Not only do these courses help students to earn credits toward a Master's Degree in Environmental Science at NJIT, but they enable students to quickly engage in research in this field. From this academic department, Distinguished Professor Dr. Somenath Mitra is one of NJIT's most decorated faculty after receiving the 2017 Benedetti Pichler Award following his research on carbon nanotube water filtration in the desalination process, earning NJIT a patent. Students in this program may be able to work with him directly.

• Environmental Chemical Science - Principles of physical, inorganic and organic chemistry are applied to understanding the origins of environmental pollutants, their transport, distribution and decomposition pathways.

• Environmental Analysis - The analysis of environmental samples is studied from the acquisition of representative samples, through sample handling, chain of custody, sample storage, analytical method selection, analysis, and data treatment.

• Environmental Problem Solving - Solutions for current environmental problems. Students are asked to respond to an imaginary Request for Proposal (RFP) in writing and before a team of technical experts at an oral presentation. Solutions proposed in student RFPs must reflect knowledge of environmental science and technology in current use.

• Global Environmental Problems - Relationships of the earth's temperature balance, global air circulation patterns, global energy needs, and control and remediation technologies.

• Toxicology - The assessment of acute, sub-acute and chronic effects of hazardous and toxic chemicals. Qualitative and quantitative measures of toxicity and testing protocols are addressed. The role of toxicology in risk assessment and risk management is discussed.

• Environmental Microbiology - 1) basic microbiology: biochemical principles, cell structure organization, microbial nutrition and growth, 2) the important microbes involved in environmental microbiology and address the environments where they are found, and 3) how they are detected and monitored, and their effects on humans, and the environment.

• Energy and Sustainability - Energy fundamentals including the basic principles necessary to understand energy systems. The technological and engineered systems for processing and using different energy non-renewable and renewable sources. The social and environmental consequences of energy production, distribution, and use, including a comparison of socioeconomic models of global energy applications.

• Legal Aspects in Environmental Engineering - Control of air, water, and solid waste pollution by federal, state, and local government statutes and international law. Preparation of environmental impact statements and the right of private citizens to bring suit under federal clean air and water pollution legislation are discussed, as well as limitations on these rights.

• Sustainable Politics and Policy - Sustainability development and institutional efforts to implement strategies at various geopolitical scales: international, national, regional, and local. The course introduces tools to measure progress toward sustainability through the use of metrics such as ecological footprint analysis and life-cycle analysis.