Approved Foundational Knowledge Courses, Grant Writing Courses and Data Analysis Courses

ESGP foundational knowledge courses are approved by the Graduate Studies Committee.  Any request to substitute core courses or required electives that are part of the specializations should be submitted via email to Kelly Malone (malone.381@osu.edu).  These requests should be in the form of a letter of request from the student, a letter of support from the advisor and a syllabus for the course and should be submitted as soon as you know you are planning to petition and best case scenario, before you take the course.
 

AUTUMN SEMESTER 2025 COURSE OFFERINGS
Foundational KnowledgeCourse CodeCourse DepartmentCourse TitleCredits
ESGP RequiredENVI SCI 7899Environmental ScienceESGP Seminar1
BiologyENR 5250.01Environment & Natural ResourcesWetland Ecology Restoration3
BiologyENR 5250.01Environment & Natural ResourcesWetland Lab1
BiologyENR 5270Environment & Natural ResourcesSoil Fertility3
BiologyENTMLGY 6310EntomologyInsect Physiology and Molecular Biology3
BiologyEEOB 5420Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal BiologyAquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters1.5-4
BiologyHCS 5412Horticulture and Crop ScienceAgroecology of Grasslands and Prairies3
BiologyMICRO 5155MicrobiologyEnvironmental Microbiology3
BiologyPUBHEHS 6320Public Health: Environmental Health SciencesGlobal Health and Environmental Microbiology3
PhysicalCHEM 6550ChemistryAtmospheric Chemistry3
PhysicalENVENG 5110Environmental EngineeringEnvironmental Engineering and Bioprocesses3
PhysicalENVENG 5140Environmental EngineeringAir Quality Engineering3
PhysicalENVENG 6200Environmental EngineeringFundamentals of Environmental Engineering3
Physical/Data AnalysisENVENG 6220Environmental EngineeringData Analysis in Environmental Engineering3
PhysicalEARTHSCI 5621Earth SciencesIntroduction to Geochemistry3
PhysicalEARTHSCI 5651Earth SciencesHydrogeology4
PhysicalENR 5262Environment & Natural ResourcesEnvironmental Soil Chemistry and Remediation3
PhysicalGEOG 5900GeographyClimatology: Weather, Climate, and Global Warming3
SocialAEDECON 6330Agricultural, Environmental, & Developmental EconomicsCost-Benefit Analysis3
SocialCRPLAN 6300City & Regional PlanningLaw and Planning I: Land Use3
SocialISE 5830Industrial & Systems EngineeringDecision Analysis3
SocialENR 7380Environment & Natural ResourcesClimate and Society3
SocialENR 7520Environment & Natural ResourcesEnvironmental Science and Law3
SocialGEOG 5300GeographyGeography of Transportation3
SocialPUBAFRS 6000Public AffairsPublic Policy Formulation and Implementation3
Data AnalysisAEDECON 6110Agricultural, Environmental, & Developmental EconomicsApplied Quantitative Methods I4
Data AnalysisAGSYSMT 5580Agricultural Systems ManagementData Analytics in Production Agriculture3
Data AnalysisENTMLGY 6707EntomologyEntomological Techniques and Data Analysis3
Data AnalysisENR 7650Environment & Natural ResourcesApplied Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Natural Resources3
Data AnalysisENVENG 6610Environmental EngineeringAnalytic Frameworks for Analysis of Science, Engineering, and Policy3
Data AnalysisGEOG 5229GeographyEmerging Topics in GIS: Spatial Data Analytics in R3
Data AnalysisHCS 5887Horticulture & Crop ScienceIntroduction to Experimental Design3
Data AnalysisPUBHBIO 6210Public Health: BiostatisticsApplied Biostatistics I3
Data AnalysisPUBHBIO 6211Public Health: BiostatisticsApplied Biostatistics II3
Data AnalysisPUBHBIO 7225Public Health: BiostatisticsSurvey Sampling Methods3
Data AnalysisSTAT 6450StatisticsApplied Regression Analysis4
Grant WritingANIMSCI 6100Animal SciencesResearch Methods and Writing in Animal Sciences1
Grant WritingBSGP 7070Biomedical Sciences Graduate ProgramFundamentals of Grant Writing4
Grant WritingCRPLAN 6610City & Regional PlanningGrant Writing in the Public Sector3
Grant WritingENTMLGY 7930EntomologyScientific Writing and Grant Proposal Development2
Grant WritingPUBAFRS 7501Public AffairsGrant Writing in the Public Sector3
Grant WritingPUBHHBP 8899.02Public Health: Health Behavior & Health PromotionSecond Year Doctoral Seminar in Health Behavior Health Promotion1

 

Approved Foundational Knowledge Courses in Biological Science

The objective of this area is to ensure that students are familiar with the diversity and functioning of organisms and the interactions among species and between organisms and the environment. Because the environmental sciences focus on the relationships between living organisms and their environment, the basic principles of ecology and a solid understanding of ecosystems structure and function is the focus of the ESGP area. This understanding can be gained through coursework that focuses on a particular taxon or a particular kind of ecosystem, but must be broadly applicable to any environment.

