Environmental Studies Courses

Here are some of the courses you might consider as electives if you are a major in an environmental studies program or if you just want to learn more about the environment to meet your own individual intellectual, academic, and professional goals.

Questions? Contact Courtney McGinnis, Environmental Science and Studies Program Director.

Course Categories

    • Economics, Policy, and Law

      • EC 304: Environmental Economics
      • LE 300: Wildlife Law
      • LE 317/PO 317: International Law
      • LE 318: Human Rights Law and Global Justice
      • LE 319: International Law and the Individual
      • LE 329: European Union Law
      • LE 309: Advanced Legal Writing and Advocacy
      • LE-356: International Environmental Law
      • LE-355: Environmental Law
      • LE 370: Negotiation
      • PO 206: Ethics and Public Policy
      • PO 209: Environmental Politics and Policy
      • PO 215: Political Theory
      • PO 219: Women and Political Thought
      • PO 225: American Political Movements
      • PO 245: International Political Economy
      • PO 315: Democratic Theory and Practice

    • Environmental Justice and Human Rights

      • AN 220: Sustainable Development/ Anthropology of Development
      • PL 337: Human Rights: Theory and Practice
      • SO 241: Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
      • SO 266: Population and Society

    • Environment and Literature

      • EN 213: The Nature Essay
      • EN 230: Carbon Tales

    • Environmental Studies

      • ENV 101: Intro to Environmental Studies
      • ENV 201: Lessons in Local and Global Sustainability
      • ENV 205: Global Environmental Issues (UC Natural Science)
      • ENV 223: Plastics: Miracle or Curse
      • ENV 225: Water and Human Health

    • Ethics

      • PL102: Intro to Ethics
      • PL 226: Environmental Ethics
      • PL 235/ENV 234: Philosophy of Science and Technology

    • History and Human Culture

      • AN 243: Ancient Food for Thought
      • HS 122: World History
      • HS 220: American Environmental History
      • HS 230: The Rise of Modern Science
      • HS 282: Global Environmental History
      • HS340: The Colonial Period to 1763

    • Science: Human Health, Development, and Society

      • AN 104/L: Bones, Genes and Everything in Between
      • AN 272: Sh*t Happens: A Natural History of Human Waste
      • BIO 106/106L: Science and Society: Concepts and Current Issues
      • BIO 252/252L: Ecological and Biological Diversity
      • BIO 161: Intro to the Biological Aspects of Science and Society
      • BMS 162: Human Health and Disease
      • ENV 205: Global Environmental Issues (UC Natural Science)
      • ENV 223: Plastics: Miracle or Curse
      • ENV 225: Water and Human Health (UC Natural Science)
      • GDD 396/ENV 396: Games, Learning & Society

    • Science: Ecology, Geology, Plants, and Animals

      • SCI102/L: Earth Science
      • SCI 261: Natural Disasters
      • BIO 252/252L: Ecology and Biological Diversity
      • Bio 207/ENV 207: Coral Reef Organismal Diversity: An Immersive Experience
      • BIO 300: Botany
      • BIO 358/358L: Conservation Biology
      • HS 349: American Maritime History
      • PL 235/ENV 234: Philosophy of Science and Technology