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 2022
- BIOL 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as ENVS 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- 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.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- BLST 007. ChesterSemester Fellowship
(Cross-listed as ENVS 007.)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- CHEM 010. Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- CHEM 010 HN. Foundations of Chemical Principles - Honors
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Beaulac.
- ENGR 068. Energy and the Environment.
(Cross-listed as ENVS 068)
- Natural Sciences and engineering practicum.
- Plata.
- ENVS 006. First-Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
(Cross-listed as RELG 006C)
- Humanities.
- Wallace
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- ENVS 008. Plants and Human Culture.
- Barton, Susan
- ENVS 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as BIOL 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 010. Climate Change: Science & Responses
(Cross-listed as PHYS 001C)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Jensen.
- ENVS 014. Environmental Issues in Native American Communities
- Benally.
- ENVS 015. Nature Rx: Wellbeing and the natural world
- Ellow.
- ENVS 028. Global Environmental Governance
(Cross-listed as POLS 081)
- Social Science.
- Kaya.
- ENVS 033. Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
(Cross-listed as SOCI 041C)
- Social Sciences.
- Fenelon.
- ENVS 035. Environmental Justice: Ethnography, Politics & Action
(Cross-listed as SOAN 035)
- Social Sciences.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 049. Indigenous Food Sovereignty.
- Benally.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
(Cross-listed as BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- ENVS 068. Energy and the Environment.
Cross-listed as (ENGR 068)
- Natural Sciences and engineering practicum.
- Plata.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Padilioni, Drake.
- PHIL 035. Environmental Ethics
- Humanities.
- Thomason.
- PHYS 001C. Climate Change: Science and Responses
(Cross-Listed with ENVS 010)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Jensen.
- POLS 068. Politics of Public Health
- Social sciences.
- Swadley.
- 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.
- RELG 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- RELG 031. Healing Praxis and Social Justice
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- SOAN 035. Environmental Justice: Ethnography, Politics & Action
(Cross-listed as ENVS 035)
- Social sciences.
- Di Chiro.
- SOCI 041C. Indigenous Peoples and Globalization
(Cross-listed as ENVS 033)
- Social sciences.
- Fenelon.
Spring 2023
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- 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.
- CLST 004. Radical Jesus
(Cross listed as RELG 004)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- DANC 014. Warming Up: Performing Ecology
- ENGL 001J. First-Year Seminar: Persuasion
- Humanities.
- Mishra
- ENGL 070G. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling
(Cross-listed as ENVS 045A)
- Humanities
- Bolton.
- ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)
(Cross-listed as ENVS 042)
- Humanities.
- DiChiro.
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Graves, Padilioni.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 015. Nature Rx: Wellbeing and the natural world
- Ellow.
- ENVS 016. Redefining Scientific Ways of Knowing
- Costa.
- ENVS 023. Politics of Population
(Cross-listed as POLS 048)
- Social Sciences.
- White.
- ENVS 042. Ecofeminism(s)
(Cross-listed as ENGL 089E)
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 045A. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling
(Cross-listed as ENGL 070G)
- Bolton.
- ENVS 046. Warming Up: Performing Ecology
- ENVS 047. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan
- ENVS 050. Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Impacts
- Benally.
- ENVS 055. Sacred Plants, Holy Fungi, and Religious Experience.
(Cross-listed as RELG 050)
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Everbach, Drake.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Benally.
- JPNS 036. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan
- PEAC 036. Environment, Cultural Memory and Social Change in Japan
- POLS 048. The Politics of Population (CP)
(Cross-listed as ENVS 023)
- Social sciences.
- White.
- RELG 004. Radical Jesus
(Cross-listed as CLST 004)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- THEA 005D. Warming Up: Performing Ecology
Fall 2023
- BIOL 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as ENVS 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- BIOL 020. Animal Physiology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Leach.
- BIOL 036. Ecology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Machado.
- BIOL 037. Conservation Biology
(Cross-listed as ENVS 063)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- BIOL 039. Marine Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Chan.
- BLST 007. ChesterSemester Fellowship
(Cross-listed as ENVS 007.)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- CHEM 010. Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- CHEM 010 HN. Foundations of Chemical Principles - Honors
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ECON 076. Environmental Economics
Cross-listed with ENVS 020
- Social sciences.
- Peck.
- ECON 176. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ENVS 120)
- Social sciences.
- Peck.
- ENGL 058. Climate Fiction
(Cross-listed as ENVS 058 )
- Humanities.
- Bolton.
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- ENVS 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as BIOL 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 010. Climate Change: Science & Responses
(Cross-listed as PHYS 001C)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- ENVS 020. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 076 )
- Social Sciences.
- Peck.
- ENVS 021. Disaster Politics and Policies
(Cross-listed as POLS 045)
- Social Sciences.
- White.
- ENVS 040. Religion and Ecology
(Cross-listed as RELG 022)
- Wallace.
- ENVS 054. Resisting the Apocalypse: Activism, Theater, and Envisioning a Good Future.
(Cross-listed as THEA 026)
- Humanities.
- Torra.
- ENVS 058. Climate Fiction
(Cross-listed as ENGL 058)
- Humanities
- Bolton.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
(Cross-listed as BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Staff.
- ENVS 120. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 176)
- Social Sciences
- Peck.
- POLS 045. Disaster Politics and Policies (CP)
Cross listed ENVS 021
- Political sciences.
- White.
- RELG 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- RELG 022. Religion and Ecology
(Cross-listed as ENVS 040)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
Spring 2024
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 137. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Machado.
- CHEM 015. Environmental Chemistry
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Graves
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Staff.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Staff.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Staff.
- MATH 056. Modeling
(Cross-listed as ENVS 079)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- RUSS 086. Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture
(Cross-listed as LITR 086R)
- Humanities.
- Staff.
Fall 2024
- BLST 007. ChesterSemester Fellowship
(Cross-listed as ENVS 007.)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- CHEM 010. Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
- ENVS 014. Environmental Issues in Native American Communities
- Benally
- ENVS 092A. UNFCCC COP and International Climate Regime
- Kaya, Tier.
- RELG 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
Spring 2025
- MATH 056. Modeling
(Cross-listed as ENVS 079)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