Agricultural Systems Management

  • ASM 5786, Environmental Issues in East Asia, 3 semester hrs

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 5250.01, Wetland Ecology Restoration, 3 semester hrs and ENR 5250.02 Wetland Field Laboratory, 1 semester hr
  • ENR 5263, Biology of Soil Ecosystems, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5270, Soil Fertility, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5560, The Dynamics of Ecosystem Restoration, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7333, Successional Dynamics of Forests, 3 semester hrs

Entomology

  • ENTMLGY 5110/PLNTPATH 5110, Ecology and Management of Pathogens and Insects Affecting Trees in Forest and Urban Environments, 3 semester hrs
  • ENTMLGY 6310, Insect Physiology and Molecular Biology, 3 semester hrs
  • ENTMLGY 6410, Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Processes, 3 semester hrs

Environmental Engineering

  • ENVENG 5217*, Applied Mathematical Ecology, 3 semester hrs

Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology

  • EEOB 5420*, Aquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters, 1.5-4 semester hrs
  • EEOB 5470*, Community and Ecosystem Ecology, 3 semester hrs
  • EEOB 6210*, Ecotoxicology, 3 semester hrs

Horticulture and Crop Science

  • HCS 5412, Agroecology of Grasslands and Prairies, 3 semester hrs
  • HCS 5602, The Ecology of Agriculture, 3 semester hrs

Microbiology

Plant Pathology

  • PLNTPATH 5005, Beneficial Plant-associated Microbiomes and Plant Pathology Research, 2 semester hrs
  • PLNTPATH 5110/ENTMLGY 5110, Ecology and Management of Pathogens and Insects Affecting Trees in Forest and Urban Environments, 3 semester hrs

Public Health (EHS)

  • PUBHEHS 5315, Principles of Toxicology, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 5335, Ecology of Infectious Diseases, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 6320, Global Health and Environmental Microbiology, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBH EHS 7360, Water Contamination: Sources and Health Impact, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 7365, Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 7375, Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling, 3 semester hrs

 

Approved Foundational Knowledge Courses in Physical Science and Engineering

The objective of this area is to provide an understanding of physical structure and processes in which ecosystems must function. Physical structure includes soil, water, air, geological media, climate, nutrients, and contaminants. Physical science processes include movement of “abiotic” matter and energy through ecosystems.  Foundational knowledge courses must (1) study fundamental physical, hydrological, chemical, or biogeochemical processes and (2) study and emphasize the effects of physical structure and processes on ecosystem biotic components and function and the interactions between the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem.

Agricultural Systems Management

  • AGSYSMT 5560, UAS and Remote Sensing in Agriculture, 3 semester hrs

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • CBE 5771*, Air Pollution, 3 semester hrs

Chemistry

  • CHEM 6550, Atmospheric Chemistry, 3 semester hrs 

Civil and Environmental Engineering

  • CIVENV 5130*, Applied Hydrology, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 5110*, Environmental Engineering and Bioprocesses, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 5120*, Bioremediation of Groundwater and Soil, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 5140*, Air Quality Engineering, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 5210, Advanced Physical Chemical Treatment Processes, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 5395/ENVENG 5195*, Engineering Design for Environmental Health, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 5410*, Hazardous Waste Management and Remediation, 2 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 6100*, Environmental Engineering Analytical Methods, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 6200, Fundamentals of Environmental Engineering, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 6218, Measurement and Modeling of Climate Change, 3 semester hours
  • ENVENG 6220*, Data Analysis in Environmental Engineering, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 6400, Integrated Environmental Chemical Fate and Transport, 3 semester hrs 

Earth Sciences

  • EARTHSCI 5621, Introduction to Geochemistry, 3 semester hrs
  • EARTHSCI 5651, Hydrogeology, 4 semester hr
  • EARTH SCI 5656, Ecohydrology in a Changing Climate, 3 semester hrs
  • EARTHSCI 5718, Aquatic Geochemistry, 3 semester hrs

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 5260, Soil Landscapes: Morphology, Genesis and Classification, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5261, Environmental Soil Physics, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5262, Environmental Soil Chemistry and Remediation, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5268, Soils and Climate Change, 2 semester hrs
  • ENR 5273, Environment Fate and Impact of Contaminants in Soil and Water, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5310/FABENG 5310, Ecological Engineering and Science,  3 semester hrs

Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering

Geography

  •  GEOG 5900, Climatology: Weather, Climate, and Global Warming, 3 semester hrs

Public Health (EHS)

 

