Click here to view the list of qualifying courses for the Environmental Studies Minor.
ENV Courses
| Course | Title | Instructor(s) | Dist. Area | Cognate Category |
Days/ TIME | TYPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ENV 208 | What Does the Environment Look Like? NEW COURSE |
Grace Kuipers | LA | Humanities | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ENV 210A | Scientific Foundations of the Environmental Nexus | Curtis Deutsch | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 210B | Scientific Foundations of the Environmental Nexus | Curtis Deutsch, Anne Morel-Kraepiel |
SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 251 / GSS 251 / ENG 243 | Coming to Our Senses: Climate Justice – Climate Change in Film, Photography and Popular Culture | Anne McClintock | EM | Humanities | M, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ENV 271 / ENG 271 | Climate Storytelling for Climate Action NEW COURSE |
Bethany Wiggin | LA | Humanities | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Elective |
| ENV 304 / ECO 328 / EEB 304 / SPI 455 | Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy | Bryan Grenfell | SEN | Natural Science or Social Science | Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 307 / ANT 307 / EEB 307 | Systems Approaches to Conservation NEW COURSE |
Christian Rivera | SA | Social Science | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Elective |
| ENV 354 / GEO 368 | Climate and Weather: Order in the Chaos | Gabriel Vecchi | SEN | Engineering or Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 357 / AMS 457 / GSS 357 | Empire of the Ark: Animals and Environments in Film, Photography and Popular Culture | Anne McClintock | EC | Humanities | W, | Elective |
| ENV 389 / AMS 389 | Just Transitions and Climate Futures NEW COURSE |
Jessica Ng | EM or SA | Humanities or Social Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Elective |
ENV Cross-listed Courses
| Course | Title | Instructor(s) | Dist. Area | Cognate Category |
Days/ Time | TYPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT 214 / ENV 214 | Anthropology and Environment | Jerry Zee | CD or EM | Humanities or Social Science | M W, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Elective |
| ANT 457 / ENV 457 | Anthropologies of Climate and Change | Jerry Zee | SA | Social Science | Th, 7:30 pm – 10:20 pm | Elective |
| ARC 205 / URB 205 / LAS 225 / ENV 205 | Interdisciplinary Design Studio | Mario Gandelsonas | LA | Humanities | T Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| CBE 225 / MSE 225 / STC 225 / ENV 225 | Plastics, Profit, and People: How Science & Society Can Strive for Sustainability | Emily Davidson | HA or SEN | Humanities or Natural Sciences | T Th, | Elective |
| CEE 207 / ENV 207 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | Ian Bourg | QCR | Engineering | M W, 1:30 pm – 2:20 pm | Elective |
| CEE 401 / ENV 401 | Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis | Anu Ramaswami | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 8:30 am –9:50 am | Elective |
| CEE 518 / ENV 518 | Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis GRADUATE COURSE |
Anu Ramaswami | None listed | Engineering or Social Science | T Th, 8:30 am –9:50 am | Elective |
| CEE 586 / ENV 586 | Physical Hydrology GRADUATE COURSE |
Reed Maxwell | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Elective |
| CEE 587 / ENV 587 | Ecohydrology GRADUATE COURSE |
Amilcare Porporato | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Elective |
| ECS 489 / CHV 489 / HUM 485 / ENV 489 | Environmental Film Studies: Research Film Studio | Erika Kiss | LA | Humanities | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| EEB 308 / ENV 365 | Conservation Biology | David Wilcove | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Foundational |
| EEB 317 / ENV 317 | Ecology of Fields, Rivers, and Woodlands | Andy Dobson | SEL | Natural Science | F, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Elective |
| EEB 321 / ENV 384 | Ecology: Species Interactions, Biodiversity and Society | Monica Carlson | SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| EEB 417A / ENV 417A | Ecosystems, Climate Change and Global Food | Lars Hedin | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| GEO 102A / ENV 102A / STC 102A | Climate: Past, Present, and Future | Daniel Sigman | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| GEO 102B / ENV 102B / STC 102B | Climate: Past, Present, and Future | Daniel Sigman | SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Foundational |
| GEO 363 / CHM 331 / ENV 331 | Environmental Chemistry: Chemistry of the Natural Systems | Satish Myneni | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 11:00 am – 12:20 pm | Elective |
| GEO 402 / ENV 402 | Methods of Chemical and Isotopic Analysis in the Earth Sciences | Stefania Gili, John Higgins, Daniel Sigman |
SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Elective |
| HIS 432 / ENV 432 | Environment and War | Emmanuel Kreike | HA | Humanities | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| LAS 312 / POL 459 / ENV 313 | The Politics of Climate Change and Energy Transitions in Latin America | David Mares | SA | Social Science | T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| MAE 421 / ENV 421 / ENE 411 | Optics and Lasers: Building and Understanding Optical Systems | Julia Mikhailova | SEL | Engineering | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Elective |
| SPI 306 / ECO 329 / ENV 319 | Environmental Economics | Smita Brunnermeier | SA | Social Science | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:50 pm | Foundational |
| STC 349 / ENV 349 / JRN 349 | Writing about Science | Michael Lemonick | SEN | Engineering or Natural Science | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |

