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Graduate Course Proposal Form Submission Detail - EVR6320
Tracking Number - 2838
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Current Status:
Removed from DB by orginator - 2015-02-16
Campus: Tampa
Submission Type: Change
Course Change Information (for course changes only): This is a course name change only:
From: Environmental Management
To: Environmental Sustainability and Management
The change better reflects course content the way it is currently instructed.
Comments: Withdrawn by CAS 2/16/15
Detail Information
- Date & Time Submitted: 2012-03-07
- Department: Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
- College: AS
- Budget Account Number:
- Contact Person: Philip Reeder
- Phone: 8139744292
- Email: preeder@usf.edu
- Prefix: EVR
- Number: 6320
- Full Title: Environmental Management
- Credit Hours: 3
- Section Type: C -
Class Lecture (Primarily)
- Is the course title variable?: N
- Is a permit required for registration?: N
- Are the credit hours variable?: N
- Is this course repeatable?:
- If repeatable, how many times?: 0
- Abbreviated Title (30 characters maximum): Environmental Management
- Course Online?: C -
Face-to-face (0% online)
- Percentage Online: 0
- Grading Option:
R - Regular
- Prerequisites:
- Corequisites:
- Course Description: This course introduces the students to environmental management from technical and non-technical perspectives. The major topics covered will be water and air quality, environmental sustainability, collaboration and building consensus.
- Please briefly explain why it is necessary and/or desirable to add this course:
- What is the need or demand for this course? (Indicate if this course is part of a required sequence in the major.) What other programs would this course service? It is offered once per year and usually has an enrollment of about 20 graduatestudents
- Has this course been offered as Selected Topics/Experimental Topics course? If yes, how many times? No
- What qualifications for training and/or experience are necessary to teach this course? (List minimum qualifications for the instructor.) Doctorate or equivelant in Environmental Science, Geography or related field, graduate teaching experience and teaching and/or research knowledge in Environmental Sustainability and Management
- Objectives: 1. Introduce the students to environmental management from the scientific, technical, political, administrative, historical, legal, and social perspectives. 2. Understand the basics of water, air, solid and hazardous wastes management. 3. Look at ways the regulatory governmental and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) address environmental management. 4. Enhance the understanding of environmental management by applying case studies. 5. Evaluate the current environmental/natural resources management practices.
- Learning Outcomes: 1.Leadership: work as team member; ability to identify and to solve environmental problems 2.Multidisciplinary Ability: ability to apply fundamental science and social science in an integrative fashion, to effectively work and solve problems at the interface of science, technology, policy, and ethics. 3.Problem Solving Approach: ability to pose, identify, formulate, and solve environmental problems 4.Professional Orientation: ability in effective oral and written communication skills; ability for reliable independent work as well as teamwork experience; judgment and appreciation of the bigger picture; ability to recognize and appreciate ethical principles and standards; a basis in the humanities and social sciences; aspiration and habits to keep learning throughout life.
- Major Topics: Water pollution and management, air pollution and management, waste management, environmental movement history, actors in the environmental management, conflict resolution and facilitation, and communicating a watershed message.
- Textbooks: O’Leary, Rosemary, et al., Managing for the Environment: Undersatding the Legal, Organizational, and Policy Challenges. 1nd edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc, 1999. Barrow, C. J. Environmental Management for Sustainable Development, 2nd edition, Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2006 Russo, Michael. Environmental Management. 2nd edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008.
- Course Readings, Online Resources, and Other Purchases: Cooper, D., et al. (2004) Project Risk Management Guidelines ISBN 0 470 02281 7, John
Wiley and Sons Ltd,
Fay, S. (1996) The Collapse of Barings ISBN 1 86066 037 1, Richard Cohen Books, London,
UK
Flyvbjerg, B. Policy and Planning for Large Infrastructure Projects: Problems, Causes, Cures.
