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2012-2013 General Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses of Instruction

The following is a listing of all courses of instruction offered by departments at LSU. This listing was up-to-date and as correct as possible at the time of publication of this catalog.

Since this catalog was prepared well in advance of its effective date, some courses may have been added, others may have been dropped, and/or changes in content may have been made.

The following are important notes concerning courses:

  • General education courses are designated by stars (★) placed before the course numbers.
  • Class minima are specified in PS-37, Minimum Class Size:
  ≪ Below 4000 15  
  ≪ Between 4000-4999 10  
  ≪ 5000 and above 5  
  • No credit is given for a course unless the student has been duly registered in that course.
  • The amount of credit given for the satisfactory completion of a course is based on the number of lectures each week for one semester:
  ≪ one credit represents at least one hour of lecture a week for one semester;  
  ≪ two hours of laboratory (in some cases, three) are the equivalent of one hour of lecture.  
  • When a course consists entirely or partly of laboratory, that fact is stated in the description. When not otherwise specified, the course consists entirely of lectures.
  • The number of credit hours that a course carries per semester is listed in parentheses following the course title. If the number listed is variable, i.e., (2-4), the amount of credit that the student is to receive must be stated at the time of registration.
  • Indication of variable credit does not mean that a course may be repeated for credit. If a course can be repeated for credit, that information is included in the course description.
  • Listing of a course does not necessarily mean that it will be offered every year.
  • The phrases also offered as… , see…, or same as…, which appear in some course descriptions, refer to honors courses or to cross-listed courses that are available through more than one department. In each of these instances, only one of the courses may be taken for credit.

Course Numbering System

An explanation of the first digit of the four-digit course numbering system follows. The meaning of the second, third, and fourth digits varies by department. See “Year Classification of Students ” in the “Undergraduate Degree Requirements and Regulations” section of this catalog for an explanation of the criteria for classification as a freshman, sophomore, etc.

1000-1999 • For undergraduate students, primarily freshmen; for undergraduate credit only. Ordinarily open to all students; in some instances upper-division students may not take these courses for degree credit.

2000-2999 • For undergraduate students, sophomore level or above; for undergraduate credit only.

3000-3999 • For advanced undergraduate students, junior- and senior-level; for undergraduate credit only. These courses constitute the advanced portion of an undergraduate program leading to the bachelor’s degree. A student with fewer than 60 hours of credit may enroll in 3000 level courses if they meet the enrollment requirements of the college whose departments offer the courses.

4000-4999 • For advanced undergraduate students (who have completed a minimum of 60 semester hours) and students in graduate and professional schools and colleges; for undergraduate or graduate credit. Undergraduates with 30 or more semester hours who are making timely progress toward a degree may be admitted to 4000 level courses. Such students must have a 3.50 GPA or higher, the appropriate prerequisites, consent of the instructor, and permission of the dean of the student’s undergraduate college.

5000-5999 • For students in post-baccalaureate professional programs (architecture, law, and veterinary medicine). A student in the Graduate School may take these courses for credit with approval of the student’s major department.

6000-6999 • Exclusively for teachers at the elementary, secondary, and junior college levels.

7000-7999 • For students in the Graduate School; for graduate credit only except as follows. Undergraduates with 75 or more semester hours who are making timely progress toward a degree may be admitted to 7000 level courses. Such students must have a 3.50 or higher GPA, the appropriate prerequisites, consent of the instructor, and permission of the dean of the student’s undergraduate college. Credit so earned will apply only toward undergraduate degree requirements, except for students enrolled in an accelerated master’s degree program.

8000-8999 • Research courses exclusively for graduate students, primarily for students working toward the master’s degree; for graduate credit only. The number 8000 designates thesis research.

9000-9999 • Research courses exclusively for graduate students, primarily for advanced graduate students working toward the doctoral degree; for graduate credit only. The number 9000 designates dissertation research.
 

Environmental Sciences
  

  • ENVS 3999 Undergraduate Research (1-4)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. of credit. Individual study of a specific environmental problem or individual laboratory research.
  

  • ENVS 4010 Applied Ecology (2)

    Also offered as EMS 4010 . Prereq.: minimum of 10 sem. hrs. of biological and/or physical science. The biosphere, air, land and aquatic environments; development of alternative techniques for correcting environmental pollution; environmental risk assessment analysis and management.
  

