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Course Fall 2024 Spring 2025 Fall 2025 Spring 2026
511 1.5 Credits
Ecological Foundations for Environmental Managers (Fall-2 Oct 21-Dec 6)

Schmitz
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Schmitz
TBA - TBA
512 1.5 Credits
Microeconomic Foundations for Environmental Managers (Fall 1 Aug 28- Oct 11)

Kotchen
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Kotchen
TBA - TBA
521 1.5 Credits
Physical Science Foundations for Environmental Managers

Anisfeld
W - 9:00-10:20

Anisfeld
TBA - TBA
522 1.5 Credits
Human Science Foundations for Environmental Managers

Doolittle
Tu - 4:00-5:20

Doolittle
TBA - TBA
550 3 Credits
Natural Science Research: From Idea to Proposal

Lauenroth
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:20

Lauenroth
TBA - TBA
551 3 Credits
Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design

Doolittle
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Doolittle
TBA - TBA
552 0 Credits
Master's Student Research Colloquium

Raymond
TBA - TBA

Raymond
TBA - TBA
553 3 Credits
Perspectives: Environmental Leadership

Boyd
Tu - 9:00-10:20 & TBD Discussion section

Boyd
TBA - TBA
555 1 Credit
Introduction to the MESc and MFS Degrees

Raymond
M - 12:00-12:50
   
561 1.5 Credits
Energy Justice Seminar
   
Torres
Tentative
568 1.5 Credits
Geoengineering in the Context of Climate Overshoot (Fall-1 Aug 28-Oct 11)

Smith
W - 4:00-6:50

Smith
Tentative
573 3 Credits
Urban Ecology for Local and Regional Decision Making

Grove
W - 1:00-3:50

Grove
Tentative
582 1.5 Credits
Natural Climate Solutions in Agricultural Landscapes: Topics in Enhanced Rock Weathering

Almaraz
M - 12:00-12:50 Webinar: 1:00-1:50 Discussion
   
586 3 Credits
Fisheries & Aquaculture

Freidenburg
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:15

Freidenburg
TBA - TBA
588 3 Credits
Climate Tech Innovation and Commercialization

Faculty
Tu - 2:40-5:40
   
592 3 Credits
Documentary Film Workshop

Musser
T-7:00pm-10:00pm & W 3:30-5:20

Musser
Tentative

Musser
Tentative
594 3 Credits
Global Carbon Cycle

Denning
M,W - 9:00-10:20
   
603 3 Credits
Environmental Data Visualization for Communication

Queenborough
M,W - 9:00-10:20

Queenborough
TBA - TBA
608 3 Credits
Our Air, Our Health
    Tentative (No Semester)
610 3 Credits
Managing Ecosystems for Climate Change Solutions

Brando
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Brando
TBA - TBA
613 3 Credits
Writing for a Changing Environment

Hanes
Th - 1:00-3:50

Hanes
Tentative
614 1.5 Credits
GHG Accounting: Practical Methods

White
Tu - 2:30-3:50
   
617 3 Credits
Real World Environmental Data Science

Grewal
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Grewal
Tentative
618 3 Credits
Anthropology of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries

Carpenter
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Carpenter
TBA - TBA
620 3 Credits
History of Environmental Thought and Activism

Taylor
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Taylor
Tentative
621 3 Credits
The Ministry for the Future: Exploring The Science and Politics of Climate Solutions through Fiction

Sanford
W - 1:00-3:50
   
622 3 Credits
Carcerality and the Environment

Taylor
M,W - 4:00-5:15
   
623 3 Credits
The Role of Methane in Global Climate Disruption: The Search for Solutions
   
Malone
TBA - TBA
626 3 Credits
Writing for Publication in the Natural Sciences

Queenborough
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Queenborough
TBA - TBA
630 3 Credits
The Physical Science of Climate Change

Raymond
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Raymond
TBA - TBA
632 3 Credits
Intro to Social Entrepreneurship
   
Chahine
Tentative
633 3 Credits
Critical Race Theory

Torres
Tu,Th - 2:30-3:50

Torres
Tentative
634 3 Credits
Ecology of Global Drylands

Lauenroth
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:20
   
635 3 Credits
Renewable Energy Project Finance

Gross
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:20

Gross
Tentative
636 3 Credits
Carbon Dioxide Removal

O’Rourke
M - 2:30-5:20
Tentative (No Semester)
639 3 Credits
Food Systems and Climate Services

