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Core Courses
| Course Code | Course Title and Description | |
| ENS 201 | Ecosystems Structure and Dynamics (3). PR. BOT 150, BIO 150 or COI. Ecosystems structure, function, energetics, nutrient cycles, population dynamics, ecosystem models. 3hrs class | |
ENS 211 | Systems Analysis and Quantitative Methods in Natural Resource Management (3) PR. Mgt. 211 or COI. Statistical concepts and data analysis, optimization techniques, stochastic modeling, application of systems approach to resource-based problems. 3 hrs (class) | |
ENS 270 | Dynamics of Population, Resources and Environment (3). PR. HUME 2 or COI. (1). Interactions of human populations with resources and environment in different ecosystems;local,national, and global in scope. 3 hrs (class). | |
ENS 275 | Contemporary Issues in Environment and Development (3). PR. COI. Environmental issues, concerns and opportunities; environment-economy interactions; environmental administration; sustainable development policies and issues; resource-use conflict and resolution. 3 hrs (class). | |
ENS 296 | Environmental Impact Assessment: Perspectives from the Natural and Social Sciences (4). PR. COI. Framework and methodology for environmental impact assessment of the biophysical and socioeconomic systems; ecological, social and ethical bases of EIA; risk assessment and management; mitigation of negative impacts and enhancement of positive impacts; case studies. 6 hrs (3 class, 3 lab). |
Courses in Areas of Specialization
| Course Code | Course Title and Description |
| ENS 290 | Special Problems (1-3). PR. COI. May be taken twice provided that total number of units to be credited to the student’s program will not exceed 4 units. |
ENS 291 | Special Topics (1-3). PR. COI. May be taken twice provided that total number of units to be credited to the student’s program will not exceed 4 units. |
ENS202 | Landscape Ecology (3) PR ENS 201, Bio 150 or COI. Principles, theories, research methods and application of landscape ecology in environmental and natural resource management. 3 hrs (class) |
ENS204 | Issues in Aquatic Resources Management (3) PR COI Problems and issues in the use of aquatic resources with emphasis on the Philippine situation. 3 hrs (class) |
ENS 220 | Institution and the Environment (3). PR. COI. (2). Social science approaches to the study of man-environment interactions; analysis of the interrelationships between culture, population, and the natural environment, and human responses to changing habitats. 3 hrs (class) |
ENS 221(or SFFG 221) | Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Formulation (3). PR. COI. (1,2). Theories, concepts, and issues in environmental and natural resource policy formulation, case studies with special reference to developing countries. 3 hrs (class). |
ENS 230 | Industrial Ecology (3). PR. ENS 201 or COI. (1). Ecological principles and their applications in the organization and management of industrial systems. 3 hrs (class). |
ENS 242(or ECO 275) | Economic Valuation of Environmental and Natural Resource System (3). PR. COI. (1,2). Approaches and techniques for economic measurements and valuation of natural resources and environmental impacts of development. 3 hrs (class). |
ENS 255(or PSY 255) | Environmental Psychology (3). PR. COI. (2). Analysis of the confluence of psychological processes and environmental context from a transactional perspective. 3 hrs (class). |
AERS 212 | Social Psychology (3). Principles of social psychology and analysis or empirical studies and their implications. PR. CO1 |
AERS 252 | Planning and Administration of Community Development (3) Features of community development programs in the Philippines, their organization, administrative planning, interrelationships with local government units, financing, personnel administration, field execution and evaluation. PR COI. |
AERS 261 | Social and Cultural Change(3). Theories and models of social and cultural change, with emphasis on technology and social change, particularly problems related to the acceptance and diffusion of innovations in agriculture and other area. PR COI |
AERS 265 | Sociology of Development(3). Application of sociological theories and concepts to the problems of development at the international, national and local levels, with emphasis on operationally significant concepts derived from current research and development. PR. COI |
