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Graduate Catalog 2015 - 2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

English
  

  • ENG 545 - Studies In American Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements of significance in American literature. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 547 - Studies In African American Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, themes, or movements of significance in African-American literature. Topics include slave narratives, Harlem renaissance, literature of the 1950s, and African-American women authors. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 548 - Studies In Multicultural Literature

    (3 credits)
    Authors, genres, themes, or movements representing the ethnic diversity of modern American literature. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 553 - Major Genre/Stud in Genre

    (3 credits)
    Literary themes, genres, or works significant in British, American, European, or world literature. Topics in the past have included European Romanticism, the Faust theme, and Literature and Science. May be repeated with change of topic..


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  • ENG 563 - Gender Issues In Literature

    (3 credits)
    Studies in gender theory and gender issues in literature. Topics may include contemporary feminist themes; the intersection of gender, race, and class; the relationship of gender to voice; technique and genre; and how questions of language are linked to these issues. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 580 - Imagination Conference

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor, based on manuscript submission. Intensive five-day summer workshop with visiting writers (fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction); “craft” analyses of creative writing. Students complete a manuscript at the end of the semester as well as an essay about technical or craft elements. In addition to tuition, students are charged a Workshop and Materials Fee. Additional information is available at the Imagination Conference web site at www.csuohio.edu/imagination. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 591 - Fiction Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to creative writing concentration or permission of instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of fiction. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete MA thesis in fiction.


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  • ENG 592 - Non-Fiction Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of the instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of creative nonfiction. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in nonfiction.


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  • ENG 593 - Playwriting Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of the instructor. Graduate-level workshop in dramatic writing. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in playwriting.


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  • ENG 594 - Poetry Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Admission to the creative writing concentration or permission of instructor. Graduate-level workshop in the writing of poetry. Required to be taken twice by students planning to complete an MA thesis in poetry.


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  • ENG 596 - Independent Study

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Prior written approval from Graduate Committee. Study of a topic not offered as a regular course, under the supervision of a graduate faculty member.


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  • ENG 599 - Special Topics in English

    (1-3 credits)
    A Special Topics course in British or American Literature or English-Language Linguistics, to take advantage of special events or faculty expertise in a particular topic not otherwise offered.


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  • ENG 614 - MFA Special Topics Workshop

    (3 credits)
    Graduate-level work in genre-specific special topics writing. MA students may enter with permission of instructor. Topics may include recognizable sub-forms such as young adult fiction, detective fiction, memoir, research-based non-fiction, biography, experimental playwriting, dramatic docudrama, site-specific playwriting, puppetry playwriting or poetic forms. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 615 - MFA Craft and Theory

    (3 credits)
    Genres of fiction, non-fiction, playwriting and poetry studied with an emphasis on the craft of the practitioner. Literary texts are used to demonstrate the formal range of the genres studied. Craft exercises are used to explicate the operations and assumptions underlying literary techniques. Core course for NEOMFA students. MA students may enter with permission of instructor. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 616 - MFA Literature

    (3 credits)
    Studies in literary themes, genres, or works significant in British, American, European or world literature. May be repeated with change of topic.


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  • ENG 690 - MFA Internship

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: Approval of MFA Advisor, Course Instructor. Eight to ten-hour weekly practicum in literary magazine production and/or editing, arts administration, arts programming/outreach, arts instruction, dramaturgy or theatrical production. Course aims to bring students to an understanding of professional demands and expectations. Instructor will monitor student progress through bi-weekly contact with site manager. Students will be responsible for attending four class sessions throughout the semester and for generating a substantial academic paper.


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  • ENG 695 - Graduate Seminar

    (4 credits)
    Study of an important topic in literary or cultural history, criticism, or rhetoric, with special emphasis on methods of analysis and research. May be repeated with change of topic.


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Executive MBA
  

  • EBA 600 - Opening 6-Day Residency: The Manager’s Workshop

    (5 credits)
    The opening 6-day residency incudes an orientation to the EMBA program’s curriculum and academic/administrative policies and introduces key management decision making concepts, skills, and techniques; presents models and frameworks for ethical analysis in decision making’ and assesses technical skills in areas where students are weak and introduces them to concepts in management, accounting, finance, business communications, and team dynamics. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 604 - Economic Perspectives in Management

    (2 credits)
    Introduces principles of microeconomics. The course takes a managerial perspective as it applies various economic concepts to real-world problems encountered in the management of the firm. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 605 - Ethical Perspectives in Business

    (2 credits)
    Discusses and investigates the ethical environment of business and the impact of business decisions and activities on society and its various stakeholders. Ethical issues, introduced during the Opening Residency (EBA 600), will be explored in more depth in EBA 605. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 606 - Accounting for Managers

