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ESGP Course Requirements

ENV SCI MS Required Courses (20 credits)

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take that course. 

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and elective courses planned between you and your advisor.  Total credit hours must be at lest 30 to earn the MS. 

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI PhD Course Requirement Courses (21-24 credits)
 

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs) *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Grant Writing (1-4 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and elective courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be at least 80 to earn the PhD.

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

The aim of this requirement is to ensure that all ESGP PhD students graduate with experience engaging in interdisciplinary research and build the competencies needed to work with those outside their primary discipline to address complex environmental problems. 

Requirement

ESGP PhD students must complete an interdisciplinary research project in collaboration with their advisor and at least one committee member or other collaborator from outside their advisor/co-advisors’ home department(s) or school(s). Students should conceptualize their primary research focus first and build their interdisciplinary project as an extension of this work. The interdisciplinary research project should ask questions that require the student to engage with their advisor as well as expert(s) outside their major field to narrow their objectives, develop hypotheses, devise methods for inquiry, analyze their findings and prepare their final document. 

The question(s) asked by the interdisciplinary research project should combine at least two of the ESGP foundational knowledge areas (Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences and Engineering, and Social Science and Policy). This work must be original research and could involve field or laboratory-based methods, modeling, or meta-analyses.

Timeline

During the first year of the PhD program, students should narrow down possible aims for their interdisciplinary project and build a team of committee members and/or other collaborators who will assist with this work. Before the end of the student’s second year, an Interdisciplinary Project Proposal Form must be submitted to Kelly Malone. This form will be reviewed by the Graduate Studies Committee and must be approved prior to the initiation of the project. 

Once approved, the student must enroll in ENVSCI 7899 and present their Interdisciplinary Project Seminar between their second and third year. This 20-minute seminar should provide: 1) relevant background, 2) goals, objectives, hypotheses (as appropriate), 3) proposed methods, and 4) the implications of their work, including expected advances in environmental science and management. Note that this seminar is in addition to the Entry and Exit seminar requirements and should be the second seminar presented following the Entry presentation.  

Once the research is complete it should be written up and included as a chapter in the student’s dissertation. The chapter should be approved by the student’s advisor and student advisory committee prior to graduation. Prior to the deadline to submit their dissertation, the student must submit the completed Interdisciplinary Project Completion Form to Kelly Malone. Completing this project is a graduation requirement. If challenges arise throughout the process of envisioning, conducting and writing up the interdisciplinary project, it is critical to alert Mary Gardiner, ESGP Graduate Studies Chair. Mary will work with the student to devise a plan to meet this program requirement.  

ENV SCI MS Required Courses (20 credits)

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take that course. 

Agroecosystem Sciences MS Required Courses (8 credits)

Choose 2 of these 3 course:
Entomology 7890    Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)
ENR 8890.03            Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)
EEOB 8890.03          Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)

Geography 5220   Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (3 crhrs)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (3 crhrs):
AEDECON 6120     Applied Quantitative Methods II (4 crhrs)
AEDECON 7120     Adv Quantitative Methods II (3 crhrs)
AEDECON 7130     Adv Quantitative Methods III (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5420         Remote Sensing of Environment (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 7217        Applied Mathematical Ecology (3 crhrs)
FABENG 3510         Intro to Biological Engineering (4 crhrs)

Any remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be at least 30 to earn the MS.

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI PhD Course Requirement Courses (21-24 credits)
 

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs) *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Grant Writing (1-4 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Agroecosystem Sciences PhD Required Courses (8 credits)

Choose 2 of these 3 course:
Entomology 7890    Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)
ENR 8890.03            Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)
EEOB 8890.03          Agrosystems Special Topic (1 crhr)

Geography 5220   Fundamentals of Geographic Information Systems (3 crhrs)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (6 crhrs):
AEDECON 6120     Applied Quantitative Methods II (4 crhrs)
AEDECON 7120     Adv Quantitative Methods II (3 crhrs)
AEDECON 7130     Adv Quantitative Methods III (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5420         Remote Sensing of Environment (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 7217        Applied Mathematical Ecology (3 crhrs)
FABENG 3510         Intro to Biological Engineering (4 crhrs)

Research Hours in Advisor’s home department (43-48 credits without a Master’s degree; 13-18 credits with a 30 credit hour Master’s degree)

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be 80 to earn the PhD.

