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ENMC 8310 - British Poetry of the Twentieth Century
Studies in the twentieth-century sensibility: distortions and other tensions in the imaginative worlds of Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot, and Auden. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8330 - Contemporary American Poetry
Studies selected poets from the 1940s to the present, including Lowell, Jarrell, Plath, Ginsberg, and others. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8500 - Topics in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Topics vary from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8620 - The British Novel in the Twentieth Century
Studies of major novels from James to the present with emphasis on James, Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and Beckett.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8630 - Major Modern Novelists
Studies several works by a few modern novelists, such as Lawrence, Woolf, Mann, and Beckett.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8660 - Problems in Post-Modern Fiction
Studies the theory and practice (chiefly the latter) of postmodern fiction, comparative and international in scope, including such theorists as Todorov, Barthes, and Sontag; and such authors of fiction as Calvino, Coover, Butor, Pynchon, Kundera, Hawkes, Berger, Coetzee, Eco, with the likes of Kafka and Borges as background.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8670 - African-American Fiction
Studies the African-American novel from William Wells Brown to Toni Morrison, including Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison, among others.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8810 - African-American Literature
Readings in African-American poetry, prose, and fiction of the twentieth century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8860 - The Harlem Renaissance: African-American Writing Between the Wars
Examines the cultural and artistic history of the period. Why was it called a ‘renaissance’? Was Harlem a geographic or imaginative world? The framing of documents of the period are discussed (Alain Locke’s The New Negro, Hughes’ The Negro and the Racial Mountain, and Wright’s Blueprint for Negro Writing, most especially). Includes works of the major authors (Toomer, Hughes, Hurston, Brown, Wright, and McKay), focusing on the major themes (the new negro, the folk, the idealization of Africa, the sense of the Jazz Age) as viewed from within the music.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 8870 - Teaching Modern Irish Literature
We will study literary, historical, contextual, and critical texts as preparation for teaching a survey of 20th and early 21st century Irish literature at the undergraduate or advanced high school level.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 9300 - Contemporary American Poetry
Concentrates on American experimental writing since 1970, examining important influences (Stein, Zukofsky, Cage, New American Poetry and Ashbery) as well as various contemporary poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 9500 - Studies in Modern and Contemporary Literature
Topics have included Postmodern Fiction and Theory, Faulkner, Women and Cultures of Modernism, Yeats and Joyce, Modernism and the Invention of Homosexuality. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENMC 9520 - Seminar in Comparative Literature I, II
Recent topics include the poetry of Rilke, Valery, and Stevens and the literature of the Spanish Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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English-Nineteenth-Century British Literature |
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ENNC 8110 - The Romantic Period
The poetry and prose of the Romantic period. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENNC 8500 - Topics in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Topic varies from year to year. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENNC 8900 - Disability Studies
An introduction to the interdisciplinary field of disability studies, which examines how physical differences show up in literature, culture, and social policy. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENNC 9500 - Nineteenth-Century Studies
Topics have included Victorian discursive prose and intensive study of Shelley and Tennyson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENNC 9510 - Studies in Romanticism I, II
Intensive study of one or two writers, e.g., Blake and Wordsworth, Keats and Byron. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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English-Pedagogy |
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ENPG 5400 - Counterpoint Seminar in Teaching Modern Literature
This course offers future elementary, middle, high school teachers of English the opportunity to reflect on their own college learning of the subject; it teaches those future teachers how to convert that earlier learning into the stuff of K12 teaching. Specifically, course looks back at ENGL 3830, the last part of the English Department’s 3-semester survey required for majors (or equivalent courses that future teachers may have taken elsewhere) Prerequisites: ENGL 3830 or its equivalent or permission of instructor
Credits: 3
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ENPG 8800 - Pedagogy Seminar
This course prepares first year doctoral students for the teaching they will do here at UVa in both literature classes and the writing program. Covers topics such as classroom management, leading discussion, grading papers. Limited enrollment. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENPG 8850 - Literature Surveys
Weekly workshops with faculty and teaching staff of the 3000-level lecture courses, ENGL 3810, ENGL 3820 and ENGL 3830 and ENRN 3210 and ENRN 3220. Second-year Ph.D. students in English enroll in this course once during the semester in which they lead a discussion section of a lecture course. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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English-Renaissance Literature |
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ENRN 8110 - Renaissance Poetry
Studies the theory and practice of lyric and epic poetry in 16th-century England, with some brief glances at other forms: romance, epyllion, and verse essay. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENRN 8200 - Spenser
