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.
Spring 2023
- ARTT 054C. Sculpture and the Environment
- Humanities.
- Joyner.
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 004. First Year Seminar: Making Earth: How Plants & Soils Transform Our Planet
- Natural Sciences and Engineering.
- Machado.
- BIOL 137. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Machado.
- CHEM 003C. Green and Sustainable Chemistry
- Natural science and engineering.
- Lammertsma.
- CHEM 043. Analytical Methods and Instrumentation
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Sahadeo.
- 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.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Graves, Padilioni.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Natural Sciences and engineering.
- 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 032. Environmental Justice in Latin America
(Cross-listed as PEAC 021)
- Social Sciences.
- Wilson.
- ENVS 042. Ecofeminism(s)
(Cross-listed as ENGL 089E)
- Humanities.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 045A. Writing Nature: Digital Storytelling
(Cross-listed as ENGL 070G)
- Humanities.
- 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 070. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- Non-distribution.
- Ahner.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Everbach, Drake.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Benally.
- HIST 061. From the Ocean to the River: The Indus and the Ganges in Global History
- Social sciences.
- Azfar.
- JPNS 036. Environment, Cultural Memory, and Social Change in Japan
- PEAC 021. Environmental Justice in Latin America
- Social Sciences.
- Wilson-Becerril.
- PEAC 036. Environment, Cultural Memory and Social Change in Japan
- RELG 004. Radical Jesus
(Cross-listed as CLST 004)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- RELG 050. Sacred Plants, Holy Fungi, and Religious Experience
(Cross listed as ENVS 055)
- Humanities
- Padilioni.
- THEA 005D. Warming Up: Performing Ecology
Fall 2023
- ANTH 043E. Culture, Health, Illness
- Social sciences.
- Schuetze.
- ARTH 061. Art and Culture of Indigenous Philadelphia: From Shackamaxon to the Present
(Cross-listed as ENVS 056)
- Humanities.
- Green.
- 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 028. Global Change Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Chan.
- 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. Chester Semester Fellowship
(ENVS 007 )
- Humanities.
- DiChiro.
- CHEM 010. Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- CHEM 011. Integrated Foundations of Chemical Principles
- 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 009L. First-Year Seminar: Imagining Natural History
Cross-listed as ENVS 045C
- Humanities.
- Bolton.
- ENGR 063. Water Quality and Pollution Control
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Plata.
- ENGR 068. Energy and the Environment.
(Cross-listed as ENVS 068)
- Natural Sciences and engineering practicum.
- Plata.
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
(Cross-listed as BLST 007)
- Humanities.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 008. Plants and Human Culture.
- Barton.
- 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 017. Walking as a Way of Knowing
- Newmann Holmes.
- ENVS 020. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 076 )
- Social Sciences.
- Peck.
- ENVS 035. Environmental Justice: Ethnography, Politics, Action/Philadelphia
(Cross-listed as SOAN 035)
- Social Sciences.
- Di Chiro.
- ENVS 045. 'Tis the Season: Festivals of Solstice, Yule, and Christmas
(Cross-listed as RELG 058)
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 045C. FYS: Imagining Natural History
(Cross-listed as ENGL 009L)
- Humanities.
- Bolton.
- ENVS 050. Indigenous Peoples and Climate Change Impacts
- Benally.
- ENVS 056. Arts and Culture of Indigenous Philadelphia: From Shackamaxon to the Present
(Cross-listed as ARTH 061)
- Humanities.
- Green.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
(Cross-listed as BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 096. Senior Thesis in Environmental Studies
- Staff.
- ENVS 120. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed as ECON 176)
- Social Sciences
- Peck.
- PHYS 001C. Climate Change: Science and Responses
(Cross-Listed with ENVS 010)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Jensen.
- PSYC 009. First Year Seminar: Psychology and Sustainability
- Social Sciences.
- Jacobs.
- PSYC 135. Seminar in Social Psychology
- Social sciences.
- Ward.
- RELG 058. 'Tis the Season: Festivals of Solstice, Yule, and Christmas
(Cross-listed as ENVS 045)
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- SOAN 035. Environmental Justice: Ethnography, Politics & Action: Philadelphia
(Cross-listed as ENVS 035)
- Social sciences.
- Di Chiro.
Spring 2024
- ANTH 003G. First-Year Seminar: Development and its Discontents
- Social sciences.
- Schuetze.
- ARTH 062. Land Art, Place, and Environment
(Cross-listed as ENVS 053)
- Humanities.
- Green.
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 004. First Year Seminar: Making Earth: How Plants & Soils Transform Our Planet
- Natural Sciences and Engineering.
- Machado.
- BIOL 025. Plant Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Kaplinsky.
- BIOL 132. Wildlife Conservation
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- CHEM 015. Environmental Chemistry
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Beaulac.
