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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
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F&ES 701b
Climate Change Policy and Science Seminar
[F&ES 702b]
Climate Change Seminar
F&ES 703b
Climate and Society
F&ES 704a
Workshop on Remote Sensing with Drones (Organizational Meeting Sept 8, 1pm, ESC 119)
[F&ES 705b]
Climate and Air Pollution Seminar
F&ES 711a
Atmospheric Chemistry (First class begins Sept 9)
F&ES 718a
IPCC AR5 Assessment: The Physical Science Basis
[F&ES 722a]
Boundary Layer Meteorology (First Class begins Sept 2)
[F&ES 771a]
Climate Modeling
F&ES 773a
Air Pollution Control (APC)
F&ES 793b
Abrupt Climate Change and Societal Collapse
F&ES 855a
Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas
[F&ES 878a]
Climate & Society: Past to Present
Ecology and Conservation Biology
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F&ES 717b
Tropical Field Ecology
[F&ES 763b]
Translating the Science of Wildlife Conservation into Practice
Economics
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F&ES 762a
Applied Math for Environmental Studies
F&ES 776a
International Environmental Economics
F&ES 795b
Nature as Capital
[F&ES 802b]
Valuing the Environment
F&ES 803b
Green Markets: Voluntary and Information Based Approaches to Environmental Management
F&ES 804b
Economics of Natural Resource Management
F&ES 813b
Solar PV Market Development (March 28 - April 29, includes 2 friday sessions April 22 & 29)
Ecosystem Ecology
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F&ES 717b
Tropical Field Ecology
F&ES 723a
Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management
[F&ES 730a]
Ecosystem Ecology
[F&ES 731b]
Tropical Field Botany
[F&ES 733b]
Synthesizing Environmental Science for Policy
F&ES 734b
Biological Oceanography (2 Friday field trips)
[F&ES 736a]
Ecology Seminar
[F&ES 738a]
Aquatic Ecology
[F&ES 739b]
Species and Ecosystem Conservation: An Integrated, Interdisciplinary Approach
[F&ES 740b]
Dynamics of Ecological Systems
[F&ES 741b]
Introduction to Indigenous Silviculture
F&ES 752a
Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Forests
F&ES 768a
Pests, Pathogens & Parasites in Natural and Managed Systems
F&ES 891b
Biology of Insect Disease Vectors
Energy and the Environment
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F&ES 716b
Renewable Energy
F&ES 798Eb
YID3202: Special Topics in Environmental Studies - China's Energy and Environmental Sustainability Challenge
[F&ES 800b]
Energy Economics and Policy Analysis
F&ES 812b
Energy's Impact on Freshwater Resources
F&ES 814a
Energy Systems Analysis
F&ES 816b
Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition
F&ES 818a
Energy Technology Innovation
F&ES 847a
Decarbonizing the US Power Sector
[F&ES 853b]
The Political Economy of Global Energy Policy
F&ES 870b
Climate Change Mitigation and Industrial Ecology
[F&ES 890b]
Energy Markets Strategy
Environmental Chemistry
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[F&ES 706a]
Organic Pollutants in the Environment
F&ES 707b
Aquatic Chemistry
F&ES 708a
Biogeochemistry and Pollution
[F&ES 715b]
Advanced Reading in Biogeochemistry
F&ES 872b
Introduction to Green Chemistry
Environmental Education and Communication
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F&ES 745a
Environmental Writing
F&ES 746b
Archetypes & the Environment
F&ES 747a
Global Communication Skills
F&ES 750a
Writing the World
F&ES 796a
Towards Science Communications with Impact
F&ES 816b
Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition
F&ES 822b
Strategic Communication: Delivering Effective Presentations (see description for section times and dates)
Environmental History
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F&ES 843b
Readings in Environmental History
Environmental Planning
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F&ES 775a
Site Planning and Design for Sustainability
F&ES 788b
Applied Urban Ecology
F&ES 888a
Ecological Urban Design
F&ES 892a
Introduction to Planning and Development
F&ES 895a
Green Building Intensive: How Buildings Work
Environmental Policy
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[F&ES 759b]
Capitalism and its Critics
F&ES 807a
Corporate Environmental Management and Strategy
[F&ES 808b]
Law, Environment and Religion: A Communion of Subjects
F&ES 811b
Metrics, Tools and Indicators in Corporate Responsibility
F&ES 815a
The New Corporate Social Responsibility: Public Problems, Private Solutions, and Strategic Responses (First class Meets Tuesday, Sept 8 1:00-3:50, Burke Aud)
F&ES 817a
Urban, Suburban, and Regional Planning Practice
F&ES 819b
Strategies for Land Conservation
F&ES 820b
Land Use Law and Environmental Planning
[F&ES 821]
Private Investment and the Environment: Legal Foundations and Tools
[F&ES 823a]
Climate Change and the International Court of Justice
[F&ES 824b]
Environmental Law and Policy
F&ES 825a
International Environmental Law and Policy
F&ES 826a
Foundations of Natural Resource Policy and Management
F&ES 828b
Comparative Environmental Law in Global Legal Systems (2 week intensive course- Dates Thursday, Feb 11 to Friday, Feb 26)
[F&ES 829b]
International Environmental Policy and Governance
F&ES 837b
Seminar on Leadership in Natural Resources and the Environment
F&ES 840b
Climate Change and Clean Energy
F&ES 847a
