Climate Courses
The following courses have been approved as Climate Studies (CLI) courses, which means they have at least 20% of their content focused on climate change and climate solutions, and will count towards the new, interdisciplinary Climate Studies minor. See the bottom of this page for instructions on how to find sections of Climate Studies courses offered in a given semester. Faculty: Apply to have your course considered as a CLI course here.
Courses for which all sections count as Climate Studies (CLI) courses (below there are some faculty-specific CLI sections):
- ANT 4112 – Language and Environment
- ANT 4360 – Primate Conservation
- ARH 3710 – Egyptian Art and Architecture
- ARH 3780 – Visualizing the City
- ART 3230 – Photography as Social Critique
- ART 3250 – Facilitation Skills for Creative
- Projects
- BIO 1103 – Global Climate Change and Earth’s Life
- BIO 3312 – Environmental Studies
- BSC 4749 – Architect Design Studio IV
- CI 3552 – Environmental Literacy in the 21st Century Schools
- CI 3553 – Issues of Language and Culture in Public Schools
- CI 3556 – Children at Risk
- COM 3117 – Environmental Communications
- COM 3312 – Crisis Communication
- ECO 4621 – Environmental Economics and Policy
- ENG 2430 – Animals and Literature
- ENG 3210 – Dramatic Writing and the Climate
- ENG 3220 – Environmental Rhetorics
- ENG 3715 – Literature and the Environment
- GER 3022 – Nature and Culture in the German-Speaking World
- GES 1050 – Conservation of Natural Resources in a Changing Climate
- GES 1103 – Environmental Change, Hazards, and Resources
- GES 3140 – Quantifying Environmental Change
- GHY 1010 – Global Environmental Systems
- GHY 1011 – Global Climate Change
- GHY 1012 – Global Change of Biosphere
- GHY 1040 – Human Geography and Social Justice
- GHY 2035 – Global Refugees & Asylum–Forced Migration Across Borders
- GHY 2050 – Climate Disasters and Public Health
- GHY 2055 – Nature and Culture of Climate Change
- GHY 2700 – Food Justice: Geographic Perspectives
- GHY 3005 – Global Health and Disease
- GHY 3100 – Weather and Climate
- GHY 3230 – Political Geography and Society
- GLS 3230 – Global Health and Climate Change
- GLS 3330 – Global Pandemics
- GLS 3750 – Global Infrastructures
- HIS 1170 – Preservation, Sustainability, and Climate Action
- IDS 3030 – America, Climate, and the Environment
- IDS 3230 – Photography as Social Critique
* Note: Students can only take one 2552 course for credit.
- LLC 2055 – Latin American Cultures and the Environment
- LLC 2070 – One with the Land
- LLC 3026 – Green Germany
- MGT 3300 – Sustainable Business Theory and Practice
- MKT 4630 – Digital Transformation in Marketing
- MTL 4825 – Non-Fiction Film and Video
- MTL 4830 – Media Literacy
- MUS 3015 – Songwriting
- NUT 4225 – Food Systems, Sustainability, and Society
- PHL 2015 – Environmental Ethics
- PHY 1830 – The Physical Principles of Energy and Sustainability
- PHY 2220 – The Physics of Food and Cooking
- PHY 3140 – Environmental Physics
- PHY 3150 – Atmospheric Science
- PLN 2100 – Healthy and Just Cities
- PLN 2410 – Town, City, and Regional Planning
- PLN 4030 – Planning for Climate Resilience
- PLN 4460 – Environmental Policy & Planning
- PS 4675 – Climate Change Politics in Action
- REL 2310 – Religion, Sustainability, and the Environment
- RM 2552 – Climate Responses & Response-Ability
- SD 2450 – Just Food on a Warming Planet
- SD 2610 – Science for Sustainability
- SD 2800 – Environmental Justice and Sustainable Development
- SD 2850 – Forests and Our Future: Forest Restoration, Resistance, and Resilience
- SD 3100 – Principles of Agroecology
- SD 3365 – Conservation and Development
- SD 3380 – Climate Change, Migration, and Sustainable Development
- SD 3460 – Labor Environmentalism
- SD 3610 – Issues in Environmental Sustainability
- SD 3715 – Literature and the Environment
- SD 4300 – Politics of Sustainable Development
- SNH 3085 – Sustainability & Climate Change in the Spanish- speaking World
- SOC 3150 – Environmental Sociology
- TEC 2601 – Energy Issues & Technology
- TEC 3604 – Sustainable Transportation
- TEC 3605 – Sustainable Waste and Resource Management
- TEC 3606 – Sustainable Water Management
- THR 3210 – Dramatic Writing and the Climate
- UCO 2552 – Climate Responses & Response-Ability
- WRC 3203 – Why Art?: Creative Responses to the Environment
Faculty-Specific Climate Studies (CLI) Sections: In addition to the above, there are also sections of courses taught by particular faculty that have been approved to count as CLI sections. Below is a list of those classes with the faculty members who teach them (note: sections of these courses taught by other faculty members do not count as CLI sections):
- ARH 4515 – Visual Cultures of Climate Justice (Lorraine Affourtit)
- COM 2124 – Intercultural Communication: Documenting Dutch Culture (Lynette Holman)
- HON 2516 – Honors Sophomore Seminar: Embracing a Kinship Worldview Through Creative Practice (Jessica Greenfield)
- HON 3516 – Honors Junior Seminar: Visual Cultures of Climate Justice (Lorraine Affourtit)
- IND 1401 – Industrial Product Design (Garner Dewey & Jimena Vergara)
- IND 4702 – Product Design Studio III (Jimena Vergara)
- LLC 2025 – Literature in Translation: Women, Empires and Climate Change in Global Africa (Stephanie Mazan)
- MKT 3050 – Principles of Marketing (Pia Albinsson)
- PSY 3511 – Honors Colloquium: Climate, Conflict, and Cooperation (Brooke Burrows)
- PSY 4655 – Contemporary Issues in Psychology (Amy Galloway)
- RC 1000 – Expository Writing (April McGinnis)
- RC 2001 – Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum (April McGinnis)
- RM 2140 – Natural Resources: Becoming an Informed Citizen (Eric Frauman)
- SW 2630 – Human Behavior & the Social Environment (Emily Dakin)
- UCO 1200 – First Year Seminar: Climate Change (Anindita Das)
- UCO 1200 – First Year Seminar: Human Impacts on the Environment (Anindita Das)
To find sections of Climate Studies courses offered in a given semester, type “Climate Studies” into the “Attribute” field in that semester’s course schedule (see screenshot below) and then click “Search.”