  • ENVS 4015 Physical Climatology (3)

    See GEOG 4015 .
  

  • ENVS 4035 Aquatic Pollution (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 1126  or ENVS 1127  or OCS 1005  or OCS 1006 ; or OCS 2007  and OCS 2008  or equivalent. Credit will not be given for this course and ENVS 4036 . Interdisciplinary study of the interaction between man and the aquatic environment and human impacts on marine and freshwater biological systems; biological, ecological, social, legal and managerial aspects of water pollution are examined through a series of case studies.
  
  

  • ENVS 4045 Air Pollution and Society (3)

    Foundations of the science of air pollution. Fundamentals of sources, measurements, standards and societal impacts of air pollution.
  

  • ENVS 4101 Environmental Chemistry (3)

    See CHEM 4150 .
  

  • ENVS 4112 Concepts in Coastal Eco-toxicology (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 1126 , ENVS 4101  or ENVS 4035  or permission of instructor. Coastal pollution and toxicology of industrial and non-point source materials related to ecological risk in near shore and inland coastal wetland areas.
  

  • ENVS 4141 Radioecology (3)

    See NS 4141 .
  

  • ENVS 4145 Remote Sensing Fundamentals for Environmental Scientists (3)

    Basic principles and concepts in remote sensing and its applications to environmental sciences. Emphasis is placed on remote sensing instrumentation and the acquisition of remote sensing data.
  

  • ENVS 4149 Design of Environmental Management Systems (3)

    Environmental systems planning at local, national and international levels; identification of system requirements and available resources; definition of constraints, establishment of evaluation criteria; evaluation of alternative concepts and plans for subsystems; implementation using qualitative tradeoffs, mathematical models and computer simulations.
  

  • ENVS 4261 Energy and the Environment (3)

    Methods of stationary power generation; pollution related to fuel production, transportation and use; energy use and pollution problems related to transportation; energy resources, regulatory aspects and control technology related to stationary and moving sources of air pollution.
  

  • ENVS 4262 Environmental Hazards Analysis (3)

    Systematic framework for examining the nature and consequences of natural and man-made hazards; strategies that may be taken to plan, respond, recover, prevent or mitigate hazards.
  

  • ENVS 4264 Regulation of Environmental Hazards (3)

    Federal, state and local regulation for mitigating the occurrence and effects of hazardous events, including the National Flood Insurance Act, Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act and government planning and zoning authority.
  

  • ENVS 4266 Ocean Policy (3)

    National and state ocean policy; Law of the Sea; regulation of the high seas; marine pollution, marine resources, and marine scientific research; other related topics.
  

  • ENVS 4477 Environmental Toxicology: Introduction and Applications (3)

    Prereq.: 6 hrs. of chemistry, 6 hrs. of life sciences and permission of instructor. Introduction to the basic principles of environmental toxicology; applications of these principles in industrial and other job related environments; regulatory perspectives; spills; anthropogenic pollution problems; human risk management; overview of classes of toxic agents, routes of exposure, target tissues (human mammalian) and toxicological testing.
  

  • ENVS 4500 Health Effects of Environmental Pollutants (3)

    Prereq.: minimum of 6 sem. hrs. of chemistry and 6 sem. hrs. of either biology or zoology. Effects of environmental pollutants on human health and quality of life.
  

  • ENVS 4600 Global Environmental Change: Past, Present and Future (3)

    See  .
  

  • ENVS 4900 Watershed Hydrology (3)

    Also offered as RNR 4900 . Prereq.: an introductory statistics course. 1 1/2 hrs. lecture; 1 1/2 hrs. lab. The principles of hydrology with emphasis on how natural systems are analyzed, modeled and used in management decisions; laboratory exercises involve hands-on experience with hydrologic data analysis, use of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial modeling.
  

  • ENVS 4950 Special Topics in Environmental Sciences (1-3)

    Prereq.: permission of the Department. May be taken for a maximum of 6 hours of credit. More than one section may be taken for credit concurrently when topics differ. Special topics in environmental issues, problems, techniques and/or methods.
  

  • ENVS 4999 Capstone in Coastal Environmental Science (1)

    Also offered as OCS 4999 . Prereq.: Senior standing as a declared Coastal Environmental Science Major and consent of instructor. May be taken for a maximum of 2 hours of credit, but only one hour will count towards the Coastal Environmental Science BS degree. Required of all students in the Coastal Environmental Science BS degree program. Written paper, poster and oral presentation of an analysis of a chosen environmental issue as selected by the student and the instructor.
  