    (4 credits)
    Introduces financial and management accounting theories and practices including coverage of accounting measurement of income and financial position, the analysis of business events, and their effects on the financial position and income of a business. Emphasis on the basics of managerial accounting, using managerial accounting for planning, controlling, and decision making purposes; and the behavioral implications of using managerial accounting methods in decision making. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 607 - Leading Organizational Change

    (2 credits)
    Discusses issues involving leadership and its role in bringing about organizational change; tools to be effective leaders in dynamic organizational settings; building understanding about how organizational change is achieved; anchoring organizational changes into the organization’s culture, and enhancing personal capabilities and abilities to navigate change in managerial careers. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 608 - Strategic Human Resources and Labor Relation

    (2 credits)
    Reviews significant issues pertaining to strategic human resources management and labor relations. Topics include employment relationship, strategic planning and staffing, reward systems, employee development, and conflict resolution and negotiation. Parallels and contrasts between union and non-union firms are key to this course. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 609 - Marketing Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Advanced theories, concepts, and techniques for formulating strategic marketing plans and making marketing decisions for business and non-business organizations in U.S. and global environments. Topics include environmental analysis, market opportunity analysis, segmentation and positioning, marketing-mix decisions, and formulating strategic plans. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 610 - Finance for Managers

    (4 credits)
    Introduces basic and advanced concepts of corporate financial management to EMBA students with significant educational background and employment history. Topics include ratio analysis, risk concepts, capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend policy, mergers and acquisitions, and long range financial planning. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 611 - Management Information Systems

    (4 credits)
    Provides and overall view of the issues central to an enterprise’s information system (IS) including but not limited to decision support, enterprise resource planning systems, business process re-engineering and systems design, change management and knowledge management as well as managing out sourcing and off shore IS projects. It does not require any technical experitse and will not teach any specific computer programming. On the completion of this course students will not only become familar with the key forces shaping the firm’s IS environment but also issues pertaining to the management of the firm’s IS portfolio, strategic uses of IS, as well as how to realize the value of their IS within the organization. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 612 - Supply Chain Management

    (4 credits)
    Provides a comprehensive survey of supply chain concepts, strategies, and models in a format that is suitable to executives. Topics include such fundamentals as supply management, push-pull supply chain systems, centralized versus decentralized control, e-business issues, third party logistics companis, distribution systems, purchasing, and the decision support tools for supply chain. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 613 - International Business Strategy

    (3 credits)
    Explores the impact of global environmental forces on management strategies for entering and operating in international markets. Surveys theories and concepts in international marketing, finance, operations, and strategic planning. Considers managerial implications of global trends in politics, trade, culture, and regulatory practices, and the role of international institutions. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 614 - International Study Tour

    (1 credits)
    Extends the material form EBA 613 International Business Strategy by providing an international business experience beyond classroom instruction and learning. EBA 614 widens the global perspective of participants; provides “on location” experience, and interaction with foreign business, government and nonprofit sector excutives; and affords opportunities to analyze corporate strategies in selected industrial sectors and foreign markets. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 615 - Business Strategy

    (4 credits)
    Explores the integrative and cross-functional nature of corporate strategy and decision making. Applies principles, concepts, and theories from business and marketing strategy, corporate finance, human resource management, managerial accounting, and operations management to management decision and the formulation of strategic business plans. Restricted to EMBA students.


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  • EBA 616 - Integrative Business Practicum

    (4 credits)
    Application and integration of business strategy, decision making, and solutions. Applies principles, concepts, and theories from business and marketing strategy, corporate finance, human resources management, managerial accounting, and operations management to a field experience in business, analyzing and solving practical, real-world business problems. Restricted to EMBA students.


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Education U Teach
  

  • EUT 515 - Project-Based Instruction in Mathematics

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite:EST 583  Practicum. Prerequisites: EDB 502 and EDB 505. Co-requisite:EST 583 Practicum. Project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to students. Through a dynamic process of investigation and collaboration and using the same processes and technologies that real scientists, applies mathematicians and engineers use, candidates work in teams to formulate questions, make predictions, design investigations, collect and analyze data, make products and share ideas while learning fundamental science and mathematical concepts and principles that can be applied to their daily lives. Applying project-based instruction in 7-12 classrooms helps students regardless of culture, race, or gender engage in meaningful learning. This course also provides opportunities for candidates to gain experience in assessing, preparing and teaching problem-based lessons. Physical materials and strategies for teaching mathematics at the intermediate and secondary level are considered, as are student characteristics, teaching and learning styles, issues of equity and diversity, and constructivist theories of learning.


