Environmental Science Track
The Environmental Science Track is offered through the College of Mines & Earth Sciences.
Industry's emerging environmental challenges are increasingly interdisciplinary in nature and require professionals who have a strong foundation in science, are able to think across boundaries, and effectively communicate with all stakeholders.
The Environmental Science Track focuses on the analytical aspects of six focus areas that are at the forefront of today's environmental fields. These focus areas include:
- Public and Environmental Health
- Hydrology
- Environmental Chemistry
- Remote Sensing and GIS
- Communication and Policy
- Sustainability
Environment Science Track graduates of the PMST program are well positioned to make immediate contributions to critical current and emerging local, regional and international environmental challenges faced by industry, governments, and the individuals whose lives are impacted by global environmental change.
The Environmental Science Track, which maintains a close relationship with the University of Utah's Office of Sustainability, is able to provide students with diverse and growing opportunities to complement classroom experiences.
Please refer to the PMST Academic Programs site for a complete discussion of the requirements for graduation. Note that in addition to courses in Transferable Skills (9 credits), Advanced Quantitative Skills (9 credits), and an Internship (3 credits), students should choose 3 courses (9 credits) from one of the following six focus areas. The remaining 6 credits may be taken in any different focus area, with at least 3 credits from the Communication and Policy group if Communication and Policy is not the student's main focus area.
| Sample Courses | |
| Number | Description |
| Public and Environmental Health | |
| BIOL 5420 | Advanced Ecology |
| CH EN 6303 | Environ, Applications of Chemical Engineering |
| CH EN 6305 | Air Pollution Control Engineering |
| CVEEN 6470 | Surface Water Quality Prediction and Assessment |
| FP MD 5969 | Special Topics in Statistics |
| FP MD 6301 | Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology |
| FP MD 6700 | Environmental Health Problems |
| FP MD 6756 | Hazardous Substances |
| FP MD 6952 | Readings in Environmental Health |
| GEO 6390 | Solute Transport and Subsurface Remediation |
| Fluid Dynamics and Transport | |
| CH EN 6305 | Air Pollution Control Engineering |
| CVEEN 6410 | Water Resource Engineering |
| CVEEN 6420 | Open Channel Flow |
| CVEEN 6610 | Water Chemistry and Laboratory Analysis |
| GEO 6350 | Groundwater |
| GEO 6360 | Fluid Dynamics of Earth Materials |
| GEO 6370 | Contaminant Partitioning for Engineers and Scientists |
| GEO 6385 | Introduction to Groundwater Modeling |
| GEO 6390 | Solute Transport and Subsurface Remediation |
| Environmental Chemistry | |
| BIOL 5460 | Plant Ecology |
| BIOL 5490 | Ecosystem Ecology |
| CHEM 5700 | Advanced Analytical Chemistry Laboratory |
| CHEM 5710 | Advanced Organic Chemistry Laboratory |
| CHEM 6740 | Bioanalytical Chemistry |
| CHEM 7520 | Computational Chemistry Laboratory |
| CHEM 7590 | Advanced topics in Physical-Analytical Chemistry |
| CHEM 7700 | Analytical and Chemical Measurements I |
| CHEM 7710 | Analytical and Chemical Measurements II |
| GEO 5470 | Stable Isotope Ecology |
| GEO 6660 | Geochemistry |
| Remote Sensing and GIS | |
| GEOG 6010 | Geocomputation |
| GEOG 6110 | Environ. Analysis Through Remote Sensing |
| GEOG 6130 | Adv. Remote Sensing Applications |
| GEOG 6140 | Methods in GIS |
| GEOG 6150 | Spatial Database Design for GIS |
| GEOG 6160 | Spatial Modeling with GIS |
| GEOG 6180 | Advanced Applications in GIS |
| GEO 6565 | Digital Mapping and GIS in the Geosciences |
| METEO 6410 | Remote Sensing of the Environment |
| Communication and Policy | |
| GEO 6340 | System Dynamics and Environmental Policy |
| GEO 6341 | Complexity and Systems Thinking |
| COMM 7200 | Seminar: Environmental Communication |
| COMM 7210 | Environmental Conflict |
| COMM 6360 | Environmental Communication |
| LAW 7200 | Natural Resources |
| LAW 7240 | Environmental Law and Policy |
| LAW 7250 | Environmental Law and Business |
| LAW 7260 | Environmental Practice |
| LAW 7280 | International Environmental Law |
| LAW 7774 | Environmental Law and Engineering |
| POLS 6322 | Environmental Policy |
| URBPL 6360 | Environmental Planning Law and Policy |
| URBPL 6370 | Sys. Dynamics & Environ. Policy |
| URBPL 6371 | Complexity and Systems Thinking |
| Sustainability | |
| ECON 6250 | Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
| ECON 7250 | Adv. Environ. and Natural Resource Economics |
| FP MD 6530 | Global Health |
| URBPL 5390 | Sustainability Planning |
| URBPL 6370 | Sys. Dynamics & Environ. Policy |
| URBPL 6371 | Complexity and Systems Thinking |
| LAW 7240 | Environmental Law and Policy |
| LAW 7250 | Environmental Law and Business |
| LAW 7280 | International Environmental Law |
| LAW 7766 | Environmental Law: Pollution Control |
| LAW 7769 | Law of Climate Change |
| POL S 6322 | Environmental Policy |