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College of Arts and Sciences

The College of Arts and Sciences offers a wide variety of courses and programs in the arts, humanities, mathematics, social and behavioral sciences, natural sciences, and communications. The College houses 18 departments, which offer over 120 degree programs.

Courses range from anthropology to geology to zoology. The listing below shows the courses offerings in the College that have a direct focus on water resources. In the listing, CHEM refers to chemistry courses in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, ECO refers to economic courses in the Department of Economics and Geography, ENTX refers to courses in the Department of Environmental Toxicology, and GEOL refers to geology courses in Department of Geosciences.

You may also wish to visit the list of water-related faculty in the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources.

UNDERGraduate Courses

GEOL 3323. Environmental Geology (3:3:0). Prerequisite: GEOL 1303 or GEOG 1401. Study of geological processes that affect human activities, emphasizing natural hazards, water resources, waste disposal, energy, mineral resources, and land use and planning.

Graduate Courses

CHEM 5316. Aquatic Chemistry (3:3:0). Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. An advanced course in the analytical, physical, and inorganic chemistry of naturally occurring aqueous solutions and suspensions.

CHEM 5360. Conceptual Chemistry for Teachers I (3:3:0). An integrated course for teachers. Topics include water, acids-bases, the periodic table, compounds, reactivity, structure, and energy.

ECO 5317. Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (3:3:0). Prerequisite: ECO 5312 or consent of instructor. Covers theory and policy in natural resource and environmental economics. Optimal rules for renewable and nonrenewable patterns of use, public policy. Intensive study of one sector (energy, water, forestry).

ENTX 6365. Fundamentals of Aquatic Ecotoxicology (3:3:0).Prerequisite: Graduate or advanced undergraduate background in biological, chemical, or environmental sciences or consent of instructor. Covers effects of water pollution on aquatic organisms and human health. Subjects include fate and transport in aqueous systems, acute toxicity and toxicity tests, and effects of pollutants on aquatic systems from molecular to global levels.