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 210A | Nature in the Balance: Climate, Food and Biodiversity in a Time of Change | Curtis Deutsch | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 210B | Nature in the Balance: Climate, Food and Biodiversity in a Time of Change | Jamie Caldwell, Curtis Deutsch | SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 221 | AI for Global Good | Jamie Caldwell, Jeffrey Smith | EM | Social Science | T Th, 1:30 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| ENV 304 / ECO 328 / EEB 304 / SPI 455 | Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy | Bryan Grenfell | SEN | Natural Science or Social Science | Th, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 330 / MAE 330 | Ocean Waves | Luc Deike | SEN | Engineering or Natural Science | T Th, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Elective |
| ENV 346 / CEE 346 | Urban Climate, Science, and Solutions NEW COURSE |
Elie Bou-Zeid, Keer Zhang | SEN | Natural Science or Engineering | W F, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| ENV 347 / SPI 347 / URB 347 | Reframing Climate Change: National and Local Transformations | Navroz Dubash | SA | Social Science | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ENV 352 / HIS 256 | Remembering Environmental Disaster NEW COURSE |
Anna Mueser | HA or SA | Social Science or Humanities | T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 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 | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| ANT 455 / ENV 456 / AFS 455 / STC 455 | Visible Evidence: Wildlife Films and Multispecies Documentary | Jeffrey Himpele | SA | Social Science | M W, 2:55 pm – 4:15 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 |
| CEE 207 / ENV 207 | Introduction to Environmental Engineering | Ian Bourg | QCR | Engineering | M W, 1:20 pm – 2:10 pm | Elective |
| CEE 323 / ENV 323 / GEO 323 | Applied Statistical Methods in the Natural and Built Environment | Gabriele Villarini | QCR | Engineering | M W, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Elective |
| CEE 325 / CBE 325 / ENV 325 / BNG 325 | Environmental Biotechnology | Josh Atkinson | SEL | Engineering | T, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| CEE 401 / ENV 401 / URB 402 | Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis | Anu Ramaswami | None listed | Engineering or Social Science | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| CEE 518 / ENV 518 | Zero Carbon, Resilient, Equitable Cities: Infrastructure Innovations and Systems Analysis GRADUATE COURSE |
Anu Ramaswami | None listed | Engineering | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| CEE 586 / ENV 586 | Physical Hydrology GRADUATE COURSE |
Reed Maxwell | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| CEE 587 / ENV 587 | Ecohydrology GRADUATE COURSE |
Amilcare Porporato | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| EEB 211 / ENV 211 | Life on Earth: Mechanisms of Change in Nature | Jonathan Levine, Bernard Kim, Katherine Sullivan | SEL | Natural Science | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| EEB 308 / ENV 365 | Conservation Biology | David Wilcove | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Foundational |
| EEB 317 / ENV 317 | Ecology of Fields, Rivers, and Woodlands | Andy Dobson | SEL | Natural Science | F, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| EEB 321 / ENV 384 | Ecology: Species Interactions, Biodiversity and Society | Robert Pringle | SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Foundational |
| ENE 202 / ARC 208 / EGR 208 / ENV 206 | Designing Sustainable Systems: Experiential Learning on Campus Energy | Forrest Meggers | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 12:15 am – 1:05 pm | Elective |
| ENE 321 / CEE 321 / ENV 371 | Resource Recovery for a Circular Economy | Z. Jason Ren | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| FRE 388 / THR 388 / ENV 368 | Theater Making in the Age of Climate Change | Florent Masse | LA | Humanities | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 102A / ENV 102A / STC 102A | Climate: Past, Present, and Future | Crystal Rao, Daniel Sigman | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 102B / ENV 102B / STC 102B | Climate: Past, Present, and Future | Daniel Sigman | SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 361 / ENV 361 / CEE 360 | Earth’s Atmosphere | Stephan Fueglistaler | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 362 / ENV 362 | Earth History | Adam Maloof | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| GEO 470 / CHM 470 / ENV 472 | Environmental Chemistry of Soils | Satish Myneni | None listed | Natural Science | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 561 / ENV 561 | Earth’s Atmosphere GRADUATE COURSE |
Stephan Fueglistaler | None listed | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| HIS 489 / ENV 488 / LAS 489 | Environmental History of Latin America | Vera Candiani | HA or SA | Humanities or Social Science | W, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| MAE 421 / ENV 421 / ENE 411 | Optics and Lasers: Building and Understanding Optical Systems | Julia Mikhailova | SEL | Engineering | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| SOC 377 / ENV 322 / URB 322 | Sociology of Climate Change | Benjamin Bradlow | SA | Social Science | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:10 pm | Elective |
| SPI 306 / ECO 329 / ENV 319 | Environmental Economics | Smita Brunnermeier | SA | Social Science | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Foundational |
| SPI 405 / ENV 405 / EEB 356 | The Global Land Challenge for Food, Climate and Biodiversity | Timothy Searchinger | SA | Social Science | T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Foundational |
| STC 349 / ENV 349 / JRN 349 | Writing about Science | Michael Lemonick | SEN | Humanities or Natural Science | W, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| VIS 324 / ENV 312 | The Visible Wild | Jeffrey Whetstone | LA | Humanities | T, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |