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI MS Required Courses (20 credits)

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take that course. 

Climate Change Science and Policy MS Required Courses (5 credits)

Special Topic     Climate Change special topic or an independent study with a climate change affiliated supervisor (2 crhrs)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (3 crhrs):
AEDECON 4320/ INTSTDS 4320        Energy, Environment, and the Economy (3 crhrs) 
ATMOSSC 5901                                    Climate System Modeling: Basics and Applications (3 crhrs)
ATMOSSC 5950                                    Atmospheric Thermodynamics (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663                                     Global Biogeochemical Cycles  (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5650                                     Paleoclimatology (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663/ PUBHLTH 5203       Geo-environment and Human Health (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663                                     Global Change and Sustainability in the Earth System (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5650                                     Glaciology (4 crhrs) 
EEOB 5470                                            Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)         
ENR 5600                                               Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (3 crhrs)
GEOG 8902                                            Applied Climatology (3 crhrs)
GEOG 5802                                            Globalization and Environment (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 7500                                      Energy Policy and the Environment (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 7504                                      Science and Technology Policy (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5320                                     Climate Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be 30 to earn the MS

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI PhD Course Requirement Courses (21-24 credits)
 

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs) *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Grant Writing (1-4 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Climate Change Science and Policy PhD Required Courses (8 credits)

Special Topic     Climate Change special topic or an independent study with a climate change affiliated supervisor (2 crhrs)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (6 crhrs):
AEDECON 4320/ INTSTDS 4320        Energy, Environment, and the Economy (3 crhrs) 
ATMOSSC 5901                                    Climate System Modeling: Basics and Applications (3 crhrs)
ATMOSSC 5950                                    Atmospheric Thermodynamics (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663                                     Global Biogeochemical Cycles  (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5650                                     Paleoclimatology (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663/ PUBHLTH 5203       Geo-environment and Human Health (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5663                                     Global Change and Sustainability in the Earth System (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5650                                     Glaciology (4 crhrs) 
EEOB 5470                                            Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)         
ENR 5600                                               Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems (3 crhrs)
GEOG 8902                                            Applied Climatology (3 crhrs)
GEOG 5802                                            Globalization and Environment (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 7500                                      Energy Policy and the Environment (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 7504                                      Science and Technology Policy (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5320                                     Climate Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)

Research Hours in Advisor’s home department (43-48 credits without a Master’s degree; 13-18 credits with a 30 credit hour Master’s degree)

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be at least 80 to earn the PhD.

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI MS Required Courses (20 credits)

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take that course. 

Public Health Required Courses (12 credits)

PUBHLTH 6010    Essentials of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEPI 6410      Principles of Epidemiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6310     Principles of Environmental Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315     Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)

Electives (3 credits)

With advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the list of approved ESGP core courses in Appendix II and/or from list of CPH-EPH approved courses in Appendix I.

Thesis (6 credits)

PUBHLTH 7999     Master’s Thesis Research in Public Health 

 

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI PhD Course Requirement Courses (21-24 credits)
 

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge
PUBHEHS 6320     Global Health and Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Data Analysis Methods
PUBHBIO 6210    Applied Biostatistics I (3 crhrs)

Grant Writing (1-4 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Public Health Required Courses (24 credits)

PUBHLTH 6010    Essentials of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEPI 6410      Principles of Epidemiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6310     Principles of Environmental Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315     Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)

Select One:
PUBHEHS 6330     Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7365     Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7380     Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques I (3 crhrs)

Research Methods Cources:
PUBHBIO 6211     Applied Biostatistics II (3 crhrs)
PUBHEPI 7411      Environmental Epidemiology (3 crhrs)

Select One:
PUBHBIO 7220     Applied Generalized Linear Models in Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHBIO 7225     Survey Sampling Methods (3 crhrs)
PUBHBIO 7240     Applied Statistical Analysis of Missing Data (3 crhrs)

Electives (9 credits)

With advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the list of approved ESGP Public Health courses in Appendix II and/or from list of CPH-EPH course in Appendix I.

Dissertation Research (27 credits)

PUBHLTH 8998     Pre-Candidacy Research Hours
PUBHLTH 8999     Post-Candidacy Research Hours 

 

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI MS Required Courses (20 credits)

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take that course. 

