Earth & Environment

• CAS EE 552: Effective Environmental Law and Policy for Just Environmental Solutions
  Which environmental laws and policies are working well? Students explore the evidence and evolution of programs, producing proposals for legislation, policy, practices, and/or articulating useful concepts, with recommendations, for evolving laws for a sustainable and just society. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: The Individual in Community, Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
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  • Critical Thinking
  • The Individual in Community
  • Social Inquiry II
• CAS EE 555: World Oil Markets
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: EC 101 or another microeconomics course - Cover the supply chains in international oil markets. For each stage of the supply chain, Kaufmann will describe the relevant theory from geology, economics, and politics and how they interact to generate real-world behavior.
• CAS EE 557: Oceanography of Stellwagen Bank and Surrounding Waters
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to BUMP, and CASEE 144 and CASCH 101 and CH 102 (or CH 171 and CH 172); or consent of instructor - Nutrient distribution and physical oceanography of Stellwagen Bank and adjacent waters. Bathymetric influences and effects of ocean currents of biogeochemical parameters. Includes day-long cruises on NOAA research vessel.
• CAS EE 562: Tropical Seagrasses: Ecology and Conservation
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: admittance to the Marine Semester, which requires the student has taken at least one Marine Breadth class. - This field course focuses on tropical seagrasses located in the Turneffe Atoll Marine Reserve Belize. Lecture topics include seagrass biology, ecology and conservation. Students gain proficiency in research and field assessment methods and carry out a group research project.
• CAS EE 585: Ecological Forecasting and Informatics
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: CASBI 303 or BI 306; (CASMA 121 or MA 123) and (CASMA 115 or MA 213 or CASEE 375) or CDSDS 122; or consent of instructor. - The statistics and informatics of model-data fusion and forecasting: data management, workflows, Bayesian statistics, uncertainty analysis, fusing multiple data sources, assessing model performance, scenario development, decision analysis, and data assimilation. Case studies highlight ecological forecasting across a range of subdisciplines. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Oral and/or Signed Communication, Teamwork/Collaboration.
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  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Oral and/or Signed Communication
  • Teamwork/Collaboration
• CAS EE 591: Bio-Optical Oceanography
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: admission to BUMP. - This field- and lab-based course will explore how the optically active constituents in seawater affect the in-water light field, and in turn, how field optics and remote sensing can facilitate the study of marine biogeochemistry, biological oceanography and water quality.
• CAS EE 593: Marine Physiology and Climate Change
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: BI 108 - Explores the range of physiological responses marine organisms exhibit in response to climate change. Investigates phenotypic plasticity exhibited across different organisms and how this plasticity can influence an organism's resilience to its changing environment.
• CAS EE 594: Global Environmental Negotiation and Policy
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: junior standing or consent of instructor. - Provides an overview of key actors, issues, and treaties in global environmental governance, paying particular attention to historical and contemporary differences in perspectives and interests of industrialized and developing countries. Effective Fall 2020, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Ethical Reasoning, Social Inquiry II.
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  • Ethical Reasoning
  • Social Inquiry II
• CAS EE 597: Development and Environment in Latin America
  Undergraduate Prerequisites: GE/EE 100 or IR 292 or IR 590 and junior standing, or consent of instr uctor - Provides an empirically based understanding of the social and environmental aspects of economic development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) for purposes of analyzing the numerous trade and development policies that nations in LAC are currently considering. Also offered as IR 597.
• CAS EE 599: Science, Politics, and Climate Change
  Applies a science and technology studies perspective to climate change science and policy, examining efforts to address sources and consequences of climate change at global, national, and local levels. Effective Fall 2021, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Social Inquiry II, Critical Thinking.
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  • Critical Thinking
  • Social Inquiry II