  • ENVS 6010 Topics in Environmental Science for Teachers (2-4)

    May be taken for a max. of 8 sem. hrs. credit when topics vary. Topics in environmental science with an emphasis on inquiry-based scientific learning and on issues of importance to Louisiana; hands-on activities and field trips will be major components of the class.
  

  • ENVS 7010 Mathematical Modeling in Energy and Environmental Management (3)

    Prereq.: OCS 4410  or equivalent. Advanced studies in the development of models of energy and environmental systems.
  

  • ENVS 7040 Environmental Planning and Management (3)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. Environmental systems planning and management at local, state and federal government levels using problem identification; design of alternative solutions, evaluation of alternatives, political action decision processes and implementation and monitoring.
  

  • ENVS 7041 Environmental Policy Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. Management-oriented approach to major phases of environmental policy; formulation, implementation, evaluation; theoretical bases and analytical techniques.
  

  • ENVS 7042 Environmental Conflict Resolution (3)

    Practical approaches and techniques commonly used to mediate environmental conflicts and facilitate participatory group decision making among stakeholders.
  

  • ENVS 7043 Environmental Law and Regulation (3)

    Introduction to basic principles of federal and state laws, regulations and court decisions involving pollution of the environment, including the National Environmental Policy Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Oil Pollution Act; current topical legal developments.
  

  • ENVS 7044 Regulation of Toxic Substances (3)

    Federal laws, regulations, judicial decisions and policies regarding the development, production, use and disposal of toxic substances, including the Toxic Substances Control Act, Federal Insecticide, Rodenticide, and Fungicide Act and the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; toxic tort lawsuits will be reviewed.
  

  • ENVS 7045 Land Use Law and Regulation (3)

    Federal, state and local laws, regulations, judicial decisions and polices regarding land use, land use planning and environmental regulation of land use, including: zoning; subdivision regulation; planned unit development (PUD); comprehensive land use plans; limits on growth and urban sprawl; and regulatory “takings.”
  

  • ENVS 7046 International Environmental Law (3)

    International and multilateral agreements and practices for controlling pollution and depletion of natural resources; relationship between international trade agreements and environmental quality; other international environmental issues.
  

  • ENVS 7047 Environmental Economics and Policy (3)

    Prereq.: ECON 4720  or equivalent or consent of instructor. Economic concepts applied to the development of appropriate policies to achieve environmental protection goals; emphasis given to linkages between economics and the environment, the role of market failure and economic instruments that can be used to address environmental concerns.
  

  • ENVS 7050 Spatial Modeling of Environmental Data (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7003  or EXST 7004  or EXST 7005 . Development of an approach to analyze spatial and temporal processes for environmental data modeling.
  

  • ENVS 7061 Water Quality Management and Policy (3)

    Also offered as RNR 7061 . Physical, chemical and biological characteristics of surface water in natural systems; sources and effects of water pollutants; water quality standards and criteria; total maximum daily loads; federal water quality regulations; watershed approach and application of mathematical models to water quality management.
  

  • ENVS 7100 Environmental Toxicology (3)

    Prereq.:
    Technical, ecological and economic considerations relating to air, water and soil contamination; classification and detection of environmental toxicants; their biological effects on current and future trends in agribusiness and the chemical, transport and power industries.
  

  • ENVS 7110 Toxicology of Aquatic Environments (3)

    Cross listed with OCS 7110 . Prereq.: ENVS 7100  Aquatic pollution and toxicology of industrial materials related to environmental risk assessment in coastal areas; physical, chemical and biological factors affecting the fate of toxicants in marine and freshwater coastal areas.
  

  • ENVS 7112 Concepts in Marine Ecotoxicology (3)

    Also offered as OCS 7112 . Prereq.: ENVS 7100  and ENVS 7110  or permission of instructor Marine pollution and toxicology of industrial and non-point sources materials related to ecological risk assessment in costal and marine areas; biological processes and wastes in the ocean; physicochemical processes and wastes in the ocean; laboratory and field techniques in epibiotic, endobiotic and fecal-sestonic habitats; benthic habitats and metals/chemical specification/geoavailability; fish as a biological model; microcosm theory and design for littoral and neritic habitats; approaches to ecological risk assessment in marine habitats.
  

