Bryn Mawr College

Approved Electives

 Approved Electives for the Environmental Studies Minor

• Two courses are required from each category (A and B).
• At least one course in Category A should have a lab.
• Only one course in each category may be a “cognate” course.  Cognate courses, marked with an asterisk, are valuable for minor but are not as centrally focused on environmental studies methodologies and materials as other courses on the list.
• Pay close attention to “double-counting” rules for your major.  You are encouraged to choose electives outside of your major.

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 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
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 Introduction to Math and Sustainability

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 016 *(L) Microbiology
BIOL 017 *(L) Microbial Pathogenesis and Immune Response
BIOL 020 * (L) Animal Physiology
BIOL 025 * (L) Plant Biology
BIOL 026 * (L) Invertebrate Zoology
BIOL 034 * (L) Evolution
BIOL 036 (L) Ecology
BIOL 039 (L) Marine Biology
BIOL 115E Plant Molecular Genetics - Biotechnology
BIOL 116 * Microbial Processes and Biotechnology
BIOL 137 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
CHEM 001 *(L) Chemistry in 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 004E Introduction to Sustainable Systems Analysis
ENGR 035 * (L) Solar Energy Systems
ENGR 057 * (L) Operations Research
ENGR 063 (L) Water Quality and Pollution Control
ENGR 066 (L) Environmental Systems
ENVS 090 * Directed Reading in Environmental Studies
MATH 056 * Modeling
PHYS 002E * FYS: Energy
PHYS 020 * (L) Principles of the Earth Sciences
PHYS 024 (L) The Earth and Its Climate

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 329 Advanced Topics in Urban Environmental Studies
CITY 345 Advanced Topics in Environment and Society
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 Intro 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 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
ECON 076 Environmental Economics
ENGL 009C FYS: Imagining Natural History
ENGL 070G Writing Nature
ENGL 071H Natural History and the Imagination
ENVS 090* Directed Reading in Environmental Studies
ENVS 092* Research Project
HIST 089 Environmental History of Africa
LING 120* Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages
LITR 022G* Food Revolutions: History, Politics, Culture
PHIL 035 Environmental Ethics
POLS 043 Environmental Policy and Politics
POLS 048* The Politics of Population
POLS 049 Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
RELG 022 Religion and Ecology
SOAN 023C Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation