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) | B/C List | Introduction |
| EES 2110 (Introduction to Climate Change) | A List | Foundation |
| ENGL 3730 (Literature and the Environment) | B List | Core Humanities |
| RLST 3472 (Religion and Climate Change) | B List | Core Humanities |
| ANTH 2225 (Climate Change, Collapse, and Sustainability in History) | C List | Core Social Sciences |
| EES 4440 (Glacial Geology) | Core Natural Sciences | |
| EES 4650 (Physics of the Climate System) | A List | Core Natural Sciences |
| BSCI 3233 (Biodiversity, Climate Change and Our Health) | 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 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 | |
| HART 1740W (Introduction to Design Studies) | Methods and Practices | |
| HART 2815W (Digital Heritage: Methods and Practice) | Methods and Practices | |
| HOD 3262 (Social Entrepreneurship: Principles and Application) | 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 (robability 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 | |
| BSCI 2238 (Ecology) | A List | Specialization |
| EES 2220W (History of Antarctic Exploration and Governance) | C List | Specialization |
| EES 3220 (Life Through Time) | A List | Specialization |
| ENVS 4101W (Society and the Environment Capstone) | Capstone | Specialization (with instructor permission) |
| CE 2120 (Sustainable Design in Civil and Environmental Engineering) | Specialization | |
| CE 4300 (Reliability and Risk Case Studies) | Specialization | |
| CSET 3890 (Special Topics – Science Communication) | Specialization | |
| HODC 3650 (Community Leadership and Development Seminar – Building a Design Driven Culture) | Specialization | |
| HODH 3650 (Health and Human Services Seminar – Environmental Health) | Specialization | |
| SOC 1030 (Environment and Society) | C List | Specialization |
| SOC 3312 (Environment and Development) | C List | Specialization |
| SOC 3319 (NGOs, Society, and Climate Change) | C List | Specialization |
| SOC 3321 (Population and Society) | C List | Specialization |
| BSCI 1103 (Green Earth: The Biodiversity and Evolution of Plants) | A List | |
| EES 1030 (Oceanography) | A List | |
| EES 1510L (The Dynamic Earth: Introduction to Geological Sciences + Lab) | A List | |
| EES 4760 (Agent- and Individual-Based Computational Modeling) | A List | |
| ENVE 4615 (Environmental Assessments) | A List | |
| ES 1115 (First-year Engineering Seminar – Engineering a Sustainable Future) | A List (Director Approval Required) | |
| ENGL 3720 (Literature, Science, and Technology) | B List | |
| HIST 2139 (Technology, Nature and Power in Africa) | B List | |
| ANTH 2227 (Food in the Ancient World) | C List | |
| ANTH 4154 (Environmental Anthropology) | C List | |
| SOC 1020 (Contemporary Social Issues) | C List |