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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.

  • Spring 2018
  • Fall 2018
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Spring 2018

  • BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
  • BIOL 009. Our Food
  • BIOL 025. Plant Biology
  • BIOL 034. Evolution
  • BIOL 116. Microbial Processes and Biotechnology
  • CHEM 015. Environmental Chemistry
  • CHIN 086. Chinese Food Culture and Farming: Traditions and Transitions
  • ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ENVS 006. First-Year Seminar: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
  • ENVS 009. Our Food
  • ENVS 035. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
  • ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
  • ENVS 052. Chinese Food Culture and Farming: Traditions and Transitions
  • ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
  • PHIL 035. Environmental Ethics
  • POLS 043B. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
  • RELG 006C. First Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
  • SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment

Fall 2018

  • BIOL 017. Microbial Pathogenesis and the Immune Response
  • BIOL 020. Animal Physiology
  • BIOL 034. Evolution
  • BIOL 137. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
  • ECON 032. Operations Research
  • ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENGR 057. Operations Research
  • ENGR 063. Water Quality and Pollution Control
  • ENVS 031. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking
  • ENVS 032. China, Brazil, and the Global Food Environment
  • ENVS 035. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
  • ENVS 042. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENVS 092A. UNFCCC COP
  • PEAC 055. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking
  • POLS 043B. Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
  • RELG 041B. Religion and Nature: Wonders Signs & Portents
  • RUSS 086. Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture
  • SOAN 060C. China, Brazil, and the Global Food Environment

Spring 2019

  • BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
  • BIOL 009. Our Food
  • BIOL 116. Microbial Processes and Biotechnology
  • CHEM 015. Environmental Chemistry
  • ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • ENGR 066. Environmental Systems
  • ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
  • ENVS 009. Our Food
  • ENVS 022. Environmental Policy and Politics
  • ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
  • ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
  • ENVS 110. The Nature of Romanticism
  • POLS 043. Environmental Policy and Politics
  • SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • SOCI 055C. Climate Disruption, Conflict, and Peacemaking

Fall 2019

  • BIOL 034. Evolution
  • BIOL 036. Ecology
  • BIOL 037. Conservation Biology
  • ECON 076. Environmental Economics
  • ECON 176. Environmental Economics
  • ENGL 089E. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENGR 003. Problems in Technology
  • ENGR 035. Solar Energy Systems
  • ENVS 042. Ecofeminism(s)
  • ENVS 045A. Writing Nature
  • MATH 056. Modeling
  • PHYS 024. The Earth's Climate and Global Warming
  • POLS 048. The Politics of Population
  • RELG 022. Religion and Ecology

Spring 2020

  • BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
  • BIOL 009. Our Food
  • BIOL 016. Microbiology
  • ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
  • ENGL 110. Natures of Romanticism
  • ENGR 004A. Environmental Protection
  • ENVS 009. Our Food
  • ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
  • RELG 006C. First Year Seminar: Apocalypse: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
  • SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment

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