Studies The Faerie Queene and other works. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENRN 8400 - Renaissance Drama
Surveys English drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENRN 8500 - Studies in Renaissance Literature
New course in Studies in Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3
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ENRN 8510 - Studies in Shakespeare
Topics vary annually. Recent examples are `Shakespeare’s Histories and Roman Plays” and `Reinventing Shakespeare’. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENRN 8810 - The Idea of the Renaissance
Neoplatonists, Protestants, skeptics, empiricists, princes, pedagogues, painters, poets: this course explores Renaissance culture in search of an idea of the period that is both descriptive and explanatory. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENRN 9500 - Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature
Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature
Credits: 3
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ENRN 9995 - Research in the Renaissance
Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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English-Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Lit |
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ENEC 8400 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
Studies the British theater from 1660 to 1800, including works by writers such as Wycherley, Behn, Congreve, Dryden, Centlivre, Steele, Goldsmith, and Sheridan. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENEC 8500 - Topics in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Topics vary and recently include ‘From Classic to Romantic’ and ‘Eighteenth-Century Poetry.’ For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENEC 8600 - Eighteenth-Century Prose Fiction
Studies prose fiction in the 18th century. Authors include Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Burney, Sterne, and Austen. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENEC 9500 - Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature I, II
Topics vary, focusing on a theme, genre, or group of writers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENEC 9910 - Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century
Research in Restoration and Eighteenth Century. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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English-Special Topics in Literature |
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ENSP 5810 - Film Aesthetics
Studies film as a work of art produced by cinematic skills and valued for what it is in itself. Emphasizes major theoretical works and analyzing individual films. Studies films with reference to the techniques and methods that produce the ‘aesthetic effect’ style, and the problems of authorship arising out of considerations of style and aesthetic unity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENSP 5820 - The Culture of London Past and Present
The Culture of London: Past and Present” offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENSP 5821 - The Culture of London Past and Present
“The Culture of London: Past and Present” offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in London, it runs for a month each year from early June to early July. Faculty members from the University direct, teach and lead the class; they are complemented by London-based specialists in architecture, art history, religious studies and contemporary politics.
Credits: 1
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ENSP 5822 - The Cultural History of London
The Cultural History of London offers an interdisciplinary approach to metropolitan culture, as an historically embedded object of inquiry. Located in the city that it names, the program runs for a month each year from early June to early July.
Credits: 4
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ENSP 5830 - Literature and the Film
Studies the relationship between the two media, emphasizing the literary origins and backgrounds of film, verbal and visual languages, and the problems of adaptation from novels and short stories to film. Seven to nine novels (or plays) are read and analyzed with regard to film adaptations of these works. Film screenings two to two and one half hours per week outside of class. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENSP 5910 - Literary Journal Editing
An introduction to editing in which students use desktop publishing software to design a magazine or book, and print-on-demand to generate a final print project. They also write book reviews, screen manuscripts, and assist in the production of Meridian, a literary journal. For instructions on how to apply to this class, see www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENSP 6400 - Science Fiction
Explores some of the classic works of nineteenth-century science fiction. Offers new perspectives on their larger symbolic meanings, particularly in social and political terms. Looks at these stories as constituting a body of myths for the modern world, and stresses their continuing relevance.
Credits: 1
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ENSP 6401 - Modern Novel
The Course will examine central themes and strategies used by most distinguised 20th Century novelists and will consider ways in which those strategies survive today in modern novel and in other forms of writing.
Credits: 1
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ENSP 8700 - Special Topics in Pedagogy
Seminar in Pedagogy. Topics may vary from one course offering to the next. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 5020 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
This is an introductory course focusing on the theory and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology. The course combines related theory with practical laboratory assignments.
Credits: 4
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EVSC 5030 - Applied Statistics for Environmental Scientists
Provides a firm knowledge of experimental design, hypothesis testing, and the use of statistical methods of data analysis.
Prerequisite: MATH 1110, STAT 1120, or equivalent;
corequisite: EVSC 5031.
Credits: 4
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EVSC 5050 - Advanced Oceanography
The principles of oceanography with views on real world applications, especially to the teaching of this class at the high school as well. Prerequisite: At least one year of college-level chemisty or physics or instructor permission..
