Urban Water Related
Upper Division and Graduate Courses
at UC Irvine
Department of Environmental Health, Science, and Policy
School of Social Ecology
E101 Environmental and Public Health Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines factors involved in shaping public health and environmental policy. Topics include the role of science in public health policy, the function of governmental regulatory agencies, citizen participation, and economic and sociopolitical aspects of controlling infectious diseases and regulating carcinogens. Same as Psychology and Social Behavior P182P.
E103 Environmental Pollution and Remediation (4). Lecture, three hours. The study of pollution—its identification, risks, and remediation. Analysis of sources of natural and anthropogenic environmental pollutants using ecological concepts, chemical fate and transport, engineering technologies, economics, and policy to provide understanding and solutions to these problems. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
E105U Environmental Law (4). Lecture, three hours. Environmental law as combination of traditional legal principles and newly created statutes, rules, and decisions applied to environmental protection. Investigates roles of courts, legislature, executive branch and administrative agencies, and private citizens attempting to regulate environmental quality. Federal and state laws utilized. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8. Same as Criminology, Law and Society C128.
E107U Urban and Regional Planning (4). Lecture, three hours. Important substantive areas, concepts, tools in the field of urban and regional planning. Topics include: forces that have historically guided and are currently guiding U.S. urbanization; land use, economic development, housing and community development, environmental planning; legal, environmental, governmental contexts. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8.
E109U Urban Public Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines why and how urban policies are enacted and carried out in contemporary U.S. cities and regions. Topics include: evolution and organization of city governments and policymaking over the past century; who has the power to direct public policy and control how cities develop. Prerequisites: Social Ecology 10 and Environmental Analysis and Design E8.
E110 Environmental Geology (4). Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Introduction to geologic principles and applications to environmental problems. Topics include: tectonic processes, earth materials, soils, river processes, groundwater, the coastal environment, slope failures, seismic hazards, mineral resources, and land-use evaluation based on geologic conditions. Examples from case studies. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E1, E3, or E8.
E115 Environmental Health Science (4). Lecture, three hours. Focuses on processes of exposure to environmental toxins/agents and their impact to human health and the environment. Media transport, exposure assessment, susceptibility, behavior, and health effect of several toxins are discussed.
E145U Environmental Politics and Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Provides a multifaceted foundation for the development of environmental problem-solving and policy-making skills. Examines "nature" from a range of historical and cultural perspectives. Links socio-ecological stress theories to a range of landscapes and contemporary debates. Current air, water, and land policies. Same as Political Science 141A.
E155U Water Resource Policy (4). Lecture, three hours. Examination of contemporary water problems worldwide, with particular attention to the competing demands for water in the western U.S., and water demand by the poor in developing countries. History and analysis of U.S. water policies at local, state, and federal levels.
E160 Microbial Ecology of Natural and Polluted Waters (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines microorganisms and their functions in the aquatic environment, specifically microorganisms' role in the biogeochemical cycles of nitrogen, sulfur, and mercury, and how our activities are affecting these cycles. How and why indicator organisms are used in the determination of water quality for public health. Prerequisites: Environmental Analysis and Design E5 or a general course in biology.
E160L Microbial Ecology of Natural and Polluted Waters Laboratory (4). Laboratory, three hours. Enumeration and identification of microorganisms from various aquatic environments. Examines microbial mediation of the sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury cycles and the public health aspects of water quality. Prerequisites: Environmental Analysis and Design E8 or a general course in the Biological Sciences Core curriculum; and completion of or concurrent enrollment in E160.
E161 Environmental Hydrology (4). Lecture, three hours. Provides an overview of the occurrence, distribution, and movement of water in the environment. Qualitative understanding emphasized. Quantitative methods for analyzing hydrologic processes. Human impacts on water distribution and quality. Lectures, weekly assignments, problem sets, a project, and a field trip. Prerequisites: precalculus-level mathematics and previous introductory course work in environmental geology, earth science, or chemistry helpful.
E163 Issues in Potable Water Reuse (4). Lecture, three hours. Provides an in-depth study of the treatment and subsequent reuse of wastewater for drinking. Analyzes existing regulations for both drinking water and reuse situations, microbial and chemical contaminants, health concerns and risk assessment. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8.
E164 Toxins in the Environment (4). Lecture, three hours. Uses and impact of heavy-metal toxins in the environment traced from ore bodies, product manufacture, consumption, and waste management. Routes of exposure; medical and societal impacts of these exposures. Prerequisites: Environmental Analysis and Design E8; junior standing and consent of instructor.
E165L Environmental Geology: Field and Laboratory (4). Lecture, one hour; laboratory, three hours. Provides weekly lecture, laboratory experiments, and demonstration of techniques in the environmental sciences. Three to five Saturday field trips as well as a four-day field trip to study specific environmental problems. Prerequisite or corequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E110. Formerly Environmental Analysis and Design E185L.
E168 Coastal Ecosystem Health (4). Lecture, three hours. Examines the causes of ecosystem degradation and strategies to restore the ecosystem balance or to prevent further coastal ecosystem health degradation. Prerequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E8.
E169A-B Applied Ecology Seminar (3-3). Seminar, two hours. Introduces Applied Ecology majors to a variety of research occurring in industry and universities concerned with subjects addressed in the major. Selected topics include environmental health issues, water quality, hazardous waste management, biotechnology, and economic concerns in management of pollution problems. Prerequisites: Environmental Analysis and Design E8; upper-division Applied Ecology majors.
E180 Field Methods for Applied Ecologists (4). Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Uses descriptive format to introduce environmental analysis, methodology, and writing skills necessary to conduct research and produce written papers in scientific journal format. Corequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E180L. Open only to senior Applied Ecology majors.
E180L Field Methods Laboratory (3). Active participation in acquisition and analysis of data. Introduction to field sampling techniques, data collection and laboratory analysis, and the production of written papers in scientific journal format. Habitats include terrestrial, aquatic, and the built environment, both natural and polluted conditions. Corequisite: Environmental Analysis and Design E180.
E191A Seminar in Environmental Health, Science, and Policy (4). Seminar, four hours. Current topics relevant to the field of environmental health, science, and policy are covered in-depth in a seminar format. Possible subjects include hazardous and biological pollutants in soil, water, air; remediation technologies; water conflicts; regulations pertaining to contaminants. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor. May be taken twice for credit as topics vary.
E191B Bioindicators of Environmental Pollution (4). Focuses on bioindicators of environmental pollution in the soil, air, and water studies at the ecosystem, organism, and gene/molecule level. Includes economic, policy, and social implications of these sentinels. Prerequisite: upper-division standing or consent of instructor.
E196A-B Applied Ecology Research (4-4). Lecture, one hour; laboratory, eight hours. Basic introduction to research and laboratory research techniques: experimental design, laboratory skills, biostatistics, library research. Students undertake a two-quarter project focusing on environmental health of humans or of flora and fauna associated with environments that are impacted by human activities. Corequisite: first year of Biological Sciences Core. Prerequisites: general chemistry; Biological Sciences 100L or Environmental Analysis and Design E103, or consent of instructor. In-progress grading.
