ENEC Courses

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Class Number	Class	Meeting Time	Instructor	Room	Unreserved Enrollment	Reserved Enrollment	Wait List
11473	ENEC 89 - 001 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	KARIN PFENNIG	Gardner Hall-Rm 0001	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
14869	ENEC 89 - 002 First Year Seminar: Special Topics	MoWe 2:30PM - 3:45PM	Geoffrey Bell	Dey Hall-Rm 0303	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Special topics course. Content will vary each semester. 3 units.
3750	ENEC 201 - 001 Introduction to Environment and Society	MoWeFr 12:20PM - 1:10PM	Gregory Gangi	Fetzer Hall-Rm 0109	97/210 (210 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 4 units.
3793	ENEC 201 - 601 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 3:35PM - 4:25PM	Gregory Gangi, Taylor Ouellette	Venable Hall-Rm G311	Seats filled (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3794	ENEC 201 - 602 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Gregory Gangi, Helena Garcia	Venable Hall-Rm G311	19/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3796	ENEC 201 - 605 Introduction to Environment and Society	Tu 3:30PM - 4:20PM	Gregory Gangi, Helena Garcia	Venable Hall-Rm G307	13/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3797	ENEC 201 - 607 Introduction to Environment and Society	We 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Gregory Gangi, Sedona Ryan	Venable Hall-Rm G307	12/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3798	ENEC 201 - 611 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Gregory Gangi, Isabel Bukovnik	Venable Hall-Rm G307	19/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3799	ENEC 201 - 614 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Gregory Gangi, Serkan Sargin	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	13/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
14811	ENEC 201H - 001 Introduction to Environment and Society	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Gregory Gangi	Venable Hall-Rm G311	20/24 (24 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 4 units.
14817	ENEC 201H - 735 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Gregory Gangi, Serkan Sargin	Murray Hall-Rm G205	Seats filled (12 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
15990	ENEC 201H - 736 Introduction to Environment and Society	Mo 2:30PM - 3:20PM	Gregory Gangi, Taylor Ouellette	Murray Hall-Rm G205	8/12 (12 total)	Seats filled
Description: Human-environment interactions are examined through analytical methods from the social sciences, humanities, and sciences. The focus is on the role of social, political, and economic factors in controlling interactions between society and the environment in historical and cultural contexts. Three lecture hours and one recitation hour a week. 0 units.
3751	ENEC 202 - 001 Introduction to the Environmental Sciences	MoWeFr 9:05AM - 9:55AM	Geoffrey Bell	Peabody Hall-Rm 3050	44/48 (48 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines fundamental processes governing the movement and transformation of material and energy in environmental systems. Focuses on the role of these processes in environmental phenomena and how society perturbs these processes. Integrates methods from a range of scientific disciplines. Three lecture hours and three computer laboratory hours a week. 4 units.
3800	ENEC 202 - 401 Introduction to the Environmental Sciences	Tu 3:30PM - 5:15PM	Geoffrey Bell, Nicholas Funnell	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	23/24 (24 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines fundamental processes governing the movement and transformation of material and energy in environmental systems. Focuses on the role of these processes in environmental phenomena and how society perturbs these processes. Integrates methods from a range of scientific disciplines. Three lecture hours and three computer laboratory hours a week. 0 units.
3801	ENEC 202 - 402 Introduction to the Environmental Sciences	We 2:30PM - 4:15PM	Geoffrey Bell, Nicholas Funnell	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	21/24 (24 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Examines fundamental processes governing the movement and transformation of material and energy in environmental systems. Focuses on the role of these processes in environmental phenomena and how society perturbs these processes. Integrates methods from a range of scientific disciplines. Three lecture hours and three computer laboratory hours a week. 0 units.
16011	ENEC 204 - 001 Environmental Seminar	Tu 4:00PM - 5:15PM	Antonia Sebastian	Mitchell Hall-Rm 121A	9/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: This course will provide an intellectual focus on the interface between environment and society by examining the relationship among science, policy, and actual management practices on a chosen topic. 1 - 3 units.
3752	ENEC 307 - 001 Energy and Material Flows in the Environment and Society	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Elizabeth Yoder	Phillips Hall-Rm 0247	41/46 (46 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, ENEC 201 and MATH 231 or MATH 152; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. Examines regional to global scale flow of materials and energy through materials extractions, processing, manufacturing, product use, recycling, and disposal, including relevance to policy development. Reviews natural cycles, basic physics, and technology of energy production. 3 units.
4205	ENEC 325 - 001 Water Resource Management and Human Rights	MoWeFr 1:25PM - 2:15PM	Amy Cooke, Montana Scott	Peabody Hall-Rm 3050	Seats filled (48 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course explores logistical, political, social, and economic challenges in supplying every human with adequate access to clean water, the most basic human right. 3 - 4 units.
