As part of the Graduate Program in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health, trainees complete course work that provides a foundation in Biogeoscience, Environmental Health, and Statistics across topics that span air, water, and climate.
URBAN Ph.D. students are required to take the Colloquium (2 credits) and the Internship course (0-4 credits), which are listed below.
Colloquium
CAS BI/EE 764 or SPH EH 799: Colloquium in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health
This course is required for Ph.D. trainees and optional for master’s trainees.
Internship Course
CDS DS 795: Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health: From Research to Policy
This course is required for Ph.D. trainees and master’s trainees in the URBAN Internship Track.
Interdisciplinary Coursework
URBAN Ph.D. students and master’s students in the URBAN Coursework Track are additionally required to take one course in Biogeoscience (4 credits), one course in Environmental Health (4 credits), and one course in Statistics (4 credits). Below are the approved BU URBAN Courses. You can select one course from each category to fulfill your requirements. You may also petition to count a course not listed below towards your requirements by following the instructions on our Course Petitions page. To learn about individual courses below, search through the BU Bulletin.
Biogeoscience
- CAS EE 501 Advanced Remote Sensing
- CAS EE 503 Micrometeorology
- CAS EE 504 Physical Climatology
- CAS EE 511 Introduction to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
- CAS EE 512: Urban Climate
- CAS EE 514: Dynamic Land Surface Hydrology
- CAS BI/EE 523: Marine Urban Ecology (BU Marine Program Course)
- CAS BI/EE 530: Forest Ecology
- CAS EE 533: Quantitative Geomorphology
- CAS EE 540: Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change
- CAS EE 543: Estuaries and Nearshore Systems
- CAS EE 623: Marine Biochemistry
- CAS BI/EE 643 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry
- CAS BI 648 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology
- CAS EE 656 Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle
- CAS EE 683: Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Environmental Health
- SPH EH 720: Climate and Health
- SPH EH 722: Climate Change and Health Equity
- SPH EH 727: Incorporating Health to Design Healthy Climate Solutions
- SPH EH 730: Methods in Environmental Health Sciences
- SPH EH 731: Environmental Health and Justice: Essential Strategies for Effective Action
- SPH EH 745: Wastewater and Health/ Sustainable Sanitation
- SPH EH 750: Water Quality and Public Health
- SPH EH 757: Environmental Epidemiology
- SPH EH 804: Field Methods in Exposure Science
- SPH EH 866: Risk Assessment Methods
If an Environmental Health course that you would like to take is full and you’d like to be added to the course waitlist, please visit BUSPH Registrar’s Office Forms to download, complete, and submit the waitlist form for the term you would like to be enrolled in the course to sphregr@bu.edu. See Waitlist FAQs or email urban@bu.edu for additional information.
Statistics
- CAS EE 508: Data Science for Conservation Decisions
- CAS EE 509: Applied Environmental Statistics
- CAS EE 516: Multivariate Analysis for Geographers
- CAS EE 529: Modeling and Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes
- CAS EE 545: Methods of Environmental Policy Analysis
- CAS EE 585: Ecological Forecasting and Informatics
- CAS EE 644: Digital Image Processing – Remote Sensing
- CAS EE 712: Regional Energy Modeling
- SPH BS 723: Introduction to Statistical Computing
- SPH BS 730: Introduction to R: Software for Statistical Computing
- SPH BS 805: Intermediate Statistical Computing & Applied Regression Analysis
- SPH BS 852: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- SPH BS 857: Analysis of Correlated Data
- SPH BS 820: Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis
- SPH BS 853: Generalized Linear Models with Applications
- SPH EH 851: Advanced Geographic Information Systems for Climate Research and Public Health
- Any graduate-level course from the Department of Mathematics & Statistics, especially:
- CAS MA 681: Accelerated Introduction to Statistics for Quantitative Research
- CAS MA 585: Time Series and Forecasting
- CAS MA 578: Bayesian Statistics
- CAS MA 751 Statistical Machine Learning
- CDS DS 537 Data Science for Conservation Decisions
- CDS DS 541 Agent-Based Modeling of People, Health, and the Environment
- CDS DS 563 Algorithmic Techniques for Taming Big Data
- CDS DS 574 Algorithmic Mechanism Design
- CDS DS 596 Special Topics in Natural, Biological and Medical Sciences
Further Study
The following additional courses have been recommended by URBAN faculty and may be of particular interest to URBAN Trainees:
- CAS BI 510: Institutional Racism in Health and Science
- CAS EE 528: US Environmental Policy
- CAS EE 538: Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations
- CAS EE 660: Resource Economics and Policy
- SPH PH 802: Environmental Justice: Social movement, Science and Policy
- SPH PH 803: Community-Based Participatory Research: Theory and Methods
- SPH EH 811: Intro GIS for Public Health
- Please Note: SPH PH 801: Community Engaged Research: Theory, Methods, and Applications (4 cr) has been replaced by SPH PH 802 (2 cr) and SPH PH 803 (2 cr)