, School Dean, and the Dean of Graduate Studies. Graduate level units will count towards the required 120 units for graduation; however students are urged to meet with their academic advisor in order to determine if graduate course units may be used to fulfill a graduation requirement.)

CROSS-LISTED/CONJOINED COURSES

Cross-listed Courses are the same course offered under different course subjects at the same level (either undergraduate or graduate) that share the same meeting time, requirements, units, etc. Conjoined Courses are the same course but one is undergraduate and one is graduate.

COREQUISITE COURSE

A corequisite course is a course that must be taken at the same time as another course.

PREREQUISITES

Prerequisites for courses should be followed carefully; the responsibility for meeting these requirements rests on the student. If you can demonstrate that your preparation is equivalent to that specified by the prerequisites, the instructor may waive these requirements for you. The instructor also may request that a student who has not completed the prerequisites be dropped from the course. If the prerequisite for a course is not satisfied, students must obtain the approval of the instructor (or school designee) of the course they wish to take.

For all undergraduate courses a “C-” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “P/NP” grade then a “P” grade is required.

For all graduate courses a “B” or better grade is required for a course to be used as a prerequisite for another course. If a course was taken for a “S/U” grade then a “S” grade is required.

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

No credit is allowed for completing a less advanced course after successful completion (C-or better) of a more advanced course in the foreign languages. This applies only to lower division foreign language courses, not upper division courses. 

GRADING OPTIONS

Unless otherwise stated in the course description, each course is letter graded with a P/NP or S/U option (unless required for your major or graduate program). The policy regarding Grading Options , can be found in an alternate section of the catalog.

More information about Course Substitutions  and Course Materials and Services Fees  can be found in alternate areas of the catalog.

 

English

  
  • ENG 119: Fashion and Fiction


    Units: 4

    Utilizes examples in literature and film to explore the impact and meaning of fashion in past and contemporary culture. Students will write two papers and give a presentation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 121: Topics in Continental Philosophy


    Units: 4

    In-depth study of one or more figures or topics in continental philosophy. Possible topics include German idealism, Marxism, phenomenology, existentialism, the Frankfurt school, cultural studies, and critical theory.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 2

    Crosslisted with: PHIL 141
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: Any lower-division PHIL or ENG course
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 122: Nature Writing and the Environment


    Units: 4

    Explores a variety of genres and topics within the wide rubric of nature writing.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 129: Topics in Literature and Culture


    Units: 4

    Focuses on literature addressing a specific topic, developing advanced reading, writing, and research skills.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 3

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 132: Human Rights and Literature


    Units: 4

    Traces the development of the social, legal and political discourses of global human rights, and the inter-related emergence of art forms—novels, stories, films, public spaces, monuments, museums, theater, paintings, sculpture, etc.—that embody, challenge and critically engage with human rights ideas.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 135: Working Class Literature: British


    Units: 4

    Read novels, plays, and poems that depict and/or are written by members of the working classes in Victorian England; interrogate the ways that working classes are portrayed by middle and upper class authors, but also read texts written by members of the working class.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 136: Working Class Literature: American


    Units: 4

    Examines the rich tradition of the working class in the United States.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 137: Problems in Literature: Islam in English Literature from the Crusades to the War on Terror


    Units: 4

    Looks at concepts of holy war; Islam on the early English stage; 17thc. polemics surrounding the study of Islam and the Koran; Enlightenment obsessions with “Mahometanism;” women in Islam; Romantic imagination and the East; the Rushdie ‘affair’; and West-East relations after 9-11.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 138: Gothic Literature


    Units: 4

    Examines the concept of the Gothic in British literature and culture from 1764 to the present. Focuses on literature of the 18th and 19th centuries, but also considers 20th and 21st century treatments of the Gothic.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 150: Geoffrey Chaucer


    Units: 4

    Read the extraordinary and extraordinarily influential work of the 14th century writer Geoffrey Chaucer, and learn about the ways in which his writing forever changed both Western literature and the English language.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 151: Advanced Shakespeare