- CHEM 043. Analytical Methods and Instrumentation
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Riley
- ENGL 071E. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis
Cross-listed as ENVS 041
- Humanities.
- Schmidt.
- ENGL 089. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Staff.
- ENVS 003. Environmental Policy and Economics
- Social Sciences.
- Peck.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Natural Sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 015. Nature Rx: Wellbeing and the natural world
- Ellow.
- ENVS 016. Redefining Scientific Ways of Knowing
- Staff.
- ENVS 021. Disaster Politics and Policies
(Cross-listed as POLS 045)
- Social Sciences.
- White.
- ENVS 041. Ecopoetry and the Climate Crisis
(Cross-listed as ENGL 071E)
- Humanities.
- Schmidt.
- ENVS 043. Race, Gender, Class, and the Environment
- ENVS 049. Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States.
- Benally.
- ENVS 053. Land Art, Place, and Environment
(Cross-listed as ARTH 062)
- Humanities.
- Green.
- ENVS 060. Environmental Chemistry
(Cross-listed as CHEM 015)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Beaulic.
- ENVS 070. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- Non-distribution.
- Ahner.
- ENVS 079. Modeling
(Cross-listed as MATH 056)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Staff.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Benally.
- MATH 056. Modeling
(Cross-listed as ENVS 079)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- POLS 045. Disaster Politics and Policies (CP)
Cross listed ENVS 021
- Political sciences.
- White.
- RUSS 086. Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture
(Cross-listed as LITR 086R)
- Humanities.
- Staff.
- SOAN 020M. Race, Gender, Class and Environment
Fall 2024
- ANTH 043E. Culture, Health, Illness
- Social sciences.
- Schuetze.
- 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 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.
- BIOL 115E. Plant Molecular Genetics and Biotechnology
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Kaplinsky.
- BLST 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
(ENVS 007 )
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- CHEM 010. Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- CHEM 011. Integrated Foundations of Chemical Principles
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ECON 076. Environmental Economics
(Cross-listed with ENVS 020)
- Social sciences.
- Peck.
- ENGR 068. Energy and the Environment.
(Cross-listed as ENVS 068)
- Natural Sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ENVS 007. Chester Semester Fellowship
(Cross-listed as BLST 007)
- Humanities.
- Wallace.
- ENVS 009. Our Food
(Cross-listed as BIOL 009)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- 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 055. Sacred Plants, Holy Fungi, and Religious Experience.
(Cross-listed as RELG 050)
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 063. Conservation Biology
(Cross-listed as BIOL 037)
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- ENVS 089A. Sustainability Research and Action
- Staff.
- PHYS 001C. Climate Change: Science and Responses
(Cross-Listed with ENVS 010)
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Staff.
- POLS 081. Global Environmental Governance (IR)
Cross-listed with ENVS 028
- Social sciences.
- Kaya.
- PSYC 135. Seminar in Social Psychology
- Social sciences.
- Staff.
- RELG 041B. Religion and Nature: Wonders Signs & Portents
- Humanities.
- Padilioni.
- RELG 050. Sacred Plants, Holy Fungi, and Religious Experience
(Cross listed as ENVS 055)
- Humanities
- Padilioni.
Spring 2025
- ARTH 010. Art and Climate Change
(Cross-Listed As ENVS 051)
- Humanities.
- Checa-Gismero.
- BIOL 002. Organismal and Population Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- BIOL 025. Plant Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Kaplinsky.
- BIOL 132. Wildlife Conservation
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Caviedes-Solis.
- BIOL 139. Global Ocean Change Biology
- Natural sciences and engineering.
- Chan.
- CHEM 043. Analytical Methods and Instrumentation
- Natural sciences and engineering practicum.
- Staff.
- ENVS 001. Introduction to Environmental Studies
- Non-division.
- Padilioni.
- ENVS 013. Our Trash
- Natural Sciences and engineering.
- Pfluger.
- ENVS 021. Disaster Politics and Policies
(Cross-listed as POLS 045)
- Social Sciences.
- White.
- ENVS 025. The Environmental History of Africa
(Cross-listed as HIST 089)
- Social Sciences.
- Burke.
- ENVS 051. Art and Climate Change
(Cross-listed as ARTH 010)
- Humanities
- Checa-Gismero.
- ENVS 089B. President's Sustainability Research Fellowship
- Staff.
- ENVS 091. Capstone Seminar
- Staff.
- HIST 089. The Environmental History of Africa
Cross-listed as ENVS 025
- Social sciences.
- Burke.
- PHIL 035. Environmental Ethics
- Humanities.
- Baumann.
- POLS 045. Disaster Politics and Policies (CP)
Cross listed ENVS 021
- Political sciences.
- White.
