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.
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Category (A) Environmental Science, Math and Engineering

Category (B) Social Sciences and Humanities

Tri-Co Environmental Studies Elective Courses

Bryn Mawr College Environmental Studies Electives

	Category A Courses
Course #	Name of Course
BIOL 210	Biology and Public Policy
BIOL 220 (L)	Ecology
BIOL 225	Biology of Plants
BIOL 250 *	Computational Methods
BIOL 255	Microbiology
BIOL 323	Coastal and Marine Biology
BIOL 332	Global Change Biology
GEOL 101 (L)	How the Earth Works
GEOL 102	Earth: Life of A Planet
GEOL 103 (L)	Earth Systems and the Environment
GEOL 203 (L)	Paleobiology
GEOL 206 *	Energy Resources and Sustainability
GEOL 209	Natural Hazards & Human Populations
GEOL 302	Low Temperature Geochemistry
GEOL 314	Marine Geology
MATH 210 *	Differential Equations w/ Apps (Environmental Problems)

	Category B Courses
Course #	Name of Course
ANTH 203	Human Ecology
ANTH 210	Medical Anthropology
ANTH 237	Environmental Health
ANTH 244	Global Perspectives on Early Farmers and Social Change
ARCH 104	Agriculture and Urban Revolution
ARCH 245	The Archaeology of Water
CITY 201	Introduction to GIS for Social and Environmental Analysis
CITY 229	Topics in Comparative Urbanism-Global Exurbia
CITY 250	Growth and Spatial Organization of Cities
CITY 278	American Environmental History
CITY 329	Advanced Topics in Urban Environments: Sensing the City
CITY 345	Advanced Topics in Environment and Society - Environmental Studies
EAST 352	China’s Environment: History, Policy, and Rights
EAST 362	Environment in Contemporary East Asia
ECON 225	Economic Development
ECON 234	Environmental Economics
ECON 242	Economics of Local Environmental Programs
ECON 335	East Asian Development
EDUC 268	Educating for Environmental Literacy
EDUC 285	Ecologies of Minds and Communities
ENGL 204*	Literatures of American Expansion
ENGL 216	Re-creating Our World
ENGL 218	Ecological Imaginings (formerly ENG 313)
ENGL 268	Native Soil: Indian Land & American Lit 1588-1840
ENGL 251	Food For Thought
ENGL 275	Food Revolutions
ENGL 335	Beyond the Human
HART 377	Topics in Modern Architecture
HIST 212	Pirates, Travelers and Natural Historians
HIST 237*	Urbanization in Africa
PHIL 238	Science, Technology and the Good Life
PHIL 240	Environmental Ethics
POLS 222	Introduction to Environmental Issues
POLS 256	Global Climate Politics
POLS 310*	Comparative Public Policy
POLS 321*	Technology and Politics/Cross-listed with CITY 321
POLS 354*	Comparative Social Movements
POLS 356	Global Politics of Climate Change
SOCL 165	Problems in the Natural and Built Environment
SOCL 247	Environmental Social Problems
SPAN 203	La Naturaleza Como Identidad Political

Haverford College Environmental Studies Electives

	Category A Courses
Course #	Name of Course
BIOL 118	Plants and People
BIOL 310 *	Molecular Microbiology (half-credit)
BIOL 314 *	Photosynthesis (half-credit)
CHEM 112 * (L)	Chemical Dynamics
CHEM 150	Intro to Oceanography
CHEM 358	Topics in Environmental Chemistry (half-credit)

	Category B Courses
Course #	Name of Course
ANTH 112	The Anthropology of Architecture
ANTH 203	Imagining the Arctic: Reading Contemporary Ethnographies of the North
ANTH 224	Microbes – Animals – Humans: Ethnographic Adventures in Multispecies Worlds
ANTH 281	Nature/Culture: Introduction to Environmental Anthropology
ANTH 302*	Oil, Culture, Power
ANTH 309	Anthropology and Urban Ecology
ECON 229	New Institutional Economics and Natural Resources
ECON 234	Environmental Economics
ECON 334	Natural Resource Economics
ENGL 257*	British Topographies
ENGL 356	Studies in American Environment and Place
HIST 119*	International History of the United States
HIST 237*	Geographies of the Occult and Witchcraft
HIST 348	Walter Benjamin on Lancaster Avenue
ICPR 206	Introduction to Permaculture
POLS 261*	Global Civil Society
PSYC 304	Environmental Psychology and Conservation
WRPR 172	Ecological Imaginaries: Identity, Violence and the Environment

Swarthmore College Environmental Studies Electives

	Category A Courses
Course #	Name of Course
BIOL 002	Organismal and Population Biology
BIOL 009	Our Food
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 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 (L)**	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 024 (L)	The Earth's Climate and Global Warming

	Category B Courses
Course #	Name of Course
ANTH 023C	Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation
ANTH 035	Pictured Environments: Japanese Landscapes and Cityscapes
ANTH 080B	Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages
CHIN 087	Water Policies, Water Issues: China/Taiwan and the U.S.
CHIN 088	Governance and Environmental Issues in China
ECON 076	Environmental Economics
ENGL 009C	FYS: Imagining Natural History
ENGL 070G	Writing Nature
ENGL 089	Race, Gender, Class and Environment
ENVS 001	Introduction to Environmental Studies
ENVS 002	Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment
ENVS 003	Environmental Policy and Economics
ENVS 004	Sustainable Community Action
ENVS 005	Changemakers
ENVS 006	FYS: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
ENVS 043B	Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
ENVS 050	Sustainable Research Methods
ENVS 070	Geographic Information Systems
ENVS 071	Remote Sensing of Environment
ENVS 072	GIS for Public Health
ENVS 090	Directed Reading in Environmental Studies (Permission of the instructor is required.)
ENVS 091	Capstone
ENVS 092	Research Project
HIST 089	Environmental History of Africa
JPNS 035	Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan
LING 120	Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages
LITR 022G	Food Revolutions: History, Politics, Culture
LITR 086R	Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture
POLS 010F	First-Year Seminar: When Disaster Strikes
PHIL 035	Environmental Ethics
POLS 037	Introduction to GIS for Social Environmental Analysis
POLS 043	Environmental Policy and Politics
POLS 043B	Environmental Justice: Theory and Action
POLS 048	The Politics of Population
POLS 071	Applied Spatial Analysis with GIS: Special Topics
POLS 087	Water Policies, Water Issues: China/Taiwan and the U.S.
POLS 088	Governance and Environmental Issues in China
RELG 006C	FYS: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days
RELG 022	Religion and Ecology
RUSS 086	Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture
SOAN 020M	Race, Gender, Class and Environment

Interdisciplinary Courses

Bryn Mawr

ENVS 403 Independent Study
ENVS 415 Teaching Assistant