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  • EUT 517 - Project-Based Instruction in Science

    (3 credits)
    Co-requisite: EST 585  (Practicum). Prerequisites: EDB 502 and EDB 505. Co-requisite: EST 585 (Practicum). Project-based instruction engages learners in exploring authentic, important, and meaningful questions of real concern to students. Through a dynamic process of investigation and collaboration and using the same processes and technologies that real scientists, applies mathematicians and engineers use, candidates work in teams to formulate questions, make predictions, design investigations, collect and analyze data, make products and share ideas while learning fundamental science and mathematical concepts and principles that can be applied to their daily lives. Applying project-based instruction in 7-12 classrooms helps students regardless of culture, race, or gender engage in meaningful learning. This course also provides opportunities for candidates to gain experience in assessing, preparing and teaching problem-based lessons. Physical materials and strategies for teaching Science at the intermediate and secondary level are considered, as are student characteristics, teaching and learning styles, issues of equity and diversity, and constructivist theories of learning.


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Engineering Science
  

  • ESC 512 - Probability and Stochastic Processes

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing. General concepts of probability and random variables, including random experiments, inequalities, joint distributions, functions of random variables, expectations, and the law of large numbers. Basic concepts of random processes and their properties are introduced. Markov process, linear systems with stochastic inputs, and power spectra are presented.


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  • ESC 601 - Graduate Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Students will learn skills for effective public speaking and technical presentations on technical subjects, attend presentations by experts from industry and academia on subjects of interest in engineering, and research and document an engineering topic approved by the instructor for the purpose of public presentation. Registration for this course may be repeated but these credit hours do not fulfill degree requirements. Graded on an S/U basis.


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  • ESC 694 - Selected Topics in Engineering Science

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in Engineering Science. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Upon prior approval by the Graduate Affairs Commitee, this course could be counted towards the fulfillment of doctoral core courses.


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  • ESC 702 - Advanced Optimization

    (4 credits)
    Methods of optimization for engineering systems; classical optimization, Taylor’s theorem, Lagrange Multipliers, and Kuhn-Tucker theorem; direct methods, Newton and quasi-Newton methods, penalty and Barrier methods, linear and nonlinear programming.


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  • ESC 704 - Stochastic Systems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Engineering Statistics. Optimization in engineering economics; application of renewal theory; inventory and Markov decision models; Bayesian decision analysis.


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  • ESC 706 - Advanced Partial Differential Equations

    (4 credits)
    Engineering applications and solution techniques for partial differential equations; variational derivation of differential equations and boundary conditions; Hamilton’s principle and Lagrange’s equation; numerical methods and computer solutions for differential equations.


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  • ESC 720 - Research Communications

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Doctoral Program in the College of Engineering or permission of the instructor. This course will enhance the ability of students to write technical papers and proposals, and to give effective oral presentations.


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  • ESC 794 - Selected Topics in Engineering Science

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in engineering or permission of instructor. Advanced selected topics in Engineering Science. Offered on sufficient demand. May be repeated for credit with change of topic. Upon prior approval by the Graduate Affairs Commitee, this course could be counted towards the fulfillment of doctoral core courses.


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  • ESC 850 - Doctor of Engineering Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: ESC 720. Students and experts from industry and academia present and discuss current issues and trends in engineering research and practice. May be repeated for credit.


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Environmental Engr
  

  • EVE 533 - Pollution Prevention and Sustainability

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering, or permission of instructor. Application of engineering principles to chemical, manufacturing, and other industries. Life cycle analyses used to identify sustainable technologies and development alternatives.


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  • EVE 534 - Environmental Transport Phenomena

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisites: Working knowledge of partial differential equations and applied numerical analysis, and graduate standing in civil, environmental, mechanical, or chemical engineering, or permission of instructor. Modeling fate and transport of pollutants in the subsurface environment. Multicomponent, multiphase transport in porous media. Analysis of fate determining mechanisms.


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  • EVE 540 - Soil Stabilization and Decontamination

    (4 credits)
    Engineering classification of soils, clay mineralogy, properties of different types of soils, such as strength, permeability, volume-density characteristics; soil contaminant interaction, methods of soil stabilization, methods of soil decontamination, process selection, and site remediation. Soil decontamination design project.


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  • EVE 564 - Groundwater Hydrology

    (3 credits)
    Analysis of the physical properties and the resultant groundwater flow in porous media. Application of the principles of the conservation of mass, energy, and momentum to groundwater flow systems. Includes well hydraulics, well design, aquifer analysis, infiltration, flow in the unsaturated zone, and introduction to groundwater contamination.


