Analysis of environmental issues and the role of science in their identification and resolution.

Carolina Core: SCI

Demonstrations, field trips, data analyses, and discussion relating to environmental issues, such as sustainability, resource management, and pollution control.

Carolina Core: SCI

Interdisciplinary seminar combining the intellectual exploration of ecological perspectives with the physical exploration of the local environment. First-year students only.

Interdisciplinary seminar on designing, researching, and implementing collaborative projects to promote ecological sustainability. First-year students only.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Research

General review of plants, animals, and geological features of South Carolina, with an emphasis on connections to the natural world.

Carolina Core: SCI

Introduction to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives on environmental issues. Required for majors in the Environment and Sustainability Program. Integrative case studies address ways of understanding nature. Sophomore Standing.

Continuing interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary exploration of relations between environment and society for majors in the Environment and Sustainability Program. Case studies raise issues, challenges, and strategies to achieving sustainability.

Introduction to development, establishment, and implementation of sustainability management systems and organizational leadership for achieving environmental, social, and economic goals.

Examination of roots and culture of environmentalism and related technological innovation in Germany. Comparison of green practices around the world to practices within Europe and U.S.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service

Environmental considerations of the hydrologic cycle. Occurrence and movement of surface water and groundwater as they relate to water budgets, water supply, and ecosystems. Geochemistry of natural waters, water quality, and pollution.

A survey of pollution (chemical, biological, physical) effects on environmental quality and public health with emphases on how each pollutant class behaves and affects individual and community health over acute to chronic exposure periods.

Examination of principles and arguments surrounding moral issues involving the environment.

Carolina Core: VSR

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Community Service, GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences, GLD: Research

Concerns in global environmental health, with a focus on toxic pollution and disease burden in developing countries. Investigation of international treaties, corresponding environmental pollution processes, and human health effects.

Multidisciplinary approach to interrelated environmental, economic and social problems facing humans at local, regional and global scales.

Cross-cultural perspectives on environmental issues.

History of the environmental justice movement and the unequal distribution of environmental harms on low income, minority, and historically marginalized groups.

The role of energy in shaping society and geographic settings, as well as how energy production and consumption are shaped by the societal values and norms in which it is extracted, produced, and consumed.

Computational analysis of earth, marine, and environmental datasets applying time series analysis, regression, filtering, and statistical analysis.

Cross-listed course: GEOL 365, MSCI 365

Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and dean of the School of the Environment is required for undergraduate students.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Field research practices and analysis techniques in environmental science. Combines inquiry-based field investigations at Congaree National Park and laboratory sample analysis with integration of data and public policy concepts. Daily field trips required.

Collaborative study of a contemporary environmental issue. Field trips may be required.

Current developments in sustainability and global environmental issues selected to meet faculty and student interests. May be repeated as content varies.

Supervised internship experience in a professional environment within the field of the environment and/or related environmental sciences or studies. Undergraduate internship contract required with approval of instructor, advisor, and department head before registration.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Internships

Experiential Learning: Experiential Learning Opportunity

Independent student research in collaboration with faculty mentors. Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Research

Multidisciplinary research projects related to University or community environmental problems (e.g., energy, water conservation, solid waste, recycling).

An in-depth analysis course of a specific interdisciplinary environmental topic. Course content varies and will be announced in the schedule of classes by title.

This course will discuss the urgent need for deploying solar radiation and carbon dioxide removal approaches at scale, including potential benefits and risks of these options. It will also discuss regulatory and governance considerations at both the national and international level and strategizes to incentivize large-scale adoption of these approaches.

Cross-listed course: GEOL 504, MSCI 504

A discussion-based seminar course that examines nature-society relations in coastal regions globally. The course will use social theory to understand how uneven development processes shaped – and continue shaping – current coastlines. We will explore key topics including coastal capitalism, delta ecologies, and climate justice via several global case studies.

Integrated management system principles and advanced leadership strategies to create sustainable development initiatives.

Research, development and implementation of sustainability projects throughout the campus and community.

Interdisciplinary examination of the global policy challenge of ensuring equitable access to water and sanitation services for all.

Political, social, and cultural landscapes of food and farming around the world; issues of agricultural production, trade, consumption, and food security.

Critical examination of the ways ideas about nature and racial difference are conceptually and materially entwined with the production of social and environmental inequalities.

An analysis of the economics aspects of environmental decay, pollution control, and natural resource use. Analysis of the ability of the market system to allocate resources efficiently when economic activity is accompanied by environmental damage. Discussion of alternative public policy approaches to pollution control and natural resource conservation.

Principles of conservation biology. Importance of biodiversity, causes of decline and extinction, and restoration and conversation policy in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

Quantitative study of the population, community and evolutionary ecology of freshwater habitats (lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, wetlands). Includes mandatory fieldtrips.