    Units: 4

    Read several of Shakespeare’s plays; discover the political, religious, and social contexts that shaped these plays; and learn about both historical and modern-day performances of Shakespeare by viewing and acting in his plays.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: GASP 103S 
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 152: William Blake


    Units: 4

    Studies William Blake’s poetry and prose as he produced it, complete with illustrations, and historicizes Blake’s works and life.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 153: Robert Louis Stevenson


    Units: 4

    Author of Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, RLS was a poet, essayist, travel writer, and master of the short story. His life was as adventurous and romantic as his fiction. Follow him from Edinburgh to the South Pacific, where his literary interests turned anthropological.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 154: Emily Dickinson: Her Poems, Her Letters, Her Life


    Units: 4

    “This was a Poet – it is That/Distills amazing sense/From ordinary Meanings –” Examine the poems of Emily Dickinson and explore how she expressed her thoughts on nature, love, God, pain, death, and womanhood. Learn how to analyze difficult poetry, and produce a creative response to her work.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 155: Toni Morrison and James Baldwin


    Units: 4

    Examines the inter-sectional aesthetics of critical categories such as race, gender, sexuality, politics and religion, through a comparative reading of the novels, stories, plays, essays, speeches and biographies of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 156: Oscar Wilde: Artist, Martyr, Celebrity


    Units: 4

    Explores the plays, philosophical writings, poetry, journalism, literary criticism, and fiction of the nineteenth century’s most flamboyant writer. Studies Wilde’s life and legend, his literary influences, his critics, and his rebirth in the twentieth century as a “gay martyr.”

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 157: Virginia Woolf and EM Forster


    Units: 4

    Examines the groundbreaking novels, short stories and political essays of two of the most influential, stylish and enigmatic writers in Great Britain in the early twentieth century.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 158: The Brontes


    Units: 4

    From their small brick house in the Yorkshire countryside, three sisters—Charlotte, Emily and Anne—changed the face of British literature in the 1840s, penning some of the most beloved and poignant novels in the English canon, the subject of this class.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 159: Rudyard Kipling


    Units: 4

    Kipling’s writings explore the inherent strangeness of identity, the disorienting nature of youth, the multicultural experience of India. An alternately beloved and derided author, Kipling has been called the British Empire’s greatest champion, as well as its shrewdest and most subtle critic.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WH 010 or equivalent exam
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Sophomore
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 164: Author Study


    Units: 4

    A close examination of one particularly influential writer, in addition the work of that writer’s contemporaries, predecessors, and descendants. An exploration of how this writer uniquely expressed her or his ideas, and their influence on later writers.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 3

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (ENG 101 or ENG 102 or ENG 103 or ENG 104) and any ENG seminar numbered between ENG 050-089)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 165: Tragic Drama: from Ancient Greece to the Present Day


    Units: 4

    By reading several plays, question what makes a play a tragedy and what function tragedy serves diverse societies, from Ancient Greece to Elizabethan England to 19th century Russia to modern America. Also think about these plays in performance by watching filmed productions and acting out scenes.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No
    At least one prior ENG class recommended


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  • ENG 166: Nineteenth Century Drama and Adaptation


    Units: 4

    From Peter Pan to Oscar Wilde comedies to Gilbert and Sullivan operas, nineteenth century England produced several important kinds of theater. This class explores Romantic verse drama, comic opera, farce, melodrama, and dramatic “realism.”

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 185: Reading from the Margin


    Units: 4

    Explores the question of how to read canonical works from the margins. Analyzes such issues as: difference and sameness; the construction of the self and of the other; and reading as a culturally-situated activity.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or ENG 032 or CCST 060 or SPAN 060 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 186: Language, Gender, and Culture


    Units: 4

    Explores questions like: How do patterns of speaking reflect, perpetuate, and create our experience of gender? Does gender connect to language change? What do controversies about sexism and other biases in language suggest about the connections between language, thought, and political struggles?