  • ENVS 7151 Watershed Hydrology and Floodplain Analysis (3)

    See RNR 7151 .
  

  • ENVS 7200 Comparative Metabolism of Environmental Pollutants (3)

    Prereq.: BIOL 4094  or consent of instructor. Biochemical systems from various invertebrate, vertebrate and plant species involved in metabolic activation and detoxification of xenobiotic substances; use of these systems as biomonitors of pollution impact.
  

  • ENVS 7220 Biochemistry and Toxicology of Metals (3)

    Also offered as BIOL 7220 . Prereq.: BIOL 4093 , BIOL 4094 ; CHEM 2262 . Integration of metals and metal complexes with biochemical processes; adaptations of the coordination sphere of metal complexes to life function; metalloenzymes and metalloproteins; properties and modifications of metals that impart specialized biochemical function, as well as toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity.
  

  • ENVS 7335 Water Quality Modeling for Management (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 7061  or permission of instructor. Problems and approaches in water quality modeling, with particular attention to model uncertainty, model choice, and applications for management; basic modeling concepts, mechanistic models, empirical models, modern statistical methods and uncertainty analysis applied to problems of eutrophication, toxic substances and trend assessment.
  

  • ENVS 7385 Decision Theory and Environmental Risk Analysis (3)

    Fundamental principles and techniques involved in decision making and environmental risk analysis; methods for identifying decisions that optimize outcomes; rationality (utility) and interactive (game theory) decision theory, and application of decision theory to natural resources and environmental policy-making.
  

  • ENVS 7622 Fundamentals of Chemical Carcinogenesis (3)

    Also offered as BIOL 7622 . Prereq.: ENVS 4477  or consent of instructor. Identification and chemical structural features of carcinogens; role of free radicals in biology and pathobiology; molecular mechanisms in chemical carcinogenesis, including pathways for metabolic activation, DNA adduction, somatic cell mutagenesis, epigenetic mutagenesis, oncogene activation and tumor suppressor gene inactivation.
  

  • ENVS 7623 Toxicology I (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 4477  or consent of instructor. Fundamental principles of toxicology, dose response relationship, design and conduct of acute and chronic toxicity tests, basic analytical toxicology, biochemical markers, basic principles of hazard evaluation and risk assessment, industrial toxicology, principles of toxicology applied to the environment and ecosystems.
  

  • ENVS 7624 Toxicology II (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 7623  or consent of instructor. Toxicokinetics; xenobiotic transport, distribution, metabolism, excretion; principles of receptor interaction.
  

  • ENVS 7625 Toxicology III (3)

    Prereq.: ENVS 7623  or consent of instructor. Toxicology of major organ systems, to include dermal, pulmonary, hepatic, cardiovascular, renal, neural with both CNS and PNS, immune, gastrointestinal, and reproductive; target organ toxicology with mechanistic study of the pathophysiology of classic and prototype toxicants.
  

  • ENVS 7626 Toxicology IV: Genetic Toxicology (3)

    Also offered as BIOL 7626 . Prereq.: ENVS 7623  or approval of instructor. Evaluation of induced heritable and/or phenotypic changes in the organism and individual cells (germline and somatic); emphasis on human and mammalian species; reproductive toxicology and teratogenesis; testing and screening agents for genotoxic activities; molecular genetic approaches to human and environmental biomonitoring.
  

  • ENVS 7699 Toxicology Seminar (1)
  

  • ENVS 7700 Integrated Environmental Issues (3)

    Multi- disciplinary analysis of a current environmental issue. Discussion of topics from the perspectives of natural science, economics, social science and political science. Integration and synthesis of information to develop a science-based approach to environmental decision-making.
  

  • ENVS 7900 Special Problems in Environmental Sciences (1-4)

    May be taken for a max. of 4 hrs. credit. Individual study of a specific environmental problem.
  

  • ENVS 7950 Special Topics in Environmental Sciences (1-6)

    Research and methodological review of current topics.
  

  • ENVS 7995 Environmental Seminar (1)

    Reports and discussions of student/faculty activities in environmental sciences.
  

  • ENVS 7997 Environmental Practicum (1-6)

    Prereq.: Graduate standing in Environmental Sciences and consent of the instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a maximum of 12 credit hours, but no more than 3 hours may count toward the student‟s degree. Required of all students in the ENVS Professional Option program. Open to students accepted by an approved internship program or accepted for an approved team research project.
  

