Course List

Course List

Environmental Sciences Honor Policy

Given the availability of old exams, worked problem sets, and laboratory exercises that are increasingly becoming available from online services and other venues, the Environmental Sciences Department considers student access of these materials for Environmental Sciences courses, without explicit instructor permission, to be a violation of the UVa Honor Code. (passed unanimously on 2/28/18)

Two year EVSC course offerings:

See Schedule Of Upcoming Courses page

Course Attribute Tags:

  • Artistic, Interpretive, & Philosophical Inquiry (AIP)
  • The Chemical, Mathematical, & Physical Universe (CMP)
  • Cultures & Societies of the World (CSW)
  • Historical Perspectives (HP)
  • Living Systems (LS)
  • Quantification, Computation, Data Analysis (QCD)
  • Science & Society (SS)
  • Social & Economic Systems (SES)

Full Listing:

Undergraduate

Category Number Title Credits Course Attribute Tag(s)
EVSC 1010 Introduction-Environmental Sciences 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 1020 Practical Concepts in Environmental Sciences 1  
EVSC 1040 Virginia’s Environments 3 CMP
EVSC 1050 Ethics, Protocols, and Practice of International Research 3 CSW
EVSC 1080 Resources and the Environment 3 CMP, SES
EVSC 1200 Elements of Ecology 3 LS, SES
EVSC 1300 Earth’s Weather and Climate 3 CMP
EVSC 1450 An Inconvenient Truce: Climate, You and CO2 3 CMP, SS
EVSC 1600 Water on Earth 3 CMP, SS
EVSC 2010 Materials That Shape Civilizations 3 CMP, SES
EVSC 2030 Politics, Science, and Values: An Introduction-Environmental Policy 3 SES, SS
EVSC 2050 Introduction-Oceanography 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 2070 Earth Systems Technology & Management 3 SS
EVSC 2200 Plants, People and Culture 3 CSW, SES
EVSC 2220 Conservation Ecology:Biodiversity and Beyond 3 LS, SES
EVSC 2800 Fundamentals of Geology 3 CMP
EVSC 2801 Fundamentals of Geology Laboratory 1  
EVSC 2850 Polar Environments 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 2900 Beaches, Coasts and Rivers 3 CMP
EVSC 3020 GIS Methods* 4 SS
EVSC 3060 Biomechanics of Organisms 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 3200 Fundamentals of Ecology 3 LS
EVSC 3201 Fundamentals of Ecology Laboratory 1  
EVSC 3300 Atmosphere and Weather 3 CMP
EVSC 3301 Atmosphere and Weather Laboratory 1  
EVSC 3600 Physical Hydrology 3 CMP
EVSC 3601 Physical Hydrology Laboratory 1  
EVSC 3660 Tropical Field Ecology* 4 LS
EVSC 3665 Tropical Ecology and Conservation in Belize* 3 LS
EVSC 3810 Earth Processes as Natural Hazards 3 CMP
EVSC 3860 Introduction-Geochemistry* 3 CMP
EVSC 4002 Undergraduate Seminar (This course may not be used to fulfill major or minor credit) 1  
EVSC 4010 Introduction-Remote Sensing 3 CMP
EVSC 4015 Advanced Remote Sensing Seminar* 3  
EVSC 4020 Dryland Ecohydrology 2  
EVSC 4030 Environmental Policymaking in the United States 3 SES, SS
EVSC 4035 Drones in Scientific Research 2  
EVSC 4040 Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy 3 CMP, SS
EVSC 4050 Topics in Oceanography 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 4066 Changing Global Carbon Cycle 3  
EVSC 4070 Advanced GIS* 3 QCD
EVSC 4080 Quantitative Methods in Environmental Sciences 3 QCD
EVSC 4090 Analytical Chemistry 3 CMP