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: WRI 010 or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENG 190: Senior Thesis


    Units: 4

    In this capstone course, students demonstrate, extend, and reflect on their learning by exploring a literary topic in depth. They extend their learning by producing a thesis, and reflect on their learning in a short essay discussing their major or minor as part of their entire education.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENG 100 and at least two of the following surveys: ENG 101, ENG 102, ENG 103, ENG 104
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • English (Undergraduate) - ENG
    • English Minor (Undergraduate) - ENG

    Instructor Permission Required: No
    Must have completed the lower-division requirements for the English major or minor to enroll


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  • ENG 192: Internship in English


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 4

    Designed to provide students with an opportunity to apply knowledge gained in the classroom to a real world setting. Units will be awarded based on the number of internship hours successfully completed.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 2

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: Any lower-division ENG course
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENG 193H: Honors Thesis Research


    Units: 4

    Students research a topic in preparation for producing an Honors thesis. Enrollment restricted to students admitted to the English Honors program.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • English (Undergraduate) - ENG

    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENG 194H: Honors Thesis


    Units: 4

    Students write a 50-100 page thesis under the supervision of a faculty mentor. Enrollment restricted to students admitted to the English Honors program.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • English (Undergraduate) - ENG

    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENG 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Individual directed research facilitates student’s engagement with a topic by offering shared research opportunities, and, through the interaction with a professor, the process of feedback, criticism, and discovery.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes
    Restricted to students who have completed the English major lower-division requirements


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  • ENG 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Directed group study forms a coherent research cohort whose work is focused on one topic or a network of topics that relate

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • English (Undergraduate) - ENG

    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENG 199: Upper Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Individualized study facilitates student’s engagement with a topic through the interaction with a professor, the process of feedback, criticism, and discovery.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 2

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes
    Restricted to students who have completed the English major lower-division requirements


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Environmental Engineering

  
  • ENVE 010: Environment in Crisis


    Units: 4

    Human effects on Earth’s ecosystems, air, and waters. Social and technological solutions to interacting pressures from environmental pollution, biodiversity loss, water pollution, climate warming, and feeding Earth’s population. Science and policy topics appropriate for students majoring in fields other than science or engineering. Not open to majors for credit.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 020: Introduction to Environmental Science and Technology


    Units: 4

    Introduction to historical and current issues in the diverse field of environmental engineering. Principles of mass and energy balance. In-depth analysis of several key innovations from the field that have been instrumental in advancing the field. Design project.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (CHEM 010 or CHEM 010H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 021 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 030: Evaluating Sustainable Spaces: Leadership in Energy, Environment & Design (LEED)


    Units: 3

    Examines the interactions between the environment and the social, scientific, and engineering conservation mechanisms needed to achieve and sustain an acceptable quality of life for all. Students will be positioned to sit for the professional certification exam to earn LEED Green Associates and ultimately LEED Accredited Professional (LEED AP) certification.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 095: Lower Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Supervised research.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 4

    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENVE 098: Lower Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENVE 099: Lower Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENVE 100: Environmental Engineering Chemistry


    Units: 4

    Surveys of basic concepts, principles, and applications of environmental chemistry. The goal is to examine the role of chemistry in environmental systems and to employ basic principles in solving chemical problems related to environmental systems.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (CHEM 010 or CHEM 010H or equivalent exam) and (MATH 022 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 105: Environmental Data Analysis


    Units: 3

    Provides students with probabilistic and statistical methods to analyze environmental data. Emphasizes both theoretical and applied aspects of data analysis methods. Weekly lab exercises are from environmental applications. Topics include: distribution, hypothesis test, linear regression, multiple regression, uncertainty analysis, outlier detection, sample design, and spatial and temporal data analysis.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (MATH 021or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • Syllabus

