Looking for courses for next semester? Check out these sustainability-focused and sustainability-related course options:
Sustainability-Focused and Sustainability-Related Courses
Departments:
American Studies
Anthropology
Art & Art History
Biology
Center for Environmental and Resource Policy
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Chemistry
Chinese
Civil and Environmental Engineering *
Community Health
Economics
Education
Engineering Science
Engineering Introduction
English
Agriculture, Food and Environment
Environmental Studies*
Environmental and Water Resource Engineering*
Experimental College
Geology
History
Law and Diplomacy, International Environment and Resource Policy Concentration*
Mechanical Engineering
Peace and Justice Studies
Philosophy
Physics & Astronomy
Political Science
Psychology
Sociology
Urban & Environmental Policy and Planning*
* = departments with courses which contain a “sustained learning outcome”
American Studies
Sustainability Related:
AMER066/166- Representing the Environment
AMER141/ELS141- Innovative Social Enterprises, Felice Shapiro
AMER185- Native American Issues – Politics of Representation
Anthropology
Sustainability Focused:
ANTH149-15 Energy, Environment, and Empire
Sustainability Related:
ANTH015- Native Peoples and Indigenous Rights in South America, David Guss
ANTH020- Global Cities, Cathy Stanton
ANTH185- Native American Issues
Art History
Sustainability Related:
FAH095- Boston Architecture and Urbanism
Astronomy
Sustainability Related:
AST010-Wanderers in Space, Kenneth Lang
Biology
Sustainability Focused:
BIO144- Principles of Conservation Biology, Michael Reed, David DesRochers
BIO180- Seminar in Conservation Biology, Michael Reed
BIO181- Tropical Ecology and Conservation, Colin Oreans
Sustainability Related:
BIO007ENV007- Environmental Biology, Colin Oreans, Michael Reed
BIO010/ENV010- Plants and Humanity, George Ellmore
BIO014- Organisms and Populations, Frences Chew, George Ellmore, Harry Bernheim
BIO051/ENV051- Experiments in Ecology, Francie Chew, Sara Lewis, Philip Starks, George Ellmore, David DesRochers, Colin Orians
BIO142- Population and Community Ecology, Frances Chew
BIO143- Evolutionary Ecology, Erik Dopman
BIO164/ENV164- Marine Biology, Jan Pechenik
Center for Environmental and Resource Policy
Sustainability Focused:
DHPP254 – Climate change Policy, Kelly Sims Gallagher
Sustainability Related:
CIS201 – Water and Diplomacy Integration of Science, Engineering, and Diplomacy, William Moomaw and Shafiqul Islam
DHPP251 – International Environmental Negotiation, William Moomaw
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Sustainability Focused:
CHBE173- Clean Energy Technologies and Policy Issues, Maria Flytzani-Stepha, William Moomaw
Sustainability Related:
CHBE136/CE136- Air Pollution Control, Wayne Chudyk
CHBE138/CE138- Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies, Larry Cohen
CHBE170- Technological Processes and the Environment
CHBE193 – Electronic Devices for Energy Applications, Matthew J. Panzer
Chemistry
Sustainability Related:
CHEM008/CE030- Environmental Chemistry, Jonathan Kenny, John Durant, Natalie Capiro
CHEM167/CE167- Environmental Toxicology, Anne Marie Desmarais
Chinese
Sustainability Related:
CHNS108- Rural and Urban China Through Cinema, Xueping Zhong
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Sustainability Focused:
CE149- Earth Support Systems, Michael Paster
CE158- Occupational and Environmental Health, Anne Marie Desmarais, David Gute
CE172- Fate and Transfer of Environmental Contaminants, John Durant
CE173- Health Effects and Risk Assessment, Anne Marie Desmarais
CE175- Hazardous Materials Safety, Anne Marie Desmarais
CE265/UEP265- Corporate Management of Environmental Issues, Ann Rappaport
CE267- Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment
Sustainability Related:
CE001- Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering, Kurt Pennell
CE032- Environmental Engineering Principles, Steven Chapra, Wayne Chudyk, Kurt Pennell
CE054/CH54/ENV54- Fundamentals of Epidemiology, Mark Woodin
CE070/ENV70- Introduction to Hazardous Materials Management, Anne Marie Desmarais
CE093- Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Spring), Christopher Swan, John Durant
CE094- Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Fall), Brian Brenner
CE099- Internship in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brian Brenner, Betsy Kulamer
CE103- Water Quality Monitoring, Steven Chapra
CE112/ENV112- Hydrology/Water Resource, Shafiqul Islam, Richard Vogel
CE113/GEO113- Groundwater, Grant Garven
CE131-River Hydraulics and Restoration, Richard Vogel