Hernandez-Aguilera
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50
   
640 3 Credits
Ethical Consumption: Promoting Workers’ Rights, Fair Prices, and Sustainability
   
Robinson
TBA - TBA
641 3 Credits
Market-Based Mechanisms for Water Management
Online
Pilz
M - 1:00-3:50
Online
Kruse
Tentative
642 3 Credits
Environmental Justice/Climate Justice

Torres
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Torres
Tentative
644 3 Credits
Coastal Environments in a Changing World

Decker
Tu - 12:00-4:00

Decker
Tentative
645 3 Credits
Urbanization, Global Change and Sustainability

Seto
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Seto
TBA - TBA
646 3 Credits
Regenerative Agriculture Systems

Wood
Tu - 2:30-5:20

Wood
Tentative
648 3 Credits
Organizing: People, Power, and Change
   
Robinson
TBA - TBA
650 3 Credits
Seminar in Wildland Fire of North America with a Focus on the West

Ashton
W - 4:00-6:50

Faculty
Tentative
652 3 Credits
Wood: Structure and Function

Brodersen
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Brodersen
Tentative
653 1.5 Credits
Maple: From Tree to Table

Orefice
M - 5:30-6:50

Orefice
TBA - TBA
659 4 Credits
The Practice of Silviculture: Principles in Applied Forest Ecology (Friday field trips)

Ashton
M,W - 8:30-10:20

Ashton
TBA - TBA
660 3 Credits
Forest Dynamics

Duguid
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Duguid
TBA - TBA
668 1 Credit
Field Trips in Forest Resource Management and Silviculture

Ashton
Tentative

Ashton
Tentative
670 1 Credit
Southern Forest and Forestry Field Trip

Orefice
Tentative

Faculty
Tentative
671 3 Credits
Temperate Woody Plant Taxonomy and Dendrology

Duguid
W - 1:00-5:00

Duguid
TBA - TBA
674 4 Credits
Forest Ecosystem Health
    Tentative (No Semester)
677 3 Credits
Ecological Restoration
   
Duguid
TBA - TBA
679 3 Credits
Plant Ecophysiology

Brodersen
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Brodersen
Tentative
683 3 or 4 Credits
Seminar in Tropical Forest Restoration
   
Ashton
TBA - TBA
684 3 Credits
Forest Finance

Spalding
M/Th 4:30:550
   
685 3 Credits
Engaging Landholders and Communities in Conserving and Restoring Tropical Forest Landscapes

Garen
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Garen
Tentative
686 3 Credits
Synthesizing Science for Policy and Practice

Bradford
M - 9:00-10:20

Bradford
TBA - TBA
688 4 Credits
Forest Management and Operations

Orefice
M,W - 2:30-3:50

Orefice
Tentative
692 3 Credits
Science and Practice of Temperate Agroforestry

Orefice
M - 2:30-5:20

Orefice
TBA - TBA
694 3 Credits
Invasive Species: Ecology, Policy, and Management

Duguid
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50
   
695 1.5 Credits
Yale Forest Forum Series: The Future of Mature and Old-Growth Forests in the U.S.

Dunning
Th - 12:00-2:00

Ashton
Tentative
696 1.5 Credits
Yale Forest Forum: TBD

Dunning
Th - 12:00-1:50

Dunning
Tentative
697 1.5 Credits
Science for Policy and Practice: A Seminar

Bradford
Tu - 9:00-10:20
   
701 3 Credits
Seminar on Climate Change Economics

Mendelsohn
M,W - 10:30-11:50
   
704 1-3 Credits
Workshop on Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry with Drones

Lee
W - 2:30-5:20
Tentative (No Semester)
705 3 Credits
Global Climate Change: Simple, Serious, and Solvable

Denning
M,W - 1:00-2:15
   
707 3 Credits
Introduction to Environmental Chemistry

Benoit
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:15
   
709 3 Credits
Lectures, Discussions and Applications of Soil Science
   
Bradford
TBA - TBA
712 3 Credits
Water Management

Anisfeld
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Anisfeld
TBA - TBA
713 3 Credits
Coastal Ecosystems
    Tentative (No Semester)
714 3 Credits
Ocean Conservation and Sustainability: Policy and Strategies