Water Issues MS Required Courses (4 credits)

ENR 8890.02     Ecological Restoration Seminar (1 crhr)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (3 crhrs):
ENR 5280               Stream Ecology (4 crhrs)
ENR 5345               Methods in Aquatic Ecology (4 crhrs)
ENR 5355               Aquacultures (3 crhrs)
ENR 7700               Watershed Ecology and Restoration (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5230         Transport Phenomena in Water Resources Engineering (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5420         Remote Sensing of Environment (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 6230         Numerical Models in Water Resources Engineering (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5120        Advanced Environmental Biotechnology (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6210        Environmental Engineering Unit Operations (3 crhrs) 
EARTHSC 5206      Advanced Oceanography (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5655      Land Surface Hydrology (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5751      Quantitative Ground-Water Flow Modeling  (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5752      Contaminants in Aqueous Systems (4 crhrs)
FABENG 5730        Design of Agricultural Water Management Systems (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5750        Stream Geomorphology and Watershed Hydrology (3 crhrs)

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be 30 to earn the MS

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

ENV SCI PhD Course Requirement Courses (21-24 credits)
 

ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)
ENV SCI 7899 ESGP Seminar (1 crhr)

ENV SCI 5170    Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Practices (3 crhrs)

Biological Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Physical Sciences Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Social Sciences/Policy Foundational Knowledge (3 crhrs) (choose from approved courses on ESGP website)

Entomology 7920    Presentation Skills for Interdisciplinary Scientists (2 crhrs)

Data Analysis Methods (3 crhrs) *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Grant Writing (1-4 crhrs)  *Choose from approved courses on ESGP website. If you find a course you would like to take that is not on this list, please email Kelly Malone to get approval to take the course. 

Water Issues PhD Required Courses (7 credits)

ENR 8890.02     Ecological Restoration Seminar (1 crhr)

Elective (with advisor’s guidance and approval, select from the following list of ESGP courses) (3 crhrs):
ENR 5280               Stream Ecology (4 crhrs)
ENR 5345               Methods in Aquatic Ecology (4 crhrs)
ENR 5355               Aquacultures (3 crhrs)
ENR 7700               Watershed Ecology and Restoration (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5230         Transport Phenomena in Water Resources Engineering (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5420         Remote Sensing of Environment (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 6230         Numerical Models in Water Resources Engineering (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5120        Advanced Environmental Biotechnology (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6210        Environmental Engineering Unit Operations (3 crhrs) 
EARTHSC 5206      Advanced Oceanography (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5655      Land Surface Hydrology (3 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5751      Quantitative Ground-Water Flow Modeling  (4 crhrs)
EARTHSC 5752      Contaminants in Aqueous Systems (4 crhrs)
FABENG 5730        Design of Agricultural Water Management Systems (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5750        Stream Geomorphology and Watershed Hydrology (3 crhrs)

Research Hours in Advisor’s home department (43-48 credits without a Master’s degree; 13-18 credits with a 30 credit hour Master’s degree)

Remaining credits are a combination of research hours in your advisor’s home department and courses planned between you and your advisor. Total credit hours must be at least 80 to earn the PhD.

In addition to the general Graduate School requirements of a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher, students must meet specific college policies regarding grades in courses.

PUBHEHS 5340     Air Contaminants and Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5345     Infectious Disease Modeling in Humans & Animals (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6325     Climage Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6390     Major Human DIseases in Global Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6411     Biological Basis of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7380     Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7411     Epidemiology in Environmental Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 8340     Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)

ASM 5786                                         Environmental Issues in East Asia (3 crhrs)
ENR 5250.01 & 5250.02                 Wetland Ecology Restoration & Wetland Field Laboratory (4 crhrs)
ENR 5263                                          Biology of Soil Ecosystems (3 crhrs)
ENR 5270                                          Soil Fertility (3 crhrs)
ENR 5560                                          Rehabilitation/Restoration of Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENR 6610                                          Soil and Environmental Biochemistry (2 crhrs)
ENR 7333                                          Successional Dynamics of Forests (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6410                                Insect Ecology & Evolutionary Processes (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6704                                System Analysis, from Molecules to Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENVENG 5217                                   Applied Mathematical Ecology (4 crhrs)
EEOB 5420                                        Aquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters (4 crhrs)
EEOB 5470                                        Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)
EEOB 6210                                        Ecotoxicology (3 crhrs)
HCS 5602                                          The Ecology of Agriculture (3 crhrs)
MICRO 5155                                     Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315                                Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5335                                Ecology of Infectious Diseases (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5345                                Infectious Disease Modeling in Humans and Animals (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6320/FDSCTE 6320       Global Health and Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6330                                Environmental Epigenetics (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6340                                Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6390                                Human Disease in Global Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7375                                Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7411                                Epidemiology in Environmental Health (3 crhrs)

