Environmental Studies Course Lists

Pre-Approved Upper-Division Substitutions for ENVS Single Majors

Course Lists

Anthropology

ANTH110E	Anthropology of Global Environmental Change	5
ANTH110W	Land and Waterscapes Entropology	5
ANTH111	Human Ecology	5
ANTH146	Anthropology and the Environment	5
ANTH161	The Anthropology of Food	5
ANTH173	Origins of Farming	5

Biology (Ecology and Evolutionary)

BIOE107	Ecology	5
BIOE108	Marine Ecology	5
BIOE109	Evolution	5
BIOE112	Ornithology	5
BIOE112L	Ornithology Field Studies	2
BIOE114	Herpetology	5
BIOE114L	Field Methods in Herpetological Research	2
BIOE117	Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants	5
BIOE117L	Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants Laboratory	2
BIOE118	Plants and Society: the Biology of Food, Shelter, and Medicine	5
BIOE120	Marine Botany	5
BIOE120L	Marine Botany Laboratory	2
BIOE122	Invertebrate Zoology	5
BIOE122L	Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory	2
BIOE124	Mammalogy	5
BIOE124L	Mammalogy Laboratory	2
BIOE127	Ichthyology	5
BIOE127L	Ichthyology Laboratory	2
BIOE129	Biology of Marine Mammals	5
BIOE129L	Biology of Marine Mammals Laboratory	2
BIOE140	Behavioral Ecology	5
BIOE145	Plant Ecology	5
BIOE147	Community Ecology	5
BIOE148A	Quantitative Ecology	5
BIOE149	Disease Ecology	5
BIOE150	Ecological Field Methods	5
BIOE155	Freshwater Ecology	5
BIOE161	Kelp Forest Ecology	5
BIOE163	Ecology of Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses	5
BIOE165	Marine Conservation Biology	5

Community Studies

CMMU149	Political Economy of Food and Agriculture	5
CMMU186	Food and Agriculture Social Movements	5

Earth and Planetary Sciences

EART100	Vertebrate Paleontology	5
EART100L	Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory	2
EART102	Marine Geology	5
EART104	Geologic Hazards	5
EART105	Coastal Geology	5
EART107	Remote Sensing of the Environment	5
EART109	Elements of Field Geology	5
EART109L	Field Geology Laboratory	2
EART110A	Evolution of the Earth	5
EART110B	Earth as a Chemical System	5
EART110C	The Dynamic Earth	5
EART116	Hydrology	5
EART121	The Atmosphere	5
EART140	Geomorphology	5
EART142	Engineering Geology for Environmental Scientists	5
EART146	Groundwater	5
EART148	Glaciology	5

Economics

ECON170	Environmental Economics	5
ECON171	Natural Resource Economics	5
ECON175	Energy Economics	5

Education

EDUC185C

Introduction to Teaching Science

Electrical Engineering

ECE180J

Advanced Renewable Energy Sources, Storage, and Smart Grids

History

HIS177

Smoke, Smallpox, and the Sublime: Thinking about the Environment in the 19th Century

Legal Studies

LGST131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

METX101	Sources and Fates of Pollutants	5
METX144	Groundwater Contamination	5
METX151	Scientific Writing and Presentation	5

Ocean Sciences

OCEA101	The Marine Environment	5
OCEA102	Oceans and Climate: Past, Present, and Future	5
OCEA130	Biological Oceanography	5

Politics

POLI114	Thinking Green: Politics, Philosophies, and Practices of Sustainability	5
POLI132	California Water Law and Policy	5
POLI174	Global Political Ecology	5

Sociology

SOCY125	Society and Nature	5
SOCY130	Sociology of Food	5
SOCY173	Water	5
SOCY173X	Water and Sanitation Justice	5
SOCY177E	Eco-Metropolis: Research Seminar in Urban and Environmental Studies	5
SOCY179	Nature, Poverty, and Progress: Dilemmas of Development and Environment	5
SOCY185	Environmental Inequality	5

UCDC

See the Politics Department for more information. Courses need to be approved directly through the Environmental Studies Department following the procedures for non-approved courses.