  • ENVS 7998 Environmental Colloquium (2)

    May only be taken during semester of graduation. Non-thesis students only. Written and oral presentation of a literature review on a selected environmental issue, as approved by the departmental non-thesis committee.
  

  • ENVS 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U” grading.

Experimental Statistics
  

  • EXST 2000 Introduction to Microcomputers (3)

    Credit will not be given for this course and CSC 1100 , ISDS 1100  and LIS 2001 . 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. A user-oriented introduction to microcomputers and applications software; terminology; hardware; software: the operating system, word processing, spreadsheets, data management, graphics, communications.
  

  • EXST 2201 Introduction to Statistical Analysis (4)

    This is a General Education course. Prereq.: MATH 1021  or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Descriptive statistics; inferential statistical methods including confidence interval estimation and hypothesis testing for one and two population means and proportions; one-way analysis of variance; simple linear regression and correlation; analysis of categorical data.
  

  • EXST 2215 Exploratory Statistical Data Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 2201  or equivalent. 2 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Graphical analysis, perception and construction rules; descriptive statistics; graphs for data exploration and decision-making.
  

  • EXST 3201 Statistical Analysis II (4)

    Prereq.: EXST 2201  or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Applied statistical modeling: multiple regression, variable selection, serial correlation, repeated measures, multivariate tools, logistic regression, blocking and factorial design, categorical data analysis and nonparametric techniques.
  

  • EXST 3999 Supervised Independent Study and Research (1-4)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 8 sem. hrs. of credit with consent of department head. Investigation of areas of interest not covered in other departmental courses, under the guidance of departmental faculty.
  

  • EXST 4012 Introduction to Sampling Techniques (3)

    Su Prereq.: EXST 2201  or equivalent. Simple random, stratified random, cluster, systematic, multistage, multiphase and unequal probability sampling procedures methods and applications; ratio and regression estimation; non-response and non-sampling errors.
  

  • EXST 4025 SAS Programming (3)

    Su Prereq.: EXST 2201  or equivalent. Reading, processing, manipulating, transforming and outputting data in various formats; descriptive and summary statistics procedures; subsetting and combining data sets; DO loops and arrays; industry standard programming practices.
  

  • EXST 4050 Principles and Theory of Statistics (4)

    Prereq.:   or equivalent and MATH 1550  or equivalent. 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Probability distributions as models for real-world processes; sampling distributions and the central limit theorem; estimation and confidence region methods; principles of hypothesis testing; modeling; emphasis on links between theory, methodology and application.
  

  • EXST 4085 Seminar in Statistics (1)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Topics not covered in other experimental statistics courses.
  

  • EXST 4087 Special Topics in Applied Statistics (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 2201  or equivalent. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary.
  

  • EXST 7003 Statistical Inference I (4)

    Prereq.: MATH 1021  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003,  , EXST 7005 , EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and sampling; descriptive and inferential methods; normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; tests of hypothesis and estimation, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, analysis of categorical data; emphasis on social and behavioral sciences research problems; computer software applications.
  

  • EXST 7004 Experimental Statistics I (4)

    Prereq.: MATH 1021  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , 7004, EXST 7005 , EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and use of samples; measures of variation and central tendency; normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; test of hypothesis, analysis of variance, regression and correlation; emphasis on laboratory-oriented sciences research problems; computer software applications.
  

  • EXST 7005 Statistical Techniques I (4)

    Prereq.: MATH 1021  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , EXST 7004 , 7005, EXST 7009 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Basic concepts of statistical models and sampling methods, descriptive statistical measures, distributions, tests of significance, analysis of variance, regression, correlation and chi-square; emphasis on field-oriented life sciences research problems; computer software applications.
  

  • EXST 7009 Statistical Methods I–Web-Based (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 1021  or equivalent and knowledge of SAS statistical analysis software. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7003 , EXST 7004 , EXST 7005 , 7009. Basic concepts of statistical models and use of samples; measures of variation and central tendency, normal, t, chi-square and F distributions; tests of hypothesis; analysis of variance, regression and correlation; emphasis on field-oriented life science research problems.
  