Credits: 3
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EVSC 5060 - Coastal Oceanography
An interdisciplinary course covering physical, ecological and biogeochemical processes occurring along coastlines and within coastal ecosystems.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 5082 - Nitrogen Seminar
This course aims to provide a qualitative and quantitative understanding of the nitrogen cycle in a seminar format.
Credits: 1
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EVSC 5440 - Physical Oceanography
Studies the physical properties, processes, and structure of the oceans; mass and energy budgets; methods of measurements; and the nature and theory of ocean currents, waves, and tides in the open sea, near shore and in estuaries. Prerequisite: PHYS 2310, 2320 or equivalent, two semesters calculus, MATH 1310, 1320 recommended, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 7010 - Introduction to Remote Sensing
Introduction to the physics and techniques of remote sensing. Prerequisite: At least one year of college-level chemistry or physics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVSC 7020 - Dryland Ecohydrology
Study of ecohydrologic processes characteristic of arid and semiarid regions. Prerequisites: Any introductory hydrology class or instructor permission.
Credits: 2
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EVSC 7040 - Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy
We will explore what many consider the greatest environmental issue of our time. Co-taught by professors in the Department of Environmental Sciences and the School of Law, our objective is to help students develop an integrated view of anthropogenic climate change and possible responses to it. We will review the evidence and critiques of it, impacts of climate change and potential for markets and institutions to address/mitigate impacts.
Prerequisite: A graduate level or advanced undergraduate course in each of the following: Atmospheric Sciences, Ecology and Hydrology or permission of the instructor.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 7070 - Advanced Use of Geographical Information Systems
Geographical data is increasingly important i n understanding our society and our environment. This course will focus on teaching stiudents advanced principles and operation of GIS software. It’s a im is to develop students who are prepared to apply GIS to a variety of research problems by expoing them to tools and techniques that go beyond those covered in a basic course on GIS.
Prerequisite: EVSC 5020 or equivalent experience
Credits: 3
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EVSC 7092 - Departmental Seminar
Studies current problems in environmental research management or public policy as presented by visiting speakers, faculty, or advanced graduate students.
Credits: 1
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EVSC 7122 - Coastal Ecology Seminar
A graduate/undergraduate seminar on current topics in coastal ecology.
Credits: 1
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EVSC 7140 - Global Coastal Change
A comprehensive treatment of global environmental factors affecting coastal marine systems, including climate change, sea-level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment transport, disturbance and habitat loss, overfishing, alien species , and eutrophication.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 7400 - Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Atmospheric Sciences
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of the major approaches used by atmospheric scientists in statistically analyzing multivariate data sets. Prerequisites: A course in univariate, parametric statistics and a course in the fundamentals of atmospheric science (e.g., EVSC 3300, EVAT 5300, or the equivalent), or permission of the instructor
Credits: 3
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EVSC 7820 - Environmental Chemistry
Studies the natural and anthropogenic mechanisms that control the chemistry of the environment through biogeochemical cycling. Introduces more specialized topics, e.g., atmospheric chemistry and aqueous geochemistry. Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry with laboratory, EVSC 3860 or its equivalent.
Credits: 4
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EVSC 7999 - Independent Study-Water
The utility of water markets in facilitatiing more efficient and productive shaing of water is gaining increasing attention around the world as water shortages become more frequent, with increasingly severe economic and ecological impacts. In this course, each student will conduct research and prepare a paper on an issue related to water markets.
Credits: 1 to 3
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EVSC 8500 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Sciences
Interdisciplinary treatments of environmental systems wherein the interrelationships of hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere are explored and analyzed. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVSC 8998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research
For master’s research, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EVSC 8999 - Non-Topical Research
For master’s thesis, taken under the supervision of a thesis director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EVSC 9995 - Research Problems
Individual or group research on interdisciplinary problems in environmental sciences.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EVSC 9998 - Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research
For doctoral research, taken before a dissertation director has been selected.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EVSC 9999 - Non-Topical Research
For doctoral research, taken under the supervision of a dissertation director.
Credits: 1 to 12
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EVAT 5300 - Environmental Climatology
An advanced survey of the theoretical and experimental research areas in climatology and meteorology, emphasizing environmental problems associated with the atmosphere. Fundamental principles used in these studies are introduced and discussed, along with procedures used to present and analyze atmospheric information. Corequisites: EVSC 3300 or the text The Science and Wonders of the Atmosphere, or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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EVAT 5400 - Boundary Layer Meteorology
This course provides the student with an understanding of physical processes in the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL), that part of the atmosphere that is affected by the presence of the earth’s surface on a diurnal time scale. These processes are important for understanding the spatial distribution and temporal variability of wind, temperature, moisture, and trace gases in the atmosphere above the surface.