Muñoz
M,W - 9:00-10:20
   
716 3 Credits
Renewable Energy

Oristaglio
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:15

Oristaglio
Tentative
717 3 Credits
Tropical Field Ecology

Queenborough
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:20

Comita
TBA - TBA
718 1.5 Credits
Climate Change Seminar
    Tentative (No Semester)
723 3 Credits
Wetlands Ecology, Conservation & Management

Freidenburg
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:15

Freidenburg
TBA - TBA
725 3 Credits
Water, Energy, and Food Interconnections in a Changing Climate

Saiers
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Saiers
TBA - TBA
726 3 Credits
Observing Earth from Space

Lee
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:20

Lee
TBA - TBA
728 3 Credits
Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences
   
Reuning-Scherer
TBA - TBA
730 3 Credits
Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning

Malone
Tu - 2:30-5:20

Malone
TBA - TBA
731 3 Credits
Tropical Field Botany

Michelangeli
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Michelangeli
Tentative
734 3 Credits
Biological Oceanography

Decker
M,W - 1:00-2:15
Tentative (No Semester)
735 3 Credits
Hydrologic Science for Environmental Managers

Saiers
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Saiers
TBA - TBA
740 3 Credits
Understanding Environmental Philanthropy: Funding, Financing, and Grant Writing

Taylor
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Taylor
Tentative
742 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Working with People

DeCew
Tu,Th - 8:30-9:50

DeCew
Tentative
744 4 Credits
Conservation Science and Landscape Planning

Schmitz
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Schmitz
TBA - TBA
745 3 Credits
Global Human-Wildlife Interactions

Harris
M,W - 2:30-3:45
   
748 3 Credits
Wildlife Movement and Migration under Global Change Scenarios

Harris
Tu - 2:30-5:20
   
750 3 Credits
Writing the World

Klinkenborg
Tu - 2:30-5:20

Klinkenborg
Tentative
752 3 Credits
Ecology and Conservation of Tropical Forests

Harris
M,W - 10:30-11:50
   
753 3 Credits
Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data

Gregoire
M,W - 10:30-11:50
   
754 3 Credits
Geospatial Software Design
    Tentative (No Semester)
755 3 Credits
Modeling Geographic Space

Tomlin
Th - 1:00-3:50

Faculty
Tentative
756 3 Credits
Modeling Geographic Objects

Tomlin
Th - 1:00-3:50

Faculty
Tentative
757 3 Credits
Data Exploration and Analysis

Reuning-Scherer
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:15

Reuning-Scherer
Tu,Th - 9:00-10:15

Faculty
TBA - TBA

Faculty
TBA - TBA
758 3 Credits
Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences

Reuning-Scherer
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:15

Reuning-Scherer
TBA - TBA
759 3 Credits
Power, Knowledge, and the Environment: Social Science

Dove
M - 1:00-3:50

Dove
Tentative
760 3 Credits
Conservation in Practice: An International Perspective

Vedder
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Vedder
Tentative
761 3 Credits
Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change

Biniaz
M - 1:30-3:20

Biniaz
Tentative
762 3 Credits
Applied Math for Environmental Studies (AMES):Foundations for Measuring and Modeling Environmental and Socio-environmental Systems

Fenichel
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Fenichel
TBA - TBA
764 3 Credits
Sociology of Sacred Values: Modernity, Ecology, and Policy

Farrell
Th - 9:00-11:50

Farrell
TBA - TBA
767 3 Credits
Tools for Conservation Project Design & Management

Vedder
M,W - 2:30-3:50

Vedder
Tentative
768 3 Credits
Data-Driven Urban Forestry

Faculty
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50
   
771 3 Credits
Fundamentals of Green Engineering and Green Chemistry

Anastas
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Anastas
Tentative
772 2 Credits
Indigenous Self-Government in the U.S. Constitutional Order (Follows Law Calendar)

Torres
Th - 4:10-6:00
   
773 3 Credits
Air Pollution Control (APC)

Gentner
Tu,Th - 2:30-3:45

Gentner
Tentative
774 3 Credits
"Framing" Climate Migration: Science, Policy, Ethics & Politics of a Growing Crisis

Gelobter
TBA - TBA
Tentative (No Semester)
775 3 Credits
Federal Indian Law

Torres
M,W - 1:35-3:00

Torres
Tentative
782 3 Credits
Globalization Space: International Infrastructure and Extrastatecraft

