NSU 2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog

323 Nova Southeastern University • Undergraduate Student Catalog • 2014–2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ports and shipping, nor can adding additional security procedures, physical barriers, or additional manpower fully mitigate the risk. What will work is an integrated, carefully planned approach that incorporates the best elements of technical, physical, procedural and information security disciplines into a comprehensive strategy. BSMP 3240 Ocean and Coastal Law (3 credits) A hodgepodge of laws and approaches apply to the oceans and coasts. Today a great period of legal adjustment is in motion as many living systems collapse, bearing social and economic consequences. This course is about how law copes with emerging science and policy. BSMP 3250 Food Web Dynamics (3 credits) This course provides opportunities to study the basic components and processes of trophic dynamics, how these comprise different marine ecosystems and how these systems can be altered. BSMP 3260 Resolving Environmental and Public Disputes (3 credits) (Offered through the School of Humanities and Social Sciences) This course focuses on the theoretical bases, practical applications, process orientations, and actual intervention into complex multiparty, multi-issue public disputes regarding management of the coastal zone. The emphasis is on social/environmental interactions and sources of political and economic conflict over human health environmental protection and natural resource scarcity. BSMP 3300 Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Restoration (3 credits) The course will introduce and explore key elements of current restoration philosophy, views and concepts. It will provide an overview of synthetic ecology, developing viable restoration frameworks, physical parameters, biological parameters, restoring assemblages, and assessing and monitoring and sustaining restored ecosystems. BSMP 3320 Pollution in the Marine Environment (3 credits) Pollution within the marine environment is a major concern, both to the marine industry and from an ecological perspective. The course will identify common marine pollutants, their sources (land and marine-based), impact on the environment, and appropriate mitigation and monitoring. BSMP 3340 Sustainable Fisheries (3 credits) This course provides an introductory overview to ecological impacts of fishing on the marine environment (such as bycatch, seabed interactions and ghost fishing), including mitigation measures to minimize impacts, selectivity of fishing gears, the drivers for responsible fishing, and strategic assessment of fishing activities within selected fisheries. BSMP 3350 Marine Ecotourism (3 credits) Students gain insight into the organization and delivery of ecotourism as a product. The course focuses on the social, economic and environmental benefits and costs associated with tourism. An independent research project will allow students to explore a tourism research topic of their choice in more detail (subject to instructor approval). BSMP 3360 Marine Protected Areas (3 credits) Lectures will address the logic of Marine Protected Areas (MPA) and their advantages and disadvantage. The science of MPA will be presented as well an overview of traditional approaches to fisheries management. BSMP 3370 Natural and Environmental Risks in Marine and Coastal Areas (3 credits) An examination of extreme natural events and their causes in the marine and coastal zone, including hurricanes, storm surges, earthquakes, tsunamis, flooding and other phenomena. Offshore industrial operations are tempered by the physical environment. Particular knowledge is needed of the effects of meteorology and oceanography, both with regard to industrial design and operation. The economic, environmental and social consequences of such events will be discussed, together with our abilities to forecast global estimates of risk. BSMP 3500 Internship in Marine Professional Studies (3 credits) Students invest the equivalent of 3 hours per week for 12 weeks (i.e. at least 36 hours) in their internship. This can be done at a research organization, private company or consulting firm; local, county, state or federal agency; or other approved venue that is related to marine professional studies. In addition to hands-on work, each intern will also keep an academic journal of internship activities. The journal will be submitted for review to the course instructor for grading. In cases where the student’s supervisor at the internship venue is not a NSUOC adjunct, the supervisor will also evaluate the student, and provide this to the course instructor. The final course grade will be awarded by the course instructor. BSV—BSV-BSHS Vascular Sonography BSV 3100 Ultrasound Physics I (3 credits) This course is designed to introduce the students to the fundamental principals of sound and ultrasound. Students will learn how sound is generated, transmitted, and reflected in soft tissue.