Courses
First-year students interested in Environmental Studies are encouraged to take ENVS 001 (Intro to Environmental Studies) in the spring semester, and to consider taking one of the courses in this list in the fall semester.
The list of courses for future semesters may change. Please check regularly for updates on courses.
Fall 2021
- BIOL 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as ENVS 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- BIOL 016. Microbiology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Vollmer.
- BIOL 020. Animal Physiology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Bauer.
- BIOL 025. Plant Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Grossman.
- BIOL 039. Marine Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Chan.
- ECON 076. Environmental Economics
Cross-listed with ENVS 020
- Social sciences.
- Peck.
- ECON 176. Environmental Economics
Cross-listed with ENVS 120
- Social sciences.
- Peck.
- ENGL 089B. Environmentally Engaged Literature: Pollutants, Fossil Fuels, and Atomic Bombs
(Cross-listed as ENVS 044)
- Humanities.
- Price.
- ENGR 003. Problems in Technology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Macken.
- ENGR 035. Solar Energy Systems
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Everbach.
- ENGR 063. Water Quality and Pollution Control
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Plata.
- ENVS 005. FYS: Environmental Impacts of Nobel Prize Winning Science
(Cross-listed as CHEM 003D)
- Natural science and engineering.
- Graves.
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- Humanities.
- Wallace
- ENVS 008. Plants and People
- Mohn.
- ENVS 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as BIOL 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 014. Environmental Issues in Native American Communities
- Benally
- ENVS 020. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 076 )
- Social Sciences.
- Peck.
- ENVS 028. Global Environmental Governance
(Cross-listed as POLS 081)
- Social Science.
- Kaya.
- ENVS 031. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking
(Cross-listed as PEAC 055)
- Social Science.
- Smithey.
- ENVS 033. Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
- Fenelon.
- ENVS 035. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
(Cross-listed as POLS 043B)
- Social Sciences.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 040. Religion and Ecology
(Cross-listed as RELG 022)
- Wallace.
- ENVS 044. Environmentally Engaged Literature: Pollutants, Fossil Fuels, and Atomic Bombs
(Cross-listed as ENGL 089B)
- Price.
- ENVS 057. Afro-Futurism: Astral Mythologies of Creation and the Afterlife
(Cross-listed as RELG 047)
- Humanities
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Everbach, Staff.
- ENVS 092A. UNFCCC COP and International Climate Regime
- Kaya, Tier.
- ENVS 120. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 176)
- Social Sciences
- Peck.
- PEAC 055. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking
- Social sciences.
- Smithey.
- POLS 081. Global Environmental Governance (IR)
Cross-listed with ENVS 028
- Social sciences.
- Kaya
- RELG 022. Religion and Ecology
(Cross-listed as ENVS 040)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- RELG 047. Afro-Futurism: Astral Mythologies of Creation and the Afterlife
(Cross-listed as ENVS 057)
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- SOCI 041C. Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
(Cross-listed as ENVS 033)
- Social sciences.
- Fenelon.
Spring 2022
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 037. Conservation Biology
Cross-listed as (ENVS 063)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Grossman.
- BIOL 116. Microbial Processes and Biotechnology
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Vollmer.
- BIOL 139. Global Ocean Change Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Chan.
- ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Graves.
- ENVS 006. First-Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
(Cross-listed as RELG 006C)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- ENVS 021. Disaster Politics and Policies
(Cross-listed as POLS 045)
- Social Sciences.
- White.
- ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
- ENVS 048. Philosophy of Nature
Cross-listed as PHIL 029
- Humanities
- Lorraine.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
Cross-listed as (BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Grossman.
- ENVS 079. Modeling
(Cross-listed as MATH 056 )
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Everbach, Staff.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Bennally
- ENVS 096. Senior Thesis in Environmental Studies
- Staff.
- MATH 056. Modeling
(Cross-listed as ENVS 079)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- PHIL 029. Philosophy of Nature
(Cross-listed as ENVS 048)
- Humanities.
- Lorraine.
- POLS 045. Disaster Politics and Policies (CP)
Cross listed ENVS 021
- Political sciences.
- White.
- RELG 006C. First Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
(Cross-listed as ENVS 006)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- RUSS 043. Chernobyl: Nuclear Narratives and the Environment
(Cross-listed as LITR 043R)
- Humanities.
- Staff.
- SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
Fall 2022
- BIOL 020. Animal Physiology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Bauer.
- BIOL 034. Evolution
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Formica.
- BIOL 036. Ecology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Machado.
- BIOL 037. Conservation Biology
Cross-listed as (ENVS 063)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ENVS 005. FYS: Environmental Impacts of Nobel Prize Winning Science
(Cross-listed as CHEM 003D)
- Natural science and engineering.
- Graves.
- ENVS 006. First-Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
(Cross-listed as RELG 006C)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 028. Global Environmental Governance
(Cross-listed as POLS 081)
- Social Science.
- Kaya.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
Cross-listed as (BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Staff.
- ENVS 092A. UNFCCC COP and International Climate Regime
- Staff.
- PHIL 035. Environmental Ethics
- Humanities.
- Thomason.
- POLS 081. Global Environmental Governance (IR)
Cross-listed with ENVS 028
- Social sciences.
- Kaya.
- RELG 006C. First Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
(Cross-listed as ENVS 006)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
Spring 2023
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as ENVS 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- BIOL 016. Microbiology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 137. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Machado.
- CHEM 003C. Green and Sustainable Chemistry
- Natural science and engineering.
- Lammertsma.
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Graves.
- ENVS 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as BIOL 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Staff.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Staff.
- JPNS 036. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan
- RELG 004. Radical Jesus
(Cross-listed as CLST 004 )
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