    ENVE 110: Hydrology and Climate


    Units: 4

    Basics of the hydrological cycle and the global climate system. Fundamentals of surface and subsurface hydrology, hydrometeorology, precipitation, evapotranspiration, statistical and probabilistic methods, unit hydrograph and flood routing.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 020 and ENGR 120
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 114: Mountain Hydrology of the Western United States


    Units: 3

    Principles of snow formation, occurrence, and measurement; components of evapotranspiration; runoff generation; groundwater recharge processes; water resource assessments; and resource management. Focus on California and the southwestern US. Design project.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 116: Applied Climatology


    Units: 3

    Spatial and temporal patterns in climate and their association with land surface characteristics and processes. Methods for exploiting these for hypothesis testing, modeling, and forecasting. Applications include seasonal forecasting, ecological modeling, and analysis of processes such as flooding and wildfire.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: ESS 132
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 118: Global Change


    Units: 4

    Detection of, adaptation to, and mitigation of global climate change. Climate-change science, sources, sinks, and atmospheric cycling of greenhouse gases. Societal context for implementing engineered responses. Assessment of options for responding to the threat of climate change.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: CHEM 002 or CHEM 002H or equivalent exam
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 121: Environmental Microbiology


    Units: 4

    Fundamentals of environmental microbiology: physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics, with application to both engineered and natural environmental systems. Specific applications to water, wastewater, and the environmental fate of pollutants.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 020 and (BIO 001 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 130: Meteorology and Air Pollution


    Units: 4

    Atmospheric sciences and meteorology. Chemistry of air pollutants and its fate. Gas-to-particle conversion. Nucleation and coagulation of aerosol. Oxidizing power of the troposphere. Ozone pollution. Wet and dry pollutants deposition. Air quality modeling. Global climate change. Impact on human health and natural environment.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ES 234
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 020 or ESS 020
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 132: Air Pollution Control


    Units: 3

    Topics include government regulations, design and economics of air pollution control for point and spatial sources, strategies for regional air pollution control and engineering solutions. Air pollution control for both point and mobile sources is addressed in the context of case studies.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ES 238
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 130
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 140: Water Resources Planning and Management


    Units: 3

    Introduction to water resources planning and management, with an emphasis on California water problems. Water planning theory will form the basis for exploring applied analytical and quantitative methods in the field, including systems analysis, risk assessment, and geospatial modeling. A design project will focus on solving contemporary water management problems.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 146: Hydraulic Systems Analysis and Design


    Units: 4

    Analysis and design of municipal hydraulic systems. Application of fluid mechanics to the design of water distribution networks, wastewater and storm water collection systems, and pumps and pump station. Emphasis is given to design projects aimed at developing design process skills, including problem specification, modeling, and analysis.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 120
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 152: Remote Sensing of the Environment


    Units: 4

    Fundamentals of electromagnetic remote sensing, concepts of information extraction and applications pertinent to environmental engineering and earth systems science. Topics include remote sensing principles, aerial photography, photogrammetry, image interpretation, image processing, and applications of remote sensing in a range of environmental applications (e.g. water resource, terrestrial ecosystems, climate change and other environmental topics).

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Fall

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: (MATH 021 or equivalent exam) and (PHYS 008 or PHYS 008H or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 155: Decision Analysis in Management


    Units: 4

    Presents the tools of decision science using a quantitative approach with a focus on investment, finance, management, technology and policy decisions. These tools include decision tree analysis, risk and uncertainty analysis, stochastic dominance, the value of information, probability bias, and subjective probability.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: MGMT 155
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ECON 100 and (ECON 010 or POLI 010 or equivalent exam)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 160: Sustainable Energy


    Units: 4

    Current systems for energy supply and use. Renewable energy resources, transport, storage, and transformation technologies. Technological opportunities for improving end-use energy efficiency. Recovery, sequestration, and disposal of greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel combustion.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ES 260
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 020 or ESS 020
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 162: Modeling and Design of Energy Systems


