Core Course Requirements
All students in the program will take one course in each of four core areas: Natural Sciences, Ethics/Policy/Law, Methods and Seminar. Any course used to satisfy the Natural Sciences, Ethics, and Methods core areas must be at least 3 credits. The Seminar course must be interactive and must be at least 1 credit. Independent study courses may not be used to satisfy core requirements. The Guidance Committee determines which courses on campus will satisfy these requirements. The following are examples of previously approved courses.
Updated January 2008
| 1. Natural Science | Course Title | Credits |
| CIE 849 | Water Chemistry | 4 |
| ESCI 803 | Fluvial Hydrology | 4 |
| ESCI 805 | Principles of Hydrology | 4 |
| ESCI 810 | Groundwater Hydrology | 4 |
| ESCI/EOS 815 | Global Atmospheric Chemistry | 3 |
| ESCI/EOS 816 | Aerosol and Precipitation Chemistry | 3 |
| ESCI/EOS 817 | Macro-scale Hydrology I | 4 |
| ESCI/EOS 818 | Macro-scale Hydrology II | 4 |
| ESCI 825 | Igneous Petrology | 4 |
| ESCI 826 | Metamorphic Petrology | 4 |
| ESCI 832 | Regional Geology and Advanced Structure | 4 |
| ESCI 834 | Applied Geophysics | 4 |
| ESCI 841 | Geochemistry | 4 |
| ESCI 845 | Isotope Geochemistry | 4 |
| ESCI 847 | Aqueous Geochemistry | 4 |
| ESCI/EOS/ZOO 850 | Biological Oceanography | 4 |
| ESCI 852 | Chemical Oceanography | 3 |
| ESCI 854 | Sedimentology | 4 |
| ESCI 858 | Introduction to Physical Oceanography | 4 |
| ESCI 859 | Geological Oceanography | 4 |
| ESCI 862 | Glacial Geology | 4 |
| ESCI/EOS 865 | Natural Climate Variability (Paleoclimatology) | 4 |
| NR 867/EOS 867/ESCI 895(02) | Earth System Science | 4 |
| ESCI 904 | Contaminant Hydrology | 3 |
| MICR 813 | Microbes and the Environment | 4 |
| MICR 814 | Water Pollution Microbiology | 4 |
| NR 806 | Soil Microbiology | 4 |
| NR 811 | Wetland Ecology and Management | 4 |
| NR 819 | Wetlands Mitigation and Restoration | 3 |
| NR 821 | Ecology of Polluted Waters | 4 |
| NR 830 | Terrestrial Ecosystems | 3 |
| NR 832 | Chemistry of Soils | 4 |
| NR 837 | Wildlife Population Dynamics | 3 |
| NR 844/EOS844 | Biogeochemistry | 4 |
| NR 865 | Community Ecology | 4 |
| PBIO 817 | General Limnology | 4 |
| 2. Ethics/Policy/Law | Course Title | Credits |
| ECON 807 | Economics of Sustainable Development | 4 |
| ECON 868 | Seminar in Economic Development | 4 |
| GRAD 930 | Ethics in Research and Scholarship ( NRESS students must register for the 3cr. option) | 3 |
| HIST 866 | Environmental History of Northwest Atlantic Commercial Fisheries | 4 |
| MICR 818 | Ethics and Issues in Microbiology | 3 |
| NR 902 | Ecological Values and Ethics | 3 |
| NR 818 | Law of Natural Resources and Environment | 3 |
| NR 820 | International Environmental Politics and Policies for the 21st Century | 4 |
| NR 824 | Resolving Environmental Conflicts and Environmental Mediation | 3 |
| NR 831 | Ecosystem Based Governance | 4 |
| NR 838 | Wildlife Policy and Management | 4 |
| NR 885 | Systems Thinking for Sustainable Living | 4 |
| POLT 851 | Comparative Environmental Politics and Policy | 4 |
| POLT 880 | International Environmental Politics | 4 |
| RAM 805 | Ecotourism: Managing for the Environment | 4 |
| RECO 808 | Environmental Economics | 4 |
| RECO 817 | Law of Community Planning | 4 |
| RECO 856 | Rural and Regional Economic Development | 4 |
| RECO/RAM 911 | Natural and Environmental Resource Mgmt. | 4 |
| 3. Seminar | Course Title | Credits |
| ESCI 993 or 994 | Graduate Seminar in Earth Sciences | 1 |
| NR 947 | Current Issues in Ecosystem Ecology | 1-4 |
| NR 993 | Natural and Environmental Resources Seminar | 1or 2 |
| OE 990 | Ocean Seminars | 1 |
| NR 800 | Critical Analysis of Water Resources Literature | 2 |
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