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 201 / JRN 201 / ENG 206 | Environmental Media NEW COURSE |
Allison Carruth | LA or SA | Humanities or Social Science | W, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Foundational |
| ENV 242 | Grounding Global Warming: Environmental History for a Changing World | Matthew Johnson | HA or SA | Humanities or Social Science | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| ENV 305 | Topics in Environmental Studies: Building American Style: Land-Use Policies and Rules | Deborah Popper, Frank Popper | SA | Social Science | M, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| ENV 310 | Environmental Law and Moot Court | Daniel Greenhouse | SA | Social Science | Th, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| ENV 315 / AMS 315 | A History of Environmental Repair NEW COURSE |
Sarah Grossman | LA | Humanities | T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ENV 363 / ENG 263 | Writing the Environment through Creative Nonfiction | Rob Nixon | LA | Humanities | M W, 10:40 pm – 12:00 pm | Foundational |
| ENV 367 / GEO 367 | Observing and Modeling Climate | Laure Resplandy | QCR | Engineering or Natural Science | T Th, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Foundational |
| ENV 478 / SPI 478 / SAS 478 / URB 478 | Sustainability & Security in a Changing World Order: Focus on India in the Asia Pacific NEW COURSE |
Anu Ramaswami, Sajid Shapoo | SA | Engineering or Social Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| ENV 480 / GEO 480 / CEE 480 | Tropical Cyclones and Associated Impacts NEW COURSE |
Gabriele Villarini, Gabriel Vecchi | SEN | Engineering or Natural Science | M W, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Elective |
ENV Cross-listed Courses
| Course | Title | Instructor(s) | Dist. Area | Cognate Category |
Days/ Time | TYPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANT 416 / ENV 416 | Water Worlds: From Ocean to Tap | Hanna Garth | SA | Humanities or Social Science | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ANT 426 / ENV 426 | We Were Never Alone: Multispecies Ecologies in the Anthropocene | Nimisha Thakur | SA | Humanities or Social Science | F, 9:00 am – 11:50 am | Elective |
| ARC 205 / URB 205 / LAS 225 / ENV 205 | Interdisciplinary Design Studio | Zachary Schumacher | LA | Humanities | T Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ARC 485 / SPI 485 / ENV 485 | Climate Change, Floodplains, and Adaptation Design | Guy Nordenson | None listed | Social Science | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ART 470 / ENV 470 / ECS 471 | Early Modern European Art: Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi: Materiality, History, Attribution & Impact | Frank Zöllner | HA or LA | Humanities | M, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| ART 481 / AMS 481 / ENV 481 | Alaskan Art, Spirit, and Being: Healing Histories of Dispossession | Sarah Rivett, Rachael DeLue | CD or EC | Humanities | M, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| ART 527 / EAS 537 / ENV 527 | EcoEdo: Art and Other-than-Human-Being in Early Modern Japan GRADUATE COURSE |
Rachel Saunders | None listed | Humanities or Social Science | T, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| CEE 304 / ENE 304 / ENV 300 | Energy and Environmental Engineering | Catherine Peters | None listed | Engineering | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| CEE 306 / ENV 318 | Hydrology: Water and Climate | Reed Maxwell | SEN | Engineering | T Th, 10:40 am – 11:30 am | Foundational |
| CEE 334 / SPI 452 / ENV 334 / ENE 334 | Global Environmental Issues | Denise Mauzerall | SEN | Engineering | M W, 2 | Foundational |
| CHM 544 / ENV 544 | Metals in Biology: From Stardust to DNA GRADUATE COURSE |
Michelle Chang, John Groves |
None listed | Natural Science | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| ENE 372 / EGR 372 / ENV 372 | Rapid Switch: The Energy Transition Challenge to a Low-carbon Future | Chris Greig, Eric Larson |
QCR | Engineering | T Th, 2:55 pm – 4:15 pm | Elective |
| ENE 431 / ECE 431 / ENV 431 / EGR 431 | Solar Energy Conversion | Dane William de Quilettes | QCR | Engineering | T Th, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| ENG 379 / ENV 383 | Environmental Justice Through Literature and Film | Rob Nixon | LA | Humanities | T, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| GEO 202 / ENV 326 | Ocean, Atmosphere, and Climate | Bess Ward | SEN | Natural Science | T Th, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 360 / ENV 356 | Topics in Environmental Justice in the Geosciences | Stefania Gili, John Higgins |
SEL | Natural Science | T Th, 2:55 pm – 4:15 pm | Foundational |
| GEO 369 / MSE 369 / ENV 388 | Environmental Materials Chemistry: Researching in Field and Laboratory | Satish Myneni | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 10:40 am – 12:00 pm | Elective |
| GEO 435 / ENV 435 | Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles | Curtis Deutsch | SEN | Natural Science | M W, 1:20 pm – 2:40 pm | Elective |
| GSS 333 / ENV 336 / ENG 333 / AMS 333 | Climate Change. What has Gender and Race to do with It? NEW COURSE |
Anne McClintock | CD or EM | Humanities or Social Science | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| HIS 394 / ENV 394 | Thinking with Nature: Histories of Ecology & Environmentalism | Erika Milam | HA | Humanities | M W, 10:40 am – 11:30 am | Foundational |
| HIS 473 / AFS 472 / ENV 473 | Humans as Prey: An Environmental History of Human-Animal Relations | Jacob Dlamini | HA | Humanities or Social Science | Th, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| JRN 314 / ENV 316 / URB 313 / AMS 309 | The Art and Practice of Documentary: Environmental Justice Filmmaking in Trenton NEW COURSE |
Purcell Carson | SA | Humanities or Social Science | T, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| MAE 463 / ENV 463 | Instabilities in Fluids | Luc Deike | None listed | Engineering | M W, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Elective |
| NES 366 / ENE 364 / ENV 366 | Oil, Energy and The Middle East | Bernard Haykel | SA | Humanities or Social Science | W, 1:20 pm – 4:10 pm | Elective |
| SPA 350 / LAS 349 / ENV 348 | Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies: Latin American Culture and the Environment NEW COURSE |
Catalina Arango | CD or LA | Humanities | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| SPI 357 / ENV 358 | Climate Change, Migration and Policy NEW COURSE |
Filiz Garip | SA | Social Science | Th, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| SPI 434 / ENV 434 | Environmental Justice | Eric Tate | EM | Humanities or Social Science | M W, 9:00 am – 10:20 am | Elective |
| THR 309 / ENV 329 | Floods, Fires & Blackouts: Creating Theater Today | Elena Araoz | LA | Humanities | W, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |
| THR 314 / ENV 301 / MTD 314 | Investigative Theater for a Changing Climate | Steve Cosson, Khristián Méndez Aguirre |
LA | Humanities | M, 1:30 pm – 4:20 pm | Elective |