Credits: 3
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EVAT 5410 - Atmospheric Dynamics
Introduces theoretical meteorology encompassing dry and moist air thermodynamics, the mechanics of atmospheric motion, and the dynamics of atmospheric weather systems. Prerequisite: MATH 1310, 1320 and PHYS 2310, 2320; or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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EVAT 7320 - Mountain Meteorology
Examines the influence of mountains on typical and severe weather, including local wind circulations and downslope windstorms. A field study in the Shenandoah National Park provides the students with hands-on experiences in atmospheric measurement techniques and the interpretation of meteorological data obtained in mountainous terrain. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVAT 7350 - Atmospheric Mesoscale Modeling
Examines various aspects of atmospheric mesoscale models with an emphasis on a discussion of parameterization schemes. Students will learn how run a state-of-the-art mesoscale models in a lab-based part of this course. Prerequisite: EVSC 3300 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVAT 7999 - Independent Study: Atmospheric Sciences
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of atmospheric sciences and interrelated areas.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EVAT 8530 - Advanced Topics in Atmospheric Sciences
Detailed, integrative treatments of those atmospheric systems in which the nature and dynamics of the atmosphere are central. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVEC 5220 - Terrestrial Ecology
Analyzes the patterns and processes in terrestrial ecosystems. Topic include macro- and micro-meteorological factors such as producer, consumer, and decomposer processes; hydrologic and biogeochemical pathways; and changes through space and time. Three lecture and four field or laboratory hours. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVEC 5230 - Microbial Ecology
Explores relationships of microorganisms to similar organisms, dissimilar (macro) organisms, and the physical-chemical environment to demonstrate basic ecological theory and indicate the importance of microbes in maintaining our world. Includes the organisms, microbial habitats, community formation and structure, interspecific relationships, nutrient cycling, and anthropocentric ecology. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800, 3200, 3600, 3300 or equivalent; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVEC 5231 - Microbial Ecology Laboratory
Provides an opportunity to learn and experience the techniques used in microbial ecological research. Utilizes both classic techniques and state-of-the-art methods to determine microbial biomass in nature. Covers various methods of determining microbiological activity. Several exercises involve field sampling and analysis. Prerequisite: Instructor permission; corequisite: EVEC 5230.
Credits: 1
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EVEC 5250 - Ecological Issues in Global Change
Introduces development and application of theoretical constructs and mathematical models for projecting the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems to large scale changes in the environment. Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, one year of college calculus, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVEC 7100 - Management of Forest Ecosystems
An ecosystem course which treats the ecology of forests and consequences of forest processes in natural and managed systems. The class emphasizes the “pattern and process” concept that is the central theme in modern vegetation sciences at increasing scales: from form and function of leaves and other parts of trees through population, community and landscape ecology to the role of forests in the global climate and carbon-cycling. Pre-requisite: Introductory Ecology or Instructor Permission.
Credits: 4
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EVEC 7110 - Estuarine Ecology
An interdisciplinary course covering the physical, biogeochemical and ecological aspects of coastal estuaries. This class is a companion course to EVSC 4110.
Prerequisite: EVSC 3200
Credits: 3
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EVEC 7140 - Global Coastal Change
A comprehensive treatment of global environmental factors affecting coastal marine systems, including climate change, sea-level rise, alterations in freshwater and sediment transport, disturbance and habitat loss, overfishing, alien species, and
eutrophication. Includes case studies providing real-world examples and detailed reviews of the evidence of change and possible solutions.
Credits: 3
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EVEC 7202 - Advanced Microbial Ecology
Review and analysis of current research in microbial ecology.
Credits: 1
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EVEC 7250 - Ecosystem Ecology
Study of the flows of energy and the cycling of elements in ecosystems and how these concepts connect the various components of the Earth system.
Prerequisite: EVSC 3200 or equivalent
Credits: 3
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EVEC 7290 - Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems
This course will focus on lakes, rivers, streams, and reservoirs as ecosystems. The goal of the course is to provide an understanding through lectures and discussions of the main physical, chemical, and biological processes that determine similarities and differences among inland waters. Major human impacts on inland waters will also be considered. Prerequisites: EVSC 3200 or equivalent, one semester of chemistry, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVEC 7999 - Independent Study: Ecology
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of ecology and interrelated areas.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EVGE 5820 - Geomorphology
Studies the processes that shape the land surface and their relationship to human activity. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 or 3600.
