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Core Course Offerings

ESGP core 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.

Note: All ESGP students taking research hours should take them in their advisor's home department.

Note: All course syllabi are SAMPLE SYLLABI, for an updated syllabus, please email the course professor.

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Core Courses in Biological Science

The objective of this core course 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 core. 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, Rehabilitation/Restoration of Ecosystems, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7333, Successional Dynamics of Forests, 3 semester hrs

Entomology

  • ENTMLGY 6410, Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Processes, 3 semester hrs

Environmental Engineering

  • ENVENG 5217*, Applied Mathematical Ecology, 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 7375, Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling, 3 semester hrs
  • PUBHEHS 7365, Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment, 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

Microbiology

Horticulture and Crop Science

  • HCS 5602*, The Ecology of Agriculture, 3 semester hrs

 

Core Courses in Physical Science and Engineering

The objective of this core 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. Core 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.

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 5310/FABENG 5310, Ecological Engineering and Science,  3 semester hrs
  • 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

Food, Agriculture and Biological Engineering

Geography

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

Earth Sciences

  • EARTHSCI 5621, Introduction to Geochemistry, 3 semester hrs
  • EARTHSCI 5651, Hydrogeology, 4 semester hrs
  • EARTHSCI 5718, Aquatic Geochemistry, 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
  • ENR 5310/FABENG 5310, Ecological Engineering and Science, 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
  • FABENG 5760*, Design of Urban Stormwater Control Measures, 3 semester hours
  • 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 
  • ENVENG 5210, Advanced Physical Chemical Treatment Processes, 3 semester hrs  

Public Health (EHS)

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • CBE 5771*, Air Pollution, 3 semester hrs

Chemistry

  • CHEM 6550, Atmospheric Chemistry, 3 semester hrs 

 

Core Courses in Social Sciences and Policy

The objective of the social science core 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. Core social science courses 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

Environment and Natural Resources

  • ENR 7004/ANTH 7004, Social-Ecological Systems, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5325, Forest and Public Lands Policy, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 5451, Water Policy and Governance, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7400, Communicating Environmental Risk, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7520, Environmental Science and Law, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 7380, Climate and Society, 3 semester hrs
  • ENR 8150, Advanced Environment, Risk, and Decision Making, 3 semester hrs 
  • 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

Engineering

Agricultural, Environmental and Developmental Economics

  • AEDECON 6330, Benefit-Cost Analysis, 3 semester hrs https://aede.osu.edu/courses/aedecon-6330 (credit will still be given if AEDECON 5330 already taken in past)
  • AEDECON 6300, Environmental and Resources Economics, 3 semester hrs

Public Affairs

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

Anthropology

Law

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

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