CE132- Environmental Engineering Processes, Andrew Ramsburg
CE133- Wastewater Plant Design, Wayne Chudyk
CE137- Public Health, David Gute
CE139- Bioremediation: Natural and Enhanced, Wayne Chudyk
CE142- Advanced Soil Mechanics, Christopher Swan
CE143- Site Remediation, Wayne Chudyk
CE194/GEO132- Groundwater Chemistry and Quality, Grant Garvin
CE201/UEP201/ENV201-Land Use Planning II, Jon Witten
CE202- Environmental Statistics , Richard Vogel
CE207/UEP207/ENV207- Environmental Law, Robert Russell
CE212- Chemical Principles in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Wayne Chudyk
CE213- Transport Principles in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering, Andrew Ramsburg
CE214- Environmental and Resource Systems, Annette Huber-Lee and Richard Vogel
CE239- Physicochemical Processes in Water and Wastewater
CE240- Principles of Wastewater Treatment
CE241/MPH241- Biology Water and Health, David Gute
Community Health
Sustainability Focused:
CH184- Globalization and Health, Ray Hyatt
Sustainability Related:
CH099- Special Topics: Social Movements and Public Health, Kevin Irwin
CH104- Women and Health, Alissa Spielberg
CH188- Special Topics: Computer and Intelligent Medicine, Simon Glickman
Economics
Sustainability Focused:
EC030/ENV030- Environmental Economics, Ekaterina Gnedenko
Sustainability Related:
EC048- Health Economics, Andreea Balan Cohen and Emilia Simeonova
EC124- State and Local Public Finance, Thomas Downes
EC127- Urban Economics, Anna Hardman
EC130- Topics in Environmental Economics, Ekaterina Gnedenko
EC132- Economics of Energy Markets, Gilbert Mitcalf
EC135- Topics in Economic Development
EC144- Income Inequality, Poverty and Economic Justice, Linda Loury
EC165- Labor and Global Supply Chains, Drusilla Brown
Education
Sustainability Related:
ED164/PJS164- Education for Peace and Justice, Deborah Donahue-Keegan and Kathleen Weiler
Engineering Science
Sustainability Focused:
ES025/ENV025- Environment and Technology, Anne Desmarais
ES027/ENV027- Environmental Health and Safety, David Gute
ES125- Science and Technology of Atmospheric Change
Engineering-Introduction
Sustainability Focused:
EN048- Waste Not Want Not – The Engineering Aspects of Reuse/Recycling, Christopher Swan
EN076- Climate Change in Engineering (CEE), John Durant
Sustainability Related:
EN020- Clean Your Room (CEE)
EN021- Computers and the Environment (CEE), Richard Vogel
EN038- Environmental Measurements (CEE)
EN068- Ecology of Business (CEE), Stephen Levine
English
Sustainability Related:
ENG160/ENV160/PSJ150- Environmental Justice and U.S. Literature, Elizabeth Ammons
Agriculture, Food and Environment
Sustainability Related:
NUTR215/UEP223- Fundamental of U.S. Agriculture, Tim Griffin
NUTR233- Agriculture Science and Politics I, Tim Griffin
NUTR324/DHP213 – Humanitarian Politics, Peter Walker
NUTR327– Food Systems, Hugh Joseph
NUTR333- Agriculture Science and Politics II, Tim Griffin
Environmental Studies
Sustainability Focused:
ENV091- Environmental Preservation and Improvement, George Ellmore, Michael Reed
ENV94/UEP094- Environmental Policy Planning and Politics, Rusty Russell
ENV/278UEP 278- Environmental Justice, Security and Sustainability, Julian Agyeman, Loh Penn
Sustainability Related:
ENV099- Environmental Internship, George Ellmore
ENV193-02/UEP232- Introduction to GIS, Barbara Paramenter
ENV196-05/UEP294-05- Remote Sensing, Eman Ghoneim
ENV200-01/UEP200- Land Use Planning, Jon D. Witten
ENV286-01/UEP286- Environmental Ethics, Sheldon Krimsky
Geology
Sustainability Related:
GEO002- Environmental Geology w/Lab, Jack Ridge, Jacob Benner, Anne Gardulski, Molly McCanta
GEO005- Introduction to Oceanography, Anne Gardulski
GEO115- Quaternary and Glacial Geology, Jack Ridge
History
Sustainability Related:
HIST103- Consumption, Power and Identity: Food and Clothing in Modern Times, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe
Sustainability Focused:
ME-114 Solar Energy
Peace and Justice Studies
Sustainability Related:
PJS111/SOC111- Social Change and Community Organizing
PJS114- Social Movements in American Politics
PJS135-01/SOC135- Social Movementes, Matthew Gregory
PJS141/Phil141- Global Justice, Lion Mcpherson
Philosophy
Sustainability Related:
PHIL024- Intro to Ethics, David Denby
PHIL124- Bioethics, Mitchel Silver
Physics
Sustainability Related:
PHY005- The Nuclear Age-Its Physics and History
Political Science
Sustainability Focused:
PS138 – Cultural Environmental Politics, Nancy Gleason
PS188 – Global Environmental Politics, Nancy Gleason
PS195/UEP294-03- Seminar: Politics of Sustainable Communities, Kent Portney
PS253 – Sustainable Development Diplomacy, William Moomaw, Hans Hoogeveen and Patrick Verkooijen