    Units: 3

    Concepts and applications of solar thermal processes; applications of solar collectors for water heating; active and passive building heating and cooling; fundamentals and design of wind energy systems; economics of solar energy.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to the following class level(s):
    • Junior
    • Senior

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 164: Energy Policy and Planning Modeling


    Units: 4

    Introduce recent development of energy policy and present fundamental optimization and simulation tools for modeling firm and market behavior for the energy sector, with a focus on electric power.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: MATH 024 and (ENGR 155 or ECON 100)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 170: Contaminant Fate and Transport


    Units: 3

    Properties and behavior of organic and metal contaminants, in soils, groundwater, surface waters, and air. Emphasis on phase transfer and transport for organic compounds; complexation and surface processes for metals. Topics include modeling of environmentally important compounds, photochemical reactions, natural organic matter, sorption phenomena.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 100 or ESS 100
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 171: Environmental Organic Chemistry


    Units: 3

    Processes governing the distribution and transformation of anthropogenic organic chemicals in the environment. Topics include chemical-physical properties of organic chemicals, sorption processes, bioaccumulation, chemical transformations, photochemical transformations, modeling concepts.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ES 210
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 100 or ESS 100
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 176: Water and Wastewater Treatment


    Units: 3

    Water treatment, use, reclamation, and reuse. Introduction to modeling and designing treatment systems; both conventional and advanced technology. Use of mass balances for system evaluation and design. Design project.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 120 and (ENVE 020 or ESS 020) and (ENVE 100 or ESS 100)
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 181: Field Methods in Snow Hydrology


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 3

    Properties and measurement of snow. Principles of snow metamorphism and melting. Field workshops.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 182: Field Methods in Surface Hydrology


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 3

    Measurement and interpretation of data; stream gauging, hydrography, and limnology exercises; evaporation studies; micrometeorological instruments and methods; discharge measurement; flood plain mapping; preparation of hydrologic reports. Field workshops.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 183: Field Methods in Subsurface Hydrology


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 3

    Introduction to and experience with field work and instruments for characterizing and monitoring the subsurface environment, including soils, groundwater and engineered (e.g, landfill) systems. Project planning for safe and effective field work. Collecting, managing, and analyzing data.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 110 or ESS 110 
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 184: Field Methods in Environmental Chemistry


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 3

    Introduction to the fundamental field instruments used for environmental chemistry field investigations. Air, water, and soil sample collection and preservation procedures. Particle separation and analysis, ion selective electrodes, colorimetric assays for nutrients and metallic species, extraction of organic species. Experimental design, measurements, and interpretation of data.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 100 or ESS 100
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 190: Environmental Engineering Capstone Design


    Units: 3

    Students will work on multidisciplinary teams on selected and approved design projects, practice design methodology, complete project feasibility study and preliminary design, including optimization, product reliability and liability, economics, and application of engineering codes. Final report and presentation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 100 and ENVE 110
    Concurrent Prerequisites: ENVE 130 and ENVE 160
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 191: Professional Seminar


    Units: 1

    Presentation and discussion of professional environmental and water resources engineering practices. Professional ethics and the roles and responsibilities of public institutions and private organizations pertaining to environmental engineering.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 192: Topics in Environmental Systems


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 6

    Examination of a topic in environmental engineering.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ENVE 195: Upper Division Undergraduate Research


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Supervised research.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENVE 198: Upper Division Directed Group Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Pass/No Pass only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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  • ENVE 199: Upper Division Individual Study


    Lower Unit Limit: 1
    Upper Unit Limit: 5

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Pass/No Pass option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: Yes


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Environmental Systems

  
  • ES 200: Environmental Systems


    Units: 3

    Exploration of linkages in environmental systems and tools to evaluate important features of those systems. This is done by examining the characteristics of different Earth compartments (pedosphere, lithosphere, biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere) in terms of mass and energy balance, residence times and interactions. To provide a context, we examine how each of these compartments interacts with the global water cycle.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 201: Environmental Soil Science