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  • EVE 570 - Environmental Chemistry

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: graduate standing in Civil, Chemical, Environmental, or Mechanical Engineering; or the instructor’s permission. Fundamental concepts from inorganic, organic, physical and equilibrium chemistry applied to atmospheric, subsurface and aquatic environments.


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  • EVE 572 - Biological Principles of Environmental Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Application of the principles of biochemistry and microbiology, including microbial metabolic cycles, enzyme systems, inhibitors, and electron transport mechanisms important to the water and wastewater treatment processes.


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  • EVE 574 - Industrial Wastewater Treatment

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: CVE 570. Study of sources of industrial wastewater and their treatability by physical, chemical, and biological processes; problems and solutions involved in combining municiple and industrial waste treatment and treatment of wastewater from selected industries.


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  • EVE 575 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Generation, storage, collection, transfer, treatment, and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Addresses engineering and management issues, including waste minimization and recycling.


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  • EVE 576 - Environmental and Occupational Health Engineering

    (3 credits)
    The application of engineering principles to the analysis and control of problems in occupational and environmental health. Emphasis on problems in small water and wastewater treatment systems, industrial hygiene, air pollution, noise, hazardous materials control, public health, and physical and chemical hazards in the workplace, including ventilation design, noise control, radiation controls and ergonomics.


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  • EVE 577 - Environmental Chemodynamics

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate Standing in Environmental, Civil, or Chemical Engineering; or instructor’s permission. Mechanisms and rates of movement of chemicals across the air-soil, soil-water, and water-air interfaces; with the main focus on how natural processes work to mobilize chemicals near and across interfaces.


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  • EVE 578 - Water Treatment Plant Design

    (4 credits)
    Design of water treatment and distribution systems; engineering principles in design, selection of alternative process schemes, and cost estimates.


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  • EVE 579 - Wastewater Treatment Plant Design

    (4 credits)
    Design of wastewater treatment and collection systems; engineering principles in design, selection of alternative process schemes, advanced treatment processes, and cost estimates.


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  • EVE 581 - Air Pollution & Abatement

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: CVE 570. Types of air pollutants; their sources, characteristics, environmental effects, control, and environemental fate. Dispersion modeling. Design of air pollution control systems for mobile and stationary sources of pollutants.


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  • EVE 585 - Hazardous Site Remediation

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing in chemical, civil, environmental, or mechanical engineering or permission of instructor. Traditional and developmental methods for removal or destruction of hazardous wastes at contaminated sites. Soil/groundwater remediation.


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  • EVE 593 - Special Topics in Environmental Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Topics of current interest to the environmental engineering profession. Offered on sufficient demand.


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  • EVE 595 - Environmental Seminar

    (1 credits)
    Provides students with experience and instruction on presentation methods and oral communication of scientific information on interdisciplinary environmental issues. The course includes guest speakers from various environmental fields, and focuses on career opportunities as well as the skills and tools needed to succeed as an environmental professional. Students present their research plans during this course.


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  • EVE 602 - Environmental Engineering Internship

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisites: Graduate standing in Civil Engineering, completion of at least one full-time academic year in MSCE or Doctor of Engineering program, and permission of advisor. This internship provides students with practical experience in civil/environmental engineering. Students are required to submit a final project report and make a presentation at the end of the course. May be taken up to two times for credit.


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  • EVE 671 - Physical and Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVE 534, EVE 570, or permission of instructor. Study of environmental engineering unit operations based on physical, chemical, and physicochemical principles.


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  • EVE 771 - Physical and Chemical Principles of Environmental Engineering

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVE 534, EVE 570, or permission of instructor. Study of environmental engineering unit operations based on physical, chemical, and physicochemical principles.


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Environmental Science
  

  • EVS 506 - Ecosystem Science

    (3 credits)
    Introduction to the science of ecosystems. Substantive materials from geology, biology, and chemistry are used to create a picture of the complex systems underlying the natural world and human society, and how society can manage these systems.


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  • EVS 510 - Environmental Geology for Teachers

    (3 credits)
    Detailed examination of geologic hazards and the constraints placed by regional geology and geography on the problems facing modern, urban, industrial societies. Intended for working teachers in area school systems. Involves development of curricular materials for use in participants’ own classes. Credit does not count toward the M.S. in Environmental Sciences degree.


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  • EVS 512 - Geological History of the Cleveland Area for Teachers

    (3 credits)
    Illustrates the relation of regional geology to the physical,economic, and social development of the Cleveland area. Emphasis on laboratory experimentation and field trips. Indtended for working teachers in area school systems. Involves development of curricular materials for use in participants’ own classes. Credit does not count toward the M.S. in Environmental Sciences degree.