World Bank Published on-line at http://www.worldbank.org/reference/ and accessed on 25
March 2006
Flyvbjerg, B., Bruzelius, N., and Rothengatter, W. (2003) Megaprojects and Risk: an anatomy
of ambition ISBN 0 521 00946 4, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA
Gerrard, S., (1995) Environmental risk management. in Environmental Science for
Environmental Management, Ed. T. O'Riordan, Longman Scientific and Technical: Singapore
Keey, R. (2000) Management of Engineering Risk ISBN 0 908993 25 0, Centre for Advanced
Engineering, Christchurch, NZ
Lapierre, D. (2002) Five Past Midnight in Bhopal ISBN 0 7432 3088 4, Simon & Schuster UK
Ltd, London, UK
MacDonald, L. (2005) Curse of the Narrows ISBN 13978 0 8027 1458 9, Walker Publishing
Company Inc, New York
Noble, G. (1995) Commission of Inquiry into the Collapse of a Viewing Platform at Cave
Creek, near Punakaiki on the West Coast ISBN 0 478 09210 5, Department of Internal Affairs,
Wellington, NZ
Reason, J. (1998) Managing the risks of organisational accidents ISBN 1 84014 105 0,
Ashgate Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK
Reason, J. and Hobbs, A. (2003) Managing Maintenance Error ISBN 0 7546 1591 X, Ashgate
Publishing Ltd, Aldershot, UK
Rennie, H., Turner, K., and Sollitt, S. (1998) Inquiry into the Auckland Power Supply Failure
ISBN 0 478 00086 3, Ministry of Commerce, Wellington, NZ
The Royal Society (1992) Risk: analysis, perception and management ISBN The Royal
Society, London, UK
Waring, A. and Glendon, I. (1998) Managing Risk ISBN 1 86152 167 7, Thomson Learning,
London, UK
- Student Expectations/Requirements and Grading Policy: Two exams - 20% each = 40%
Final paper - 20%
three class project 10% each = 30%
participation - 10%
- Assignments, Exams and Tests: 1. Two exams based on readings and class lectures
2. Original research paper on an approved topic in Environmental Management
3. Three class projects - (1) Wetlands, (2) Resources, (3) Urban Areas
- Attendance Policy: Course Attendance at First Class Meeting – Policy for Graduate Students: For structured courses, 6000 and above, the College/Campus Dean will set the first-day class attendance requirement. Check with the College for specific information. This policy is not applicable to courses in the following categories: Educational Outreach, Open University (TV), FEEDS Program, Community Experiential Learning (CEL), Cooperative Education Training, and courses that do not have regularly scheduled meeting days/times (such as, directed reading/research or study, individual research, thesis, dissertation, internship, practica, etc.). Students are responsible for dropping undesired courses in these categories by the 5th day of classes to avoid fee liability and academic penalty. (See USF Regulation – Registration - 4.0101,
http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/ogc%20web/currentreg.htm)
Attendance Policy for the Observance of Religious Days by Students: In accordance with Sections 1006.53 and 1001.74(10)(g) Florida Statutes and Board of Governors Regulation 6C-6.0115, the University of South Florida (University/USF) has established the following policy regarding religious observances: (http://usfweb2.usf.edu/usfgc/gc_pp/acadaf/gc10-045.htm)
In the event of an emergency, it may be necessary for USF to suspend normal operations. During this time, USF may opt to continue delivery of instruction through methods that include but are not limited to: Blackboard, Elluminate, Skype, and email messaging and/or an alternate schedule. It’s the responsibility of the student to monitor Blackboard site for each class for course specific communication, and the main USF, College, and department websites, emails, and MoBull messages for important general information.
- Policy on Make-up Work: Students are expected to attend all classes. Students who do have a valid excuse for missing class are expected to obtain class notes from other students and should see the instructor for concepts they do not understand. If a student has a valid excuse for missing class on the days when field trips occur and information for projects is collected, then we can determine a way to make up the missed work. Please try to attend class especially on these days, because missing class will put you at a disadvantage for completing the project and hence doing well in the class. It is the student’s responsibility to contact the instructor directly before the field data is collected in class to inform them of the absence, but the truth of the matter is that graduate students should not miss class! Students with problems or questions are encouraged to seek additional help from the instructor. The time to ask questions is before, not after, the due date for a project.
No disruption of the class will be tolerated. Students disrupting class by talking or late arrival will be asked to leave. This type of behavior, which is distracting to the instructor and your fellow students, is not acceptable. Cell phones should be turned off while in class, hence, not text messaging is allowed during class. Students determined to be academically dishonest on assignments will be dealt will in the strongest way possible within the guidelines established by the university. Please review USF Graduate Catalog, section 7 (linked below) for more information.
http://www.grad.usf.edu/newsite/grad_council/Catalog/2008_09/Section_7_Academic_Policies.pdf
Incomplete grades (I) will not be given in this course except under exceptional circumstances, based on written documentation, and at the discretion of the instructor. Students who plan to be absent from class due to the observance of a major religious activity must provide written notice of the dates to the instructor by the second week of the semester.
- Program This Course Supports: Environmental Science and Policy MS Program, Environmental Policy and Management Graduate Certificate Program, and the new proposed track in Environment, Sustainability and Planning in the Geography and Environmental Science and Policy Doctoral Program
- Course Concurrence Information: Some areas of biology, geology, public health or anthropology
- if you have questions about any of these fields, please contact chinescobb@grad.usf.edu or joe@grad.usf.edu.