    Units: 4

    An introduction to principles of soil science designed for graduate students in Environmental Systems and other groups. ES 201 examines the soil as a natural resource and soils as ecosystems. Soil is the reservoir on which most life on earth depends, as the primary source of food, feed, forage, fiber, and pharmaceuticals. Soil plays a vital role in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity and environmental stability. Environmental soil science explores the major physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, and fundamental processes that regulate interaction of the terrestrial biosphere with other components of the earth system.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ESS 170
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 201L: Environmental Soil Science Lab


    Units: 1

    An introduction to principles of soil science designed for graduate students in Environmental Systems and other groups. ES 201  examines the soil as a natural resource and soils as ecosystems. Soil is the reservoir on which most life on earth depends, as the primary source of food, feed, forage, fiber, and pharmaceuticals. Soil plays a vital role in sustaining human welfare, assuring future agricultural productivity and environmental stability. Environmental soil science explores the major physical, chemical, and biological properties of soils, and fundamental processes that regulate interaction of the terrestrial biosphere with other components of the earth system.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ESS 170L
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Concurrent Prerequisites: ES 201
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 202: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Soils


    Units: 3

    Thermodynamics and kinetics of chemical process in soil systems. Topics include the formation and identification of common minerals, adsorption/desorption, precipitation/dissolution, and electrochemical reactions in soils. Graduate requirements include individual additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 203: Geochemistry of Earth Systems


    Units: 3

    Quantitative analysis of Earth systems using principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, and isotope geochemistry; solution-mineral equilibrium and phase relations; equilibrium and reactive transport approaches to modeling geochemical processes at ambient and elevated temperatures. Graduate requirements include individual student projects.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 204: Organic Geochemistry


    Units: 3

    Focus on organic chemical reactions in soils and sedimentary environments. Topics include the formation and weathering of natural organic matter and reactions of natural organic matter with pollutants. Graduate requirements include individual additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 205: Biogeochemistry


    Units: 4

    Examines biogeochemical cycles in watersheds, streams, oceans, and lakes for the elements of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, oxygen, sulfur and other metals such as mercury. Includes weekly lecture and discussion sections. Assignments consist of problem sets, reading and discussion of scientific articles, and student analysis of case studies.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ESS 105
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 206: Instrumental and Spectroscopic Methods in Environmental Systems


    Units: 3

    Instrumental and spectroscopic methods and quantitative analysis applied to the study of environmental materials, including inorganic, organic, and biological samples. Emphasis on practical applications and individual student research projects. Laboratory included.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No
    Prior knowledge of Environmental Chemistry recommended


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  • ES 207: Environmental Data Analysis


    Units: 3

    The objective of this class is to provide students with probabilistic and statistical methods to analyze environmental data. This class emphasizes both theoretical and applied aspects of data analysis methods. Weekly lab exercises are from environmental applications. Topics include: distribution, hypothesis test, linear regression, multiple regression, uncertainty analysis, outlier detection, sample design, and spatial and temporal data analysis.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 208: Surface and Colloid Chemistry of Earth Materials


    Units: 3

    Surface, colloid, and interfacial chemistry related to soil, environmental, and microbial applications; properties, energetics, and reactivity of surfaces and interfaces of Earth materials; the role of mineral surfaces in promoting and catalyzing chemical phenomena at phase boundaries. Graduate requirements include individual additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 209: Chemistry and Mineralogy of Earth Materials


    Units: 3

    Chemical principles, structure, and bonding of minerals and Earth materials, including crystallography (symmetry, space groups, group theory), coordination chemistry, bonding models (valence bond, crystal field, and MO theories), and electronic and magnetic properties.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: Unlimited

    Conjoined with: ESS 109
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ESS 100 and CHEM 010
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 210: Environmental Organic Chemistry


