Environmental Sciences Curriculum
The geography core course requirements must be fulfilled in addition to the curriculum listed for the area of emphasis.
The curriculum of the Environmental Sciences AOE in the Geography Graduate Group consists of the following coursework: (1) a relevant core course, (2) a relevant methods course, and (3) elective courses that include both courses that relate to depth and methods. M.A. students are encouraged to take 15 units of coursework in this AOE if they do NOT do a concentration; otherwise the minimum is 8 units. Ph.D. students are encouraged to take 18 units of coursework in the AOE.
Environmental Science-AOE Required Courses
Depth (choose one):
GEO 210 Topics in Biogeography
ECL 201 Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology
ECI 267 Water Resources Management
EVE 220 Species and Speciation
LDA 280 Landscape Conservation
Methods (choose one):
GEO 211 Physical Geography Traditions and Methods
GEO 280 Field Studies in Geography
ECI 249 Probabilistic Design and Optimization
GEL 235 Surface Processes
HYD 286 Selected Topics in Environmental Remote Sensing
PLS 298 Spatial Statistics
Electives as best associated with subfield:
Depth focus:
GEO 210 Topics in Biogeography
GEO 211 Physical Geography Inquiry & Research Methods
ATM 240 General Circulation of the Atmosphere
ECL 201 Ecosystems and Landscape Ecology
ECL 205 Community Ecology
ECL 207 Plant Population Biology
ECL 208 Issues in Conservation Biology
ECL 214 Marine Ecology
ECL 232 Theoretical Ecology
ECI 260 Sediment Transport
ECI 240 Water Quality
ECI 267 Water Resources Management
ESP 220 Tropical Ecology
EVE 220 Species and Speciation
EVE 240 Paleobotany and Angiosperm Evolution
HYD 256 Geomorphology of Estuaries and Deltas
HYD 286 Selected Topics in Environmental Remote Sensing
LDA 280 Landscape Conservation
SSC 208 Soil-plant interrelationships
SSC 218 Soil Erosion and Conservation
SSC 220 Pedology
WFC 223 Conservation Biology and Animal Behavior
Methods focus:
GEO 211 Physical Geography Inquiry & Research Methods
ANT 218 Problems in Archeological Method
ATM 241 Climate Dynamics
BST 223 Biostatistics: Generalized Linear Models
BST 224 Analysis of Longitudinal Data
ECL 206 Concepts and Methods in Plant Community Ecology
ECL 225 Terrestrial Field Ecology
ECL 231 Mathematical Models in Population Biology
ECI 249 Probabilistic Design and Optimization
ECI 268 Infrastructure Economics
ECI 275 Hydrological Time-series Analysis
ECI 278 Watershed Hydrology
ESP 228 Advanced Simulation Modeling
EVE 231 Principles of Biological Data Analysis
GEL 206 Stratigraphic Analysis
GEL 227 Stable Isotope Biochemistry
GEL 235 Surface Processes
GEO 280 Field Studies in Geography
HYD 252 Hillslope Geomorphology and Sediment Budgets
HYD 264 Modeling of Hydrological Processes
HYD 273 Introduction to Geostatistics
HYD 275 Analysis of Spatial Processes
HYD 286 Selected Topics in Environmental Remote Sensing
PLS 205 Experimental Design and Analysis
PLS 206 Multivariate Systems and Modeling
PLS 298 Spatial Statistics (Richard Plant)
PBG 220 Spatio-temporal Ecology
SSC 205 Field Studies of Soils in California Ecosystems
STA 238 Theory of Multivariate Analysis
WFC 222 Advanced Population Dynamics
