Courses by Academic Division
Art
– ART 125 – 01 Environmental Art Studio
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Introduces students to environmental art and design through basic concepts, techniques, and studio practice.
Biology: Ecology and Evolutionary
– BIOE 281Y – 01 Topics in Climate Change Biology
GE: –
This weekly seminar course centers on reading and discussing of selected publications along with peer review of research plans, grant proposals, manuscripts, lectures, and conference presentations.
Community Studies
– CMMU 137 – 01 Communities and Climate Change
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This class considers how and why communities, activists and organizations press for alternatives through case studies from the U.S. environmental justice movement and related local and global struggles for food sovereignty, Indigenous rights and climate justice.
Computational Media
– CMPM 180 – 02 Topics in Computational Media
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Allows students to explore topics in the computational media field and practice design in a wide variety of applications and areas, including but not limited to interactive computational experiences, AI and poetry, smart cities and game design, ethics and computational media, and computational media culture.
Earth Sciences
– EART 131 – 01 Sea Level Change
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The course links a series of solid Earth processes, such as mantle convection, viscoelastic deformation, and plate tectonics, to the past climate record.
– EART 252 – 01 Hydroclimatology
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An interdisciplinary investigation of the interaction between terrestrial systems and climate, with a focus on the cycling of water between atmosphere, land, and biosphere.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
– ECE 280Z – 01 Seminar on Smart Grids and Data Analytics
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Weekly series covering state-of-the-art research in smart power grids, machine learning, communications, and signal processing.
Environmental Sciences
– ESCI 122 – 01 Air Pollution
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Introduces students to the chemistry and physics of air pollution with primary emphasis on understanding the main types of air pollutants, from where they originate, how they are removed, how to control their sources, measurement techniques, and their health effects.
Environmental Studies
– ENVS 26 – 01 Culture and the Environment
GE: CC
Explores how our understandings about environmental issues change and deepen when we take seriously issues of culture, identity, and sociality and why this matters, especially in the present moment.
– ENVS 142 – 01 Sustainable Energy
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Explores the renewable and fossil fuel energy resources, with an emphasis on interactions with food and water systems.
– ENVS 144 – 01 Global Climate Change Politics
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Explores the central political questions surrounding global governance of climate change.
– ENVS 147 – 01 Global Environmental Justice
GE: ER
Surveys topics in environmental justice and human rights around the world. Provides a comprehensive foundation for students interested in the global environmental justice concentration.
– ENVS 152 – 01 International Environmental Politics
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Examines international law and politics through the lens of cooperation on transboundary environmental problems.
– ENVS 170 – Agriculture and Climate Change
Agriculture contributes to and is affected by climate change. Through lectures and field trips, this course covers the impacts on crops and livestock; climate adaptation strategies in the United States and internationally; and agricultural policy responses to climate change.
– ENVS 196 – 01 Carbon Cycle Science and Policy
This senior seminar will explore a range of environmental issues and ideas that are closely linked to the carbon cycle at regional and global scales. We will begin by reviewing the science of and human impacts on carbon cycle.
– ENVS 196 – 02 Senior Seminar
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Readings and discussions of primary literature on a current environmental studies topic.
Film & Digital Media
– FILM 236 – 01 Making…in the Anthropocene
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Through readings and assignments, students explore the notions of “making” and the temporal context of the Anthropocene.
Latin American and Latino Studies
– LALS 94X – 01 Mother Earth, Capitalism, and Crises
GE: PE-E
With a focus on the Americas, this course introduces students into the debates about the causes and solutions to the twinned crisis of global climate change and rising inequality.
– LALS 183 – 01 Ecologias Hemisfericas
GE: SI
The goal is to link guiding frameworks and conceptual pillars of LALS to the way we see and interpret beyond-human worlds/ecologies of this hemisphere.
– LALS 194X – 01 Extractivism and Socio-Environmental Conflicts in the Americas
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Explores, in-depth, how local communities, transnational capital, and state participate in conflicts anchored in extractive sectors, for example, mining, agro-exports, and so on.
Ocean Sciences
– OCEA 80B – 01 Our Changing Planet
GE: PE-E
Interdisciplinary scientific perspective on Earth system, focusing on human impacts on global environment. Introduces concepts of Earth system science and explores topics such as global warming, ozone depletion, pollution, deforestation, and future climate change.
– OCEA 90 – 01 Fundamentals of Climate
GE: SR
Quantitative introduction to climate comprising five modules: atmosphere-ocean circulation, atmospheric teleconnections, El-Nino Southern Oscillation, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and global warming.
Politics
– POLI 70 – 01 Global Politics
GE: PE-H
Surveys selected contemporary issues in global politics such as wars of intervention, ethnic conflict, globalization, global environmental protection, and some of the different ways in which they are understood and explained.
– POLI 170 – 01 International Environmental Politics
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Examines international law and politics through the lens of cooperation on transboundary environmental problems, ranging from acid rain to toxic chemicals to biodiversity loss and climate change.
– POLI 179 – 01 Global Climate Change Politics
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Explores the central political questions surrounding global governance of climate change.
Psychology
– PSYC 159P – 01 Race, Ethnicity, and Environmental
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Examines racially and ethnically marginalized and dominant conceptions of the environment throughout U.S. history.
Writing
– WRIT 2 – 07 Rhetoric and Inquiry
– WRIT 2-4, 2-18 Communicating about the Climate Crisis
– WRIT 2-33, 2-3, 2-35 Climate Change, Biodiversity, and the Environment
GE: C
Provides declarative knowledge about writing, with a special focus on writing from research, composing in multiple genres, and transferring knowledge about writing to new contexts.