AGRI 211 | Design and Assessment of Farming Systems(3). Critical analysis designing and evaluating farming systems. PR AGRI 111 or COI. |
AGRI 221 | Advanced Ecological Agriculture(3). Dynamics of agroecosystem in relation to ecological agriculture practices, issues and concerns. PR AGRI 121 or COI. |
AGRI 236 | Herbicide-Soil Interactions(3) Herbicide adsorption, leaching, volatilization, degradation, and persistence in soils. PR. BOT 20 or COI |
AGRI 240 | Environmental Physiology(3). Characterization of climatic environment and elucidation of varied response of plants to its environment with emphasis on economically important crops. PR BOT 20 or COI |
CRSC 245 | Stress Physiology of Plants(3). Response of plants to various environmental stresses; morpho-physiological, biochemical and genetypic variation as bases for adaptation to stress. PR. BOT 20. |
ANSC 225 | Conservation of Grass and Forage Crops (3). Principles and methods of preserving grasses, legumes, and farm-by-products; their nutritive value, utilization and cost production. PR. AGR 118 or COI. |
ANSC 285 | Environmental Physiology of Domestic Animals (3). Physiological mechanisms of animal adaptation, body temperature regulation, and related nutritional, metabolic and hormonal functions affecting animal production. PR ANSC 185 or COI. |
ENT 151 | Insect Ecology (3). Dynamics of insect population, specifically their abundance, regulation, distribution and mensuration; community theories pertaining to natural control of pest species. PR ENT 140 or COI. |
ENT 251 | Advanced Insect Ecology (3). Contemporary ecological concepts and methods as they relate to insect populations. PR. ENT 151 or COI. |
ENT 225 | Advanced Insect Toxicology (3). Physico-chemical concepts of the action of toxic agents in bio-chemical systems; mechanism of action or anticholinesterase inhibitors; insecticide resistance and synergism; selective toxicity. PR CHEM 160 or ENT 125 or COI |
ENT 295 | Pesticide Residues (3). Analysis of pesticide residues; their fate in the environment; and their ecological significance; pesticide legislation. PR ENT 125 or COI. |
HORT 145 | Landscape Horticulture (3). Theories an practices in landscaping, site planning, design analysis, construction, maintenance and nursery management. PR. CRSC 2 or COI |
HORT 146 | Fundamentals of Turfgrass Management (3). Principles and practices in sod production, nursery, turfgrass utilization, establishment and maintenance PR. CRSC 2 or COI. |
PPTH 241 | Advanced plant Disease Epidemiology (3). Quantitative aspects of plant disease epidemiology, modeling and systems simulation, coupling models, quantifying yield loss and multiple disease effects. PR. PPTH 141 or COI. |
SOIL 111 | Soil and Land Use (3). Soil and land resources data and information, interpretation and applications for land use planning; planning and environmental assessments of land use. PR. SOIL 1 or COI. |
SOIL 170 | Soil conservation and Management (3). Soil deterioration and its control; maintenance and improvement of soil fertility and productivity. PR SOIL 1 or COI. |
SOIL 260 | Environment and Land Use (3). Analysis of environmental factors in land-use investigation; recognition of competitive uses and land use optimization on regional and local levels. PR.COI. |
DEVC 201 | Communication Theory (3). The significance, nature, elements and dynamics of the communication process; some theories and perspectives in the study of communication. PR. COI. |
DEVC 205 | Communication and Development (3). Communication systems and processes in developing societies; their nature, functions and relationships with other factors relevant to development. PR COI. |
FST 145 | Fruits and Vegetable Processing (3). Principles and methods of processing tropical fruits, vegetables and juices. PR. COI. |
FST 160 | Food processing Management (3). Organization, production management, resource allocation, process quality control and information systems. PR. COI |
SOC 260 | Technology Assessment and Impact Analysis (3). Basic features and strategies of technology assessment with emphasis on environmental, economic, social and institutional impact analyses and evaluation; policy implications of technology PR. COI. |
SOC/ENS 265 | Gender and Environments (3). Theories, research, and issues relevant to the analyses and evaluation; policy implications of technology. PR COI. |
