Energy & Environment Secondary Field Courses

The secondary field in E&E offers students an opportunity to complement their studies with coursework and experiences that will broaden their understanding of contemporary issues in energy and environment from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Students choose one foundation course from the following, each of which includes content related to both energy and environment:
Choose one:
EPS/ESE 6 Introduction to Environmental Science and Engineering (fall)
EPS/ESPP 105  Confronting Climate Change (fall)
EPS/ESE 50 The Fluid Earth: Oceans, Atmosphere, Climate, and Environment (spring)
GenEd 1158 Water and the Environment (spring)
[ GenEd 1085 Energy Resources and the Environment ]

Students must choose three additional advanced courses.
At least one course must be chosen from each of two elective categories: Social Sciences and Humanities, and Natural Sciences and Engineering. Courses are considered 'advanced' if they require prerequisite knowledge and/or are designated as upper-level by the host department. Note: Students may petition the ESPP Head Tutor, in advance, for the approval of any exceptions to the course options for the secondary field.

Social Sciences and Humanities:
API 165 Energy and Environmental Economics and Policy
Econ 1661 Economics of Climate Change and Environmental Policy
ESPP 77 Technology, Environment and Society
[ ESPP 78 Environmental Politics }
ESPP 160 US Environmental Policy and Policymaking: The Role of Congress, EPA, Stakeholders, and Courts
[ ESPP 180 Climate Change, Health, and Environmental Justice-Focusing on Solutions ]
GOV 1722 Politics of the Environment and Climate Change
HIST 76 The History of Energy
HISTSCI 1630 Writing Histories of Climate Change
SUP 663 Land Use and Environmental Law

One ESPP junior seminar (ESPP 90) may be used in substitution for one of the social science and public policy requirements.

Bracketed Courses in 26/27:
Complit 146 Space and Place: The Environment through Film

GE 1015 Ethics of Climate Change
GOV 94CP Political Economy for the Environment
GOV 94GM Politics of Climate Change
HIST 1610 East Asian Environment: China, Japan, Korea
HISTSCI 199 Science and Religion in America 
HDS 2798 Religion and Ecology

Natural Sciences and Engineering:
EPS/ESE 101 Global Warming Science
EPS/ES 112 Thermodynamics
EPS/ESE 132. Introduction to Meteorology and Climate
EPS/ESE 133 Atmospheric Chemistry
EPS/ESE 164 Environmental and Industrial Chemistry for Energy, Climate, and Sustainability 
EPS/ESE 169 Field and Lab based Seminar on Local Pollution Issues
ESE115 Ecosystem Patterns & Processes: Parallels in Natural & Built Environments
ESPP 171 Solid Waste in Developing Countries
ESPP 173 Water Resources in Developing Countries
OEB 55 Ecology: Populations, Communities, and Ecosystems
OEB 172 Remote Sensing for Biodiversity and Ecology
EH 297 Atmospheric Environment

Bracketed Courses in 25/26:
EPS/ESE 109 Earth Resources and the Environment 
EPS/ESE 161 Applied Environmental Toxicology
EPS/ESE 162 Hydrology
EPS/ESE 168 Human Environmental Data Science: Agriculture, Conflict, and Health
ESE 163. Pollution Control in Aquatic Ecosystems
OEB 65 Conservation Biology
OEB 120 Plants and Climate
OEB 157 Global Change Biology