Programs

Bloomington Campus

Master of Science in Environmental Science

Master of Environmental Sustainability Concentrations
Environmental Quality and Toxicology Concentration

The environmental quality and toxicology concentration (27 credit hours) prepares students to address issues such as air pollution, water quality, contaminants, and solid and hazardous wastes using quantitative tools such as risk assessment and best practices such as risk communication. Graduates will be prepared to work in the public, private, or non-profit sectors. States and municipalities are becoming increasingly innovative in this area, and SPEA students will be well equipped to work at these levels as well as at national and international levels.

Fundamental Science Electives (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take science electives from the general science electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 431 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 451 Air Pollution and Control (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 502 Water Quality Modeling (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 503 Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 515 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 520 Environmental Toxicology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 536 Environmental Chemistry (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 539 Aquatic Chemistry (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 542 Hazardous Materials (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 554 Groundwater Flow Modeling (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 564 Organic Pollutants: Environmental Chemistry and Fate (3 cr.)
GOEG-G 551 Physical Hydrology (3 cr.)
Applications (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take applications electives from the general application electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 501/
SPEA-X 511
Human Behavior and Energy Consumption (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 512 Risk Communication (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 514 Changing Landscape of Toxic Chemical Regulations (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 517 BMP Design for Healthy Urban Watersheds (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 518 Vector-based Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 529 Application of Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 552 Environmental Engineering (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 560 Environmental Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 562 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 574 Energy Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 674 Energy Economics and Policy (3 cr.)
Municipal Sustainability Concentration

The municipal sustainability concentration (27 credit hours) prepares students to address issues associated with air pollution, waste management, water management, and green-space management in towns and cities. Graduates will be prepared to work in the public, private, or non-profit sectors. Relevant employment will not come only at the municipal level; states and nations must also work with and plan for cities, so employment will be available at all levels from municipal to international.

Fundamental Science Electives (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take science electives from the general science electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 431 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 451 Air Pollution and Control (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 460 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 461 Fisheries & Wildlife Management Laboratory  (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 502 Water Quality Modeling (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 515 Fundamentals of Air Pollution (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 520 Environmental Toxicology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 522 Urban Forest Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 527 Applied Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 539 Aquatic Chemistry (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 540 Wetlands Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
SPEA-E 542 Hazardous Materials (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 546 Stream Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Fluid Mechanics (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Urban Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 556 Limnology (4 cr.)
Applications (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take applications electives from the general application electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 501/
SPEA-X 511
Human Behavior and Energy Consumption (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 512 Risk Communication (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 514 Changing Landscape of Toxic Chemical Regulations (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 517 BMP Design for Healthy Urban Watersheds (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 534 Restoration Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 545 Lake and Watershed Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 552 Environmental Engineering (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Environmental Monitoring (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Food Systems and Community Resilience (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 560 Environmental Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 562 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 574 Energy Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 591/
SPEA-R 591
Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources (3 cr.)
SPEA-I 516 Public Management Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-L 563 Planning and Community Development (3 cr.)
SPEA-L 564 Urban Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-L 568 Management of Local Government Services (3 cr.)
SPEA-M 654 Public Program Management and Contracting (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 512 Climate Law and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 532 Water Policy and Economics (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 563 Sustainability in a Tri-sectoral World (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 674 Energy Economics and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-S 515 Sustainable Communities (3 cr.)
Sustainable Natural Resource Conservation and Management Concentration

The sustainable natural resource conservation and management concentration (27 credit hours) provides training in conservation and management of ecosystems and their biodiversity. Graduates will be prepared for public, private, and non-profit positions in agencies, companies, and organizations at local to international levels. Increasingly, positions are available in towns and cities (urban forestry, green space management, urban wildlife management) as well as conserved and managed natural areas.

Fundamental Science Electives (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take science electives from the general science electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 460 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 461 Fisheries and Wildlife Management Laboratory  (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 522 Urban Forest Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 527 Applied Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 528 Forest Ecology and Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 540 Wetlands Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
SPEA-E 546 Stream Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 550 Soil Science and Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Plants and Plant Communities (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Urban Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 556 Limnology (4 cr.)
SPEA-E 557 Conservation Biology (3 cr.)
BIOL-B 300 Vascular Plants   (3 cr.)
BIOL-L 376 Biology of Birds (3 cr.)
Applications (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take applications electives from the general application electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 534 Restoration Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 545 Lake and Watershed Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Food Systems and Community Resilience (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 591/
SPEA-R 591
Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 512 Climate Law and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 513 Wildlife Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 531 Water Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 533 Public Natural Resources Law (3 cr.)
Sustainable Water Resources Concentration

The sustainable water resources concentration (27 credit hours) provides training in issues of water quality, water quantity, and aquatic ecology. Students may choose courses in all three areas or may focus on one or two areas. Graduates will be prepared to work in the public, private, or non-profit sectors. States and municipalities are become increasingly innovative in this area, and SPEA students will be well equipped to work at these levels as well as at national and international levels.

