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682012-2014 General Catalog Course Supplement and Policies and Requirements Addendumbilinguals and non-native speakers of English.Offered in alternate years. GE credit: ArtHum orSocSci, Div, Wrt | AH or SS, WE.(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)Upper Division144. Marx, Nietzsche, Freud (4)Lecture/discussion—3 hours; term paper. Study ofmajor texts of Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, selectedwith an eye to their impact on 20th-century economics,ethics, and attitudes toward eros. Particularfocus on conceptions of the self and the individual'srelation to society. Offered in alternate years. (Samecourse as German 144.) GE credit: ArtHum,Wri | AH, WC.—I.(change in existing course—eff. fall 11)HydrologyNew and changed courses inHydrology (HYD)Lower Division10. Water, Power, Society (3)Lecture—2 hours; discussion—1 hour. Waterresources issues. How water has been used to gainand wield socio-political power. Water resourcesdevelopment in California as related to current andfuture sustainability of water quantity and quality.Roles of science and policy in solving water problems.(Same course as Science and Society 10.) GEcredit: SciEng or SocSci, Wrt | SE or SS, SL.—III.(III.) Fogg(change in existing course—eff. fall 11)47. Watershed Processes and WaterQuality in the Tahoe Basin (2)Lecture/laboratory—21 hours; fieldwork—9 hours;discussion—3 hours; term paper. Prerequisite: basicknowledge of environmental, soil, or hydrologic sciences.Watershed processes, runoff water-qualitymanagement, restoration in Lake Tahoe Basin. Soils,precipitation-runoff, revegetation and adaptive managementrelated to erosion control, effective solutions,development of restoration strategies. Studentsdevelop field restoration. Course involves 3 days ofinstruction in Tahoe City. (Same course as EnvironmentalScience and Management 47.) Not open tostudents who have successfully completed Environmentaland Resource Sciences 47. (Formerly Environmentaland Resource Sciences 47.) GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE, SL.—IV. (IV) Grismer(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)Upper Division103N. Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals (4)Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: Physics 9B. Fluidmechanics axioms, fluid statics, kinematics, velocityfields for one-dimensional incompressible flow andboundary layers, turbulent flow time averaging,potential flow, dimensional analysis, and macroscopicbalances to solve a range of practical problems.(Same course as Biological SystemsEngineering 103.) GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE, VL.—II. (II.) Wallender(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)110. Irrigation Principles and Practices (3)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:Physics 7A; Soil Science 100 recommended. Generalcourse for agricultural and engineering studentsdealing with soil and plant aspects of irrigation anddrainage. Soil-water principles including watermovement, plant responses to irrigation regimes,water use by crops; also irrigation systems andwater quality. Offered in alternate years. Not openfor credit to students who have completed Water Science110. GE credit: SciEng | SE, SL.—(III.) Goldhamer,Grattan(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)124. Plant-Water-Soil Relationships (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hours. Prerequisite:one upper division course in soil science, such asSoil Science 100; and one upper division course inplant science or plant biology, such as Plant Biology111; or consent of instructor. Principles of plant interactionswith soil and atmospheric water environmentsand practical applications to cropmanagement (e.g., irrigation) and plant eco-physiology(e.g., drought). Not open for credit to studentswho have completed Water Science 104. GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE, SL.—III. (III.) Shackel(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)134. Aqueous Geochemistry (6)Lecture—4 hours; laboratory—3 hours. Prerequisite:Chemistry 2B. Chemistry of natural waters; dielectricproperties of water; thermodynamic and mass-actionrelations; metal hydrolysis; acid-base equilibria;metalcoordination chemistry; solubility calculations;electron-exchange reactions; sorptive partitioning;ion exchange; and dissolved organic matter. GEcredit: SciEng | QL, SE.—III. (III.) Hernes, Parikh(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)141. Physical Hydrology (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:Physics 9B, Mathematics 21B; course 100 recommended.Introduction to the processes that constitutethe hydrologic cycle. Special emphasis on a quantitativedescription of the following processes: precipitation,infiltration, evaporation, transpiration,surface runoff, and groundwater runoff. GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE, SL, VL.—I. (I.) Puente(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)142. Systems Hydrology (4)Lecture—3 hours; discussion—1 hour. Prerequisite:course 141 or Civil and Environmental Engineering142. General course considering hydrologic processesfrom a systems or statistical model perspective.General probability concepts are applied tofrequency, time series and spatial data analysis. Linearsystems are also considered in conjunction withKalman filter techniques. GE credit: SciEng | OL,QL, SE.