Energy and the Environment Specialization
The specialization prepares students to help lead in developing a more equitable, efficient, and cleaner energy future.
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Graduates of the Energy Specialization will be prepared to work in a variety of areas, including, but not limited to, private sector energy firms, energy consultancies and renewable energy start-ups, energy service companies, international financial institutions and development agencies, government agencies, and environmental think-tanks.
Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.
Program Courses
Core
Two required courses.| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis |
Gillingham M,W 1:00-2:20 |
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| ENV 814 Energy Systems Analysis |
Rao M,W 9:00-10:20 |
Rao |
Elective
Students must take at least one course from each of the following three bins:Energy Policy and Governance
| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 789 Energy and Development |
Rao M,W 9:00-10:20 |
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| ENV 790 Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy Making |
Simons F 9:25-11:15 |
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| ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition |
Rhodes Th 1:00-3:50 |
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| ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy |
Klee M,W 1:00-2:20 |
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| ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives |
Klee M,W 1:00-2:20 |
Klee |
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GLBL 230 Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy Making |
Energy Technologies and Industries
| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 588 Climate Tech Innovation and Commercialization |
Faculty Tu 2:40-5:40 |
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| ENV 716 Renewable Energy |
Oristaglio Tu,Th 1:00-2:15 |
Oristaglio Tentative |
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| ENV 773 Air Pollution Control (APC) |
Gentner Tu,Th 2:30-3:45 |
Gentner Tentative |
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| ENV 884 Industrial Ecology |
Yao Tu,Th 10:30-11:50 |
Yao |
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CENG 377 Water-Energy Nexus |
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CHEM 505a Alternative Energy |
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ENAS 609 Nanotechnology for Energy |
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ENAS 755 Electronic and Optical Properties of Energy Materials |
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EENG 406b / ENAS 806b Photovoltaic Energy |
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G&G 274a Fossil Fuels and Energy Transitions |
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HSHM 201 Sustainable Energy: Physics and History |
Quantitative Methods for Energy Analysis
| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 635 Renewable Energy Project Finance |
Gross Tu,Th 9:00-10:20 |
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| ENV 730 Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning |
Malone Tu 2:30-5:20 |
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| ENV 753 Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data |
Gregoire M,W 10:30-11:50 |
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| ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences |
Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 1:00-2:15 |
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| ENV 819 Measuring and Visualizing Urban Environments |
Salazar Miranda Th 2:30-5:20 |
Salazar Miranda |
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ECON 132 Econometrics and Data Analysis II |
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ECON 331 Economics of Energy and Climate Change |
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ECON 333 Energy and Environmental Economics |
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ECON 412 International Environmental Economics |
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ECON 545 Microeconomics (IDE) |
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ECON 558 Statistics and Econometrics (IDE) |
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ECON 550/551 Econometrics |
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MGT 842 Financing Green Technologies |
Additional Elective
Energy Analysis students are required to take one additional course. Students are encouraged to choose this course to develop an expertise in a particular area of study pertaining to energy and the environment. This course can be drawn either from the list above or from the following other energy-related courses at Yale:Energy and Society
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AMST 236 American Energy History |
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ANTH 438 Culture, Power, Oil 2 |
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APHY 100 Energy, Environment, and Public Policy |
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EVST 296 Chernobyl: A History of Energy and the Environment |
Energy, Climate, and Health
| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 608 Our Air, Our Health |
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| ENV 725 Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate |
Saiers Tu,Th 10:30-11:50 |
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| ENV 898 Environment and Human Health |
Bell M 1:00-3:50 |
Interdisciplinary
| Course | Fall 2024 | Spring 2025 | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 |
| ENV 894 Green Building: Issues and Perspectives |
Kops Tu 9:00-11:50 |
Kops Tentative |
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| ENV 960 Urban Climate Solutions Capstone: Freetown, Sierra Leone Clinic |
Seto Tu 1:00-3:50 |
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| ENV 982 Bio-inspired Design and Engineering |
Zimmerman M,W 1:00-2:15 |
Zimmerman |
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ARCH 4254 The (Built) Environment: environmental design and urban transformation in practice |
Learning Community
There is a corresponding “Learning Community” for each specialization, where anyone interested in the topic can find related news, spotlights, colleagues, and events.
Faculty Coordinator
Staff Manager
Julia Nojeim
Clean Energy Coordinator; Staff Manager, Energy and the Environment Learning Community