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Electives Courses

The letters “a” and “b” following the course numbers indicate fall- and spring-term courses respectively. Bracketed courses will not be offered during this academic year.

Climate and Atmospheric Sciences — show this group only

Climate Change Economics Seminar

Climate Change Seminar

Workshop on Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry with Drones

Climate Change Seminar

Boundary Layer Meteorology (First Organizational Meeting, September 5, 2017 2:30)

Air Pollution Control (APC)

Abrupt Climate Change and Societal Collapse

Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas

Climate and Society

Ecology and Conservation Biology — show this group only

Tropical Field Ecology

Translating the Science of Wildlife Conservation into Practice

Economics — show this group only

Applied Math for Environmental Studies (AMES):Foundations for Measuring and Modeling Environmental and Socio-environmental Systems

Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models

Valuing the Environment

Green Markets: Voluntary and Information Based Approaches to Environmental Management

Economics of Environmental & Natural Resource Management

Ecosystem Ecology — show this group only

Tropical Field Ecology

Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management

Ecosystem Ecology

Tropical Field Botany

Synthesizing Environmental Science & Policy

Biological Oceanography

Ecology Seminar

Aquatic Ecology

Species and Ecosystem Conservation: An Integrated, Interdisciplinary Approach

Dynamics of Ecological Systems

Introduction to Indigenous Silviculture

Fundamentals of Working with People

Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Forests

Pests, Pathogens & Parasites in Natural and Managed Systems

Energy and the Environment — show this group only

Renewable Energy

China's Energy and Environmental Sustainability Challenge

Energy Economics and Policy Analysis

Energy's Impact on Freshwater Resources

Energy Systems Analysis

Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition

Law and Globalization

Climate Change Mitigation and Industrial Ecology

Environmental Chemistry — show this group only

Organic Pollutants in the Environment

Aquatic Chemistry

Biogeochemistry and Pollution

Water Science Seminar

Introduction to Green Chemistry

Environmental Education and Communication — show this group only

Strategic Environmental Communication (6 weeks, Meets Feb 1 - Mar 8)

Environmental Writing

Global Communication Skills

Writing the World

Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition

Strategic Communication: Delivering Effective Presentations(see description for section times and dates)

Environmental Management and Technology — show this group only

Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy

Environmental Planning — show this group only

Applied Urban Ecology

Ecological Urban Design

Introduction to Planning and Development

Green Building Intensive: How Buildings Work (Dates TBD)

Environmental Policy — show this group only

Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change

Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy

Law, Environment, and Religion: A Communion of Subjects

Metrics, Tools and Indicators in Corporate Responsibility

Governing through Markets: The Potential and Pitfalls of Private Governance and CSR in the Global Era

Urban, Suburban, and Regional Planning Practice

Strategies for Land Conservation

Land Use Law and Environmental Planning

Private Investment and the Environment: Legal Foundations and Tools

Regulation of Energy Extraction (Follows Law School Calendar)

Environmental Law and Policy (Course begins August 28 - Law school Calendar)

International Environmental Law & Policy

Foundations of Natural Resource Policy and Management

Animal Law (Begins August 28, Follows Law School Calendar)

Comparative Environmental Law in Global Legal Systems (2 week intensive course: Feb 15 - Mar 1)

Global Environmental Governance

Seminar on Leadership in Natural Resources and the Environment

Climate Change and Clean Energy

Natural Resource Policy Practicum

International Organizations and Conferences

Environmental Diplomacy Practicum

Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas

Natural Resources Law

The Law of Climate Change

Introduction to Responsible Business: Oil and Wine (Fall-1)

Forest Biology — show this group only

Alpine, Arctic, and Boreal Ecosystems Seminar

Tropical Field Ecology

Health and Environment — show this group only

Organic Pollutants in the Environment

Food: Science, Law & Policy

Environmental Ethics (Sept 18- Oct 23)

Technological and Social Innovation in Global Food Systems

Applied Risk Assessment

Public Health Toxicology

Environmental and Occupational Exposure Science

The Environment and Human Health

Sustainable Development in Post-Disaster Context: Haiti

Industrial Ecology — show this group only

Organic Pollutants in the Environment

Globalization Space: International Infrastructure and Extrastatecraft

Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy

Life Cycle Analysis

Climate Change Mitigation and Industrial Ecology

Industrial Ecology

Religion and Ecology — show this group only

Introduction to Religion and Ecology (Fall 1 Dates TBD)

Western Religions and Ecology

East Asian Religions and Ecology

Law, Environment, and Religion: A Communion of Subjects

Social and Political Ecology — show this group only

Building a Conservation Toolkit: From Project Design to Evaluation

Social Justice in the Sustainable Food System

Agriculture: Origins, Evolution, Crises

Journey of the Universe (Jan 16 - Feb 27)

Abrupt Climate Change and Societal Collapse

Sustainable Development Goals and Implementation

Society and Natural Resources

Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development

Social Science of Conservation and Development

Perspectives on Environmental Injustices

Institutions and the Environment

Urbanization, Global Change, and Sustainability

Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change

Anthropology of the Global Economy for Conservation and Development

Climate and Society

The Black Box of Implementation: Households, Communities, Gender

Social Sciences — show this group only

Himalayan Diversities: Environment, Livelihood and Culture (Online)

The North American West as an Environmental, Cultural, and Political Case Study

Field Course in Cultural Diversity, Environmental Politics, and Social Change

Confronting Models with Data

Soil Science — show this group only

Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management

Statistics, Research Methods, and Information Analysis — show this group only

Tropical Field Ecology

Introduction to R

Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Change

Observing Earth from Space

Sampling Methodology and Practice

Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data

Geospatial Software Design

Modeling Geographic Space

Modeling Geographic Objects

Statistical Design of Experiments

Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences

Applied Math for Environmental Studies (AMES):Foundations for Measuring and Modeling Environmental and Socio-environmental Systems

Seminar in Forest Inventory

Applied Spatial Statistics

Water Resources — show this group only

Biogeochemistry and Pollution

Coastal Governance

Water Resource Management

Coastal Ecosystems

Environmental Hydrology

River Processes and Restoration

Watershed Cycles and Processes

Caribbean Coastal Development: Cesium and CZM

Hydrology and Riverine Geomorphology

Water Quality Control

Energy's Impact on Freshwater Resources

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology — show this group only

Conservation in Practice: An International Perspective

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