4207	ENEC 325H - 001 Water Resource Management and Human Rights	MoWeFr 11:15AM - 12:05PM	Amy Cooke, Montana Scott	Venable Hall-Rm G307	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course explores logistical, political, social, and economic challenges in supplying every human with adequate access to clean water, the most basic human right. 3 - 4 units.
11773	ENEC 330 - 001 Principles of Sustainability	MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM	David Salvesen, Kathryn Cunningham	Murray Hall-Rm G205	Seats filled (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to theories, principles, and measurement of sustainability. It also provides an overview of sustainability in national and international contexts. 3 units.
3753	ENEC 350 - 001 Environmental Law and Policy	TuTh 5:00PM - 6:15PM	DONALD HORNSTEIN	Murphey Hall-Rm 0116	144/150 (150 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course gives students an overview of environmental law and some practical experience in environmental policy making. 3 units.
14093	ENEC 373 - 001 Confronting Climate Change in the Anthropocene	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Angel Hsu, Isabel Bukovnik	Wilson Hall-Rm 0217	13/17 (17 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Climate change-perhaps the defining issue of the 21st century-is a highly complex problem that requires interdisciplinary collaboration to develop policy responses. This course explores the science of climate change and uses theories from multiple disciplines, including law, political science, economics, and earth and atmospheric sciences, to frame solutions to this global challenge. Students will apply quantitative and qualitative tools to understand causes and impacts of climate change, as well as policy responses. 3 units.
12738	ENEC 375 - 001 Environmental Advocacy	MoWe 1:25PM - 2:40PM	Taylor Jackson	Dey Hall-Rm 0313	7/8 (8 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Explores rhetorical means of citizen influence of practices affecting our natural and human environment; also, study of communication processes and dilemmas of redress of environmental grievances in communities and workplace. 3 units.
5299	ENEC 393 - 002 Internship in Sustainability	Mo 2:30PM - 4:30PM	Brian Naess, Megan Lane	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	25/30 (30 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the instructor. This course provides an internship with an organization on sustainability topics and public engagement. Pass/Fail only. 3 units.
11904	ENEC 403 - 001 Environmental Chemistry Processes	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	JASON SURRATT	McGavran-Greenberg -Rm 2301	Seats filled (2 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Required preparation, a background in chemistry and mathematics, including ordinary differential equations. Chemical processes occurring in natural and engineered systems: chemical cycles; transport and transformation processes of chemicals in air, water, and multimedia environments; chemical dynamics; thermodynamics; structure/activity relationships. 3 units.
14920	ENEC 417 - 001 Surface Processes and Landscape Evolution	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Eric Kirby	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	0/4 (4 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, EMES 201 and MATH 231; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Earth surface processes and landscape evolution. Previously offered as GEOL 417. 4 units.
14922	ENEC 417 - 401 Surface Processes and Landscape Evolution	Th 12:30PM - 2:20PM	Eric Kirby, William Hefner	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0108	0/4 (4 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, EMES 201 and MATH 231; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Earth surface processes and landscape evolution. Previously offered as GEOL 417. 0 units.
3754	ENEC 420 - 001 Community Design and Green Architecture	We 4:45PM - 7:17PM	Eric Thomas	Dey Hall-Rm 0203	Seats filled (8 total)	Seats filled
Description: The impact of building on the environment and health will be examined by looking at the major areas of: land use planning, water resource use, energy, materials and indoor environment. 3 units.
13579	ENEC 441 - 001 Marine Physiological Ecology	TuTh 9:30AM - 10:45AM	Karl Castillo	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0319	Seats filled (10 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course introduces students to the physiological, morphological, and behavioral factors employed by marine organisms to cope with their physical environment. Emphasis will be placed on the response of marine organisms to environmental factors such as seawater temperature, light, water salinity, ocean acidification, etc. Course previously offered as MASC 441. 3 units.
13229	ENEC 451 - 001 Population, Development, and the Environment	MoWeFr 10:10AM - 11:00AM	Clark Gray	Carolina Hall-Rm 0204	Seats filled (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Introduction to contemporary and historical changes in human population, international development, and the global environment and how these processes interact, drawing on population geography as an organizing framework. Previously offered as GEOG 450. 3 units.
9255	ENEC 481 - 001 Energy Economics	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Ryan McCord	Mitchell Hall-Rm 0009	Seats filled (24 total)	Seats filled
Description: Prerequisite, ECON 101. This course develops a core set of principles to understand and evaluate energy markets, policies, and regulations. Topics include oil markets, electric vehicles and CAFÉ standards, pollution permit markets and C02 regulations, and electricity markets. 3 units.
10614	ENEC 490 - 001 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies	Tu 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Ronald DiFelice, Zane Carroll	Kenan Labs-Rm B125	29/30 (30 total)	Seats filled	0/10
Description: Advanced topics from diverse areas of environmental science and/or environmental studies are explored. 1 - 12 units.
15147	ENEC 490 - 002 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies	Th 5:30PM - 6:45PM	Leni John	Venable Hall-Rm G311	24/40 (40 total)	Seats filled	0/10
Description: Advanced topics from diverse areas of environmental science and/or environmental studies are explored. 1 - 12 units.
