ESP Required and Elective Courses
ESP Required and Elective Courses
A comprehensive list of undergraduate courses for the Environment, Sustainability, and Policy ILM is provided below. View the list of Spring 2024 Courses.
Visit the online Course Catalog for course descriptions.
Basic Requirements (9 credits)
Environmental Sciences Course (3 credits)
BIO 123 - General Biology II
EAR 105 - Earth Science
EAR 203 - Earth System Science
GEO 155 - The Natural Environment
GEO 215 - Global Environmental Change
Environmental Studies and Humanities Course (3 credits)
ECN 203 - Economic Ideas and Issues
ENG 140 - Reading the Environment
GEO 103 - Environment and Society
REL 253 - Religion, Spirituality, and Nature
Data Analysis Course (3 credits, 200-level and above)
CIS 321 - Introduction to Probability and Statistics
EAR 402 - Numerical Methods in Geosciences
EAR 410 - Applications of GIS in the Earth Sciences
ECN 422 - Introduction to Statistics and Econometrics
ECN 521 - Economic Statistics
GEO 383 - Geographic Information Systems
GEO 386 - Quantitative Geographic Analysis
MAS 261 - Introductory Statistics for Management
MAT 221 - Elementary Probability and Statistics I
MAT 521 - Introduction to Probability
MAX 201 - Quantitative Methods for the Social Sciences
MFE 326 - Probability and Statistical Methods for Engineers
PSC 202 - Introduction to Political Analysis
SOC 319 - Qualitative Methods in Sociology
Advanced Coursework and Focused Studies (18 credits, 300-level and above)
Within these 18 credits, students may choose electives of 4 courses, totaling 12 credits. (Two electives must be environmental sciences courses, and two electives must be environmental studies or humanities courses)
Science-Policy Integration Course (3 credits):
GEO 360 - Sustainability Science and Policy
PSC 360 - Sustainability Science and Policy
GEO 434 - Pursuing Sustainability Policy
PSC 434 - Pursuing Sustainability Policy
GEO 356 - Environmental Ideas and Policy
PSC 302 - Environmental Politics and Policy
PSC 318 - Technology, Politics, and Environment
Senior Capstone Seminar (3 credits)
ESP 410: Environment, Sustainability and Policy Capstone Seminar
Electives: 4 courses, totaling 12 credits
Four courses, two of which are Environmental Sciences courses and two of which are Environmental Studies/Humanities courses. All four electives must be upper-division (300 and above) unless your Data Analysis Course is upper-division, in which case one lower-division course can satisfy one of your four elective courses.
Environmental Science Courses: (6 credits)
BIO 312 - Marine Ecology of the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa
BIO 345 - Ecology and Evolution
BIO 405 - Introduction to Field Biology Laboratory
BIO 415 - Conservation Biology
BIO 428 - Seminar in Environmental Science
BIO 459 - Plants & People
CEN 461 - Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
CEN 472 - Applied Env Microbiology
CHE 335 - Chemical and Biochemical Analysis with Laboratory
CHE 347 - Physical-Analytical Chem Lab
CEE 274 - Sustainability in Civil and Environmental Systems
CEE 341 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CEE 457 - Biogeochemistry
CEE 463 - Introduction to Sustainable Engineering
CEE 471 - Environmental Chemistry and Analysis
CEE 472 - Applied Env Microbiology
EAR 205 - Water and Our Environment
EAR 305 - Earth Science of Energy
EAR 401 - Hydrogeology
EAR 403 - Geomorphology
EAR 405 - Global Change: Geologic Record
EAR 407 - Climate Change and Human Origins
EAR 413 - Physical Hydrology
EAR 414 - The Holocene: Climate and Environmental Change
EAR 415 - Introduction to Climate Dynamics
EAR 417 - Geochemistry
EAR 419 - Environmental Aqueous Geochemistry
EAR 420 - Contaminant Hydrogeology
ECN 437 - Environmental and Resource Economics
ECS 354 - Green Technology and Sustainability
FST 202 - Agroecology
GEO 314 - Hazardous Geographic Environments
GEO 316 - River Environments
GEO 317 - Geography of Mountain Environments
GEO 319 - Cold Environments
GEO 326 - The Geography of Climate and Weather
GEO 327 - Geography of Coastal Environments
GEO 455 - Biogeography
PHP 303 - Environmental Health
Environmental Studies/Humanities Courses: (6 credits)
ANT 439 - Climate Change and Human Origins
ANT 445 - Public Policy and Archaeology
ANT 459 - Contemporary Native North American Issues
ANT 469 - Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective
CRS 377 - Communication, Nature & Sustainability
DES 114 - Design, Cultural Traditions and the Environment
DES 248 - Design Issues
ECN 437 - Environmental and Resource Economics
EDI 252 - Environmental Design II
EDI 353 - Environmental Factors III
EEE 450 - Sustainable Enterprise
ENG 370 - Ecological Approaches to Literature and Media
ENG 371 - Ecological Approaches to Literature and Media Before 1900
FST 302 - Food, Environment and Climate
FST 303 - Food Movements
FST 307 - Feeding the World: Global Agri-Food Governance
FST 310 - Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain
FST 312 - Emergency Food Systems
FST 402 - Feeding the City: Urban Food Systems
FST 403 - The Human Right to Adequate Food and Nutrition
GEO 336 - Climate Justice
GEO 340 - Geography of Oil
GEO 347 - Art and Environment in American Culture Since 1800
GEO 353 - Geographies of Environmental Justice
GEO 354 - American Environmental History and Geography
GEO 358 - Animals and Society
GEO 374 - Environment and Development in the Global South
GEO 415 - Food: A Critical Geography
GEO 422 - Water: Environment, Society and Politics
GEO 423 - Urban Environmental History and Political Ecology
GEO 426 - Environmental Change in the Anthropocene
GEO 430 - Energy, History and Society
GEO 478 - Spatial Storytelling
GEO 537 - Environmental Policy in a Development Context
HOA 482 - Art and Environment in American Culture Since 1800
HST 384 - American Environmental History and Geography
IND 476 - Industrial Design: Environmental Practicum
IND 577 - Industrial Design: Philosophy and Ethics
LAS 537 - Environmental Policy in a Development Context
NAT 445 - Public Policy and Archaeology
NSD 555 - Food, Culture and Environment
PST 451 - Environmental Policy
PHI 394 - Environmental Ethics
PSC 462 - Globalization Development and Environment
REL 244 - Indigenous Religions
REL 395 - Religions and the Natural Environment
SCM 477 - Global Supply Chain Management & Risk Mgmt
FMA 511 - Art & Environment: Animals
FMA 512 - Art & Environment: Food