Sustainability Related:
PS173- International Environmental Politics
PS188-20 – Politics of International Environmental Negotiation, Nancy Gleason
PS194- U.S. Environmental Policy, Kent Portney
PS250 – Elements of International Environmental Policy, William Moomaw
Psychology
Sustainability Related:
PSY013- Social Psychology, Sina Nathanson
Sociology
Sustainability Related:
SOC050- Gobalization and Social Space, Anna da Silva, Paul Joseph
SOC113- Urban Sociology, Ryan Centner
SOC184/UEP273- Non-profits, States and Markets, Susa Ostrander
Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning
Sustainability Focused:
UEP172- Strategies for Social Change
UEP221- Climate Change Policy, Planning and Action, Ann Rappaport
UEP281- Chemicals, Health and the Environment, Sheldon Krimsky
UEP284- Developing Sustainable Communities, Julian Agyeman
UEP294- Green Urban Design, Chri Cousineau
Sustainability Related:
UEP122- Biotechnology: Social and Environmental Issues, Sheldo Krimsky
UEP166- Environment, Development, and Security in International Politics, Ingar Palmlund, Ann Urosevich, Maria Nicolau
UEP171- Planning Challenges
UEP173- Transportation Planning, Mark Chase
UEP 174- Clean Air and Water, Rusty Russell
UEP178- Planning for Low Impact Development, Jon D. Witten
UEP191- Philanthropy and Fundraising, Patricia Bonner-DuVal, Sylvia Johnson
UEP205- Urban Planning and Design, Christine Cousineau
UEP262- Environmental Economics
UEP267- Methods in Environmental Impact Assessment
UEP279- Water Resources Policy and Planning and Watershed Management, Scott Horsley
UEP283- Environmental Communication and Education
UEP290- Integrated Assessment of Freshwater Resources: Issues and Methods
UEP-EC 9 – Economics for Planning and Policy Analysis, Mary Davis
Experimental College
Sustainability Focused:
EXP022-S- Modeling Alternative Energy: Engineering for Non-engineers
EXP024-S- Energy and Society, Ekaterina D. Titova, Tyler J. Cooper
EXP024-S-Going Green: A Practical Guide to Environmentalism, Warren Wertheim, Kristine J Babick
EXP046-F- Environmental Action: Shifting from Saying to Doing, Tina Woolston, Negin Toosi
EXP072-F- Climate Change and the Law, Lisa Hodes
EXP097-AS- Quidnunc: Sustainable Development in Nicaragua
Sustainability Related:
EXP021-F- Eco-Psychology
EXP038-S- The Consumer Society
EXP058-CF- Marketing for Social Change, Dorie Clark
EXP065-F- Healing Plants: Culture and Ecology in South America, Angela Steward, Selena Ahmed
EXP085-S- Ethical Leadership in Business, Steve Frigand
Related Continuing Education Courses
Sustainability Focused
Departments:
Community Environmental Studies
Epidemiology
Management and Community Organizations
Water Systems, Science and Society
Community Environmental Studies
UEP 200 Land Use Planning I: Nonregulatory Tools and Techniques (Fall)
UEP 201 Land Use Planning II (Spring)
UEP 207 Environmental Law (Fall)
UEP 221 Climate Change Policy and Planning (Spring)
UEP 279 Water Resources Policy, and Planning, and Watershed Management (Fall)
UEP 174 Clean Air and Clean Water Policy (Summer)
UEP 222 Biotechnology: Social and Environmental Issues (Spring)
UEP 265 Corporate Management of Environmental Issues (Fall)
UEP 278 Environmental Justice, Security, and Sustainability (Fall)
UEP 284 Developing Sustainable Communities (Fall and Spring)
UEP 286 Environmental Ethics (Spring)
UEP 294BA The Nuclear Power Option (Summer)
UEP 294BB International Sustainable Development (Summer)
UEP 294-04 Green Urban Design (Spring)
UEP 294-08 Planning for Low-Impact Development (LID) (Spring)
Epidemiology
MPH 204 Occupational and Environmental Health
MPH 240 Environmental Epidemiology
UEP 281 Chemicals, Health and the Environment
CEE 158 Occupational and Environmental Health
CEE 167 Environmental Toxicology
Management and Community Organizations
UEP 284 Developing Sustainable Communities (Fall and Spring)
Water Systems, Science and Society
BIO 144 Principles of Conservation Biology
CE 241 Biology, Water, and Health
CE 294 Section 02 Special Topics: Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management
DHP P250 Elements of International Environmental Policy
NUTR 233 Agricultural Science and Policy I
NUTR 333 Agricultural Science and Policy II
PS 194 Politics of the Environment in t
UEP 174 Clean Air & Clean Water Policy
UEP 279 Water Resources Policy & Planning and Watershed Management
UEP 294 Planning for Low Impact Development (LID
CE 214 Environmental and Water Resources Systems
CE 294 Section 02 Special Topics: Integrated Water Resources Planning and Management
ECON 130 Topics in Environmental Economics
Fletcher EIB E246 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