EVSC 4100 Management of Forest Ecosystems* 4 LS
EVSC 4110 Coastal and Estuarine Ecology 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 4122 Coastal Ecology Seminar 1  
EVSC 4140 Global Coastal Change 3 LS, SS
EVSC 4150 Terrestrial Plant Ecology 3 LS
EVSC 4160 Forest Sampling* 3 LS
EVSC 4170 Spatial Ecology 3 LS
EVSC 4190 Ecosystem-based Marine Conservation 3 LS, SES
EVSC 4200 The Ecology of Coastal Wetlands 3 LS
EVSC 4210 Methods in Aquatic Ecology* 3 LS
EVSC 4230 Marine Environments and Organisms 3 LS
EVSC 4240 Restoration Ecology 3 LS
EVSC 4250 Ecosystem Ecology 3 LS
EVSC 4260 Ecology of Grasslands and Tundra 3 LS
EVSC 4270 Soil Science* 4 CMP, LS
EVSC 4290 Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 4310 Organism-Atmospheric Interactions 3  
EVSC 4332 Mountain Meteorology Seminar 2  
EVSC 4340 Human Biometeorology: Weather, Climate, and Human Health* 3 CMP, LS
EVSC 4360 Weather Forecasting 3 CMP
EVSC 4370 Climate Near the Ground 3 CMP
EVSC 4380 Air Pollution Environmental Justice 3 CMP, SS
EVSC 4390 Climate Modeling and Analysis 3 QCD
EVSC 4452 Global Climate Variability Seminar 2  
EVSC 4460 Synoptic Meteorology* 4 CMP
EVSC 4470 Introduction-Climatological Analysis* 3 QCD
EVSC 4490 Air Pollution 4 CMP
EVSC 4542   Topics in Landscape Evolution 1  
EVSC 4630 Land-Atmosphere Interaction 3 CMP
EVSC 4640 Water Resources in a Changing World 4 CMP
EVSC 4650 Water Sustainability 3  
EVSC 4660 Hydrological Field Methods and Data Analysis* 3 CMP
EVSC 4670 Drinking Water Quality 3 CMP, SS
EVSC 4710 Environmental Geochemistry 3 CMP
EVSC 4810 Petrology* 4 CMP
EVSC 4830 Geological Field Methods in Environmental Sciences* 4 CMP
EVSC 4840 Marine Geoscience* 3 CMP
EVSC 4850 Coastal Processes* 3 CMP
EVSC 4851 Coastal Processes Laboratory* 1  
EVSC 4860 Geology of Virginia 3 CMP
EVSC 4870 Global Biogeochemical Cycles 3  
EVSC 4890 Planetary Geology* 3 CMP
EVSC 4891 Planetary Geology Lab* 1  
EVSC 4991 The Theory and Practice of Biodiversity Conservation 3 LS
EVSC 4993 Independent Study 1-6  
EVSC 4995 Supervised Research 1-6  
EVSC 4999 Thesis Research 3  
EVSC 5020 Introduction-GIS* 4  
EVSC 5030 Applied Statistics for Environmental Scientists* 4  
EVSC 5040 Messy Data:  Statistical Methods in Ecology and Environmental Sciences 4  
EVSC 5050 Advanced Oceanography 3  
EVSC 5060 Coastal Oceanography 3  
EVSC 5082 Nitrogen Seminar 1  
EVSC 5440 Dynamics of Oceans and Estuaries 3  
EVAT 5300 Introduction to Climatology 3  
EVAT 5310 Tropical Meteorology    
EVAT 5320 Mountain Meteorology 4  
EVAT 5350 Atmospheric Chemistry 3  
EVAT 5400 Boundary Layer Meteorology* 4  
EVAT 5410 Atmospheric Dynamics 4  
EVEC 5220 Terrestrial Ecology* 4  
EVEC 5230 Microbial Ecology* 3  
EVEC 5231 Microbial Ecology Laboratory* 1  
EVEC 5250 Ecological Issues in Global Change 4  
EVGE 5820 Geomorphology* 4  
EVGE 5840 Sediment Processes and Environments* 3  
EVGE 5841 Sediment Processes Laboratory* 1  
EVGE 5850 Geochemistry* 4  
EVGE 5860 Isotope Geochemistry* 4  
EVGE 5870 Aqueous Geochemistry 4  
EVGE 5880 Glaciology 3  
EVHY 5610 GIS: Watershed Resilience    
EVHY 5640 Catchment Hydrology: Process and Theory* 3  
EVHY 5650 Hydrological Transport Processes* 4  
EVHY 5670 Environmental Fluid Mechanics* 4  
EVHY 5700 Forest Hydrology* 4  