ENR 5310/FABENG 5310/ENVENG 5310       Ecological Engineering and Science (4 crhrs)
ENR 5260                                                           Soil Landscapes: Morphology, Genesis and Classification (3 crhrs)
ENR 5261                                                           Environmental Soil Physics (3 crhrs)
ENR 5262                                                           Soil Chemical Processes and Environmental Quality (3 crhrs)
ENR 5268                                                           Soils and Climate Change (2 crhrs)
ENR 5273                                                           Environmental Fate and Impact of Contaminants in Soil and Water (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5320                                                    Agroecosystems (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5500                                                    Design of Sustainable Waste Management Systems (3 crhrs)
GEOG 5900                                                        Weather, Climate and Global Warming (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5621                                                 Introduction to Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5651                                                 Hydrogeology (4 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5718                                                 Aquatic Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5195/PUBHEHS 5395                       Engineering Design for Environmental Health (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5130                                                     Applied Hydrology (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5110                                                    Environmental Engineering Bioprocesses (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5120                                                    Bioremediation of Groundwater and Soil (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5140                                                    Air Quality Engineering (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5410                                                    Hazardous Waste Management and Remediation (2 crhrs)
ENVENG 5430                                                    Principles of Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6100                                                    Environmental Engineering Analytical Methods (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6220                                                    Data Analysis in Evironmental Engineering (3 crhrs)
CBE 5771                                                            Air Pollution (3 crhrs)
CHEM 6550                                                        Atmospheric Chemistry (3 crhrs)
PUBHLTH 6010                                                 Essentials of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315                                                 Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5325                                                 Principles of Occupational Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5340                                                 Air Contaminants and Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6310                                                 Principles of Environmental Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6325                                                 Climate Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6340                                                 Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7360                                                 Water Contamination: Sources/Health Impact (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7365                                                 Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7380                                                 Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques I (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7382                                                 Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques II (3 crhrs)

AED 5330                                           Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 crhrs)
AED 6300/ENR 6330                        Environmental and Resources Economics (3 crhrs)
ANTHROP 5614                                Ethnobotany (3 crhrs)
ANTHROP 5623                                Environmental Anthropology (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6300                                    Law and Planning I: Land Use (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6310                                    Law and Planning II: Environment and Society (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6400                                    Site Planning and Development (4 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6410                                    Planning for Sustainable Development (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 7270                                    Environmental and Energy Modeling (3 crhrs)
ENR 5325                                           Public Forest and Lands Policy (3 crhrs)
ENR 5451                                           Water Law (3 crhrs)
ENR 7400                                           Communicating Environmental Risk (3 crhrs)
ENR 7500/CRP 7500                         Resolving Social Conflict (3 crhrs)
ENR 7520                                           Environmental Science and Law (3 crhrs)
ENR 7380                                           Climate and Society (3 crhrs)
ENR 8350                                           Ecosystem Management Policy (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6600                                   Assessment for Human Rights and Sustainbility (3 crhrs)
LAW 8309                                          Environmental Law (2-4 crhrs)
LAW 8311                                          Climate Change Law (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 5600/ENVENG 5600        Science, Engineering and Public Policy (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 6000                                  Public Policy Formulation and Implementation (4 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 6080                                  Public Affairs Program Evaluation (4 crhrs)
RURLSOC 5530                                 Sociology of Agriculture and Food Systems (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 7550                                 Rural Community Development in Theory and Practice (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 7560                                 Environmental Sociology (3 crhrs)

Core and Elective Courses Appendices

EEOB 5470                                      Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)
ENR 5225                                        Ecosystems Modeling (3 crhrs)
ENR 5250.01 & ENR 5250.02       Wetland Ecology Restoration & Wetland Field Laboratory (4 crhrs)
ENR 5263                                        Biology of Soil Ecosystems (3 crhrs)
HCS 5602                                        The Ecology of Agriculture (3 crhrs)