Fundamental Science Electives (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take science electives from the general science electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 431 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 460 Fisheries and Wildlife Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 461 Fisheries & Wildlife Management Laboratory  (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 502 Water Quality Modeling (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 527 Applied Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 539 Aquatic Chemistry (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 540 Wetlands Ecology and Management (4 cr.)
SPEA-E 546 Stream Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 550 Soil Science and Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Fluid Mechanics (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Watershed Hydrology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Urban Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 556 Limnology (4 cr.)
GEOG-G 551 Physical Hydrology (3 cr.)
Applications (6-21 credit hours)

Select at least 6 credit hours, but no more than 21 credit hours of the following courses: (students may also take applications electives from the general application electives list that appears after the concentration-specific course lists)

SPEA-E 534 Restoration Ecology (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 545 Lake and Watershed Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 552 Environmental Engineering (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 555 Food Systems and Community Resilience (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 531 Water Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 532 Water Policy and Economics (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 591/
SPEA-R 591
Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources (3 cr.)
General M.E.S. Fundamental Science and Applications Electives

The following courses are available as electives for all concentrations for which they may be relevant. Science or applications electives listed under the individual concentrations are particularly focused on that concentration. Science or applications electives listed here are potentially relevant to more than one concentration, and may also occur as concentration electives. Note that some general science or applications electives serve as prerequisites for other science or applications electives.

Science electives:

ANTH-E 527 Environmental Anthropology (3 cr.)
BIOL-B 300 Vascular Plants (3 cr.)
BIOL-L 376 Biology of Birds (3 cr.)
BIOL-L 579 Community Ecology (3 cr.)
BIOL-L 581 Behavioral Ecology (3 cr.)
BIOL-Z 406 Vertabrate Zoology (3-5 cr.)
BIOL-Z 460 Animal Behavior (3 cr.)
BIOL-Z 620 Quantitative Biodiversity (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 551 Water Resources (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 577 Scientific Programming in MATLAB (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 544 Methods in Analytical Geochemistry (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 547 Instrumentation for Atmospheric Science (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 550 Surface Water Hydrology (3 cr.)
GEOL-G 576 Climate Change (3 cr.)

Applications electives:

SPEA-E 518 Vector-based Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 529 Application of Geographic Information Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 535 International Environmental Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 538 Statistics for Environmental Science (3 cr.)
SPEA-E 560 Environmental Risk Analysis (3 cr.)
SPEA-I 516 Public Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-I 519 Database Management Systems (3 cr.)
SPEA-L 564 Urban Management (3 cr.)
SPEA-M 547 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution (3 cr.)
SPEA-M 654 Public Program Management and Contracting (3 cr.)
SPEA-N 521 The Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector (3 cr.)
SPEA-N 557 Proposal Development and Grant Administration (3 cr.)
SPEA-N 558 Fund Development for Nonprofits (3 cr.)
SPEA-P 507 Data Analysis and Modeling for Public Affairs (3 cr.)
SPEA-P 539 Management Science for Public Affairs (3 cr.)
SPEA-P 541 Benefit-Cost Analysis (3 cr.)
SPEA-P 562 Public Program Evaluation (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 513 Wildlife Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 521 Domestic Environmental Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 531 Water Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 533 Public Natural Resource Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 563 Sustainability in a Tri-sectoral World (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 564 Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Design and Implementation (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 625 Environmental Economics and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 643 Natural Resource Management and Policy (3 cr.)
SPEA-R 645 Environmental Law (3 cr.)
SPEA-S 596 Sustainable Development (3 cr.)
SPEA-V 517 Public Management Economics (3 cr.)
SPEA-V 550 Communications for Public and Nonprofit Sectors (online) (3 cr.)
SPEA-V 550 Environmental Policy (online) (3 cr.)
ANTH-E 621 Food and Culture (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 515 Sustainable Urbanism (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 544 Climate Change Impacts (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 549 Political Ecology (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 553 Water and Society (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 561 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change (3 cr.)
GEOG-G 578 Global Change, Food, and Farming Systems (3 cr.)
SPH-O 510 Human Health and the environment (3 cr.)
SPH-O 517 Ecosystem Management (3 cr.)
SPH-R 511 Organizational Leadership of Leisure Services (3 cr.)
SPH-R 523 Policy Studies in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism (3 cr.)
SPH-R 524 Strategic Fundraising and Partnerships for Park, Recreation and Public Lands (3 cr.)
SPH-R 525 Foundations of Conservation, Parks, and Recreation (3 cr.)
SPH-R 530 Comprehensive Park, Recreation and Facility Planning and Design (3 cr.)

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