15145	ENEC 490 - 003 Special Topics in Environmental Science and Studies	Th 5:30PM - 6:45PM	Jeff Soplop	Dey Hall-Rm 0307	21/40 (40 total)	Seats filled	0/10
Description: Advanced topics from diverse areas of environmental science and/or environmental studies are explored. 1 - 12 units.
4893	ENEC 493 - 002 Environmental Internship	Th 3:30PM - 5:30PM	Brian Naess	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	1/20 (20 total)	Seats filled
Description: Permission of the instructor. This course provides an internship with an organization related to environmental sciences or studies. Pass/Fail only. 1 - 4 units.
14867	ENEC 512 - 002 Advanced Coastal Environmental Change	Tu 2:00PM - 4:45PM	Laura Moore	Mitchell Hall-Rm 121B	0/4 (4 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, EMES 303, 310, 410, 417, or 503; permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. This 3-credit seminar-style class for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students focuses on developing a deeper understanding of coastal environmental change as illuminated by the scientific literature, including topics such as climate change impacts; coupled human-natural coastal dynamics; feedbacks between biological and physical processes; carbon storage and flux; adaptive coastal management; and the role of science, policy and communication in coastal resilience. Course previously offered as ENEC 710/GEOL 710/MASC 730. 3 units.
13718	ENEC 562 - 001 Statistics for Environmental Scientists	TuTh 3:30PM - 4:45PM	Sarah Roberts, Kyle Daniels	Wilson Hall-Rm 0128	1/5 (5 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisites, BIOL 103 and BIOL 104, and either STOR 120 or STOR 155; or permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisites. Introduction to the application of quantitative and statistical methods in environmental science, including environmental monitoring, assessment, threshold exceedance, risk assessment, and environmental decision making. 4 units.
13437	ENEC 567 - 001 Ecological Analyses and Application	Tu 5:00PM - 7:30PM	COLIN WEST	Murphey Hall-Rm 0222	11/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: This course provides an overview of natural and social science approaches to addressing biodiversity conservation and resource management. Concepts and methods from population biology, evolutionary ecology, community ecology, and conservation biology will be complemented with approaches from common property theory, indigenous resource management, and human evolutionary ecology. 3 units.
10301	ENEC 635 - 001 Energy Modeling for Environment and Public Health	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Noah Kittner, Amanda Ullman	Stone Center-Rm 0210	Seats filled (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Recommended preparation, MATH 231. This course will equip students with an overview of contemporary issues in energy modeling and energy systems analysis, with a focus on environmental and public health impacts of energy systems. Students will gain exposure to a variety of research methodologies, analytical tools, and applications of energy modeling applied to environmental and public health related problems such as climate change, air pollution, and water footprints of energy systems. 3 units.
12394	ENEC 669 - 002 Seminar in Ecology	Tu 5:15PM - 7:15PM	Damon Waitt	TBA	2/4 (4 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Prerequisite, BIOL 201 or BIOL 260; or permission of the instructor for students lacking the prerequisite. May be repeated for credit. 1 - 3 units.
3869	ENEC 698 - 003 Capstone: Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems	TuTh 2:00PM - 3:15PM	Geoffrey Bell	Venable Hall-Rm 3302	10/12 (12 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary, team-based analyses of environmental phenomena are performed and applied to problems of the selection of effective environmental strategies. Students may select from a wide range of examples and venues. 3 units.
3870	ENEC 698 - 004 Capstone: Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems	TuTh 11:00AM - 12:15PM	Antonia Sebastian	Greenlaw Hall-Rm 0104	11/20 (20 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary, team-based analyses of environmental phenomena are performed and applied to problems of the selection of effective environmental strategies. Students may select from a wide range of examples and venues. 3 units.
3871	ENEC 698 - 005 Capstone: Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems	TuTh 12:30PM - 1:45PM	Lama BouFajreldin	Hamilton Hall-Rm 0523	Seats filled (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary, team-based analyses of environmental phenomena are performed and applied to problems of the selection of effective environmental strategies. Students may select from a wide range of examples and venues. 3 units.
5151	ENEC 698 - 006 Capstone: Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems	MoWe 3:30PM - 4:45PM	David McNelis	Dey Hall-Rm 0210	Seats filled (15 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary, team-based analyses of environmental phenomena are performed and applied to problems of the selection of effective environmental strategies. Students may select from a wide range of examples and venues. 3 units.
15116	ENEC 698 - 012 Capstone: Analysis and Solution of Environmental Problems	We 2:30PM - 5:00PM	Jaap Schut	Murphey Hall-Rm 0222	11/12 (12 total)	Seats filled	0/999
Description: Interdisciplinary, team-based analyses of environmental phenomena are performed and applied to problems of the selection of effective environmental strategies. Students may select from a wide range of examples and venues. 3 units.