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Watershed Management
Undergraduate CertificateThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Watershed management plays a crucial role in protecting water quality and aquatic ecosystems, preventing water pollution, decreasing flood risk, and minimizing other human and environmental health impacts related to polluted runoff. The online certificate program in watershed management at University of Maryland Global Campus is designed to help prepare you for careers with local, state, and federal government; industry; consulting; and nongovernmental organizations implementing watershed and stormwater management programs.
You’ll learn about geospatial analyses and the biophysical and social impacts of human activities on watersheds. The program offers you an opportunity to practice collaborative and community-based approaches to reducing stormwater impacts to watersheds. Activities emphasize how to effectively manage watersheds to reduce the impact of land development, industrial processes, and everyday human activities.
Program Highlights
- Gain skills: Gain the skills needed for monitoring water quality and controlling sources of water pollution.
- Apply science: Apply scientific reasoning and knowledge of ecological principles to make informed decisions.
- Advance your skills: Study the concepts of geographic information systems (GIS) to address current environmental challenges.
- Build knowledge: Study the physical, chemical, and biological impacts of human activity on watersheds.
- Analyze policy: Analyze the development and implementation of the principles of constitutional and administrative law.
- Integrate knowledge: Integrate knowledge about environmental systems and regulations to minimize and prevent pollution.
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, ENHS 300)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 305)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 340)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 350)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 360)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 405)
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help prepare you for careers with local, state, and federal government; industry; consulting; and nongovernmental organizations implementing watershed and stormwater management programs.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
18
Transfer Credits
Up to 9
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.
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Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Laboratory Management
Bachelor of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Gain leadership skills: Create a healthy, safe, and productive workplace by appropriately hiring, training, supporting, and evaluating laboratory personnel.
- Manage a lab: Plan, organize, and direct the daily work activities of a laboratory setting by working independently and as a member of a team.
- Communicate effectively: Communicate in a clear, well-organized manner that effectively persuades, informs and clarifies ideas, information, and laboratory techniques/procedures.
- Put ethics into practice: Practice ethical standards of integrity, honesty and fairness as a laboratory manager.
- Maintain inventory: Monitor and maintain laboratory-related documentation, equipment, and supplies necessary for conducting efficient, safe, cost-effective, and hygienic laboratory operations.
- Manage protocols: Manage scientific and laboratory practices and procedures by complying with and adhering to national, state, and local standards, policies, protocols, and regulations.
Required Courses
UMGC has limited course offerings in science beyond those already listed for the major. Approved coursework for the listed science requirements may include courses that are accepted in transfer from a community college or another appropriate institution.
You must complete 15 credits of lower-level coursework in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, chemistry, microbiology, or molecular biology prior to starting the capstone — and to graduate from this program. Of these 15 credits, 12 must be in lab science.
Take the following courses at UMGC:
- (3 Credits, BIOL 325)
- (3 Credits, BMGT 364)
- (3 Credits, FINC 331)
- (3 Credits, NSCI 301)
- Choose one of the following course options:
- Two (3 Credits, BIOL 486A) courses
- (6 Credits, BIOL 486B)
- A Workplace Learning course, which must be taken concurrently with a new internship or work project related to your academic program. Prior program approval is required.
- (3 Credits, BIOL 495)
Related Required Courses
The following recommended courses may fulfill 8 credits of general education requirements:
- (4 Credits, BIOL 105)
- (4 Credits, BIOL 230)
The following science courses may fulfill 6 credits of related elective requirements:
- BIOL 201
- BIOL 202
- (4 Credits, CHEM 103)
- (4 Credits, CHEM 113)
- (4 Credits, PHYS 121)
- (4 Credits, PHYS 122)
- Approved coursework in biotechnology, biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, genetics, immunology, microbiology, molecular biology, physics, and virology
Career Preparation
This program is designed to help you develop skills for careers in biological or chemical technology, clinical laboratory science, lab management, or science project management. Potential job titles within specific laboratory management careers include medical laboratory scientist, laboratory manager, laboratory supervisor/clinical lab supervisor, research associate, and laboratory technician.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
While we do not require you to have specific professional experience before entering this program, please keep in mind the set of courses you will need to complete at UMGC or transfer in from another institution before beginning the capstone course.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Workplace learning experience required
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
You must complete 15 credits of lower-level coursework in biology, biochemistry, biotechnology, chemistry, microbiology, or molecular biology prior to starting the capstone — and to graduate from this program. Of these 15 credits, 12 must be in lab science.
Please note: While this does not have to be completed prior to admission, UMGC has limited course offerings in science beyond those already listed for the major. Approved coursework for the listed science requirements may include courses that are accepted in transfer from a community college or another appropriate institution.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.
Environmental Health & Safety
Bachelor of ScienceThese program requirements are for students who enroll in the 2024-2025 academic year.
Program Highlights
- Recommend solutions: Use information-gathering skills and professional judgment to recommend solutions for technical or scientific problems in environmental health and safety
- Evaluate processes: Apply cognitive and technical skills to anticipate, recognize, and critically evaluate hazards and risk factors
- Follow the evidence: Select effective control methods to generate practical evidence-based solutions while following legislative and industry standards
- Adapt to change: Develop strategies for ongoing professional development and informing evidence-based practice in a continually changing global environment
- Advise on strategy: Model a range of written and oral communication formats to explain technical information and concepts to various audiences
- Practice leadership skills: Choose collaborative and ethical practices to build the relationships necessary to address contemporary environmental health and safety issues
Required Courses
- (3 Credits, ENHS 300)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 305)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 310)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 315)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 320)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 325)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 330)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 335)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 340)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 400)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 405)
- (3 Credits, ENHS 495)
Related Required Courses
The following required courses may be applied to general education requirements:
- (3 Credits, CHEM 297)
- (3 Credits, MATH 115) or a more advanced MATH course
Career Preparation
This online environmental health and safety degree is designed to help prepare you for a career in environmental or occupational safety. Potential job titles include occupational health and safety specialist, environmental health and safety coordinator, safety compliance officer, risk management safety analyst, and field/site safety representative.
Experience Recommended for Success in the Program
No previous experience is needed.
Total Program Credits
120
Transfer Credits
Up to 90
Format
- All courses available online
- Select hybrid courses available
Tuition Per Credit
- $324 per credit (in-state)
- $499 per credit (out-of-state)
- $250 per credit (military)
- Other fees may apply
Admission Requirements
This program follows standard ÐÒ¸£±¦µ¼º½ admission requirements.
Military-Specific Details
This program does not have military restrictions. It is available to all eligible civilian and military-affiliated students.
State-Specific Details
This program does not have state-specific restrictions.