Easterling
Tentative

Easterling
Tentative
789 3 Credits
Energy and Development

Rao
M,W - 9:00-10:20

Rao
TBA - TBA
790 3 Credits
Managing the Clean Energy Transition: Contemporary Energy and Climate Change Policy Making

Simons
F - 9:25-11:15
   
791 3 Credits
Climate Adaptation

Faculty
M - 2:30-5:20
   
793 3 Credits
Abrupt Climate Change and Societal Collapse

Weiss
Th - 9:25-11:15

Weiss
Tentative
794 1.5 Credits
Climate Ethics: Principles and Model Applications

Rao
Tu - 1:00-2:20
   
795 3 Credits
Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models

Fenichel
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Fenichel
TBA - TBA
796 3 Credits
Biopolitics of Human-Nonhuman Relations

Dove
Th - 1:00-3:50

Dove
TBA - TBA
800 3 Credits
Energy Economics and Policy Analysis

Gillingham
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Faculty
TBA - TBA
805 1.5 Credits
Seminar on Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Gillingham
W - 3:00-4:20

Gillingham
W - 3:00-4:20

Gillingham
TBA - TBA

Gillingham
TBA - TBA
807 3 Credits
Corporate Sustainability: Strategy and Management

Esty
M,W - 2:30-3:50

Esty
TBA - TBA
811 3 Credits
Metrics, Tools and Indicators in Corporate Responsibility

Cort
Tu,Th - 10:10-11:30

Cort
Tentative
814 3 Credits
Energy Systems Analysis

Rao
M,W - 9:00-10:20

Rao
TBA - TBA
816 3 Credits
Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition

Rhodes
Th - 1:00-3:50
Tentative (No Semester)
817 3 Credits
Urban, Suburban, and Regional Planning Practice

Kooris
W - 4:00-6:50
   
819 3 Credits
Measuring and Visualizing Urban Environments

Salazar Miranda
Th - 2:30-5:20
   
821 3 Credits
Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global

Sanford
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Sanford
TBA - TBA
822 1.5 Credits
Strategic Communication: Delivering Effective Presentations(see description for section times and dates)
   
Reich
Tentative
823 2 Credits
Energy Law and Policy (Follows Law School Calendar)
   
Faculty
Tentative
824 3 Credits
Environmental Law and Policy

Klee
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Klee
TBA - TBA
828 3 Credits
Risk Assessment & Management: Climate Change

Wargo
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Wargo
Tentative
829 3 Credits
Pathways to a Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions Future (First Class meets August 27)

Esty
Tu - 4:00-6:50

Esty
Tentative
834 3 Credits
Environmental Economics and Policy

Kotchen
M,W - 9:00-10:20

Kotchen
TBA - TBA
835 1.5 Credits
Seminar on Land Use Planning (Fall-1 Aug 28-Oct 11)

Bacher
Th - 1:00-3:50

Bacher
Tentative
835E 1.5 Credits
Seminar on Land Use Planning (Online)

Bacher
Online

Bacher
Tentative
836 3 Credits
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development

Faculty
W - 1:30-3:20

Faculty
Tentative
838 3 Credits
Life Cycle Assessment

Yao
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Yao
TBA - TBA
839 3 Credits
Power in Conservation

Carpenter
M - 2:30-5:20

Carpenter
TBA - TBA
840 3 Credits
Climate Change Policy and Perspectives

Klee
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Klee
TBA - TBA
850 3 Credits
International Organizations and Conferences

Boyd
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Boyd
Tentative
852 2 or 3 Credits
Food Systems & US Environmental Law

Lehner
W - 4:10-6:00
   
853 3 Credits
International Trade Law and Policy
   
Esty
TBA - TBA
855 1 Credit
Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas (Dates TBD)
   
Seto
TBA - TBA
857 3 Credits
Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Developing Countries

Kurukulasuriya
Th - 4:00-6:50

Kurukulasuriya
Tentative
860 3 Credits
Developing Environmental Policies and Winning Campaigns