ENR 5222/FABENG 5310/ENVENG 5310      Ecological Engineering and Science (4 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5651                                                Hydrogeology (4 crhrs)
FABENG 5320                                                   Agroecosystems (3 crhrs)

AED 5330               Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 crhrs)
ENR 8350               Ecosystem Management Policy (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6410        Planning for Sustainable Development (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 5530     Sociology of Agriculture and Food Systems (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 7560     Environmental Sociology (3 crhrs) 

ASM 5786                                       Ecosystems Modeling (3 crhrs)
EEOB 4410                                     Conservation Biology (3 crhrs)
EEOB 5420                                     Aquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters (4 crhrs)
EEOB 5470                                     Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)
EEOB 6210                                      Ecotoxicology (3 crhrs)
ENR 5225                                        Ecosystems Modeling (3 crhrs)
ENR 5250.01 & ENR 5250.02       Wetland Ecology Restoration & Wetland Field Laboratory (4 crhrs)
ENR 5263                                        Biology of Soil Ecosystems (3 crhrs)
ENR 5270                                        Soil Fertility (3 crhrs)
ENR 5560                                        Rehabilitation/Restoration of Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENR 6610                                        Soil and Environmental Biochemistry (2 crhrs)
ENR 7333                                        Successional Dynamics of Forests (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6410                              Insect Ecology and Evolutionary Processes (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6701                              Biodiversity Analysis for Ecosystem Sustainability and Resilience (2 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6704                              System Analysis, from Molecules to Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENVENG 7217                                Applied Mathematical Ecology (4 crhrs)
HCS 5602                                        The Ecology of Agriculture (3 crhrs)
MICRO 5150                                   Microbial Ecology (3 crhrs)
MICRO 5155                                   Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6320                              Global Health and Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7360                              Water Contamination: Sources and Health Impact (3 crhrs)

CHEM 6550       Atmospheric Chemistry (3 crhrs)
ENR 8710*        Soils and Climate Change (2 crhrs)
GEOG 5900       Climatology (3 crhrs)

*As this class is only 2 credit hours, include a petition to count one credit from the climate change elective for your Physical Science core.

AED 5330     Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 crhrs)
ENR 7380     Climate and Society (3 crhrs)
ENR 7400     Communicating Environmental Risk (3 crhrs)
LAW 8311     Climate Change Law (3 crhrs)

PUBHEHS 5340     Air Contaminants and Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5345     Infectious Disease Modeling in Humans & Animals (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6325     Climage Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6390     Major Human DIseases in Global Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6411     Biological Basis of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7380     Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7411     Epidemiology in Environmental Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 8340     Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)

ASM 5786                                         Environmental Issues in East Asia (3 crhrs)
ENR 5250.01 & 5250.02                 Wetland Ecology Restoration & Wetland Field Laboratory (4 crhrs)
ENR 5263                                          Biology of Soil Ecosystems (3 crhrs)
ENR 5270                                          Soil Fertility (3 crhrs)
ENR 5560                                          Rehabilitation/Restoration of Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENR 6610                                          Soil and Environmental Biochemistry (2 crhrs)
ENR 7333                                          Successional Dynamics of Forests (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6410                                Insect Ecology & Evolutionary Processes (3 crhrs)
ENTMLGY 6704                                System Analysis, from Molecules to Ecosystems (2 crhrs)
ENVENG 5217                                   Applied Mathematical Ecology (4 crhrs)
EEOB 5420                                        Aquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters (4 crhrs)
EEOB 5470                                        Community and Ecosystem Ecology (3 crhrs)
EEOB 6210                                        Ecotoxicology (3 crhrs)
HCS 5602                                          The Ecology of Agriculture (3 crhrs)
MICRO 5155                                     Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315                                Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5335                                Ecology of Infectious Diseases (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5345                                Infectious Disease Modeling in Humans and Animals (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6320/FDSCTE 6320       Global Health and Environmental Microbiology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6330                                Environmental Epigenetics (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6340                                Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6390                                Human Disease in Global Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7375                                Quantitative Microbial Risk Analysis Modeling (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7411                                Epidemiology in Environmental Health (3 crhrs)

