Course Work

ESE students take courses in environmental science, engineering, and policy, law and management. All students take courses in air pollution, water quality, applied ecology, environmental toxicology, engineering hydrology, water quality control systems, environmental policy, and environmental law. In addition, students take 7-8 breadth courses chosen from the wide variety of environmental courses offered by UCLA departments such as Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Economics, Environmental Health Sciences, Geography, Policy Studies, Law and Urban Planning (see table). Students typically devote full time to coursework during their first year, taking 12 courses, and finish their coursework the second year.

ESE REQUIRED COURSES

Environmental Science (4 courses)

EHS 212 Applied Ecology
EHS 225 Atmospheric Transport and the Transformation of Airborne Chemicals
EHS 240 Environmental Toxicology
EHS 264 Transport and Fate of Organic Contaminants in the Aquatic Environment  

Environmental Engineering (2 courses)

CEE 150 Engineering Hydrology
CEE 155 Water Quality Control Systems  

Environmental Management, Law, and Policy (2 courses)

EHS 235 Environmental Policy for Science and Engineering
UP M264 Environmental Law

ESE APPROVED BREADTH ELECTIVE COURSES

Environmental Sciences (3 courses, one from each discipline)

Elective in Environmental Biology, Microbiology or Ecology (1)
BIO 116 Conservation Biology
BIO 122 Ecology
BIO C119 Mathematical Ecology
BIO M127 Soils, Plants, and Society
BIO C215 Introduction to Marine Science
BIO 216 Quantitative Methods in Behavior and Ecology
EHS 210 Public Health and Environmental Microbiology
EHS 262 Environmental Microbiology

Elective in Environmental Geology (1)
BIO M127 Soils, Plants and Society
ESS M139 Engineering and Environmental Geology
GEO 107 Soil and Water Conservation
GEO 105 Hydrology

Elective in Atmospheric Science (1)
AS M203A Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry
AS 142 Atmospheric Circulations
AS 144 Air Pollution Meteorology
EHS 252D Properties and Measurement of Airborne Particles
CHE 240 Fundamentals of Aerosol Technology

Environmental Engineering (3 courses)

CEE 164 Waste and Hazardous Waste Management
CEE 151 Introduction to Water Resources Engineering
CEE 153 Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CEE 157B Design of Water Quality Control System
CEE 163 Air Pollution Control
CEE 250A Surface Water Hydrology
CEE 250B Groundwater Hydrology
CEE 252 Engineering Economic Analysis of Water and Environmental Planning
CEE 253 Mathematical Models for Water Quality Management
CEE 254A Aquatic Chemistry
CEE 254C Aquatic Surface Chemistry
CEE 255A Physical and Chemical Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
CEE 255B Biological Processes for Water and Wastewater Treatment
CEE 265A Mass Transfer in Environmental Systems
CHE 119 Pollution Prevention for Chemical Processes
CHE 218 Multimedia Environmental Assessment
MANE 103 Elementary Fluid Mechanics
MANE 174 Risk, Reliability and Quality Assurance
MANE 274 Methods of Probabilistic Safety Assessments

Environmental Management, Law and Policy (2 courses)

UP 241C Urban Transportation and Planning III
UP 249 Advanced Workshop in Geographic Information Systems
UP 260A Political Economy of the Environment
UP 260B Politics, Institutions, and the Environment
UP 262A Pollution Prevention: Issues of Science, Engineering and Policy
UP 262B Water Resources Planning: Is a New Discourse Possible?
UP 263 Natural Resource Conservation
UP 267B Rural Development Issues
CEE 106A Principles of Engineering Economy
CEE 175 Elements of Decision Making
CEE 252 Engineering Economy of Water and Related Natural Resources
CEE 275 Multi-Attribute Decision Making
EC 110 Economic Problems of Underdeveloped Countries
EHS 101 Environmental Health
EHS 230 Environmental Management
EHS 231 Environmental Decision Systems Analysis
EHS M249 Preventing Pollution: Issues in Environmental Policy, Science and Engineering
GEO 120 Conservation of Natural Resources in North America
GEO 124 Environmental Impact Analysis
GEO 170 Geographical Information Systems and Analysis
LAW 190A International Environmental Law
LAW 284 Toxic Torts
LAW 292 Water Law
MANE 174 Risk, Reliability and Quality Assurance
MANE 274 Methods of Probabilistic Safety Assessment
MANE 275 Principles and Methods of Risk Assessment