    Units: 3

    Processes governing the distribution and transformation of anthropogenic organic chemicals in the environment. Topics include chemical-physical properties of organic chemicals, sorption processes, bioaccumulation, chemical transformations, photochemical transformations and modeling concepts.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ENVE 171
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENVE 100 or ESS 100
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 212: Subsurface Hydrology


    Units: 4

    Hydrologic and geologic factors controlling the occurrence and use of groundwater on regional and local scales. Physical, mathematical, geologic, and engineering concepts fundamental to subsurface hydrologic processes. Introduction to ground-water flow and transport modeling, with emphasis on model construction and simulation.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ESS 112
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 214: Mountain Hydrology of the Western United States


    Units: 3

    Principles of snow formation, occurrence, and measurement; components of evapotranspiration; runoff generation; groundwater recharge processes; water resource assessments; and resource management. Focus on California and the southwestern US. Design project. Graduate requirements include more in-depth investigation of one or more topics and preparation of paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 218: Global Change Biology


    Units: 3

    Addresses different global change processes (climate change, habitat fragmentation, ozone pollution etc.); their impacts on organisms; and interactions and feedbacks between various global change factors and biological processes. Readings are taken from the recent scientific literature. Students will write a review article on a topic of their choice.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: QSB 218
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 221: Environmental Microbiology


    Units: 4

    Fundamentals of environmental microbiology: physiology, biochemistry, metabolism, growth energetics and kinetics, ecology, pathogenicity, and genetics, with application to both engineered and natural environmental systems. Specific applications to water, wastewater, and the environmental fate of pollutants. Graduate requirements include additional projects.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 222: Dynamics of Organic Matter in Soils and Sediments


    Units: 3

    A focus on dynamics of organic matter (OM) in soil and sediments. The course will explore the formation, storage, loss, and transformations of OM from physical, chemical, and biological perspectives. We will cover linkages of OM dynamics with atmospheric composition of greenhouse gases and their future climatic implications.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 224: Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology


    Units: 3

    Ecosystem ecology is the study of interactions between organisms and their environment. Focus on energy, water and nutrient flows through the living (plants, animals, microbes) and nonliving (soils, atmosphere) components of ecosystems. We examine both natural and human-modified terrestrial ecosystems. Graduate requirements include preparation and peer review of a research proposal.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 225: Microbial Ecology


    Units: 3

    Advanced study of microbiological systems and techniques.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 226: Environmental Genomics


    Units: 4

    Introduction to the principles and methods of genomics as applied to the understanding of ecosystems. Topics include population genetics, adaptation to environmental change, and genomic analysis of environmental microbial communities; experimental and computational methods relevant to environmental genomics. Graduate requirements include additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 227: Flora of California


    Units: 5

    An introduction to the plant diversity of California. It consists of lectures, discussions, and field trips. The field trips focus on plant identification in the foothills of the Central Sierra Nevada and help illustrate concepts presented in lecture such as endemism, plant/soil interactions, and vegetation types.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: BIO 133, ESS 133
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 228: Ecological Modeling


    Units: 3

    An advanced study of modeling population dynamics and the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems. Graduate requirements include additional exercises and preparation of a research paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 229: Paleoecology


    Units: 3

    Introduction to the relationships of fossil organisms to one another and to their physical environment, focusing on terrestrial paleoecology of the past 2.5 million years. This class will introduce pass environments, discuss common proxies for studying paleoecology, and examine ecological principles as applies to the past. Recommended prior to enrollment: one upper division Ecology or Earth System Science course.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: BIO 129, ESS 129
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: BIO 148
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 230: Ecological Genetics


    Units: 3

    Reviews theory and experimental methods in quantitative genetics and molecular ecology to infer ecological, evolutionary, and genetic processes. Topic areas include natural selection and biological adaptation, the analysis or quantitative traits, landscape genetics, and conservation genetics among other topics.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: QSB 230
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Environmental Systems (Graduate) - ESYS, Quantitative & Systems Biology (Graduate) - QSB

