Curriculum

Track II: Sustainability, Policy, and Equity

Tracks:
Track I: Environmental Science
Track II: Sustainability, Policy, and Equity
Track III: Environmental Communication
Track IV: Food Systems, Nutrition and the Environment
Track V: Environmental Humanities
Track VI: Self-Designed with Advisor

Sustainability, Policy, and Equity focuses on environmental sustainability and environmental justice and requires that students integrate economics, policy, human well being (e.g., anthropology or sociology). Sustainability was developed to describe human practices that actively protect and do not negatively affect the earth natural ecosystem's ability to support healthy biological systems and human well being now and in the future. Human practices have environmental, economic, and social dimensions that need to be considered in the context of sustainability. Clearly, sustainability is truly multi-dimensional and multi-disciplinary. The goal of this curriculum track is to maximize students' exposure to as many of these dimensions as possible.

Example track paths, based on students' interests:

– Sustainable Cities
– Environmental Policy
– Environmental Health Policy & Justice
– Environmental Law, Policy & Justice
– US Environmental Protection Agency
– Air and Water Policy & Equity
– Sustainability & Equity

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Students focusing on the Sustainability, Policy, and Equity Track must take the following track courses in addition to other general requirements:

Applied Environmental Studies Stand-alone Majors:

Four elective courses

Environmental Studies Co-Majors:

Five courses as follows:

One Introductory course
One Methods/Research course
Three elective courses
Note: Courses must come from at least two different departments and include one seminar (*)

INTRODUCTORY:
ANTH 24 Introduction to Environmental Anthropology	Fall
CH 001 Introduction to Community Health	Fall
CHEM 008 Environmental Chemistry (unless completed as part of the core)	Spring (even years)
EC 030 Environmental Economics (unless completed as part of the core)	Fall, Spring
ENV 195-2 Sustainability in Action	Fall
CEE 052/ENV 027 Public Health Engineering	Spring
UEP 093 Intro to Urban Studies	Fall

METHODS/RESEARCH:
ANTH 161 Fieldwork Lab	Fall
BIO 132 Biostatistics	Fall
BIO 133 Ecological Models and Data	Spring
BIO 181/ENV 181Tropical Ecology and Conservation	Fall (odd years)
CEE 154 Principles of Epidemiology	Fall, Spring
CEE 156 Principles of Biostatistics	Spring
CEE 189 Introduction to Remote Sensing	Spring
CEE 267/UEP 267 Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment	Variable
CH 030 Community Health Methods	Variable
CH 031 Introduction to Statistics for Health Applications (only Community Health/ENVS majors allowed)	Fall
CSHD 140 Problems of Research: Statistics	Spring
CSHD 142 Research Methods and Design	Spring
CSHD 144 Qualitative and Ethnographic Methods on Applied Social Science Research	Spring
CSHD 146 Applied Data Analysis	Fall
EC 013 Statistics	Fall, Spring
EC 015 Basic Econometrics	Fall, Spring
EC 107 Econometric Analysis	Fall, Spring
EC 108 Applications of Econometrics	Spring
ENV 107/GIS 101 Intro to Geographic Information Systems	Fall, Spring
ENV 120 Intro to Environmental Fieldwork: From Class to Community	Fall, Spring
ENV 170 Environmental Data Visualization	Fall
ENV 197/GIS 102 Advanced GIS	Spring
ENV 199 Senior Honors Thesis	Fall, Spring
ES 56 Probability and Statistics	Fall, Spring
EOS 104 Geological Applications of Geographic Information Systems	Spring
MATH 21 Introductory Statistics	Fall, Spring
ME 011 Thermodynamics Applied to Sustainable Energy	Fall
PS 103 Political Science Research Methods	Spring
PS 115 Public Opinion and Survey Research	Variable
SOC 100 Research Design and Interpretation	Fall
SOC 101 Quantitative Research Methods in Sociology	Fall, Spring
UEP 232/ENV 193 Intro to GIS	Fall, Spring

