Courses of Special Interest for Fall 2007

• ENST 113/ESCI 113/BIOS 113: ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS SEMINAR - Seminar topics may vary.
  Faculty: Dugan, Brandon
              Masiello, Caroline
  Meeting: 02:30PM-04:00PM T HB 22
• ENST 204/BIOS 204: COMMUNITY GARDEN
  The course introduces the fundamentals of community garden design and practice. Responsibilities will center on developing and improving the Rice Community Garden. The semester will begin with a short series of lectures by successful growers from the Houston community. a strong emphasis will be on learning and applying ecological principles to the practice of community agriculture. Faculty: Rudgers, Jennifer
              Swain, Ann
  Meeting: Organizational meeting: Sept. 5th 11AM in ABL 125
• ENST 313/ARCH 313: SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
  This course will explore sustainable design from initial sustainable facility concepts and team organizations, to enlisting community support and process assessment. The course will develop into details about sustainable design, lessons learned, processes and outcomes.
  Faculty: Taylor, Rives
  Meeting: 07:00PM - 09:00PM R AH 117
• ENST 314: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
  This course will provide an overview of environmental health issues including an introduction to key epidemiological methods used to study environmental health. The course includes guest lectures from area medical schools and critical reading of studies addressing key environmental health issues.
Faculty: Hamilton, Winifred
Meeting: 01:00PM - 02:15PM TR HZ 119
• ENST 340/ESCI 340: GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
  This course introduces students to the coupled nature of the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere using as focal points elemental cycles such as those of carbon and nitrogen.
  Faculty: Masiello, Caroline
  Meeting: 09:00AM - 09:50AM MWF GRB 212W
• ENST 350: ENVIRONMENTAL INTERNSHIP
  Provides enrollment credit for approved internships with environmental organizations or agencies. Students must seek approval prior to beginning the internship. Weekly progress reports and a final paper are required.
  Faculty: Staff
  Meeting: TBA TBA
• ENST 368/ENGL 368: LITERATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT
  How does literature express or shape environmental values? In this class we will read American fiction and nonfiction exploring the relationship between human and nonhuman nature.
  Faculty: Slappey, Lisa
  Meeting: 09:00AM - 09:50AM MWF HE 125
• ENST 400: INDEPENDENT STUDY
  Faculty: Staff
  Meeting: TBA TBA
• BIOS 325: ECOLOGY
  Study of population dynamics, species interactions, plant and animal comunity organization, and ecosystem function. Group B
Course URL: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~bios325/
Faculty: Holland, Julian
Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR BL 123
Pre-Reqs: BIOS 201 AND BIOS 202 or permission of instructor
• CEVE 203: PRINCIPLES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
  This course provides basic information on principles of water quality engineering, air pollution control and solid and hazardous waste management. Elements of risk assessment, global atmospheric change, and pollution prevention are also addressed to contribute to bare-level competency in Environmental Engineering.
  Faculty: Alvarez, Pedro
  Meeting: 08:00AM - 08:50AM MWF ML 251, 08:00AM - 09:15AM T ML 251
• CEVE 315: SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
  This course is an introduction to the concept of sustainable technology with specific reference to rural communities in developing countries. The issue to be addressed is the application of appropriate technologies in the context of a lack of infrastructure and a specific focus on limited access to energy resources.
  Faculty: Tomson, Mason
              Alvarez, Pedro
  Meeting: TBA TBA
• CEVE 434: FATE AND TRANSPORT OF CONTAMINENTS IN THE ENVIRONMENT
  Physical and chemical principles governing the fate and transport of contaminants in the aqueous environment, and the applications of such principles in environmental engineering. Emphasis is put on mass transport and transportation processes in natural and engineering systems. Previous course work in fluid mechanics and calculus through differential equations is strongly suggested.
  Faculty: Li, Qilin
  Meeting: 02:00PM - 03:30PM MW ML 254
• CEVE 518: GROUNDWATER HYDROLOGY AND CONTAMINATION Groundwater hydrology, well mechanics, hydraulics. Contaminant issues in aquifier systems, numerical models, of large aquifiers. Topics in water resources engineering and aquifier management.
  Faculty: De Blanc, Phillip
  Meeting: 10:50AM - 12:05PM TR SH 462
• ESCI 101: THE EARTH
  Study of the nature of the Earth and its processes.
  Faculty: Lenardic, Adrian
  Meeting: 09:00AM - 09:50AM MWF BL 131
  Recommended Co-req: ESCI 105
• ESCI 103: FIELD TRIPS FOR THE EARTH
  Three evening lectures of two hours each; one weekend long field trip.
  Faculty: Droxler, Andre
              Dickens, Gerald
  Meeting: TBA TBA
• ESCI 107: OCEANS AND GLOBAL CHANGE
  Overview of the impact of the ocean and ocean evolution on the Earth's climate. Includes geological, physical, chemical, and biological aspects of change.
  Faculty: Droxler, Andre
  Meeting: 09:25AM - 10:40AM TR SS 106
• ESCI 340: BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES
  This course introduces students to the coupled nature of the biosphere, atmosphere and hydrosphere using as focal points elemental cycles such as those of carbon and nitrogen.
  Faculty: Masiello, Caroline
  Meeting: 09:00AM - 09:50AM MWF GRB 212W
• STAT 310: PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS - Probability theory and the central concepts and methods of statistics. Topics include probability distributions, expectaion, estimation, hypothesis testing, sampling distributions, linear models, basic ideas of statistical optionality.
  Faculty: Williams, Talithia
  Meeting: 10:00AM - 10:50AM MWF DH 1070

Expanded list of courses relevant to the Environment

Environmental Studies

• ENST 113 Environmental Crisis Seminar
  

Biological Sciences

• BIOS 325 - Ecology

Civil & Environmental Engineering

• CEVE 201 - Intro to Environmental Systems
• CEVE 203 - Principles of Environmental Engineering
• CEVE 204 - Principles of Environmental Engineering Lab
• CEVE 315 - Sustainable Technologies for Developing Countries
• CEVE 401 - Intro to Environmental Chemistry
• CEVE 402 - Intro to Environmental Chemistry Lab
• CEVE 434 - Chemical Transport
  

Earth Science

• ESCI 101 - The Earth
• ESCI 105 - Intro Lab for Earth Science
• ESCI 110 - Energy, the Environment and Society
• ESCI 113 (BIOS 113/ENST 113) - Environmental Crisis Seminar
• ESCI 203 - Introduction to Biogeochemistry
• ESCI 451 - Analysis of Environmental Data
  

Anthropology

• ANTH 446 - Advanced Topics in Biomedical Anthropology
  

Architecture

• ARCH 313 - Sustainable Design

Statistics

• STAT 310 - Probability and Statistics
  

Political Science

• POLI 337 - Public Policy and Bureaucracy