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 232: Applied Climatology


    Units: 3

    Spatial and temporal patterns in climate and their association with land surface characteristics and processes. Methods for exploiting these for hypothesis testing, modeling, and forecasting. Applications include seasonal forecasting, ecological modeling, and analysis of processes such as flooding and wildfire.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ENVE 116, ESS 132
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 234: Air Pollution and Resources


    Units: 3

    Atmospheric sciences and meteorology. Chemistry of air pollutants and its fate. Gas-to-particle conversion. Nucleation and coagulation of aerosol. Oxidizing power of the troposphere. Ozone pollution. Wet and dry pollutants deposition. Air quality modeling. Global climate change. Impact on human health and natural environment.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Conjoined with: ENVE 130
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 235: Heat Transfer


    Units: 4

    Study of conduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer, with applications to engineering problems. Graduate requirements include in-depth investigation of one or more topics and preparation of paper.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Laboratory included
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 236: Advanced Mass Transfer


    Units: 3

    Steady and unsteady mass diffusion; mass convection, simultaneous heat and mass transfer; Fick’s law in a moving medium; similarity and integral methods in mass transfer; high mass transfer theory; research project in mass transport. Knowledge of Heat Transfer is essential for success in this course.

    Course Details
    Anticipated term(s) course will be offered:
    • Spring

    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: ME 236
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 237: Viscous Flows


    Units: 4

    Study of the Navier-Stokes equations; Stokes’ problems; creeping flows; internal and external flows; similarity and integral methods in boundary layer flows; stability and transition to turbulence.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 1

    Crosslisted with: ME 251
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Prerequisite: ENGR 135 or ES 235
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 238: Air Pollution Control


    Units: 3

    Physical and chemical principles for the capturing of air pollutants. Design of air pollution controls devices for particulate and gaseous pollutants emitted from stationary and mobile sources. State and Federal Regulations for point, mobile and area sources. Economics aspects of air pollution control to meet ambient air quality standards. In case studies, particular issues are addressed as they relate to the San Joaquin Valley.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Conjoined with: ENVE 132
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 240: Water Resources Planning and Management


    Units: 3

    Basic concepts of and issues in water resources management, water resources planning, institutional and policy processes. Quantitative analytical methods in water resources planning and management; introduction to systems analysis, multi-objective planning, and risk assessment. Design project. Graduate requirements include preparation of a detailed case analysis.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 241: Natural Resource Management


    Units: 3

    Covers planning, policy, management and governance of natural resources. Includes topics on systems involving wildfire, water, climate change, recreation, conservation, and extractive industries. Emphasis on interdisciplinary frameworks that address human dimensions of environmental change and resource use. Emphasis on the greater Southern Sierra Nevada and San Joaquin Valley region.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Normal Letter Grade with Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory option

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Open only to following major/minor(s):
    • Environmental Systems (Graduate) - ESYS

    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 244: Phylogenetics: Speciation and Macroevolution


    Units: 4

    Provides the theory behind reconstruction of evolutionary relationships and introduces the comparative methods and tools of phylogenetics. Topics include use of morphological, molecular, and fossil data in distance, parsimony, likelihood, and Bayesian frameworks for investigating geographic patterns and rates of speciation, phenotypic evolution, diversification, extinction, and biogeography.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: No
    Crosslisted with: QSB 244
    Discussion included
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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  • ES 245: Biogeography


    Units: 3

    Explores a diversity of current topics in Biogeography, providing an overview of the field’s history, development, and a prospectus for its near future. We will consider relevant methods, advances in related fields, and application of biogeographic information in a changing world.

    Course Details
    Repeatable for Credit: Yes
    Repeat Limit: 3

    Crosslisted with: QSB 245
    Normal Letter Grade only

    Requisites and Restrictions
    Instructor Permission Required: No


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