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 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.”
