School of Arts and Sciences
Environmental Studies Program

Track II: Sustainability, Policy, and Equity

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.

Students can pursue a combined bachelor's and master's degree in Urban and Environmental Policy. Students seeking admission to the combined program should consult their undergraduate major advisors and the combined program advisor. 

View sample paths for Track II: Sustainability, Policy, and Equity

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 (*)

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.

Introductory (only for Co-majors)

  • ANTH 024 Introduction to Environmental Anthropology (Fall)
  • CEE 052/ENV 027 Public Health Engineering (Spring)
  • EC 030 Environmental Economics - unless completed as part of the core (Fall, Spring)
  • ENV 012 Climate Action
  • ENV 100 Sustainability in Action (Spring)
  • SOC 114 Environmental Sociology (Spring)
  • UEP 011/ENV 011 Intro to Urban Studies (Fall)

Methods/Research (only for Co-majors)

  • ANTH 161 Fieldwork Lab (Fall)
  • BIO 132 Biostatistics (Fall)
  • BIO 133 Ecological Models and Data (Spring)
  • CEE 006 Principles of Biostatistics (Spring)
  • CEE 154 Principles of Epidemiology (Fall, Spring)
  • CEE 189 Introduction to Remote Sensing (Spring)
  • CEE 267/UEP 267 Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment (Variable)
  • CH 030 Community Health Methods (Spring)
  • 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 (Fall)
  • ECS 104 Geological Applications of Geographic Information Systems (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 121 Drones for Data Collection, Mapping & Analysis (Fall)
  • ENV 170 Environmental Data Visualization (Fall)
  • ENV 197/GIS 102 Advanced GIS (Spring)
  • ES 056 Probability and Statistics (Fall, Spring)
  • INTR 092 Quantitative Methods in International Relations (Spring)
  • MATH 021 Introductory Statistics  (AP credit only accepted for Class of 2028 and before) (Fall, Spring)
  • PS 103 Political Science Research Methods (Spring)
  • PS 115 Public Opinion and Survey Research (Variable)
  • PSY 031 Statistics for Behavioral Science (Fall, Spring)
  • SOC 100 Research Design and Interpretation (Fall)
  • SOC 101 Quantitative Research Methods in Sociology (Fall, Spring)
  • SOC 102 Qualitative Research Methods (Fall)
  • UEP 204 Revisioning Cities: Ethnography for Policy & Planning
  • UEP 232/ENV 193 Intro to GIS (Fall, Spring)

Electives

  • ANTH 015/ENV 015 Native Peoples and Indigenous Rights in South America (Variable)
  • ANTH 020 Global Cities (Spring)
  • ANTH 028 Anthropology of Capitalism (Variable)
  • ANTH 142 American Meat (Variable)
  • ANTH 178 Animals and Posthuman Thought (Variable)
  • 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 - odd years)
  • BIO 181/ENV 181 Tropical Ecology and Conservation * (Spring - odd years)
  • BIO 185 Food for All: Ecology, Biotechnology and Sustainability * (Fall, Summer)
  • CEE 101 The Energy Transition (only juniors and seniors) (Fall)
  • CEE 111/ENV 112 Hydrology of the Built Environment (Fall)
  • CEE 136 Air Pollution Control (Fall)
  • CEE 158 Occupational and Environmental Health * (Spring)
  • CH 196 Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Global Health (Fall)
  • CSHD 034 Children, Nature, and the Development of Earth Stewards (Spring) 
  • EC 130 Topics in Environmental Economics * (Fall)
  • EC 132 Economics of Energy Markets * (Spring)
  • EC 191-01 Urbanization in the Developing World (Spring)
  • EC 192 Resource and Environmental Economic Policy * (Fall)
  • ECS 005 Introduction to Oceanography (Fall)
  • ED 014 Food and Schools (Fall)
  • ED 164 Education for Peace and Justice * (Fall)
  • ENG 160 Environmental Justice and World Literature *
  • ENG 176 Earth Matters: American Literature and the Environment * (Fall)
  • ENV 140 Environment, History and Justice (Variable)
  • ENV 152/PS 188-20 Seminar in Environmental Negotiations * (Variable)
  • ENV 153 Deep History of Climate Adaptation * (Spring)
  • ENV 160 Environmental Justice & World Literature* (Spring)
  • ENV 162 Global Water Systems: Science & Policy * (Spring)
  • ENV 184 Environmental Health and Justice * (Fall)
  • GER 182 Imagining the Environment: Cross-cultural Perspectives (in German) (Spring)
  • HIST 173 Indigenous Peoples of North America * (Spring)
  • NUTR 215/UEP 223 Fundamentals of US Agriculture * (Fall)
  • NUTR 221 Global Food Business (Spring)
  • NUTR 229 Humanitarian Action in Complex Emergencies * (Fall)
  • PHIL 028 Climate Change Ethics (Fall)
  • PHIL 124 Bioethics (Spring)
  • PHY 0028 Energy in Science and Society * (Pre-req: PHY 12) (Variable)
  • PS 138-09 Political Economics of Developing Countries (Fall)
  • PS 138-10 Energy and Climate Politics: The Impending Crisis (Fall)
  • RCD 179-3 Beyond the Human: Creative and Critical Ecologies * (Spring)
  • SOC 113 Urban Sociology (Spring)
  • UEP 101 Land Use Planning (Spring)
  • UEP 113 Housing Policy * (Fall)
  • UEP 130/PJS 131 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution * (Fall)
  • UEP 194-01 Urban Design & the Changing Suburbs * (Spring)
  • UEP 194-05 Urban Design and Resilient Cities * (Fall)
  • UEP 202 Planning & Design for Pedestrians & Bicycles * (Fall)
  • UEP 206-01 Planning for Low Impact Development * (Spring)
  • UEP 207/CEE 207 Environmental Law - Juniors and Seniors only * (Spring)
  • UEP 221 Climate Change Policy * (Spring)
  • UEP 224 Public Health & the Built Environment * (Variable)
  • UEP 233 Regional Planning: Tools and Techniques * (Variable)
  • 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 * (Variable)
  • UEP 278 Environmental Justice, Security, and Sustainability * (Variable)
  • UEP 279 Water Resources Policy and Planning and Watershed Management * (Fall)
  • UEP 280 Energy Policy * (Spring)
  • UEP 284 Developing Sustainable Communities * (Variable)
  • UEP 293 Greenhouse Gas Accounting * (Fall)
  • UEP 294-16 Environmental Health for Policy and Planning * (Variable)

Note: NUTR and UEP classes above 200 are graduate-level classes and require permission from the instructor to join. Seats for undergraduates are typically limited and restricted to upperclassmen.