Departments & Programs
Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Sustainable Energy and Resources Concentration Courses
Students must select two courses from the following list and two courses from the list of elective courses.
Geography
- GEOG-G 411 Sustainable Development Systems
- GEOG-G 451 Water Resources
- GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Geological Sciences
- GEOL-G 328 Energy, Resources, and the Environment
- GEOL-G 448 Sustainable Energy Systems
- GEOL-G 476 Climate Change Science
- PHYS-P 310 Environmental Physics
- SPEA-E 401 Human Behavior and Energy Consumption
- SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation
Elective Courses: Students must select two courses from the following list.
Anthropology
- ANTH-E 328 Ecological Anthropology
- ANTH-E 418 Globalization and Consumer Culture
- ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas
- AMID-R 416 Sustainability in Product Design
- BIOL-L 350 Environmental Biology
- BIOL-L 473 Ecology
- BUS-L 302 Sustainability Law and Policy
- BUS-G 316 Sustainable Enterprise
- CEUS-R 394 Environmental Problems and Social Constraints in Northern and Central Eurasia
- CHEM-A 314 Biological and Environmental Chemical Analysis
- CJUS-P 401 Environmental Justice
- GEOG-G 305 Environmental Change—Nature and Impact
- GEOG-G 307 Biogeography: Distribution of Life
- GEOG-G 341 Ecological Restoration: Science and Politics
- GEOG-G 411 Sustainable Development Systems
- GEOG-G 444 Climate Change Impacts
- GEOG-G 448 Capitalism and Nature
- GEOG-G 451 Water Resources
- GEOG-G 453 Water and Society
- GEOG-G 461 Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
- GEOG-G 463 Environmental Politics of South Asia
- GEOL-G 341 Natural History of Coral Reefs
- GEOL-G 416 Economic Geology
- GEOL-G 448 Sustainable Energy Systems
- GEOL-G 451 Principles of Hydrogeology
- GEOL-G 476 Climate Change Science
- HIST-W 300 Issues in World History (Approved topic: Global Environmental History)
- LSTU-L 390 Topics in Labor Studies (Approved topic: Jobs and the Environment)
- PHYS-P 310 Environmental Physics
- POLS-Y 313 Environmental Policy
- SPEA-E 311 Introduction to Risk Assessment and Communication
- SPEA-E 332 Introduction to Applied Ecology
- SPEA-E 340 Environmental Economics and Finance
- SPEA-E 363 Environmental Management
- SPEA-E 400 Topics in Environmental Studies, Approved topics below
- The Foundations of LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)
- Environmental Sustainability
- Biological Assessment and Criteria
- Environmental Topics: Farming the City
- Environmental Topics: Radiological Hazard Management
- E 400/V450 Leadership and Creativity in Environmental Policy
- SPEA-E 422 Urban Forest Management
- SPEA-E 426 Applied Mathematics for Environmental Science
- SPEA-E 431 Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment
- SPEA-E 451 Air Pollution and Control
- SPEA-E 452 Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
- SPEA-E 456 Lake and Watershed Management
- SPEA-E 460 Fisheries Wildlife and Management
- SPEA-E 476 Environmental Law and Regulation
- SPEA-H 316 Environmental Health Science
- SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs, Approved topics below:
- Public Transit Management
- Community Development
- Climate Change and Electricity
- SPEA-V 462 Community Development
- SPH-O 310 Ecosystem Management
- SPH-T 301 Sustainable Tourism
- SPH-R 355 Outdoor Recreation Consortium
- SPH-R 385 Wilderness and Protected Lands
- SPH-R 429 Ecotourism: Administration and Management
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