ELECTIVES:
ANTH 015/ENV015 Native Peoples and Indigenous Rights in South America	Fall
ANTH 138 The Anthropocene and the End of Nature	Spring (even years)
ANTH 126 Food, Nutrition and Culture	Fall
ANTH 178 Animals and Posthuman Thought	Spring
BIO 142 Population and Community Ecology	Fall
BIO 144 Principles of Conservation Biology	Fall
BIO 164/ENV 164 Marine Biology	Spring
BIO 180 Seminar in Conservation Biology *	Spring (even years)
BIO 181/ENV 181 Tropical Ecology and Conservation *	Fall (odd years)
BIO 185 Food for All: Ecology, Biotechnology and Sustainability *	Spring (odd years), Summer
CEE 039/ENV 070 Hazardous Materials Management	Spring
CEE 057 Public Health	Fall
CEE 111/ENV 112 Hydrology of the Built Environment	Fall
CEE 136 Air Pollution Control	Fall
CEE 138 Hazardous Waste Treatment Technologies	Spring
CEE 158 Occupational and Environmental Health	Spring
CEE 157/ENV 167 Environmental Toxicology	Fall
CEE 173 Health Effects and Risk Assessment	Spring
CEE 241 Biology, Water & Health	Fall
CH 106 Health, Ethics, and Policy	Fall
CH 188-09 Health, Equity & Built Environment *	Fall
EC 030 Environmental Economics (unless completed as part of the core)	Fall, Spring
EC 130 Topics in Environmental Economics *	Spring
EC 132 Economics of Energy Markets *	Spring
EC 191-01 Urbanization in the Developing World	Spring
EC 192 Resource and Environmental Economic Policy *	Fall
ED 164 Education for Peace and Justice	Fall
ENG 176 Earth Matters: American Literature and the Environment *	Fall
ENV 091 Environmental Preservation and Improvement *	Fall
ENV 135/PS 118-1 Environmental Policy	Fall
ENV 140 Environment, History and Justice	(Variable)
ENV 152/PS 188-20 Seminar in Environmental Negotiations *	Fall (odd years)
EOS 005 Introduction to Oceanography	Fall
NUTR 215/UEP 223 Fundamentals of US Agriculture *	Fall
NUTR 221 Global Food Business *	Spring
NUTR 224 Community Food Planning and Programs *	Fall, Spring
NUTR 229 Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies *	Fall
NUTR 233 Agricultural Science and Politics I *	Spring
PHIL 191 Climate Change Ethics	Fall
PS 138-09 Political Economics of Developing Countries	Fall
PS 138-10 Politics of Oil & Energy	Fall
PS 189 The Pursuit of Gender Equality	Spring
PS 195 Politics of Sustainable Communities *	Spring
SOC 94 People, Place and Environment	Fall
SOC 113 Urban Sociology	Spring
SOC 135 Social Movements	Fall
SOC 188-04 Consumers and Consumerism	Fall
UEP 094/ENV094 Environmental policy, planning and politics	Spring
UEP 101 Land Use Planning	Spring
UEP 113 Housing Policy	Fall
UEP 130/PJS 131 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution *	Fall
UEP 178 Urban Planning *	Fall
UEP 194-01 Urban Planning and Design * (0.5 credits course)	Fall
UEP 194-03 Introduction to the Legal Process	Fall
UEP 194-04 Climate Change: The Legal Response	Fall
UEP 200/ENV 200 Land Use Planning *	Fall
UEP 206-01 Planning for Low Impact Development *	Spring
UEP 207/CEE207 Environmental Law (Juniors and Seniors only)*	Spring
UEP 221 Climate Change Policy *	Spring
UEP 233 Regional Planning: Tools and Techniques	Spring
UEP 264-01 Green Urban Design	Fall
UEP 265/CEE 265 Corporate Management of Environmental Issues *	Fall
UEP 271 Community Economic Development *	Fall
UEP 275 Policy Implementation and Innovation *	Fall
UEP 278 Environmental Justice, Security, and Sustainability *	Fall
UEP 279 Water Resources Policy and Planning and Watershed Management *	Fall
UEP 281 Toxic Chemicals & Human Ecology *	Variable
UEP 284 Developing Sustainable Communities *	Spring
UEP 293-03 Retrofitting Suburbs * (0.5 credits course)	Fall
UEP 294-16 Environmental Health for Policy and Planning *	Spring

Unlisted courses that are environmentally-themed might be requested to count toward specific requirements (introductory, research/methods and advanced courses/seminars). Examples might include Experimental College classes or Advanced Independent Research courses offered by different departments. In order to have an unlisted course added to a track, you must complete a Course Petition form and submit it to environmentalstudies(@tufts.edu).

Attention: This list is a general guide. Some courses might not be taught every year. Please double-check the current semester course listing and/or SIS.