MSES Catalog

LIST OF COURSES

Offered in

Master of Science in Environmental Sciences Program

The courses listed here are environmental courses offered at the University of Colorado Denver. Some of the courses in this list may not be appropriate for all MSES student programs and will not be accepted for the MSES degree without prior approval as part of the student's Program Plan.

Environmental Sciences:

ENVS 3082 Energy and Environment.
ENVS 5000 Biogeochemical Cycles.
ENVS 5010 Climate Change: Air Pollution Impacts
ENVS 5020 Earth System Environments and Human Impacts
ENVS 5500 Topics in Environmental Sciences.
ENVS 5600 Applied Statistics for the Natural Sciences.
ENVS 5730 Air Quality Modeling and Analysis
ENVS 5939 Cooperative Education.
ENVS 6200 Risk Assessment.
ENVS 6210 Human Health and Environmental Pollution.
ENVS 6220 Toxicology.
ENVS 6230 Environmental Epidemiology
ENVS 6960 Master's Report

Anthropology:

ANTH. 4010/5010 Biocultural Foundations of Health.
ANTH. 4150/5150 Cultural Ecology.
ANTH. 4360/5360 Conservation Archaeology.
ANTH. 4560/5560 Human Ecology.
ANTH. 6040 (Topics) Social Epidemiology.

Biology:

BIOL. 5154 Conservation Biology.
BIOL. 4274/5274 Environmental Physiology.
BIOL. 4335/5335 Plant Science.
BIOL. 5414 Mountain Ecology.
BIOL. 4425/5425 Ecology and Taxonomy of Grassland Plants.
BIOL. 4474/5474 Ecological Methods
BIOL. 4705/5704 Introduction to Research.
BIOL. 5315 Field Botany.
BIOL. 6330 Advanced Environmental Biology Seminar: The Alpine Tundra.

Chemistry:

CHEM 3111 Analytical Chemistry.
CHEM 3118 Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
CHEM 5700 Environmental Chemistry.
CHEM 4121 Instrumental Analysis.
CHEM 4128 Instrumental Analysis Laboratory.
CHEM 5250 Chemometrics: Data Analysis.
CHEM 5600 Topics in Chemistry.
CHEM 5710 Air Pollution Chemistry.

Civil Engineering:

CE 3154 Water Quality Laboratory.
CE 3414 Design of Water and Wastewater Systems.
CE 4077 Engineering Economy. (ME 4147)
CE 4494 Introduction to Environmental Pollution
CE 5333 Applied Hydrology.
CE 5334 Groundwater Hydrology.
CE 5335 Advanced Hydrology.
CE 5343 Open Channel Hydraulics.
CE 5383 Geographic Information Systems and Facilities Management.
CE 5393 Water Resources Development and Management (ECON 6820).
CE 5394 Water Resource Systems.
CE 5404 Chemical Processes in Water Quality Engineering.
CE 5414 Physical Processes in Water Quality Engineering.
CE 5434 Biological Processes in Water Quality Engineering.
CE 5444 Sludge Treatment Processes in Water Quality Engineering.
CE 5504 Intro to Environmental Engineering (formerly Public Health Engineering).
CE 5728 Groundwater and Seepage.
CE 5758 Geotechnical Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management.
CE 580X to 583X Selected Topics (Master's Level).
CE 5801 ST: Hazardous Wastes Engineering.

Economics:

ECON 5540 Environmental Economics.
ECON 5530 Economics of Natural Resources.
ECON 5555 Energy in the U.S. Economy.
ECON 6530 Natural Resources Economics.
ECON 6820 Seminar: Water Resources Development and Management.

Geography:

Geology:

GEOL 4400 Groundwater.
GEOL 4942 Mineral Resources in World.
GEOL 5500 Topics: Soil Chemistry of Hazardous Materials.

Public Administration:

P AD 5635 Environmental Health Policy, Regulation and Law.
P AD 5636 Seminar in Natural Resource Management, Planning and Law.

Philosophy:

PHIL 4812 Philosophy and Nature: Issues and the Human Relationship to the Environment.

Political Science:

P SC 4354 Environmental Politics.

Sociology:

SOC 5210 Seminar: Human Ecology.
SOC 5220 Seminar: Advanced Population Study.
SOC 5230 Seminar: City and Region.

Urban and Regional Planning:

URP 5530 Planning Law.
URP 6649 Environmental Planning I: Ecology.
URP 6650 Environmental Planning II: Policy and Law.
URP 6651 Environmental Impact Assessment.
URP 6652 Growth Management.

BACKGROUND COURSES - THESE COURSES DO NOT COUNT FOR CREDIT IN THE MSES PROGRAM!

BIOL. 3315 Field Botany.
BIOL. 3654 Microbiology.

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