Decarbonizing the US Power Sector
[F&ES 849b]
Natural Resource Policy Practicum
F&ES 850b
International Organizations and Conferences
F&ES 851b
Environmental Diplomacy Practicum
F&ES 855a
Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas
F&ES 860b
Understanding Environmental Campaigns
F&ES 863b
Law of the Sea
[F&ES 871a]
International Trade in a Globalizing World
F&ES 874a
Introduction to Responsible Business: Wine & Agriculture (Meets Oct 26-Dec 22
F&ES 880a
Introduction to Responsible Business: Oil and Gas (Meets Aug 31 - Oct 15)
Forest Biology
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F&ES 700b
Alpine, Arctic, and Boreal Ecosystems Seminar
F&ES 717b
Tropical Field Ecology
Health and Environment
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[F&ES 706a]
Organic Pollutants in the Environment
F&ES 721b
Sustainable Agriculture Systems
[F&ES 727a]
The Future of Food
F&ES 736Eb
Environmental Ethics (Online: dates TBD)
F&ES 765b
Technological and Social Innovation in Global Food Systems
F&ES 889a
Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA)
F&ES 893b
Applied Risk Assessment
F&ES 896a
Principles of Toxicology
F&ES 897b
Assessing Exposures to Environmental Stressors
[F&ES 898a]
The Environment and Human Health
[F&ES 899b]
Sustainable Development in Post-Disaster Context: Haiti
Industrial Ecology
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[F&ES 706a]
Organic Pollutants in the Environment
[F&ES 782a]
Globalization Space: Infrastructure and Extrastatecraft
F&ES 870b
Climate Change Mitigation and Industrial Ecology
[F&ES 883b]
Advanced Industrial Ecology Seminar: Food Systems
F&ES 884b
Industrial Ecology
Religion and Ecology
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F&ES 769a
Christianity and Ecology
F&ES 783Eb
Introduction to Religion and Ecology (Jan 19-Mar 1)
F&ES 784Eb
Western Religions and Ecology (Mar 8 - Apr 26)
[F&ES 785Eb]
East Asian Religions and Ecology
[F&ES 808b]
Law, Environment and Religion: A Communion of Subjects
[F&ES 861]
American Indian Religions and Ecology
Social and Political Ecology
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F&ES 767b
Tools for Conservation Project Design and Management
[F&ES 770b]
The Human Population Explosion
F&ES 772a
Social Justice in the Food System
F&ES 774a
Agriculture: Origins, Evolution, Crises
[F&ES 779b]
Religion, Ecology and Cosmology
F&ES 789Ea
Journey of the Universe (Meets Oct 27 - Dec 8)
F&ES 793b
Abrupt Climate Change and Societal Collapse
F&ES 799a
Sustainable Development Goals and Implementation
F&ES 831b
Society and Natural Resources
[F&ES 833a]
Global Forest Policy & Governance
F&ES 836a
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
F&ES 839a
Social Science of Development and Conservation
F&ES 846b
Perspectives on Environmental Injustices
F&ES 854b
Institutions and the Environment
F&ES 869b
Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to Environmental Perturbation and Change
F&ES 877b
Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and Conservation
[F&ES 878a]
Climate & Society: Past to Present
F&ES 882a
The Black Box of Implementation: Households, Communities, Gender
Social Sciences
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F&ES 721b
Sustainable Agriculture Systems
F&ES 738Ea,b
Himalayan Diversities: Environment, Livelihood and Culture (Online) (dates tbd)
F&ES 764a
The American West: A Case Study in Social Structure, Culture, and Politics
F&ES 783b
Field Course in Culture, Politics, and Social Change (Western Wyoming, 2016 Field Site)
F&ES 794b
Confronting Models with Data
F&ES 797b
Christianity and Environmental Ethics
F&ES 810a
Diverse Voices: Environmental Leaders on Climate Change and the Environment
Soil Science
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[F&ES 709a]
Soil Science
F&ES 723a
Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management
Statistics, Research Methods, and Information Analysis
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F&ES 717b
Tropical Field Ecology
F&ES 720a
Introduction to R
[F&ES 725b]
Remote Sensing of Land Cover and Land Use Change
F&ES 726b
Remote Sensing: Observing Earth from Space
[F&ES 749]
Seminar: Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Research
F&ES 751b
Sampling Methodology and Practice
F&ES 753a
Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data
F&ES 754a
Geospatial Software Design
F&ES 755b
Modeling Geographic Space
F&ES 756a
Modeling Geographic Objects
F&ES 758b
Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
[F&ES 780b]
Seminar in Forest Inventory
F&ES 781b
Applied Spatial Statistics
Water Resources
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F&ES 708a
Biogeochemistry and Pollution
F&ES 710b
Coastal Governance
F&ES 712b
Water Resource Management
F&ES 713a
Coastal Ecosystems: Natural Processes & Anthropogenic Impacts
[F&ES 714b]
Environmental Hydrology
[F&ES 719a]
River Processes and Restoration
[F&ES 724b]
Watershed Cycles and Processes
F&ES 729b
Caribbean Coastal Development: Cesium and CZM
F&ES 732a
Seminar on River Restoration Issues and Trends
F&ES 777a
Water Quality Control
F&ES 812b
Energy's Impact on Freshwater Resources
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology
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F&ES 760b
Conservation in Practice: An International Perspective
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