Credits: 4
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EVGE 5840 - Sediment Processes and Environments
Studies the erosion, transport, and deposition of sediment; initial motion of sediment, bedload and suspended load transport and bedforms; and important sediment-transporting environments. Applies sediment transport theory to problems of geological and environmental interest. Prerequisite: one year of calculus and physics, or instructor permission; corequisite: EVGE 5841.
Credits: 3
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EVGE 5841 - Sediment Processes Laboratory
Laboratory and field investigations of sediment transport phenomena and readings of classic and current research. Corequisite: EVGE 5840.
Credits: 1
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EVGE 5850 - Geochemistry
Studies the principles that govern the distribution and abundance of the elements in the earth’s lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere. Prerequisite: College chemistry and calculus; intorductory earth science or geology recommended.
Credits: 4
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EVGE 5860 - Isotope Geochemistry
Investigates natural phenomena by means of stable and unstable isotopes and changes in their abundance, including isotope fractionation. Includes age dating, paleotemperature determination, and isotope tracers in natural systems.
Credits: 4
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EVGE 5870 - Aqueous Geochemistry
Studies the principals of thermodynamics as applied to mineral-water systems. Treatment includes mineral stability, phase diagrams, solution thermodynamics, electrolyte theory, aqueous complex and hydrolysis equilibria, and electrochemical equilibria. Prerequisite: One year of college chemistry and calculus, and one mineralogy or petrology course.
Credits: 4
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EVGE 7810 - Geology of Virginia
An examination of the geological evolution of Virginia and the mid-Atlantic region in the context of plate tectonics, including stratigraphy, mountain building, metamorphism and deformation, and geomorphic processes. The human impact on this landscape through exploitation of mineral resources is considered.
Credits: 3
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EVGE 7832 - Water-Rock Interactions Seminar
Reading and discussion of the research literature linking hydrological and geochemical processes in the environment. Prerequisites: One geology, geochemistry, or hydrology course, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 1
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EVGE 7999 - Independent Study-Geosciences
Individual or group study in developing or special areas of geosciences and interrelated areas, emphasizing earth-surface processes.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EVGE 8580 - Advanced Topics in Environmental Geology
Interdisciplinary study of the physical processes and responses which modify environmental systems. Exhaustive treatments of the nature and analysis of earth materials as environmental substrates and their responses to stress are represented, as are other techniques in geosciences focusing on earth-surface properties. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVHY 5640 - Catchment Hydrology: Process and Theory
Introduces current theories of the hydrological response of catchments. Using an integrative approach, the course illuminates the derivation of theory in light of the time and location of the process studies on which they were based. Prerequisite: EVSC 3600.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 5650 - Hydrological Transport Processes
Studies the physical principles governing the transport of dissolved substances and of sediment and particulate matter in the terrestrial portion of the hydrological cycle. Prerequisite: EVSC 2800 and 3600 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 5670 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Studies the mechanics of fluids and fluid-related processes occurring at the Earth’s surface, including laminar, inviscid, and turbulent flows, drag, boundary layers, diffusion and dispersion of mass, flow through porous media, and effects of the Earth’s rotation. Emphasizes topics related to the environmental sciences. Prerequisite: Integral calculus and calculus-based physics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 5700 - Forest Hydrology
Study of hydrologic processes characteristic of forested regions. Prerequisite: Introductory hydrology or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 7630 - Land-Atmosphere Interaction
Study of energy, water, and carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the land surface. Prerequisite: One year of college physics and calculus, one hydrology or atmospheric science course, or permission of instruct.
Credits: 3
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EVHY 7640 - Dynamic Hydrology
Studies the interrelationships of the various phases in the water cycle; principles governing that cycle; and the influence of human activity on natural circulation of water at or near the Earth’s surface. Prerequisite: Introductory hydrology and differential equations, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EVHY 7670 - Numerical Methods in Hydrology
Application of numerical methods to the solution of hydrological problems. The Matlab computational and plotting software is used for all examples and assignments, including finite difference and finite element solutions to equations describing the flow of water and transport of contaminants in the terrestrial environment. Prior knowledge of Matlab is not required.
Prerequisite: EVHY 5000-level course.
Credits: 3
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