CHEM 164 | Introduction to Chemical Toxicology (3). Biochemical mode of action and effects of chemical toxicants on biological systems; toxicological testing, detection and evaluation of hazards toxicants. PR BIO2 or COT 1, ZOO 1 And CHEM 160. |
CHEM 180 | General Environmental Chemistry (3). Chemical concepts and principles applied to the study of the environment and the preservation of environmental quality. PR. CHEM 40 or CHEM 44. |
CHEM 181 | Population Chemistry (3) Nature, sources, transformations and effects of pollutive substances in the environment; pollution analysis. PR CHEM 180 or COI. |
AECO 240 | Natural Resource Economics (3). Application of economic theory to developmental and intertemporal issues in the optimal management of agricultural land and other resources-evaluation of economic institutions affecting use of such resources PR ECO 101 or COI. |
AECO 252 | Agriculture and Economic Development (3) Factors that accelerate or inhibit the growth of agriculture; survey of existing growth theories and establishment of their relevance to Philippine experience. PR. ECO 101 and ECO 102 or COI. |
ECO 246 | Advanced Resource Economics (3). Application of economic concepts such as social welfare, externalities, social cost and gains to decision making associated with optimizing use of natural resources. PR AECO 240 or COI. |
AGME 260 | Tropical Agrometeorology (3). Climatic controls; agrometeorological observation network and practices; crop and animal weather-relations; research methods in agrometeorology; agrometeorological forecasts and advisories. PR. AGME 250. |
AENG 146 | Soil and Water Conservation Engineering (3). Hydrologic processes, soil erosion and sediment transport; design of soil and water conservation systems; watershed planning and management. PR AENG 142. |
AENG 147 | Principles of Tropical Water Quality Management (3). Water quality problems and parameters; monitoring, control and management systems. PR. AENG 140 or AENG 50 OR COI. |
AENG 152 | Agricultural Waste Management (3). Principles of agricultural waste management; collection, storage, transport, treatment and utilization of agricultural wastes. PR. AENG 52. |
AENG 240 | Advanced Water Resources Planning (3). Factors and issues in water resource planning; application of systems methodologies. PR. AENG 140 or COI. |
AENG 243 | Soil and Water Conservation (3). Agricultural hydrology; flood control structures; diversion and waterways; relationship between water management and soil-water conservation; land clearing, development and formation. PR. COI. |
AENG 247 | Water Quality Control Engineering (3). Water and waste water characteristics; design and operation of water and wastewater treatment systems; water reclamation and re-use. PR. AENG 147 or CEN 150 or COI. |
CEN 150 | Agro-industrial Waste Management (3). Changing practice in agro-industrial production; environmental impact analysis; waster characteristics; waste treatment and disposal fundamentals; water recycling management. PR. COI. |
WLDL 258 | Wildlife Population Dynamics (3). Analysis and prediction of changes in wildlife population. PR. STAT 162 or STAT 164 and WLDL 155 or its equivalent. |
WLDL 205 | Advanced Wildlife Management (3). Identification. Management and conservation of large and small game species. PR. WLDL 105 or its equivalent. |
FRM 214 | Introduction to Operation Research (3). Linear transformations, vector species, matrics; survey of operations research and mathematical decision models; fundamentals of system modeling. PR. MATH 27 or COI. |
FRM/ENS 221 | Environmental and Natural Resources Policy Formulation (3). Theories, concepts and issues in environmental and natural resource policy formulation; case studies with special reference to developing countries. PR. COI. |
FRM 224 | Alternative Theories and Methods in Natural Resources (3). Survey, critique and applications of alternative theories and methods on the analysis of natural resource policies. PR. FRM 124 or COI. |
FRM 229 | Public Administration of Forest Resources (3). Execution of forest resources programs, especially administered by the forestry agencies in the Philippines. PR. FRM 124 or COI. |
FRM 253 | Advanced Watershed Management (3). Interception, transpiration, evaporation and sedimentation related to the quantity, quality and distribution of water as affected by forestry practices. PR. FRM 153. |