ENR 5310/FABENG 5310/ENVENG 5310       Ecological Engineering and Science (4 crhrs)
ENR 5260                                                           Soil Landscapes: Morphology, Genesis and Classification (3 crhrs)
ENR 5261                                                           Environmental Soil Physics (3 crhrs)
ENR 5262                                                           Soil Chemical Processes and Environmental Quality (3 crhrs)
ENR 5268                                                           Soils and Climate Change (2 crhrs)
ENR 5273                                                           Environmental Fate and Impact of Contaminants in Soil and Water (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5320                                                    Agroecosystems (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5500                                                    Design of Sustainable Waste Management Systems (3 crhrs)
GEOG 5900                                                        Weather, Climate and Global Warming (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5621                                                 Introduction to Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5651                                                 Hydrogeology (4 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5718                                                 Aquatic Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5195/PUBHEHS 5395                       Engineering Design for Environmental Health (3 crhrs)
CIVILEN 5130                                                     Applied Hydrology (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5110                                                    Environmental Engineering Bioprocesses (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5120                                                    Bioremediation of Groundwater and Soil (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5140                                                    Air Quality Engineering (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5410                                                    Hazardous Waste Management and Remediation (2 crhrs)
ENVENG 5430                                                    Principles of Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6100                                                    Environmental Engineering Analytical Methods (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6220                                                    Data Analysis in Evironmental Engineering (3 crhrs)
CBE 5771                                                            Air Pollution (3 crhrs)
CHEM 6550                                                        Atmospheric Chemistry (3 crhrs)
PUBHLTH 6010                                                 Essentials of Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5315                                                 Principles of Toxicology (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5325                                                 Principles of Occupational Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 5340                                                 Air Contaminants and Public Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6310                                                 Principles of Environmental Health Science (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6325                                                 Climate Change and Human Health (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 6340                                                 Molecular Techniques for Environmental Health Sciences (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7360                                                 Water Contamination: Sources/Health Impact (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7365                                                 Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7380                                                 Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques I (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7382                                                 Exposure Science Monitoring Techniques II (3 crhrs)

AED 5330                                           Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 crhrs)
AED 6300/ENR 6330                        Environmental and Resources Economics (3 crhrs)
ANTHROP 5614                                Ethnobotany (3 crhrs)
ANTHROP 5623                                Environmental Anthropology (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6300                                    Law and Planning I: Land Use (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6310                                    Law and Planning II: Environment and Society (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6400                                    Site Planning and Development (4 crhrs)
CRPLAN 6410                                    Planning for Sustainable Development (3 crhrs)
CRPLAN 7270                                    Environmental and Energy Modeling (3 crhrs)
ENR 5325                                           Public Forest and Lands Policy (3 crhrs)
ENR 5451                                           Water Law (3 crhrs)
ENR 7400                                           Communicating Environmental Risk (3 crhrs)
ENR 7500/CRP 7500                         Resolving Social Conflict (3 crhrs)
ENR 7520                                           Environmental Science and Law (3 crhrs)
ENR 7380                                           Climate and Society (3 crhrs)
ENR 8350                                           Ecosystem Management Policy (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6600                                   Assessment for Human Rights and Sustainbility (3 crhrs)
LAW 8309                                          Environmental Law (2-4 crhrs)
LAW 8311                                          Climate Change Law (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 5600/ENVENG 5600        Science, Engineering and Public Policy (3 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 6000                                  Public Policy Formulation and Implementation (4 crhrs)
PUBAFRS 6080                                  Public Affairs Program Evaluation (4 crhrs)
RURLSOC 5530                                 Sociology of Agriculture and Food Systems (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 7550                                 Rural Community Development in Theory and Practice (3 crhrs)
RURLSOC 7560                                 Environmental Sociology (3 crhrs)

EEOB 5420                                      Aquatic Ecosystems - Ecology of Inland Waters (1.5-4 crhrs)
EEOB 6210                                      Ecotoxicology (3 crhrs)
ENR 5250.01 & ENR 5250.02       Wetland Ecology Restoration & Wetland Field Laboratory (3 crhrs)
PUBHEHS 7360                              Water Contamination: Sources and Health Impact (3 crhrs)

