Approved Electives for the Environmental Studies Minor
Category A) Environmental Science, Math and Engineering
Bryn Mawr
BIOL 210 Biology and Public Policy
BIOL 220 (L) Ecology
BIOL 225 * Biology of Plants
BIOL 250 * Computational Methods
BIOL 262 Urban Ecosystems
BIOL 309 (L) Biological Oceanography
BIOL 320 (L) Evolutionary Ecology
CHEM 206 Chemistry of Renewable Energy
GEOL 101 (L) How the Earth Works
GEOL 103 (L) Earth Systems and the Environment
GEOL 130* Life in Earth’s Future Climate (half-credit)
GEOL 203 Paleobiology
GEOL 206 * Energy Resources and Sustainability
GEOL 209 Natural Hazards & Human Populations
GEOL 230 * The Science of Soils
GEOL 255 Problem Solving in the Environmental Sciences
GEOL 298 Applied Environmental Science
GEOL 302 Low Temperature Geochemistry
GEOL 314 Marine Geology
GEOL 328 * Geographic Information Systems
MATH 210 * Differential Equations w/ Apps (Environmental Problems)
MATH 295 Topics in Mathematics: Mathematical Modeling
SPAN 203 La Naturaleza Como Identidad Politica
Haverford
BIOL 123 * Perspectives in Biology: Scientific Literacy (half-credit)
BIOL 124 * Perspectives in Biology: Tropical Infectious Disease (half-credit)
BIOL 310 * Molecular Microbiology (half-credit)
BIOL 314 * Photosynthesis (half-credit)
CHEM 112 * (L) Chemical Dynamics
CHEM 358 Topics in Environmental Chemistry (half-credit)
PHYS 111b Energy Options and Science Policy
Swarthmore
BIOL 002 Organismal and Population Biology
BIOL 016 *
Microbiology
BIOL 017 *
Microbial Pathogenesis and Immune Response
BIOL 020 * (L) Animal Physiology
BIOL 025 *
Plant Biology
BIOL 026 * (L) Invertebrate Biology
BIOL 031 * (L) History and Evolution of Human Food
BIOL 034 * (L) Evolution
BIOL 036 (L) Ecology
BIOL 037 * Conservation Genetics
BIOL 039 (L) Marine Biology
BIOL 115E * Plant Molecular Genetics - Biotechnology
BIOL 116 * Microbial Processes and Biotechnology
BIOL 130 * Behavioral Ecology
BIOL 137 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
CHEM 001 (L) Chemistry and the Human Environment
CHEM 043 * (L) Analytical Methods and Instrumentation
CHEM 103 Topics in Environmental Chemistry
ENGR 003 * Problems in Technology
ENGR 004A Environmental Protection
ENGR 004B * Swarthmore and the Biosphere
ENGR 035 * Solar Energy Systems
ENGR 057 * Operations Research (also ECON 032)
ENGR 063 (L) Water Quality and Pollution Control
ENGR 066 (L) Environmental Systems
MATH 056 * Modeling
PHYS 002E *
FYS: Energy
PHYS 020 * Principles of the Earth Sciences
PHYS 024 (L) The Earth's Climate and Global Warming
Category B) Environmental Humanities, Social Sciences and Arts
Bryn Mawr
ANTH 203 Human Ecology
ANTH 210 Medical Anthropology
ANTH 237 Environmental Health
ANTH 263* Anthropology and Architecture
ARCH 245 The Archaeology of Water
CITY 175 Environment and Society
CITY 201 Introduction to GIS for Social and Environmental Analysis
CITY 241 Building Green
CITY 250 * U.S. Urban Environmental History
CITY 278 American Environmental History
CITY 279 Global Environmental Change
CITY 304 Disaster, War, Rebuilding in the Japanese City (part of 360˚)
CITY 329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environments: Sensing the City
CITY 345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society - Environmental Studies
CITY 360 Brazil: City, Nature, Identity
CITY 377 Global Architecture of Oil
EAST 352 China's Environment: History, Policy, and Rights
EAST 362 Environment in Contemporary East Asia
ECON 225* Economics of Development
ECON 234 Environmental Economics
ECON 242 Economics of Local Environmental Programs
EDUC 268 Educating for Environmental Literacy
ENGL 204*Literatures of American Expansion
ENGL 268 Native Soil: Indian Land & American Lit 1588-1840
ENGL 275 Food Revolutions
ENGL 251 Food For Thought
ENGL 313 Ecological Imaginings
HIST 212 Pirates, Travelers and Natural Historians
HIST 237* Urbanization in Africa
PHIL 240 Environmental Ethics
POLS 222 Introduction to Environmental Issues
POLS 278* Oil, Politics, Society and Economy
POLS 310* Comparative Public Policy
POLS 321* Technology and Politics
POLS 339* The Policy-making Process
POLS 354* Comparative Social Movements
SOCL 165 Problems in the Natural and Built Environment
SOCL 247 Environmental Social Problems
SOCL 316* Science, Culture and Society
Haverford
ANTH 252* State and Development in South Asia
ANTH 263* Anthropology of Space: Housing and Society
ANTH 281 Nature/Culture: Introduction to Environmental Anthropology
ENGL 217* Humanimality
ENGL 257* British Topographies
ENGL 356 Studies in American Environment and Place
HIST 119* International History of the United States
HIST 227* Geographies of the Occult and Witchcraft
HIST 253 History of the US Built Environment
POLS 261* Global Civil Society
POLS 260 Environmental Political Theory (temporary course, 2011/2012)
POLS 360 Global Environmental Politics (temporary course, 2011/2012)
POLS 370 Environmental Political Thought
Swarthmore
ARTH 035* Pictured Environments: Japanese Landscapes and Cityscapes (part of 360˚)
CHIN 088 Governance and Environmental Issues in China (also POLS 088)
ECON 032 * Operations Research (also ENGR 057)
ECON 076 Environmental Economics
ENGL 009C FYS: Imagining Natural History
ENGL 070G Writing Nature
ENVS 001 Introduction to Environmental Studies
HIST 089 Environmental History of Africa
JPNS 035 Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan (part of 360˚)
LING 120 * Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages
LITR
022G * Food Revolutions: History, Politics, Culture
PHIL 035 Environmental Ethics
POLS 037 Introduction to GIS for Social Environmental Analysis
POLS 043 Environmental Politics and Policy
POLS 043B Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
POLS 048 * The Politics of Population
POLS 071 Applied Spacial Analysis with GIS (pre-reqs)
RELG 022 Religion and Ecology
SOAN 020M Race, Gender and Environment
SOAN 023C Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation
Interdisciplinary Courses
Bryn Mawr
ENVS 403 Independent Study
ENVS 415 Teaching Assistant
Swarthmore
ENVS 002 Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment
ENVS 090 Directed Reading in Environmental Studies
ENVS 092 Research Project