{"id":555,"date":"2023-01-05T14:27:22","date_gmt":"2023-01-05T19:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels-draft\/?page_id=555"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:51:31","slug":"curriculum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/environmental-and-earth-sciences\/curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biological and Environmental Sciences<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental and Earth Sciences<\/h2>\n\n\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"eves\" data-show-title=\"0\"><ul id=\"menu-eves\" class=\"cl-menu-list cl-menu-list-no-js\"><li id=\"menu-item-539\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-539\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/evolution-and-marine-biology\/\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-584\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-584\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/environmental-and-earth-sciences\/curriculum\/\">Curriculum<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-603\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-603\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/environmental-and-earth-sciences\/research-2\/\">Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li id=\"menu-item-629\" class=\"menu-item menu-item-type-post_type menu-item-object-page menu-item-629\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/environmental-and-earth-sciences\/affiliated-faculty\/\">Affiliated faculty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/nav><\/section>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Curriculum<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"button-list\" style=\"width: 300px;float: right;margin-left: 40px\"><a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/biological-and-environmental-sciences-m-s-ph-d\/environmental-and-earth-sciences\/curriculum\/courses\/\" title=\"\">Courses<\/a>\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/biological-and-environmental-sciences-m-s-ph-d\/evolution-and-marine-biology\/curriculum\/ph-d-qualifying-exam-2\/\" title=\"\">Ph.D. Qualifying Exam<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This graduate research group focuses on the history, function, and condition of earth\u2019s environments from local to global scales. Faculty research interests encompass all aspects of the natural sciences including geology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, soil science, assessment of biodiversity, microbial ecology, and global change. Most of this research uses combinations of geospatial data technologies, computer modeling, state-of-the-art analytical instruments, and field investigations to advance our knowledge of earth processes and the management of water resources, shorelines, wetlands, and terrestrial landscapes to sustain healthy environments and to rehabilitate and restore damaged environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Core courses:&nbsp;<\/strong>All students are expected to take the following 2 credits of core coursework (the student\u2019s committee may require additional courses as appropriate):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graduate Seminar<\/strong>, 1 credit for each seminar, 2 seminars required: Graduate students provide one talk on their proposed research in the early phase of their careers and one talk on their research results in a later phase. This creates an active student body knowledgeable about their peers\u2019 research, and fosters collegiality among the student body and mentoring of younger grads by senior grads. Students must take this twice for credit (i.e., two presentations are required), but are required to attend the seminar each semester when in residence at URI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Summary of proposed credit structure:&nbsp;<\/strong>All students are expected to take 2 credits of Grad seminar. For MSc and PhD students this leaves 16+ credits for other courses.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_499\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_0\" data-footable_id=\"499\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"BES Curriculum 1 - Sheet1.csv\"            id=\"footable_499\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_2798783969_499\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_499 ninja_table_unique_id_2798783969_499 ui table  nt_type_ajax_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_search_disabled ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_3 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_4 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n            <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>*MSc students are required to take 6-9 research credits; the remaining credits can be taken as Special Problems course(s) or additional coursework. Note that current URI Graduate School policy (Section 7.44.1 of Graduate Manual) states that MSc students can take a maximum of 9 thesis research (599) credits, whereas for PhD students there is no maximum number of the thesis research (699) credits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>**Coursework for PhD students is decided in close consultation with the student\u2019s PhD committee and with careful consideration of past coursework completed and the student\u2019s career goals. PhD students with a MSc degree can transfer 30 credits from their MSc program and thus must complete at least 42 credits at URI. PhD students without a MSc degree may be allowed to transfer up to 20% of credits (e.g., 15 credits for a 72 credit program) from another institution but restrictions apply (see Section 7.50-54 of Graduate Manual for details). The required 18 course credits is pertinent to all BES PhD students and can be satisfied by transfer course credits with approval of the student\u2019s PhD committee.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"footable_parent_554\"\n         class=\" footable_parent ninja_table_wrapper loading_ninja_table wp_table_data_press_parent semantic_ui \">\n                <table data-ninja_table_instance=\"ninja_table_instance_1\" data-footable_id=\"554\" data-filter-delay=\"1000\" aria-label=\"EVES Curriculum 2 - Sheet1.csv( Duplicate )\"            id=\"footable_554\"\n           data-unique_identifier=\"ninja_table_unique_id_1195961891_554\"\n           class=\" foo-table ninja_footable foo_table_554 ninja_table_unique_id_1195961891_554 ui table  nt_type_ajax_table selectable striped vertical_centered  footable-paging-right ninja_table_search_disabled ninja_table_pro\">\n                <colgroup>\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_0 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_1 \">\n                            <col class=\"ninja_column_2 \">\n                    <\/colgroup>\n            <\/table>\n    \n    \n    \n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Graduate Certificate in GIS and Remote Sensing (15 credits) is available for EVES students. GIS and remote sensing classes can be used to concurrently fulfill the course requirements for a certificate and the MS\/PhD degree.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"uri-people-tool cl-tiles halves\"><div class=\"peopleitem h-card \">\n\t<header>\n\t\t<div class=\"header\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"p-name\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/geo\/dawn-cardace\/\">Dawn Cardace<\/a><\/h3>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div class=\"inside\">\n\n\t\t<p class=\"people-title p-job-title\">EVES Specialization Group Coordinator, Associate Professor<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-department\">Geosciences<\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"people-misc\"><span class=\"p-tel\">401.874.9384<\/span> <br> <a class=\"u-email\" href=\"mailto:cardace@uri.edu\">cardace@uri.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\t\t\n\t\t<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button   prominent\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/academics\/bes\/\" title=\"\">BES Main<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curriculum This graduate research group focuses on the history, function, and condition of earth\u2019s environments from local to global scales. Faculty research interests encompass all aspects of the natural sciences including geology, biogeochemistry, hydrology, soil science, assessment of biodiversity, microbial ecology, and global change. 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