Three hours lecture per week
This course covers a broad spectrum of environmental science topics including: biogeochemical cycles, biological diversity, world food supply, effects of agricultural production on the environment, energy, water and air environments, and societies' impacts on the environment. Current environmental issues such as loss of biological diversity, global climate change, ozone depletion, and natural resource management will be discussed.
GenEd: B2,D
Two hours lecture and two hours activity per week
Prerequisites: ESRM 100 and BIOL 200
Students will work with the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey or other agencies on related resource projects. Lab fee required.
Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 200
This course explores issues surrounding the conservation of biodiversity. Topics to be covered include: species-, population-, and ecosystem-level issues, biodiversity, extinction, sustained yield, exotic species, and reserve design. Management implications and the ecology of issues are integrated throughout the course. Lab fee required.
Same as BIOL 313
Two hours lecture and three hour laboratory per week
Prerequisite: ESRM 100 or consent of the instructor
Introduction to fundamental concepts and techniques of geographic information systems, including the collection, manipulation, analysis, interpretation, display, and communication of spatial information for environmental decision making. Lab fee required.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: ESRM 100 or consent of the instructor
The purpose of this course is to introduce the fundamental concepts of environmental law and policy and familiarize students with the various types of legal mechanisms used to protect the environment. A practical grounding in the basic legal concepts central to environmental law and how laws have been applied at the local, state, national, and international level will be gained. Students will also explore the purpose and function of some of the larger environmental institutions and their relationships with the public, business, and the environmental community.
Three hours lecture per week
This human ecology course places humans into the environment in historical and global contexts.
Discusses systems theory as it applies to human adaptation to the environment. Studies the relations among political power, ideology, and resources, integrating concepts from ecology with those from social sciences. Theories and forecasts of human population growth and migration among regions and cultures. Social and environmental impacts of population and age distribution. Natural resource constraints on growth. Topics from land development, resource planning, environmental quality, politics, economic growth, conflicts and wars.
Same as ANTH 332
GenEd: D,Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Exploration of environmental politics in both the international and domestic contexts.
GenEd: Interdisciplinary
Same as POLS 340
GenEd: D,Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Examines the historical interaction between humans and their environment. Special attention will be paid to the transformations of environments in the Americas and Europe.
Same as HIST 342
GenEd: D,Interdisciplinary
Two hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week
Prerequisites: ESRM 352
Introduction to environmental engineering. Students will partake in the planning and construction of ecological restoration projects in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and/or Los Angeles Counties. Particular projects will expose students to construction proceedures and techniques central to the restoration of riparian, wetland, and terrestrial communities. Lab fee required.
Two hours lecture and six hours laboratory per week
Prerequisite: ESRM 313
Examines a wide range of field assessment methods useful for a variety of environmental characterization efforts such as range of transect, time constraint, traping, and continuous sampling methodologies. Emphasizes practical skills development with students collecting field data and conducting subsequent analyses and assessment. Lab fee required.
Three hours lecture per week
Introduces the theory and practice of modern ecological restoration. Conceptual similarities in the approach to wetland, riparian, forest, grassland, and subtidal restoration efforts will be explored. Special attention will be given to failed restoration efforts, articulating the conditions leading to such failures, and minimum performance standards for successful projects.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ECON 362, ESRM 328 and ESRM 329
This course will introduce students to methods and procedures designed to assess and minimize human impacts on natural systems. Topics to be covered include the components of environmental impact reports and assessments, and the processes involved in preparation and approval. Also addressed will be the issues related to mitigating environmental impacts.
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisites: SOC 100 and MATH 202
This course focuses on the basic concepts, skills and issues in demography and population studies. It will apply concepts to contemporary population issues such as family demography, urban transition, environmental degredation, and economic development.
Same as SOC 440
GenEd: D,Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture per week
Prerequisite: ESRM 100 and COMM 101 or COMM 320
Students will analyze and engage in debates about local, national and global environmental disputes. Topics include analysis of risk, community dialogue and strategic environmental messages.
Same as COMM 443
GenEd: D, Interdisciplinary
Three hours lecture and two hours activity per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ESRM 200 and ESRM 329
Provides an introduction to marine provinces , physical and biological oceanography, threats to the marine environment across various temporal and spatial scales and various policies and programs to improve resource management.
Three hours lecture and two hours activity per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ESRM 200, and ESRM 329
Water management principles focusing on surface and ground water hydrology; water conservation, watershed development; water quality measurement and monitoring; water and wildlife/fisheries; and water conflicts.
Three hours lecture and two hours activity per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ESRM 200 and ESRM 329
Examines various approaches to land use planning at the municipal, state, national, and international level focusing on the role of land use planning in managing open space and protected area lands within and adjacent to urban areas.
Three hours seminar per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433 and 432, CHEM 250 and 251
Topics may include: analysis of pollution transformation and transport; impacts on human and natural systems; and examples from tropospheric air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution, climate change.
Three hours seminar per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ECON 362 and ESRM 329
Selected issues in resource development derived from current resource policy changes, or other emerging topics of interest.
Three hours seminar per week
Prerequisite: BIOL 433, ECON 362 and ESRM 329
Selected issues in global resource management. Topics may include climate change, ocean management, desertification, air pollution, ozone depletion, patterns of consumption, water pollution, water allocation, international policy or legislative instruments, or other topics as appropriate.
Three hours seminar per week
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor
In-depth analysis of current topics in environmental science and resource management. Topics vary each semester.
One hours activity per week
Prerequisite: Senior standing in the Environmental Science and Resource Management major
Research and develop a proposal for an ESRM project.
Six hours per week
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor
Individual internship through service learning.
Graded Credit/No Credit
Variable hours per week
Prerequisite: Consent of instructor
Individual research on topic selected by the student and faculty mentor. Repeatable for up to nine units.
Graded Credit/No Credit
Three hours of lecture / discussion per week
Prerequisite: Upper division required courses in ESRM major (may be completed concurrently)
This course consists of an interdisciplinary evaluation of the physical, biological, social, economic, and legal dimensions of environmental decision-making. The instructor will select from Southern California ecosystems - and decisions with associated environmental impacts - for evaluation and analysis. Topics include decisions to reduce, control, or treat surface water run-off, establishing or changing the management of marine protected areas, dredging in harbors, and permits for coastal development. Students will provide results to appropriate national, state, or local agencies for consideration and deliberation in administrative decisions.
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