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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 a forthcoming interdisciplinary Climate Studies minor. See below 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.

  • ANT 4360 – Primate Conservation
  • ARH 3710 – Egyptian Art and Architecture
  • ARH 3780 – Visualizing the City
  • ART 3230 – Photography as Social Critique
  • BIO 3312 – Environmental Studies
  • COM 3117 – Environmental Communications
  • COM 3312 – Crisis Communication
  • ECO 4621 – Environmental Economics and Policy
  • ENG 3210 – Dramatic Writing and the Climate
  • 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
  • HIS 1170 – Preservation, Sustainability, and Climate Actio
  • IDS 3230 – Photography as Social Critique
  • MKT 4630 – Digital Transformation in Marketing
  • MTL 4825 – Non-Fiction Film and Video
  • MTL 4830 – Media Literacy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 3380 – Climate Change, Migration, and Sustainable Development
  • SD 3610 – Issues in Environmental Sustainability
  • SD 4300 – Politics of Sustainable Development
  • SNH 3085 – Sustainability & Climate Change in the Spanish-Speaking World
  • SOC 3150 – Environmental Sociology
  • THR 3210 – Dramatic Writing and the Climate
  • UCO 2552 – Climate Responses & Response-Ability
  • WRC 3203 – Why Art?: Creative Responses to the Environment

There are also sections of courses that have been approved to count as Climate Studies sections. Below is a list of those sections with the faculty members who teach them:

  • 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)
  • RC 2001 – Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum (April McGinnis)
  • 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.”

climate studies search