*EVSC Courses that Meet Analytical Lab Requirement for B.S. Degree

Graduate

Category Number Title Credits
EVSC 5020 Introduction-Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 4
EVSC 5030 Applied Statistics for Environmental Scientists 4
EVSC 5040 Messy Data:  Statistical Methods in Ecology and Environmental Sciences 4
EVSC 5050 Advanced Oceanography 3
EVSC 5060 Coastal Oceanography 3
EVSC 5082 Nitrogen Seminar 1
EVSC 5440 Physical Oceanography 3
EVSC 7010 Introduction-Remote Sensing 3
EVSC 7012 Advanced Remote Sensing 1
EVSC 7020 Dryland Ecohydrology 2
EVSC 7040 Climate Change: Science, Markets & Policy 3
EVSC 7066 Changing Global Carbon Cycle 3
EVSC 7070 Advanced Use of Geographical Information Systems 3
EVSC 7072 Life in Graduate School: Research, Resources, and Well-Being 1
EVSC 7080 Quantitative Methods in Environmental Sciences 3
EVSC 7082 Careers in Environmental Sciences 1
EVSC 7092 Departmental Seminar 1
EVSC 7122 Coastal Ecology Seminar 1
EVSC 7140 Global Coastal Change 3
EVSC 7310 Organism-Atmosphere Interactions 3
EVSC 7390 Climate Modeling and Analysis 3
EVSC 7400 Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Atmospheric Sciences 3
EVSC 7820 Environmental Chemistry 4
EVSC 7999 Independent Study-Water 1-3
EVSC 8500 Advanced Topics in Environmental Sciences 3
EVSC 8998 Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Research 1-12
EVSC 8999 Non-Topical Research 1-12
EVSC 9995 Research Problems 1-12
EVSC 9998 Non-Topical Research, Preparation for Doctoral Research 1-12
EVSC 9999 Non-Topical Research 1-12
EVAT 5300 Introduction to Climatology 3
EVAT 5310 Tropical Meteorology  
EVAT 5320 Mountain Meteorology 4
EVAT 5350 Atmospheric Chemistry 3
EVAT 5400 Boundary Layer Meteorology 4
EVAT 5410 Atmospheric Dynamics 4
EVAT 7350 Atmospheric Mesoscale Modeling 3
EVAT 7460 Synoptic Meteorology 4
EVAT 7490 Air Pollution 3
EVAT 7999 Independent Study: Atmospheric Sciences 1-6
EVAT 8530 Advanced Topics in Atmospheric Sciences 3
EVEC 5220 Terrestrial Ecology 4
EVEC 5230 Microbial Ecology 3
EVEC 5231 Microbial Ecology Laboratory 1
EVEC 5250 Ecological Issues in Global Change 4
EVEC 5251 Ecological Issues in Global Change Laboratory 1
EVEC 7100 Management of Forest Ecosystems 4
EVEC 7110 Estuarine Ecology 3
EVEC 7140 Global Coastal Change 3
EVEC 7170 Spatial Ecology 3
EVEC 7202 Advanced Microbial Ecology 1
EVEC 7250 Ecosystem Ecology 3
EVEC 7260 Ecology of Grasslands and Tundra 3
EVEC 7290 Limnology: Inland Water Ecosystems 3
EVEC 7999 Independent Study: Ecology 1-6
EVGE 5820 Geomorphology 4
EVGE 5840 Sediment Processes and Environments 3
EVGE 5841 Sediment Processes Laboratory 1
EVGE 5850 Geochemistry 4
EVGE 5860 Isotope Geochemistry 4
EVGE 5870 Aqueous Geochemistry 4
EVGE 5880 Glaciology 3
EVGE 7810 Geology of Virginia 3
EVGE 7832 Water-Rock Interactions Seminar 1
EVGE 7999 Independent Study-Geosciences 1-6
EVGE 8580 Advanced Topics in Environmental Geology 3
EVHY 5610 GIS: Watershed Resilience  
EVHY 5640 Catchment Hydrology: Process and Theory 3
EVHY 5650 Hydrological Transport Processes 4
EVHY 5670 Environmental Fluid Mechanics 4
EVHY 5700 Forest Hydrology 4
EVHY 7630 Land-Atmosphere Interaction 3
EVHY 7640 Dynamic Hydrology 3
EVHY 7670 Numerical Methods in Hydrology 3
EVHY 7999 Independent Study: Hydrology and Water Resources 1-6
EVHY 8560 Advanced Topics in Hydrology and Water Resources 3