Undergraduate certificate Environmental Studies
Bachelor's degree
In Princeton (USA)
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Princeton (USA)
The Program in Environmental Studies (ENV)
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offers a vibrant, multidisciplinary forum for engaging the scientific, political, humanistic, and technological dimensions of the greatest environmental challenges facing the world today. Through the certificate program, students majoring in any discipline may pursue a generalist track in environmental studies, or a more specialized track in the environmental natural sciences and engineering.
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- Climate
- On-Air
- IT risk
- Engineering
- Systems
- Global
- Climate Change
- Art
- Economics
- Biodiversity
- Ecology
- Land Use
- Statistics
- Credit
- Risk
Course programme
ENV 102A Climate: Past, Present, and Future (See GEO 102A)
ENV 102B Climate: Past, Present, and Future (See GEO 102B)
ENV 200A The Environmental Nexus SA This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, M. Fleurbaey, R. Nixon
ENV 200B The Environmental Nexus STL This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, M. Lane, R. Nixon
ENV 200C The Environmental Nexus EM This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, M. Lane, M. Fleurbaey
ENV 200D The Environmental Nexus QR This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, M. Fleurbaey, M. Lane
ENV 200E The Environmental Nexus LA This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, M. Lane, R. Nixon
ENV 200F The Environmental Nexus STN This course offers an introduction to the scientific, technological, political, ethical and humanistic dimensions of the nexus of environmental problems that pose an unprecedented risk at mid-century: climate change, biodiversity loss, and food and water for 9 billion people. All sections of ENV 200 will meet together for lecture each week, but students will enroll in one of six possible precepts that will meet separately and pursue a particular disciplinary focus and earn credit for the corresponding distribution area. S. Pacala, R. Nixon, M. Lane
ENV 201A Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Population, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Energy (also
STC 201A
ENV 201B Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Population, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Energy (also
STC 201B
ENV 202A Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Climate, Air Pollution, Toxics, and Water Not offered this year STN This course will focus on the environmental consequences of human activities and their interactions with natural systems on global scales, focusing on four main areas of current environmental concern: climate and global change; the atmosphere and air pollution; toxics in the environment; and water resources exploitation and pollution. Underlying principles will be explored for each topic, with examples and case studies used to highlight interconnections between the scientific, technological, political, economic, and social dimensions of environmental issues. Two lectures, one preceptorial. B. Ward
ENV 202B Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Climate, Air Pollution, Toxics, and Water Not offered this year STL This course will focus on the environmental consequences of human activities and their interactions with natural systems on global scales, focusing on four main areas of current environmental concern: climate and global change; the atmosphere and air pollution; toxics in the environment; and water resources exploitation and pollution. Underlying principles will be explored for each topic, with examples and case studies used to highlight interconnections between the scientific, technological, political, economic, and social dimensions of environmental issues. Two lectures, one preceptorial, one three-hour laboratory. B. Ward, E. Zerba
ENV 203 Measuring Climate Change: Methods in Data Analysis and Scientific Writing (See GEO 201)
ENV 205 Interdisciplinary Design Studio (See ARC 205)
ENV 206 Designing Sustainable Systems (See ENE 202)
ENV 207 Introduction to Environmental Engineering (See CEE 207)
ENV 219 Catastrophes across Cultures: The Anthropology of Disaster (See ANT 219)
ENV 230 Culture and the Environment in East Asia (See EAS 230)
ENV 250 Architecture, Globalization, and the Environment (See ART 250)
ENV 266 Oil, Energy and The Middle East (See NES 266)
ENV 301 Nature and Infrastructure in South Asia (See ARC 301)
ENV 302 Practical Models for Environmental Systems (also
CEE 302
EEB 302
) Spring QR Humans are increasingly affecting environmental systems throughout the world. This course uses quantitative analysis to examine three of today's most pressing issues: energy, water, and food. Each issue is examined from perspectives of natural and engineered ecosystems that depend on complex interactions among physical, chemical, and biological processes. The course is an introduction for students in the natural sciences and engineering pursuing an advanced program in environmental studies. We emphasize quantitative analyses with applications to a wide range of systems, and the design of engineered solutions to major environmental problems. M. Celia
