Programs
Energy and Climate Policy
(15 credit hours) The Energy and Climate Policy concentration prepares students to contribute in the areas of energy generation, use and impact, focus on energy policies, behaviors, and technologies and their socioeconomic and environmental consequences. MPA students will focus primarily on economics-based quantitative methods, behavioral science contributions to energy production and conservation projects, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods in community settings. Students may not use MPA core courses to fulfill concentration requirements.
Required Courses (6 credit hours)
| SPEA-E 574 | Energy Systems in Transition | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 674 | Energy Economics and Policy | (3 cr.) |
Electives (9 credit hours)
In consultation with a concentration advisor, students select a mixture of science and policy courses related to energy in accordance to professional goals. Students must take a total of three electives courses from the Natural Science (Group I) and Economics, Public Policy, and Law (Group II) electives listed below. At least one course must be taken from each of the following groups.
Group I - Natural Science Electives (Choose one or two of the following courses)
| SPEA-E 503 | Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-E 515 | Fundamentals of Air Pollution | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-E 518 | Vector-based Geographic Information Systems | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-E 529 | Application of Geographic Information Systems | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-E 536 | Environmental Chemistry | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-E 591 | Climate Change Impacts on Natural Resources | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 515 | Renewable and Nuclear Energy and Climate Change | (3 cr.) |
| EAS-G 571 | Principles of Petroleum Geology | (3 cr.) |
| EAS-G 576 | Climate Change Science | (3 cr.) |
| EAS-G 587 | Organic Geochemistry | (3 cr.) |
| GEOG-G 532 | Physical Climatology | (3 cr.) |
| GEOG-G 544 | Climate Change Impacts | (3 cr.) |
Group II - Economics, Public Policy and Law-Related Electives (choose one or two of the following courses)
| SPEA-X 511/SPEA-E 501 | Human Behavior and Energy Consumption | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-P 541 | Benefit Cost Analysis | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-P 562 | Public Program Evaluation | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 512/LAW-L 660 | Energy and Climate: Law and Policy | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 532 | Water Policy and Economics | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 533/LAW-B 675 | Public Natural Resources Law | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 535 | International Environmental Policy | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 564 | Environmental and Natural Resource Policy Design and Implementation | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 590 | Energy Policy from a Nation-State Perspective | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 625 | Environmental Economics and Policy | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 626 | Energy Policy Seminar | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 643 | Natural Resource Management and Policy | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-R 645 | Environmental Law | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-S 516 | Preparing for Climate Change and Resilient Urban Communities | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-S 596 | Sustainable Development | (3 cr.) |
| SPEA-V 550/LAW-L 644 | Energy Law and Policy | (3 cr.) |
| INTL-I 525 | International Climate Governance | (3 cr.) |
| MSCH-T 602 | Communicating Climate Change | (3 cr.) |