Approved Foundational Knowledge Courses in Social Sciences and Policy

The objective of this area is to provide an understanding of concepts related to the study of human society and/or individuals and their relationships to the structure and function of the ecosystem(s) of which they are a part. Methodology includes a range of approaches, both qualitative and quantitative. Foundational Knowledge courses in social science must engage social science in a combined theoretical and/or applied study of a physical, cultural, regulatory, or economic relationship between humans and the natural and physical environment

Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics

  • AEDECON 5330, Benefit-Cost Analysis, 3 semester hrs
  • AEDECON 6300, Environmental and Resources Economics, 3 semester hrs
  • AEDECON 6330, Cost-Benefit Analysis, 3 semester hrs

Anthropology

City and Regional Planning

  • CRPLAN 6300*, Law and Planning I: Land Use, 3 semester hrs
  • CRPLAN 6310*, Law and Planning II: Environment and Society, 3 semester hrs
  • CRPLAN 6400*, Site Planning and Development, 4 semester hrs
  • CRPLAN 6410*, Planning for Sustainable Development, 3 semester hrs
  • CRPLAN 6750, Resolving Social Conflict, 3 semester hrs

Engineering

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 5325, Forest and Public Lands Policy, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5451, Water Policy and Governance, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5600, Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7004, Social-Ecological Systems, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7150, Environment, Risk, and Decision Making, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7380, Climate and Society, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7400, Communicating Environmental Risk, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7425, Collective Action in Environmental Governance, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7520, Environmental Science and Law, 3 semester hrs

Geography

  • GEOG 5300, Geography of Transportation, 3 semester hrs

Law

  • LAW 8309, Environmental Law, 2-4 semester hrs
  • LAW 8311, Climate Change Law, 3 semester hrs

Public Affairs

Rural Sociology

  • RURLSOC 5530, Sociology of Agriculture and Food Systems, 3 semester hrs
  • RURLSOC 7550, Rural Community Development in Theory and Practice, 3 semester hrs
  • RURLSOC 7560, Environmental Sociology, 3 semester hrs

 

Approved Courses in Data Analysis Methods

 

Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics

  • AEDECON 6110, Applied Quantitative Methods I, 4 semester hrs
  • AEDECON 6130, Applied Quantitative Methods III, 4 semester hrs

Agricultural Systems Management

  • AGSYSMT 5580, Data Analytics in Production Agriculture, 3 semester hrs

Chemistry

  • CHEM 7140, Analytical Spectroscopy, 3 semester hrs

Earth Sciences

  • EARTHSC 5641, Geostatistics, 3 semester hrs

Entomology

  • ENTMLGY 6707, Entomological Techniques and Data Analysis, 3 semester hrs

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 7650, Applied Bayesian Hierarchical Models in Natural Resources, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 8780, Quantitative Methods for Environment and Natural Resources, 3 semester hrs

Engineering

  • ENVENG 6610, Analytic Frameworks for Analysis of Science, Engineering, and Policy, 3 semester hrs
  • ENVENG 6220, Data Analysis in Environmental Engineering, 3 semester hrs

Geography

  • GEOG 5103, Intermediate Spatial Data Analysis, 3 semester hrs
  • GEOG 5229, Emerging Topics in GIS: Spatial Data Analytics in R, 3 semester hrs
  • GEOG 8102, Advanced Spatial Data Analysis, 3 semester hrs 

Horticulture and Crop Science

  • HCS 5887, Introduction to Experimental Design, 3 semester hrs

Microbiology

  • MICRO 5165, Introduction to Computational Genomics, 3 semester hrs
  • MICRO 8161*, Microbiome Informatics, 3 semester hrs

Public Health

Sociology

  • SOCIOL 6650*, Categorical Data Analysis, 3 semester hrs 

Statistics

  • STAT 6450, Applied Regression Analysis, 4 semester hrs 

 

Approved Courses in Grant Writing

 

Animal Sciences

  • ANIMSCI 6100*, Research Methods and Writing in Animal Sciences, 1 semester hrs

Anthropology

  • ANT 8828, Writing Research Proposals in Anthropology, 3 semester hrs

Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program

  • BSGP 7070, Fundamentals of Grant Writing, 4 semester hrs 

Chemistry

  • CHEM 6790/MICRO 6790, Scientific Writing, 2 semester hrs 

City & Regional Planning

  • CRPLAN 6610, Grant Writing in the Public Sector, 3 semester hrs 

Educational Studies

  • EDUCST 7765, Grant Writing, 3 semester hrs

Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology 

  • EEOB 6620, Scientific Writing: Manuscripts, 1.5 semester hrs AND EEOB 6630, Scientific Writing: Proposals, 1.5 semester hrs  (must take both to fulfill the requirement)

Entomology

  • ENTMLGY 7930, Scientific Writing and Grant Proposal Development, 2 semester hrs 

Public Affairs

  • PUBAFRS 7501, Grant Writing in the Public Sector, 3 semester hrs 

Public Health

  • PUBHHBP 8899.02*, Second Year Doctoral Seminar in Health Behavior Health Promotion, 1 semester hrs 

 

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