To be taken during the final academic year prior to graduation. Consists of the final phase of honors research and thesis preparation under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Recommended requisite, min. 3.3 GPA and a declared EBIO major and approval by departmental Honors program. Requisites: Restricted to Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) majors only.
Supervised project involving original research. Thesis proposal must be accepted by honors chairman. Open only to Environmental Studies majors with at least a 3.30 GPA. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Fulfills capstone requirement in Environmental Studies major. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of ENVS 1000 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Environmental Studies (ENVS) majors only.
Preparation of a 15-page research paper in French presented to two members of the department faculty and defended orally in class. Recommended prereq., at least one course numbered FREN 4100 or above and all third-year requirements and advisor consent.
Offers thesis research under faculty supervision. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required. Requisites: Restricted to students with 87-180 credits (Senior, Fifth Year Senior) Geography (GEOG) or Environmental Studies (ENVS) majors only.
Supervised project involving original research in any area of the geological sciences. The thesis is submitted to the Honors Program of the College of Arts and Sciences and is orally defended. Must be accepted by the departmental honors committee. Department enforced requisite, minimum cumulative GPA of 3.30.
Preparation of a 15-page research paper in Italian presented to two members of the faculty and defended orally in class. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ITAL 3015 (minimum grade C-).
Involves the preparation and defense of an honors thesis, based on faculty-supervised original research, including final phases of the research project. Recommended prereqs., MCDB 4840 or MCDB 4980 or comparable research experience. Recommended restriction: minimum GPA of 3.3 and approval by the MCDB Honors Committee.
Qualified Women and Gender Studies majors may write an honors thesis, an in-depth research paper, on a topic of choice. Thesis hours available to majors only after successfully completing the research phase. Requisites: Restricted to Womens Studies (WMST) majors only.
Class explores the advanced practices and aesthetics of computer-based moving-image art editing. Topics include how to edit and manage a postproduction cycle, how to use digital editing systems and capabilities such as compositing, digital audio, and optical effects treatments. Cannot be taken simultaneously with FILM 3400 or 3600. Same as FILM 4000. Requisites: Requires prerequisite courses of FILM 1502, 2000 or 2300, 2500, and 3400 or 3600 (all minimum grade (D-).
Discusses current issues such as ozone depletion, global warming, and air quality for graduate students in nonscientific fields. Provides the scientific background necessary to understand, follow scientific developments, and critically evaluate these issues. Same as ENVS 5830. Credit not granted for this course and ATOC 4800. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Introduces basic issues in comparative literature and basic problems in literary history. Provides an overview of history and rationale of the discipline, traditional areas of research, and recent developments. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
All first year EBIO graduate students are required to attend the EBIO Colloquia Series. Speakers from around the world and within the department cover topics in all areas of biology. May be repeated up to 2 total credit hours.
Examines the basics of energy technologies and energy delivery systems. Covers both conventional energy sources (oil and gas, coal, nuclear and hydroelectric) and renewable/sustainable energy technologies (wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and end-use efficiency). Investigates individual technologies as well as integration of multiple technologies on energy systems such as the electricity grid and liquid and gas fuels infrastructures. Formerly RSEI 5000.
Introduction to methodologies of the policy sciences with emphasis on applications to environmental issues; role of science in decision making; professional roles and responsibilities as a policy analyst. Requisites: Restricted to Environmental Studies (ENVS) graduate students only.
Introduces purposes, materials, and techniques of historical scholarship. Theory, practice, and criticism. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Focuses on a complete deductive framework for mathematics and applies it to various areas. Presents Goedel's famous incompleteness theorem about the inherent limitations of mathematical systems. Uses idealized computers to investigate the capabilities and limitations of human and machine computation. Department enforced prereqs., MATH 3130 and 3140. Same as MATH 4000. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Familiarizes students with basic methodologies and research designs employed in the field. Focuses on critical reading of research papers and design of experiments. At least one research project is conducted and written as part of the course requirements. May be repeated up to 4 total credit hours.
Provides an advanced interdisciplinary course organized around a specific topic, problem, or issue relating to gender and sexuality. Course work includes discussion, reading, and written projects. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours for different topics. Same as WMST 4000. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Examines energy policy and the problem of sustainability through a variety of disciplinary and topical perspectives: historical, political, behavioral, techno-economic and legal. A critical approach is applied to arguments about energy policy processes, systems, and desired outcomes, with special emphasis on the role of renewable and sustainable energy in the changing global energy system. Department enforced prereq., an introductory energy science and technology course. Formerly RSEI 5001.
Engages and exposes students to diverse leadership models and styles and emphasizes concepts and skills necessary for effective environmental leadership. Students will explore and critically analyze approaches and tools for effective collaboration, creative communication with diverse stakeholders, facilitation of events and processes, negotiation, fiscal management, strategic planning, practicing design thinking, developing organizational structures and leading social change.
Engaging with the ways in which race, class, gender and sexual oppression intersect, this class examines several film productions by and about diasporic and subaltern subjects (especially children and women) in the U.S./Mexico borderlands, and the urban ethnic metropoles of the global borderlands. Same as FILM 4001. ETHN 4001 and 5001 are the same course. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
