{"id":1739,"date":"2019-05-01T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T18:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=1739"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T16:54:14","slug":"courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/academics\/courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"color: #cc0000; font-size: 14pt;\">Colloquium<\/h6>\n<p><span>CAS BI\/EE 764 or SPH EH 799: Colloquium in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health<\/span><br \/>\n<em>This course is required for Ph.D. trainees and optional for master&#8217;s trainees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"color: #cc0000; font-size: 14pt;\">Internship Course<\/h6>\n<p><span>CDS DS 795: Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health: From Research to Policy<\/span><br \/>\n<em>This course is required for Ph.D. trainees and master&#8217;s trainees in the URBAN Internship Track.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"color: #cc0000; font-size: 14pt;\">Interdisciplinary Coursework<\/h6>\n<p>URBAN Ph.D. students and master&#8217;s students in the <em>URBAN Coursework Track<\/em> 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 a<span>pproved BU URBAN Courses<\/span>. You can select one course from each category to fulfill your requirements. You may also petition to count a course not listed below<span>\u00a0towards your requirements by following the instructions on our <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/current-students\/course-petitions\/\">Course Petitions<\/a> page. To learn about individual courses below, search through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/academics\/bulletin\/\">BU Bulletin<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Biogeoscience<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAS EE 501 Advanced Remote Sensing<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 503 Micrometeorology<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 504 Physical Climatology<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 511 Introduction to the Atmospheric Boundary Layer<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 512: Urban Climate<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 514: Dynamic Land Surface Hydrology<\/li>\n<li>CAS BI\/EE 523: Marine Urban Ecology (BU Marine Program Course)<\/li>\n<li>CAS BI\/EE 530: Forest Ecology<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 533: Quantitative Geomorphology<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 540: Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Change<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 543: Estuaries and Nearshore Systems<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 623: Marine Biochemistry<\/li>\n<li>CAS BI\/EE 643 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry<\/li>\n<li>CAS BI 648 Biodiversity and Conservation Biology<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 656 Terrestrial Ecosystems and the Carbon Cycle<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 683: Environmental and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Environmental Health<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SPH EH 720: Climate and Health<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 722: Climate Change and Health Equity<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 727: Incorporating Health to Design Healthy Climate Solutions<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 730: Methods in Environmental Health Sciences<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 731: Environmental Health and Justice: Essential Strategies for Effective Action<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 745: Wastewater and Health\/ Sustainable Sanitation<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 750: Water Quality and Public Health<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 757: Environmental Epidemiology<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 804: Field Methods in Exposure Science<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 866: Risk Assessment Methods<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If an Environmental Health course that you would like to take is full and you&#8217;d like to be added to the course waitlist, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/students\/advising-and-registration\/forms\/\">BUSPH Registrar&#8217;s Office Forms<\/a> to download, complete, and submit the waitlist form for the term you would like to be enrolled in the course to <a href=\"mailto:sphregr@bu.edu\">sphregr@bu.edu<\/a>. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/students\/advising-and-registration\/sph-registrar-faqs\/waitlist\/\">Waitlist FAQs<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:urban@bu.edu\">urban@bu.edu<\/a> for additional information.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAS EE 508: Data Science for Conservation Decisions<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 509: Applied Environmental Statistics<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 516: Multivariate Analysis for Geographers<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 529: Modeling and Monitoring Terrestrial Ecosystem Processes<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 545: Methods of Environmental Policy Analysis<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 585: Ecological Forecasting and Informatics<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 644: Digital Image Processing \u2013 Remote Sensing<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 712: Regional Energy Modeling<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 723: Introduction to Statistical Computing<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 730: Introduction to R: Software for Statistical Computing<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 805: Intermediate Statistical Computing &amp; Applied Regression Analysis<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 852: Statistical Methods in Epidemiology<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 857: Analysis of Correlated Data<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 820: Logistic Regression and Survival Analysis<\/li>\n<li>SPH BS 853: Generalized Linear Models with Applications<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 851: Advanced Geographic Information Systems for Climate Research and Public Health<\/li>\n<li><em>Any graduate-level course from the Department of Mathematics &amp; Statistics, especially:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><span>CAS MA 681: Accelerated Introduction to Statistics for Quantitative Research<\/span><\/li>\n<li>CAS MA 585: Time Series and Forecasting<\/li>\n<li>CAS MA 578: Bayesian Statistics<\/li>\n<li>CAS MA 751 Statistical Machine Learning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>CDS DS 537 Data Science for Conservation Decisions<\/li>\n<li>CDS DS 541 Agent-Based Modeling of People, Health, and the Environment<\/li>\n<li>CDS DS 563 Algorithmic Techniques for Taming Big Data<\/li>\n<li>CDS DS 574 Algorithmic Mechanism Design<\/li>\n<li>CDS DS 596 <span>Special Topics in Natural, Biological and Medical Sciences<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Further Study<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The following additional courses are optional but have been recommended by URBAN faculty and may be of particular interest to URBAN Trainees:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CAS BI 510: Institutional Racism in Health and Science<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 528: US Environmental Policy<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 538: Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations<\/li>\n<li>CAS EE 660: Resource Economics and Policy<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 802: Environmental Justice: Social movement, Science and Policy<\/li>\n<li>SPH PH 803: Community-Based Participatory Research: Theory and Methods<\/li>\n<li>SPH EH 811: Intro GIS for Public Health<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &nbsp; Colloquium CAS BI\/EE 764 or SPH EH 799: Colloquium in Urban Biogeoscience and Environmental Health This course is required for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14382,"featured_media":0,"parent":565,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":51,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7310,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1739\/revisions\/7310"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}