ENV 303 Agriculture, Human Diets and the Environment (also
EEB 303
ENV 304 Disease Ecology, Economics, and Policy (also
ECO 328
EEB 304
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WWS 455
) Fall STN The dynamics of the emergence and spread of disease arise from a complex interplay among disease ecology, economics, and human behavior. Lectures will provide an introduction to complementarities between economic and epidemiological approaches to understanding the emergence, spread, and control of infectious diseases. The course will cover topics such as drug-resistance in bacterial and parasitic infections, individual incentives to vaccinate, the role of information in the transmission of infectious diseases, and the evolution of social norms in healthcare practices. One three-hour lecture, one preceptorial. C. Metcalf, B. Grenfell
ENV 305 Topics in Environmental Studies Fall STN Special topics courses related to the broad field of environmental studies. Staff
ENV 306 Topics in Environmental Studies HA Special topics courses related to the broad field of environmental studies. Seminar. Staff
ENV 310 Environmental Law and Moot Court SA Examining the relationship between law and environmental policy, this course focuses on cases that have established policy principles. The first half of the seminar will be conducted using the Socratic method. The second half will allow students to reargue either the plaintiff or defendant position in a key case, which will be decided by the classroom jury. One three-hour seminar. G. Hawkins
ENV 312 Environment and Extraction in Latin America (See LAS 302)
ENV 313 The Ecological Worlds of Japanese Culture (See EAS 313)
ENV 315 The Port of New Orleans: Culture and Climate Change (See VIS 325)
ENV 316 Climate Science and Communications Climate change has the potential to wreak great havoc over the next century, threatening ecosystems, economies, and human lives. Scientists are putting enormous effort into trying to understand the causes, effects, and possible solutions to the climate-change problem. Yet the public still has only a vague idea of what climate science actually says, and much of that is badly distorted. The course will explore how to communicate to the public about climate change through print, Web, and video, in ways that are at once clear, compelling, and scientifically rigorous. One three-hour seminar. M. Lemonick, H. Cullen
ENV 317 Literature, Landscape and Place-Making in the African Environmental Imagination (See AFS 318)
ENV 319 Environmental Economics (See WWS 306)
ENV 322 Toward an Environmental History of the Mediterranean (See HIS 308)
ENV 327 Investigating an Ethos of Sustainability at Princeton Fall EM Achieving sustained human and environmental health is a global priority given increasingly disruptive economic, social and environmental conditions. Evidence suggests that humanity is capable of producing sustainable technological and social solutions, but must do so between now and mid-century. This course explores social/ethical dimensions of the sustainability challenge through an evaluation of related ethics and psychology of social norms literature, and includes an exercise in proposing evidence-based solutions toward cultivating an ethos of sustainability on the Princeton campus as a demonstration-scale system. S. Weber
ENV 328 Energy for a Greenhouse-Constrained World (See MAE 328)
ENV 331 Environmental Chemistry: Chemistry of the Natural Systems (See GEO 363)
ENV 333 Chemistry of the Environment (See CHM 333)
ENV 334 Global Environmental Issues (See CEE 334)
ENV 335 The Energy Water Nexus (See CBE 335)
ENV 336 Environment and Migration (See SOC 337)
ENV 338 The Literature of Environmental Disaster (See FRE 338)
ENV 339 Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, Policy (See GEO 366)
ENV 341 Water, Savannas, and Society: Global Change and Sustainability in Africa's Hallmark Ecosystem (See EEB 341)
ENV 344 Art History in the Anthropocene (See ART 341)
ENV 349 Writing about Science (See STC 349)
ENV 350 The Environment: Science and Policy (See WWS 350)
ENV 351 Topics in Latin American Cultural Studies (See SPA 350)
ENV 354 Climate and Weather: Order in the Chaos (also
GEO 368
ENV 355 Economics of Food and Agriculture (See ECO 355)
ENV 356 Geochemistry of the Human Environment (See GEO 360)
ENV 357 Empire of the Ark: The Animal Question in Film, Photography and Popular Culture (also
AMS 457
GSS 357
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ENG 315
) Fall EC This course explores the current fascination with animals in film, photography and popular culture, engaging central issues in animal and environmental studies. Why has looking become our main way of interacting with animals? How does rethinking animals inspire us to rethink being human? How can we transform our relations with other species and the planet? Course themes include: wilderness, national parks and zoos; the cult of the pet; vampires, werewolves and zombies; animal speech, animal emotions and rights; nature, sexuality and race. Exploring planetary crises such as extinction and climate change, and positive strategies for change. A. McClintock
ENV 359 New Directions in Environmental Humanities Fall LA
Undergraduate certificate Environmental Studies