—II. (II.) Puente(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)143. Hydrological Processes in Ecosystems(3)Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: course 141 or Environmentaland Resource Science 100. Movementand storage of water are integral parts of landscapeand ecosystem functioning. Hydrological processesin individual ecosystems and the role of water linkingthe myriad components of the landscape. GEcredit: SciEng | QL, SE, SL.—(II.) Pasternack(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)144. Groundwater Hydrology (4)Lecture—4 hours. Prerequisite: Mathematics 16B or21A; course 103 or Engineering 103 recommended.Fundamentals of groundwater flow andcontaminant hydrology. Occurrence, distribution,and movement of groundwater. Well-flow systems.Aquifer tests. Well construction operation and maintenance.Groundwater exploration and qualityassessment. Agricultural threats to groundwater quality:fertilizers, pesticides, and salts. (Same course asHydrologic Science 144.) GE credit: SciEng | QL,SE, SL, VL.—I. (I.) Fogg(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)146. Hydrogeology and ContaminantTransport (5)Lecture—3 hours; laboratory—2 hours; term paper.Prerequisite: course 144 or Civil and EnvironmentalEngineering 144 or the equivalent. Physical andchemical processes affecting groundwater flow andcontaminant transport, with emphasis on realistichydrogeologic examples. Groundwater geology andchemistry. Fundamentals of groundwater flow andtransport analysis. Laboratory includes field pumpingtest and work with physical and computer models.(Same course as Geology 156.) GE credit:SciEng | SE.—II. (II.) Fogg(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)147. Runoff, Erosion and Water QualityManagement in the Tahoe Basin (3)Lecture/laboratory—30 hours; fieldwork—15 hours;discussion—10 hours; term paper. Prerequisite:Physics 7B or 9B, Mathematics 16C or 21C, Civiland Environmental Engineering 142 or course 141or Environmental and Resource Sciences 100. 5days of instruction in Tahoe City. Practical hydrologyand runoff water quality management from TahoeBasin slopes. Development of hillslope and riparianrestoration concepts, modeling and applicationsfrom physical science perspectives including precipitation-runoffrelationships, sediment transport, anddetention ponds. (Same course as Biological SystemsEngineering 147.) GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE,SL.—IV. (IV.) Grismer(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)150. Water Law (3)Lecture—3 hours. Prerequisite: Environmental andResource Sciences 100 or 121 or consent of instructor.Principles and issues of California Water Law.Types of water rights, groundwater rights and management,and protection of instream uses. Waterprojects, role of federal government and federal/state relations. Basic water quality acts, endangeredspecies act, water transfers and current water issues.GE credit: SocSci | ACGH, SS.—II. Cahill(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)151. Field Methods in Hydrology (4)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—3 hours; fieldwork—3hours. Prerequisite: Environmental and Resource Sciences100 or course 141. Measurement methodsand data analysis for evaluation of water storage,movement and contamination in the field. Equipmentsuch as data loggers, water and sediment samplers,pressure transducers, weather stations, surveyingequipment, and flow meters will be used. GE credit:SciEng | QL, SE, SL.—II. Pasternack(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)182. Environmental Analysis using GIS (4)Lecture—2 hours; laboratory—4 hours. Prerequisite:Applied Biological Systems Technology 180 or theequivalent GIS experience and skills; general biologyand/or ecology courses recommended. Ecosystemand landscape modeling with emphasis onhydrology and solute transport. Spatial analysis ofenvironmental risk analysis including ecological riskassessment, natural resource management. Spatialdatabase structures, scripting, data models, anderror analysis in GIS. (Same course as Applied BiologicalSystems Technology 182.) Offered in alternateyears. GE credit: SciEng | QL, SE, SL, VL.—II.(II.) Zhang(change in existing course—eff. winter 13)Hydrologic Science(A Graduate Group)New and changed courses inHydrologic Science (HYD)Graduate274. Practice of Groundwater Flow andTransport Modeling (3)Lecture—2 hours; lecture/laboratory—0.5 hours;lecture/discussion—0.5 hours. Prerequisite: course269, Civil and Environmental Engineering 272B, orQuarter Offered: I=Fall, II=Winter, III=Spring, IV=Summer; 2013-2014 offering in parenthesesPre-Fall 2011 General Education (GE): ArtHum=Arts and Humanities; SciEng=Science and Engineering; SocSci=Social Sciences; Div=Domestic Diversity; Wrt=Writing ExperienceFall 2011 and on General Education (GE): AH=Arts and Humanities; SE=Science and Engineering; SS=Social Sciences;ACGH=American Cultures; DD=Domestic Diversity; OL=Oral Skills; QL=Quantitative; SL=Scientific; VL=Visual; WC=World Cultures; WE=Writing Experience