Current Courses
Spring 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. 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 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 |