Undergrad Spring 2012

This is a comprehensive list of courses offered at the University of Arizona that relate to the environment. It includes courses in natural science, social science, engineering, arts, humanities, law and business. Use this guide to identify courses of interest and then use the online catalog to check that they are being taught and have spaces available for the semester you are interested in. Some course titles do not fully reflect their content, especially seminars that often change topic from one semester to another.

To check the online catalog please go to: https://uaccess.schedule.arizona.edu/psp/uazsaprd2/UA_CATALOG/HRMS/h/?ta...

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Dept Title Tier
ABE 170A2 Science, Technology and Environment Tier 1
ABE 395B Seminar in Integrated Science: The Science of Urban Ecosystems
ABE 423 Biosystems Analysis and Design
ABE 445 Geoenvironmental Engineering
ABE 479 Applied Instrumentation for Controlled Environment Agriculture
AIS 160A1 Many Nations of Native America Tier 1
ANS 409 Environmental Physiology of Domestic Animals
ANTH 160A1 Patterns in Prehistory Tier 1
ANTH 202 Applying Anthropology in a Global Context Tier 2
ANTH 346 Clovis to Coronado: Archaeology of the Southwest Tier 2
ANTH 347 Native Peoples of the Southwest Tier 2
ARC 160C1 Architecture and Society Tier 1
ARC 160D1 Sonora Tier 1
ARC 461E Sustainable Design and the LEED Initiative
ARC 497J Documentation and Interpretation of the Historic Built Environment
AREC 304 Intermediate Production and Consumption Analysis
AREC 373 Environmental Economics
AREC 450 Financial Management for Agribusiness
AREC 476 Environmental Law and Economics
AREC 479 Economics of Water Management and Policy
ARL 441A Natural Resource Management in Native Communities
ART 160D3 Museums as Cultural & Community Institutions Tier 1
ASM 301 Agricultural Systems Management
ASTR 170A1 Planet Earth: Evolution of the Habitable World Tier 1
ASTR 170B1 The Physical Universe Tier 1
ASTR 202 Life in Our Universe Tier 2
ASTR 208 Energy, Society, and the Environment Tier 2
ATMO 170A1 Introduction to Weather and Climate Tier 1
ATMO 336 Weather, Climate, and Society Tier 2
ATMO 436A Fundamentals of the Atmospheric Sciences
ATMO 441B Dynamic Meteorology II
ATMO 451B Physical Meteorology II
ATMO 489 Atmospheric Electricity
ATMO 490 Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth
CE 349 Soils Laboratory
CE 370L Environmental and Water Engineering Laboratory
CE 370R Environmental and Water Engineering
CE 423 Hydrology
CE 473 Biodegradation of Hazardous Organic Compounds
CE 478 Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management
CHEE 370L Environmental and Water Engineering Laboratory
CHEE 370R Environmental and Water Engineering
CHEE 454 Law for Engineers and Scientists
CHEE 476B Wastewater Treatment System Design
CHEE 478 Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management
CHEE 482 Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants
CHEM 170A1 The World We Create Tier 1
CPH 178 Personal Health and Wellness
CPH 414A Photovoltaic Solar Energy Systems
CPH 418 Introduction to Human Health Risk Assessment
CPH 433 Global Health
ECOL 130 Natural History of the Southwest
ECOL 223 Human Genetics and Evolution Tier 2
ECOL 335 Evolutionary Biology
ECOL 340 Evolution of Plant Form and Function
ECOL 345 Biodiversity and the Tree of Life
ECOL 401 Ecological Physiology
ECOL 448A Plant Biochemistry and Metabolic Engineering
ECOL 454 Water Harvesting
ECOL 472 Systematic Botany
ECOL 473 Topics in Behavioral Ecology
ECOL 475 Freshwater and Marine Algae
ECOL 483 Herpetology
ECOL 496R Species Diversity
ECON 373 Environmental Economics
ECON 473 Energy Markets and Environmental Economics
ECON 478 Economics of the Natural Environment
EDL 270 Social Justice Leadership
ENGL 396A Creative Writing About the Environment
ENGL 396A Space, Place and Identity in the Southwest
ENGR 420L Innovation Principles and Environments Laboratory
ENGR 420R Innovation Principles and Environments
ENGR 452 Globalization, Sustainability, and Innovation
ENTO 160D1 Insects and Culture Tier 1
ENTO 497C Greenhouse Pest Management: Methods and Practice
FCSC 150B2 Consumers, Environment and Sustainable Consumption Tier 1
GC 170A1 Introduction to Global Change Tier 1
GEN 170A1 Earth Resources and the Environment Tier 1
GEOG 150B1 Human Geography and Global Systems Tier 1