CIVILEN 5130           Applied Hydrology (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5621       Introduction to Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5651       Hydrogeology (3 crhrs)
EARTHSCI 5718       Aquatic Geochemistry (3 crhrs)
ENR 5273                 Environmental Fate and Impact of Contaminants in Soil and Water (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 5430         Principles of Risk Assessment (3 crhrs)
ENVENG 6100         Environmental Engineering Analytical Methods (3 crhrs)
FABENG 5550          Design of Sustainable Waste Management Systems (3 crhrs) 

ENR 5451             Water Law (3 crhrs)
ENR 8350             Ecosystem Management Law (3 crhrs)
LAW 8890.02       Environmental Law (2-4 crhrs)

Travel Support Information

Travel Support for Student Presentations at Professional Meetings Part of becoming a research scientist is learning how to share work with peers. Presentations at professional meeting are one way for ESGP graduate students to learn how to present their work. ESGP has budgeted funds to assist students presenting papers or posters at professional meetings. ESGP MS students are entitled to up to $1000 in travel support for one professional trip during their master’s program and ESGP PhD students are entitled to up to $1000 in travel support for professional meetings two times during their PhD program (trips must be in different fiscal years {July 1-June 30}). The request must be submitted in advance of the meeting.

The University requires the on-line spend authorization for travel to be approved before the trip begins.

To receive this travel money, the following must submit to the ESGP Graduate Program Manager, Kelly Malone at malone.381@osu.edu before the trip:

  • Cover letter detailing the trip, other travel funds, and presentation information. Letter must list any funds coming from another source of funding.
  • Copy of conference acceptance letter. Student must be presenting an abstract, paper, a poster, or be doing an oral presentation. Funds are not available for attending meetings or conferences without participation.
  • Breakdown of all expected expenses:
    • conference registration (include receipt or screenshot of amount)
    • airline (include receipt or screenshot of ticket amount) or miles (include google map to conference location)
    • hotel (include receipt or screenshot of amount)
    • per diem amounts broken down by day. Please make sure to note the prorated per diem amount on the first and last day of travel and any meals provided by the conference should be subtracted from the day’s rate. 
    • Please note that we do not cover any extra activities at conferences, passport fees, or vaccine fees.
  • Link to conference home page giving basic information and dates.  This can be web link or photocopy of web home page of conference.
  • Citation of conference presentation

Once the travel request is approved by ESGP, you will need to enter a spend authorization in Workday.  PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU NOTE IN THE JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SPEND AUTHORIZATION THAT THE MAXIMUM REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE GRADUATE PROGRAM IS $1000. If you have additional support for the trip, you should also add:  the remainder of the funding (or a certain dollar amount) is coming from <the other source>.  Please let Kelly know if you are asked to provide the ESGP work tags at the time you submit the spend authorization.

After the trip, enter your expense report, using the work tags provided by our program, and upload all original, itemized receipts and the conference program showing your presentation.  These items are needed to complete the reimbursement process. Also, if a personal credit card is used to pay for a hotel stay or airline ticket, for example, the receipt must include the last 4 digits of the credit card.  If not, we also must have a copy of the credit card bill showing the expense was paid, with the amount matching the receipts submitted.

For more information on OSU Travel Policies go to https://busfin.osu.edu/buy-schedule-travel/travel or contact Kelly Malone at malone.381@osu.edu

Resources for Registration and Graduation Deadlines

 

Required ESGP Forms

Please request these forms via email to Kelly Malone (malone.381@osu.edu) or Margaux Joe (joe.26@osu.edu).

  • Committee Notification Forms
  • Thesis and Dissertation Proposal Forms
  • Thesis and Dissertation Defense Forms
  • ESGP Plan of Study
  • General ESGP Course Checklists 
  • MS Specialization Course Checklists (if applicable) 
    • Agroecosystems
    • Climate Change
    • Water Issues
    • Environmental Public Health
  • PhD Specialization Course Checklists (if applicable) 
    • Agroecosystems
    • Climate Change
    • Water Issues
    • Environmental Public Health

 

Campus Resources

 

Career Opportunities

 

Environmental Sites at The Ohio State University

 

World Wide Environmental Sites

If you would like this page to link to another site that could be of interest to environmental science graduate students or faculty, please send an e-mail to enviro@osu.edu.