Current Courses
Fall 2024 Course Offerings
Below is a list of current courses for which students can receive credit for the two degree options in the Climate and Environmental Studies program: the minor in environmental and sustainability studies and the major in climate studies. Please see the core curriculum sections on the major and minor page for a full list of required courses.
Some courses listed below may not appear in your degree audit for the minor. If that happens, contact Professor Tzankova for the major and Prof. Hess for the minor and request a variance. The list below may not include all courses. We will update as more information becomes available.
Course | Env. Sust. Studies minor | Climate Studies major |
ENVS 1101 (Foundations of Climate Studies)
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B/C list | Core requirement |
EES 2110 (Introduction to Climate Change) | A list | Climate science foundation |
ENGL 3730 (Literature and the Environment) | B list | Core humanities |
RLST 3427 (Religion and Climate Change) | B list | Core humanities |
ANTH 2225 (Climate Change, Collapse, and Sustainability in History) | C list | Core social sciences |
SOC 3319 (NGOs, Society, and Climate Change) | C list | Core social sciences/ Specialization electives |
BSCI 3233 (Biodiversity, Climate Change and Our Health) | Core natural sciences | |
EES 4440 (Glacial Geology) | Core natural sciences | |
EES 4650 (Physics of the Climate System) | A list | Core natural sciences |
ANTH 3261 (Introduction to Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing) | C list | Methods and practices |
BME 2400 (Quantitative Methods I: Statistical Analysis) | Methods and practices | |
CSET 2100 (Science Communication Tools and Techniques) | Methods and practices | |
CSET 3257 (Virtual Reality Design) | Methods and practices | |
DS 1000 (Data Science: How to Shape Our World) | Methods and practices | |
DS 1110 (Applied Programming and Problem Solving with Python) | Methods and practices | |
DS 2110 (Statistics for Data Science) | Methods and practices | |
DS 3100 (Fundamentals of Data Science) | Methods and practices | |
ECON 1500 (Economic Statistics) | Methods and practices | |
ECON 3035 (Econometric Methods) | Methods and practices | |
HART 1740W (Introduction to Design Studies) | Methods and practices/Specialization electives | |
HART 2815W (Digital Heritage: Methods and Practice) | Methods and practices | |
MATH 1100 (Survey of Calculus) | Methods and practices | |
MATH 1201 (Single-Variable Calculus II) | Methods and practices | |
MATH 1301 (Accelerated Single-Variable Calculus II) | Methods and practices | |
MATH 2810 (Probability and Statistics for Engineering) | Methods and practices | |
PSY 2100 (Quantitative Methods) | Methods and practices | |
SOC 2100 (Statistics for Social Scientists) | Methods and practices | |
SOC 3002 (Introduction to Social Research) | Methods and practices | |
ANTH 3202 (The Collapse of Civilizations) | Specialization electives | |
ANTH 4154 (Environmental Anthropology) | C list | Specialization electives |
BSCI 2238 (Ecology) | A list | Specialization electives |
EES 2220W (History of Antarctic Exploration and Governance) | C list | Specialization electives |
EES 3200 (Life Through Time) | A list | Specialization electives |
ENVS 4101W (Society and the Environment Capstone) | Specialization electives | |
CE 2120 (Sustainable Design in Civil and Environmental Engineering) | Specialization electives | |
CE 4300 (Reliability and Risk Case Studies) | Specialization electives | |
CSET 3890 (Special Topics – Science Communication) | Specialization electives | |
HODC 3650 (Community Leadership and Development Seminar – Building a Design Driven Culture) | Specialization electives | |
HODH 3650 (Health and Human Services Seminar – Environmental Health) | Specialization electives | |
HODI 3270 (Global Sustainable Development) | C list | Specialization electives |
SOC 1030 (Environment and Society) | C list | Specialization electives |
SOC 3312 (Environment and Development) | C list | Specialization electives |
SOC 3321 (Population and Society) | C list | Specialization electives |
Spring 2024 courses
Course | Env. Sust. Studies minor | Climate Studies major |
ENVS 1101 (Foundations of Climate Studies)
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B/C list | Core requirement |
EES 3310 (Global Climate Change) | A list | Climate science foundation |
ENVS 4101W (Society and the Environment Capstone) | Capstone. Jr and Sr only | Elective (by permission only) |
ANTH 3120 (Sociocultural Field Methods) | Methods and Practices | |
BME 2400 (Quantitative Methods I: Statistical Analysis) | Methods and Practices | |
CE 3300 (Risk, Reliability, and Resilience Engineering) | Methods and Practices | |
CMST 3800 (Communication and Media Studio) | Methods and Practices | |
CSET 2100 (Science Communication Tools and Techniques) | Methods and Practices | |
CS 2204 (Program Design and Data Structures for Scientific Computing) | Methods and Practices | |
DS 1000 (Data Science: How Data Shape Our World) | Methods and Practices | |
DS 1100 (Applied Programming and Problem Solving with Python) | Methods and Practices | |
DS 2100 (Statistics for Data Science) | Methods and Practices | |
DS 3100 (Fundamentals of Data Science) | Methods and Practices | |
ECON 1500 (Economic Statistics) | Methods and Practices | |
ECON 3035 (Econometric Methods) | Methods and Practices | |
MATH 1100 (Survey of Calculus) | Methods and Practices | |
MATH 1201 (Single-Variable Calculus II) | Methods and Practices | |
MATH 1301 (Accelerated Single-Variable Calculus II) | Methods and Practices | |
MATH 2810 (Probability and Statistics for Engineering) | Methods and Practices | |
MATH 2821 (Introduction to Applied Statistics) | Methods and Practices | |
PSY 2120 (Statistical Analysis) | Methods and Practices | |
SOC 3002 (Introduction to Social Research) | Methods and Practices | |
CSET 3320W (Environmental Journalism: Investigating Climate Change) | B list | Core humanities course |
HART 2662 (Art and the Environment in the US) | B list | |
HIST 1530 (Climate History) | B list (variance | Core humanities course (variance) |
PSCI 3266 (Climate Change Justice) | C list | Core social sciences course |
SOC 3311 (Climate Change and Society) | C list | Core social sciences course |
EES 2510 (Earth Systems through Time) | A list | Core natural sciences course or specialization elective |
ANTH 2150 (Urban Ecology) | C list | Specialization elective |
BSCI 1511 (Introduction to Biological Sciences) | Specialization elective | |
BSCI 2238L (Ecology Lab) | A list | Specialization elective |
BSCI 3233 (Conservation Biology) | A list | Specialization elective |
EES 2580 (Earth System Dynamics) | Specialization elective | |
EES 4233 (Conservation Biology) | Specialization elective | |
ENVE 3610 (Sustainable Development) | A list | Specialization elective |
ENVE 4305 (Enterprise Risk Management) | Specialization elective | |
CE 3300 (Risk, Reliability, and Resilience Engineering) | Specialization elective | |
CSET 3890 (Special Topics – Improv in Sci Communication) | Specialization elective | |
HODC 3650 (Community Leadership and Development Seminar – Food and Community Development) | Specialization elective | |
SOC 3314 (Environmental Inequality and Justice) | C list | Specialization elective |
SOC 3316 (Business, Civil Society, and the Environment) | C list | Specialization elective |
SOC 3318 (Sociology of Green Jobs) | C list | Specialization elective |
SOC 3321 (Population and Society) | C list | Specialization elective |
EES 1030 (Oceanography) | A list | |
EES 1510 (Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Geological Sciences) | A list |