COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
Environmental Science
ENVS 200 Environmental Health Issues
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course provides the basis for understanding the wide-spread health problems that are linked to environment and occupational concerns. Topics include the identity and sources of air and water pollutants, the spread of these pollutants, and the harmful effects of these pollutants. These responsibilities of those involved with public health and the measures private industry is taking in addressing environmental health concerns is discussed. Special emphasis is given to health problems facing urban communities.
Pre-Requisites: Completion of math and language basic skills.
ENVS 203 Environmental and Occupational Laws
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course introduces the wide range of local, state, regional, federal, and international laws and regulations pertaining to environmental and occupational concerns. How the various governmental agencies interface is dis-cussed, as well as compliance, violations, and penalties. This course also focuses on the federal environmental jus-tice initiative.
Pre-Requisites: Completion of Math and Language basic skills.
ENVS 301 Air, Water Pollution
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course will provide a detailed outline of the sources and types of air pollutants and the ways in which these pollutants are dispersed. The course will also outline the established national goals for air and water quality needed to protect public health and welfare. This course will also address the topic of indoor air quality. This course will provide a more detailed treatment on the Clean Air Act, as amended, and the Clean Water Act as amended, to which students were previously introduced in the course entitled Environmental and Occupational Laws and Regulations (ENVS 200).
Pre-Requisite: CHM 201
ENVS 302 Measurement and Instrumentation
4 credits; 2 class hours; 6 lab hours
This course includes numerous laboratory exercises that familiarize students with methods of air, water and soil monitoring to determine the concentration levels of air-borne, waterborne and soil contaminants. This course will stress the guidelines established by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, the New York State Department of Environmental Protection, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, for analyzing, documenting and reporting air and water pollutants. Instruments include HPLC, TOC, GC/MS, UV-vis-IR & AA spectrophotometry and FTIR.
Pre-Requisites: ENVS 301 and CHM 202
ENVS 313 Waste Management
3 credit; 3 class hours
The main objective of this course is to present a very detailed account on collection, treatment, and disposal of solid waste, waste water, and hazardous waste. The course will also draw attention to the improved technology on which the waste generator must rely as land becomes more limited and regulations increase. The course touches upon the causes and effects of the three basic types of waste; solid waste, waste water and hazardous waste. The treatment and reuse of water is also addressed. In the United States, the management of hazardous waste is significantly regulated. This course addresses the subjects of direct hazardous waste treatment, categorical remedial action requirements, and low level radioactive waste handling.
Pre-Requisites: CHM 201 and ENVS 200
ENVS 400 Natural Resource, Conservation and Management
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course is designed to provide the interdisciplinary perspective that is required for devising solutions to today's many natural resource management problems. This course will outline the efforts of Americans and people worldwide to conserve natural resources. The course also touches on the many successes and failures of policies, laws, organizations, conservation, and protection of our natural resources.
Pre-Requisites: ENVS 200 and ENVS 203
ENVS 401 Ground Water
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course will outline the scientific foundations for the study of groundwater and the technical foundations for the development of groundwater resources. The course will also address the subject of groundwater contamination and the growth of groundwater technology.
Pre-Requisites: MTH 204 and PHY 212
ENVS 403 Field Study
3 credit; 3 class hours
In this course students will be required to plan, complete and report on actual environmental projects.
Environmental projects may be drawn from the following examples: the pollution beaches, parks and other recreational facilities in New York City and surrounding areas, illegal dump sites, the stock piles, and abandoned sites in New York City; the level of compliance of small businesses in central Brooklyn with federal, state, and local environ-mental and occupational laws; the effectiveness of New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) in poor neighborhoods; pollution and contamination linked to businesses operation in central Brooklyn, and finally the compliance of area residents with new recycling laws.
Students will be taught how to design and implement projects and how to prepare environmental reports. Three to four students will be assigned to each environmental project.
Pre-Requisites: ENVS 302 and ENVS 400
ENVS 404 Internship
3 credits; 3-6 class hours
For the final semester, students are required to work at least three hours per week with an environmental concern providing one of the following services: Air quality and Pollution Control, Energy Development, Conservation, and Recovery, Environmental and Ecology Studies, Environmental Impact Analyses, Facility Operation and Management, Hazardous and Toxic Waste Management, Industrial Waste Control and Treatment, Human Settlements and Environmental issues, Laboratory Services, Marine Waste Disposal and Nearshore Oceanography, Regional Water Pollution Control Planning, Sewage Treatment and Disposal, Sludge Handling and Disposal, Solid Waste Management, Storm Drainage and Flood Control, Water Supply, Treatment and Distribution, and finally, Research.
Pre-Requisite: Approval by department.
ENVS 405 Pollution Control and Prevention
3 credits; 3 class hours
This course focuses on the rapidly developing new technology for the control of pollutants. It therefore provides very detailed discussion on such topics as source and emission controls. The course will draw attention to the follow-ing subjects: particulate and gas controls for stationary and mobile sources of air quality, and water treatment. The only effective way to prevent air pollution is to pre-vent the release of pollutants at the source. This course will outline modifications on combustion and the technology for the treatment of industrial exhaust gases before they are released into the atmosphere will also be addressed.
Pre-Requisites: ENVS 301 and ENVS 303