  • EXST 7011 Nonparametric Statistics (3)

    Su Prereq.: EXST 7003  or EXST 7004  or EXST 7005  or equivalent. Nonparametric one- and two-sample location and distribution tests, including binomial, chi-square, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon; analyses of variance, including Cochran’s Q, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman; correlation and regression, including Kendall’s tau, Spearman’s rho and point biserial.
  

  • EXST 7012 Fundamental Sampling Techniques (3)

    Su Prereq.: EXST 7003  or EXST 7004  or EXST 7005  or equivalent. Simple and stratified random sampling; ratio and regression estimation; cluster, multistage and multiphase sampling procedures; systematic sampling; nonresponse and nonsampling errors; links between methodology and application emphasized.
  

  • EXST 7013 Statistical Inference II (4)

    Prereq.: EXST 7003  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013, EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Analyses of variance and experimental designs; completely randomized and complete block designs; latin square designs; split plot; arrangements of treatments; multiple comparisons; covariance analysis; multiple and curvilinear regression techniques; emphasis on social and behavioral sciences research problems.
  

  • EXST 7014 Experimental Statistics II (4)

    Prereq.: EXST 7004  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , 7014, EXST 7015 , EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Multiple classification analysis of variance and covariance, individual degrees of freedom, factorial arrangement of treatments and multiple regression; emphasis on science/laboratory research problems.
  

  • EXST 7015 Statistical Techniques II (4)

    Prereq.: EXST 7005  or equivalent. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , 7015, EXST 7019 . 3 hrs. lecture; 2 hrs. lab. Multiple classification analyses of variance and covariance, sampling designs, parameter estimation, multiple regression and correlation, tests of specific hypothesis, and factorial experiments; emphasis on field-oriented life sciences research problems
  

  • EXST 7019 Statistical Methods II–Web-Based (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7003  or EXST 7004  or EXST 7005  or EXST 7009  or equivalent and knowledge of SAS statistical analysis software. Credit will be given for only one of the following: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , 7019. Multiple classification analyses of variance and covariance; sampling designs, parameter estimation, multiple regression and correlation, tests of specific hypotheses and factorial experiments; emphasis on field-oriented life science research problems.
  

  • EXST 7022 Statistical Aspects of Quantitative Genetics (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7014  or equivalent. Statistical aspects of quantitative inheritance; partitioning of variance; covariance among relatives; theory of inbreeding; estimation and testing of genetic parameters; best linear prediction of genetic merit; mixed model application; selection theory.
  

  • EXST 7023 Advanced Topics in Statistical Genetics (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 4050  or equivalent and EXST 7022 . Topics not covered in other experimental statistics courses, such as best linear unbiased prediction of genetic merit; likelihood-based methods for genetic parameter estimation; analysis of selected populations; methods for quantitative genetic analysis of discrete data.
  

  • EXST 7024 Biological Population Statistics I (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7005  or equivalent. Specialized sampling for estimation of plant and animal population parameters including density and abundance, survival, recruitment, space-use and spatial pattern; methods used include quadrats, line transects, plotless sampling techniques, change-in-ratio estimators including capture-recapture and exploitation or catch-per-effort estimators and home range models.
  

  • EXST 7025 Biological Population Statistics II (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7015  or equivalent. Extensive development and application of statistical techniques to parameter estimation in population dynamics; principles of model building and role of model building in population management.
  

  • EXST 7031 Experimental Design (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  or equivalent. Comparison of designs, models and analyses; emphasis on factorial experiments, complete and incomplete block designs, and confounding.
  

  • EXST 7032 Survey Design (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or equivalent. Comparison of experimental and quasi-experimental designs; repeated measures, covariance analysis and confounding in factorial experiments; emphasis on social and behavioral science research problems.
  

  • EXST 7034 Regression Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  or equivalent and knowledge of matrix algebra. Fundamentals of regression analysis, stressing an understanding of underlying principles; response surfaces, variable selection techniques and nonlinear regression.
  

  • EXST 7035 Applied Least-Squares (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  or equivalent. Applications of least squares methods; usual constraints, no constraints and means model constraints to unbalanced cross classified and nested data; emphasis on analysis of variance and covariance for fixed effects models.
  

  • EXST 7036 Categorical Data Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  or equivalent. Statistical techniques used in analyzing data from discrete distributions; contingency tables, loglinear and logit models, logistic regression and repeated measures for nominal and ordinal data; emphasis on computer analysis and interpretation.
  