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  • EVS 514 - Ecosystem Science for Teachers

    (3 credits)
    Introduces the science of ecosystems. Draws on geology, biology, chemistry, and other sciences to examine the function of complex systems underpinning the natural world and human society, and to consider how society manages these systems. Intended for working teachers in area school systems. Involves the development of curricular materials for use in participants’ own classes. Credit does not count toward the M.S. in Environmental Sciences degree.


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  • EVS 522 - GIS App to Fld Sciences

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisites: GEO or EVS 323 or permission of the instructor. Corequisite: EVS 523. Theory and practice of those aspects of geographic information systems most appropriate for understanding issues in field-oriented studies.


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  • EVS 523 - GIS Applications to the Field Sciences

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: GEO or EVS 323 or permission of the instructor. Corequisite: EVS 522. Application of GIS to field-oriented sciences such as Archeology, Biology, Environmental Science, and Geology.


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  • EVS 524 - Intro to GIS & Remote Sensing

    (1 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVS 523 or equivalent. Corequisite EVS 525 Introduction to remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, and the use of computerized techniques for assessing geographically distributed data, including analysis and presentation of data, and the use of satellite imagery and aerial photography, and commercial and Internet data sets.


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  • EVS 525 - Introduction to GIS and Remote Sensing Lab

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVS 523 or equivalent. Corequisite EVS 524 Introduction to remote sensing, Geographic Information Systems, and the use of computerized techniques for assessing geographically distributed data, including analysis and presentation of data, and the use of satellite imagery and aerial photography, and commercial and Internet data sets. Lectures to be scheduled within lab hours.


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  • EVS 526 - Adv Topic GIS & Remote Sensing

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): EVS 524 Required corequisite: EVS 527. Advanced techniques and problems associated with using remote-sensed data and GIS for analyses in field sciences such as archeology, biology, environmental science, geology, etc. Completion of EVS 522 is also recommended. Topics will go beyond those presented in EVS 522 and EVS 524 and will present cutting-edge aspects of geospatial science.


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  • EVS 527 - Advanced Topics in Geographic Information Systems & Remote Sensing Lab

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite(s): EVS 524 Required corequisite: EVS 526. Advanced laboratory exercises dealing with techniques and problems associated with using remote-sensed data and GIS. Completion of EVS 522 is also recommended. Topics will go beyond those presented in EVS 522 and EVS 524 and will present cutting-edge aspects of geospatial science.


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  • EVS 550 - Applied Ecology

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisite: BIO 300 or BIO 302 or BIO 304 or permission of instructor. Our lives have been increasingly touched by questions pertaining to environmental degradation at local, regional, and global scales. Students examine ways in which ecological principles can be applied to solving some of these crucial environmental problems. Topics include global climate change, sustainability, agroforestry, biodiversity and conservation, invasive species, ecotoxicology, biomonitoring and bioremediation, and restoration ecology.


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  • EVS 560 - Geomorphology

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVS 523 or equivalent. Study of the surface forms of the earth, with emphasis on erosional or depositional processes in different climates, the landforms they produce, and their environmental implications. Includes self-paced laboratory exercises outside of scheduled lectures.


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  • EVS 561 - Geomorphology Lab

    (2 credits)
    Prerequisite: EVS 523 or permission of instructor. Required Corequisite: EVS 460. Selected exercises designed to reinforce concepts covered in EVS 560.


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  • EVS 570 - Aquatic Ecosystems

    (3 credits)
    Prerequisites: BIO 200, BIO 202, and CHM 261 or equivalents. A study of acqatic ecosystems, including lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands. Commodities and differences between the physical-chemical and biological components of these ecosystems are discussed. The impacts of human activities on these ecosystems are covered, as well as water quality assessment techniques, pollution control, and regulation. This course includes three required Saturday field topics.


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  • EVS 571 - Aquatic Ecosystems Laboratory

    (1 credits)
    Co-requisite: EVS 570 . Prerequisites: BIO 200, 202 and CHM 261 or equivalent. Co-requisite: EVS 570. Selected exercises designed to reinforce concepts covered in the EVS 570 lecture course, including laboratory and field exercises to introduce students to hands-on sampling and analytical techniques used in water quality assessment. This course includes three required Saturday field trips.


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  • EVS 581 - OhioView Prerequisite Remote Sensing

    (4 credits)
    Prerequisite: consent of the instructor at the university offering the course. Placeholder course designed to enable CSU students to take courses prerequisite to introductory courses in Remote Sensing offered at other OhioView universities over the Polycom network. Details on material, schedules, and syllabi for courses to be offered will be provided roughly 2 months before the beginning of the semester.


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