Alt
M - 2:30-5:20

Faculty
Tentative
878 3 Credits
Climate and Society: Past to Present

Dove
Th - 1:30-3:20

Dove
Tentative
884 3 Credits
Industrial Ecology

Yao
Tu,Th - 10:30-11:50

Yao
TBA - TBA
892 3 Credits
Introduction to Planning

Smotrich
M,W - 10:30-11:50

Faculty
Tentative
893 3 Credits
Principles of Risk Assessment

Faculty
F - 3:00-4:50

Vasiliou
Tentative
894 3 Credits
Green Building: Issues and Perspectives

Kops
Tu - 9:00-11:50

Kops
TBA - TBA
896 3 Credits
Public Health Toxicology

Vasiliou
Th 1:00-2:50, F-1:00-1:50

Vasiliou
Tentative
897 3 Credits
Environmental and Occupational Exposure Science

Deziel
W-3:00-4:50; F 2:00-2:50
   
898 3 Credits
Environment and Human Health

Bell
M - 1:00-3:50
   
900 3 Credits
Doctoral Student Seminar and Responsible Conduct of Research

Raymond
W - 1:00-3:50

Raymond
Tentative
902 1 for PhD students Credits
Environmental Anthropology Colloquy

Dove
F - 1:00-3:50

Dove
F - 1:00-4:00

Dove
TBA - TBA
905 3 Credits
Doctoral Seminar in Environmental and Energy Economics

Gillingham
Tu - 9:00-11:50

Gillingham
Tentative
908 1 for Phd Students Credits
Urban and Environmental Economics

Faculty
M,W - 9:00-10:20
   
910 3 Credits
Survival Skills for Doctoral Students

Lauenroth
TBA - TBA

Lauenroth
Tentative
951 3.0 Credits
Strategic Environmental Communication

Leiserowitz
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Leiserowitz
TBA - TBA
953 3 Credits
Sustainable Business Capstone Consulting

Boyd
Tu,Th - 1:00-2:20

Boyd
TBA - TBA
954 3 Credits
Management Plans for Protected Areas (includes Friday and Saturday Field trips)

Ashton
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Ashton
TBA - TBA
955 1 or 3 Credits
Seminar in Research Analysis, Writing and Communication in Forest Ecology

Ashton
W - 4:00-6:50

Ashton
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Ashton
TBA - TBA

Ashton
TBA - TBA
956 3 Credits
Strategies for Land Conservation

Gentry
Tu - 2:30-5:20

Gentry
Tentative
957 3 Credits
Field Skills in Land Stewardship

Ashton
M,W - 1:00-2:20

Ashton
TBA - TBA
959 3 Credits
Clinic in Climate Justice, and Public Health

Faculty
Th - 1:00-2:50

Faculty
Tentative
960 3 Credits
Urban Climate Solutions Capstone: Freetown, Sierra Leone Clinic

Seto
Tu - 1:00-3:50

Seto
Tentative
961 3 Credits
Environmental Law and Politics: Research and Advanced Topics Seminar
    Tentative (No Semester)
963 3 Credits
Case Studies in Water Management: Conflict and Cooperation
    Tentative (No Semester)
965 3 Credits
Regenerative Agriculture & Just Food Systems Lab

Engel
W - 1:00-3:50
   
966 3 Credits
Sustainability Implementation: Change Management in Institutional Settings

Smiley Smith
Th - 9:00-11:50
Tentative (No Semester)
970 3 Credits
Environmental Protection Clinic Policy and Advocacy (Follows Law School Calendar)

Kysar
Tu - 12:10-2:00

Kysar
Tu - 12:10-2:00

Kysar
Tentative

Kysar
Tentative
971 3 Credits
Land Use Clinic

Bacher
W - 10:30-11:50

Bacher
Tentative
972 1-4 Credits
Advanced Environmental Protection Clinic (Follows Law School Calendar)

Kysar
Tu - 12:10-2:00

Kysar
Tu - 12:10-2:00

Kysar
Tentative

Kysar
Tentative
974 3 Credits
Social Innovation Starter
   
Chahine
Tentative
975 3 Credits
Field Craft: Writing Society, Science, and Nature

Farrell
Th - 4:00-6:50

Farrell
TBA - TBA
979 3 Credits
Climate Solutions Capstone: Sub-National Actors
   
Klee
TBA - TBA
982 3 Credits
Green Engineering and Sustainable Design

Zimmerman
M,W - 1:00-2:15

Zimmerman
Tentative
990 3 Credits
Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law & Policy Lab — Pre-Registration Deadline: TBD
   
Kysar
Tentative

Kysar
Tentative
991 1-4 Credits
Advanced Climate, Animals, Food, and Environment Law and Policy Lab
Tentative (No Semester) Tentative (No Semester)