GEOG 150C1 Environment and Society Tier 1
GEOG 170A1 Earth’s Environment: Introduction to Physical Geography Tier 1
GEOG 230 Our Changing Climate Tier 2
GEOG 251 World Regions: Comparative and Global Perspectives Tier 2
GEOG 256 Sustainable Cities and Societies Tier 2
GEOG 301 Introduction to Regional Planning
GEOG 311E Geography of the Middle East
GEOG 367 Population Geography Tier 2
GEOG 370 Geography of International Development
GEOG 379 Urban Growth and Development
GEOG 397A Field Study in Geography Workshop
GEOG 404 The Politics of Nature
GEOG 416E Geovisualization (GIS)
GEOG 416F GIS for the Social Sciences
GEOG 424 Integrated Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 430 The Climate System
GEOG 454 Regional Analysis
GEOG 461 Environmental and Resource Geography
GEOG 468 Water & Sustainability
GEOG 479 Economics of Water Management and Policy
GEOG 483 Geographic Applications of Remote Sensing
GEOS 170A1 Earth: From Birth to Death Tier 1
GEOS 170C1 Life on Earth Tier 1
GEOS 195D A Sense of Place
GEOS 195E Future Energy Supplies
GEOS 212 Introduction to Oceanography Tier 2
GEOS 218 Geological Disasters and Society Tier 2
GEOS 220 Environmental History of the Southwest Tier 2
GEOS 255 Historical Geology
GEOS 322 Introduction to Geophysics
GEOS 356 Petrology
GEOS 412A Ocean Sciences
GEOS 450 Geomorphology
GEOS 497C Practical Dendroclimatology
HNRS 202H Introduction to Conservation Biology Tier 2
HWRS 202 The Water Cycle Tier 2
HWRS 203 Arizona Water Issues Tier 2
HWRS 413A Field Hydrology
HWRS 415 Introduction to Water Resources Policy
HWRS 423 Hydrology
HWRS 432 Environmental Hydrogeology Lab
HWRS 449 Statistical Hydrology
HWRS 461 Environmental and Resource Geography
HWRS 476 Environmental Law and Economics
HWRS 479 Economics of Water Management and Policy
HWRS 482 Applied Groundwater Modeling
JOUR 465 Principles of Science Journalism
JOUR 496D Journalism Seminar: Issues in Covering the Environment
LAR 150B1 American Design on the Land Tier 1
LAR 350 Parks and Urban Public Spaces Tier 2
LAS 150B1 Modern Latin America: A Social Science Perspective Tier 1
LAS 480 Power, Politics and Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
MAS 160A1 American Indian Medicine and Wellness Tier 1
MAS 160A1 American Indian Medicine and Wellness Tier 1
MNE 210 Mineralogy and Petrology for Engineers
PHIL 323 Environmental Ethics Tier 2
PHYS 202 Energy, Society, and the Environment Tier 2
PLG 256 Sustainable Cities and Societies
PLG 412 Comprehensive Planning and Land Use Controls
PLG 495A GeoDesigning Landscape Linkages
PLS 150C1 Mushrooms, Molds, & Man Tier 1
PLS 170C1 Plants & Our World Tier 1
PLS 354 Sustainable Horticulture
PLS 354 Sustainable Horticulture
PLS 397B Advanced Greenhouse Crop Production
PLS 475A Physiology of Plant Production under Controlled Environment
POL 150C1 Globalization and Global Governance Tier 1
POL 160A1 Colonialism & Native Peoples Tier 1
POL 401 The Politics and Governance of Water
RAM 382 Rangeland Plant Communities of the West
RAM 436A Grazing Ecology and Management
RAM 446 Vegetation Management of Wildlands
REM 490 Remote Sensing for the Study of Planet Earth
RNR 256 Sustainable Cities and Societies Tier 2
RNR 321 Natural Resources Measurements
RNR 384 Natural Resources Management Practices
RNR 420 Advanced Geographic Information Systems
RNR 473 Spatial Analysis and Modeling
RNR 495D The Desert Sea: Exploring the Social-Ecological Nexus in the Gulf of California
RNR 496B Observational Life Sciences in a Dynamic World
SBS 197A Skills for Success in the Social Sciences
SOC 307 Environmental Sociology
SWES 170A1 Introduction to Environmental Science Tier 1
SWES 195A - 002 SWES Colloquia: Water Resources in the Tucson Basin
SWES 210 Fundamentals of Environmental Science and Sustainability Tier 2
SWES 305 Pollution Science
SWES 316 Soil Fertility and Plant Nutrition
SWES 401 Sustainable Management of Arid Lands and Salt-Affected Soils
SWES 408 Scientific Writing for Environmental, Agricultural and Life Sciences
SWES 430L Environmental Monitoring and Remediation Lab
SWES 430R Environmental Monitoring and Remediation
SWES 454 Water Harvesting
SWES 462 Environmental Soil and Water Chemistry
SWES 470 Soil Physics
TTE 200 Sustainability and Education Tier 2
TTE 460 Education & Sustainability
VSC 438 Ecology of Infectious Disease
WFSC 446 Wildlife Management/ Avian Species
WSM 462 Watershed Management