SF 212 | Program Development and Evaluation in Social Forestry (3). Theories, principles, and processes of program development and evaluation; their application to social forestry. |
SF 223 | Agroforestry Management Practice (3). Micro-analysis and application of management principles on agroforestry farms. PR. SF 133 or COI. |
VPH 222 | Microbial and Parasitic Zoonoses (3). Biological, ecological and epidemiological features of microbial and parasitic infections transmissible between man and vertebrate animals. PR. VPH. 122 or COI. |
VPH 228 | Environmental Sanitation in Animal Industries (2). Causes, effects and control of environmental pollution with emphasis on pollution from animals, farms, abattoir, processing plants and other related agricultural and industrial establishments. PR. COI. |
CERP 131 | Planning Theory and Practice (3). Planning theories, process and dimensions and their contextual applications. PR. HUME 101 or COI. |
CERP 133 | Human Settlements Planning I (3). Techniques in the planning of human settlements. PR. CERP 133. |
CERP 152 | Environmental Project Planning and Administration (3). Elements and approaches in formulating and administering environmental projects. PR. HUME 103 and CERP 140 or COI. |
HUME 2 | Man and His Environment (3). Interrelationship of man with the earth, climate, landforms and water; contemporary ecological problems, encompassing physical, biological, social and ethical dimensions, implications to man’s well-being and behavior PR. BIO 1 and SOCSC 1. |
HUME 101 | Human Ecological Perspectives in Development (3). Concepts, philosophy and resources of development in human ecosystems; generation of alternative models of development based on human ecological problems and perspective. PR. HUME 2 or COI. |
STAT 151 | Applied Regression and Correlation (3). Linear regression models; correlation analysis; methods of model selection. PR. MATH 120 and STAT 101 or STAT 135. |
STAT 162 | Experimental Designs I (3). Design and analysis of one-way classifications; complete blocks; split-plot and factorial experiments; multiple comparisons; group and trend comparisons; analysis of covariance. PR. STAT 1 or COI. |
STAT 164 | Statistics for the Biological Sciences (3). Elementary matrix algebra; multiple regression and correlation; pah analysis; discriminant function; probit analysis. PR. STAT1. |
STAT 250 | Multivariate Statistical Methods (3). Multivariate normal populations; tests of hypotheses on means, multivariate analysis of variance; classification by linear discriminant function; inferences from covariance matrices; principal components; and factor analysis. PR. STAT 162 and MATH 120 or COI. |
AGRS 201 | Agrarian Reform and Agrarian Systems (3). A survey of the history, concepts, theories, principles and programs of agrarian reform; componential analysis of agrarian systems. PR. COI. |
MGT 201 | Organization and Management (3). Organization and management theories, concepts and processes; organization changes and managerial systems. |
MGT 207 | Managerial Problems Solving and Decision-Making (3). Quantitative and non-quantitative concepts, tools and dynamics in problem solving and decision-making processes at the national, firm, and individual levels. PR. COI. |
BIO 151 | Environmental Management (3). Principles of environmental management; technological development and activities affecting the environment and pertinent case studies. PR. BIO150 or COI. |
BIO 241 | Biogeography (3). The geographical distribution of plants and animals; mechanisms and models of dispersal changes of floral and faunal distribution patterns; continental and island biogeography; current theories on the origin of existing distribution patterns. PR. BIO 142 or COI. |
BOT 150 | Plant Ecology (3). Principles of plant environmental interactions in relation to distribution, structure and functioning of plant communities. PR. BOT 140 or COI. |
BOT 250 | Advanced Plant Ecology (3). Physical, chemical and biological processes which underlie ecosystem structure and function including plant competition, plant succession, material and energy cycling. PR. BOT 150 or its equivalent. |
MCB 150 | Microbial Ecology (3). An introduction to the basic principles of microbial ecology; interrelationships of bacteria, fungi, algae, ad protozoa in natural systems. PR. MCB 1. |
WLDL 155 | Wildlife Ecology (3). Ecological factors that influence abundance in the tropical ecosystems. PR. WLDL 101. |