  • EXST 7037 Multivariate Statistics (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  or equivalent and knowledge of matrix algebra. Comparison of multivariate techniques and analyses; emphasis on discriminant analysis, factor analysis and principal component analysis, canonical correlation, cluster analysis and multivariate analysis of variance.
  

  • EXST 7038 Statistical Methods for Spatial Data (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , EXST 7015  or EXST 7019 . Overview of statistical methods for spatial data with emphasis on data analysis: fixed point spatial data, point pattern data, area data; topics include spatial correlation, variograms, kriging and spatial prediction; spatial sampling; and spatial experimental design; applications from other disciplines are encouraged, course work includes relevant statistical software and term project.
  

  • EXST 7039 Statistical Methods for Reliability and Survival Data (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015 . Characteristics of lifetime data; non-parametric methods including Kaplan Meier estimation; lifetime parametric models, parametric methods for single distribution data; planning life test; system reliability concepts; failure time regression; accelerated testing.
  

  • EXST 7060 Probability and Statistics (3)

    Prereq.: MATH 2057  or equivalent. Probability, random variables, discrete and continuous distribution functions; expected values, moment generating functions; functions of random variables.
  

  • EXST 7061 Statistical Theory (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7060  or equivalent. Point estimation; hypothesis testing; interval estimation; large sample theory; new developments in statistical inference.
  

  • EXST 7062 Advanced Topics in Statistical Theory (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7061 . May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Topics of current interest; emphasis on theoretical development of statistical methodology.
  

  • EXST 7083 Practicum in Statistical Consulting I (2)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  and permission of instructor. Pass-fail grading. 4 hrs. independent study Supervised application of statistical techniques to research problems; readings, oral presentations and discussions on statistical consulting; problem-solving; mock-consulting sessions; participation in real-life statistical consulting sessions under faculty supervision.
  

  • EXST 7084 Practicum in Statistical Consulting II (2)

    Prereq.: EXST 7083  and permission of instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be taken for a max. of 6 sem. hrs. credit. 4 hrs. independent study Primary responsibility for statistical consulting projects under the supervision of graduate faculty.
  

  • EXST 7085 Special Problem in Statistics (1-3)

    Prereq.: permission of department. Pass-fail grading. A technical paper on an advanced topic in statistics is required. Development of a topic in advanced statistics under faculty supervision.
  

  • EXST 7086 Advanced Seminar in Statistics (1)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. Pass-fail grading. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Develop and present a 50-minute seminar on an advanced topic in statistics as a part of the department’s seminar series.
  

  • EXST 7087 Advanced Topics in Statistics (1-3)

    Prereq.: consent of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Lectures on advanced topics in statistics not covered in other experimental statistics courses.
  

  • EXST 7142 Statistical Data Mining (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013 , EXST 7014 , EXST 7015 , EXST 7019  or equivalent. Data preparation tools; model prediction; objects grouping; and variables classification.
  

  • EXST 7151 Bayesian Data Analysis (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  and EXST 7060  or consent of department head. Introduction to Bayesian statistical methods and their application in fields such as agriculture, biology, engineering and medicine; topics include non-informative, conjugate and elicited priors; posterior development; common single and multiple parameter models such as binomial, normal, Poisson, and exponential; hierarchical models; hypothesis testing and credible sets; posterior simulation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo; and performance of Bayesian procedures.
  

  • EXST 7152 Advanced Topics in Statistical Modeling (3)

    Prereq.: EXST 7013  or EXST 7014  or EXST 7015  and EXST 7034  or equivalent or consent of department head. Regularized linear regression and classification methods; penalized spline fitting to normal and non-normal data; tree-based methods; ensemble methods including boosting; support vector machine and kernel-based methods.
  

  • EXST 7999 Independent Study (1-3)

    Prereq.: permission of instructor. May be taken for a max. of 9 sem. hrs. of credit when topics vary. Independent study under the guidance of graduate faculty.
  

  • EXST 8000 Thesis Research (1-12 per sem.)

    “S”/”U” grading.

Environmental Engineering
  

  • EVEG 2000 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (3)

    Prereq.: CHEM 1202  and MATH 1550 . Credit will not be given for both this course and CE 2700 . Basic principles of calculations in environmental engineering; overview of professional ethics; regulations and multimedia aspects of environmental problem solving with emphasis on fundamental concepts and definitions.
 

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