Environmental Studies Course Lists

Pre-Approved Upper-Division Substitutions for ENVS Single Majors

Course Lists

Anthropology

ANTH 110E	Anthropology of Global Environmental Change	5
ANTH 110W	Land and Waterscapes Entropology	5
ANTH 111	Human Ecology	5
ANTH 146	Anthropology and the Environment	5
ANTH 161	The Anthropology of Food	5
ANTH 173	Origins of Farming	5

Biology (Ecology and Evolutionary)

BIOE 107	Ecology	5
BIOE 108	Marine Ecology	5
BIOE 109	Evolution	5
BIOE 112	Ornithology	5
BIOE 112L	Ornithology Field Studies	2
BIOE 114	Herpetology	5
BIOE 114L	Field Methods in Herpetological Research	2
BIOE 117	Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants	5
BIOE 117L	Systematic Botany of Flowering Plants Laboratory	2
BIOE 118	Plants and Society: the Biology of Food, Shelter, and Medicine	5
BIOE 120	Marine Botany	5
BIOE 120L	Marine Botany Laboratory	2
BIOE 122	Invertebrate Zoology	5
BIOE 122L	Invertebrate Zoology Laboratory	2
BIOE 124	Mammalogy	5
BIOE 124L	Mammalogy Laboratory	2
BIOE 127	Ichthyology	5
BIOE 127L	Ichthyology Laboratory	2
BIOE 129	Biology of Marine Mammals	5
BIOE 129L	Biology of Marine Mammals Laboratory	2
BIOE 139	Mathematical Modeling and Data Science in Ecology and Evolution	5
BIOE 140	Behavioral Ecology	5
BIOE 145	Plant Ecology	5
BIOE 147	Community Ecology	5
BIOE 149	Disease Ecology	5
BIOE 150	Ecological Field Methods	5
BIOE 155	Freshwater Ecology	5
BIOE 161	Kelp Forest Ecology	5
BIOE 163	Ecology of Reefs, Mangroves, and Seagrasses	5
BIOE 165	Marine Conservation Biology	5

Community Studies

CMMU 149	Political Economy of Food and Agriculture	5
CMMU 186	Food and Agriculture Social Movements	5

Earth and Planetary Sciences

EART 100	Vertebrate Paleontology	5
EART 100L	Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory	2
EART 102	Marine Geology	5
EART 104	Geologic Hazards	5
EART 105	Coastal Geology	5
EART 107	Remote Sensing of the Environment	5
EART 109	Elements of Field Geology	5
EART 109L	Field Geology Laboratory	2
EART 110A	Evolution of the Earth	5
EART 110B	Earth as a Chemical System	5
EART 110C	The Dynamic Earth	5
EART 116	Hydrology	5
EART 121	The Atmosphere	5
EART 140	Geomorphology	5
EART 142	Engineering Geology for Environmental Scientists	5
EART 146	Groundwater	5
EART 148	Glaciology	5

Economics

ECON 170	Environmental Economics	5
ECON 171	Natural Resource Economics	5
ECON 175	Energy Economics	5

Education

EDUC 185C

Introduction to Teaching Science

Electrical Engineering

ECE 180J

Advanced Renewable Energy Sources, Storage, and Smart Grids

History

HIS 177

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

Legal Studies

LGST 131	Wildlife, Wilderness, and the Law	5
LGST 137	International Environmental Law and Policy	5

Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology

METX 101	Sources and Fates of Pollutants	5
METX 144	Groundwater Contamination	5
METX 151	Scientific Writing and Presentation	5

Ocean Sciences

OCEA 101	The Marine Environment	5
OCEA 102	Oceans and Climate: Past, Present, and Future	5
OCEA 130	Biological Oceanography	5

Politics

POLI 114	Thinking Green: Politics, Philosophies, and Practices of Sustainability	5
POLI 132	California Water Law and Policy	5
POLI 174	Global Political Ecology	5

Sociology

SOCY 125	Society and Nature	5
SOCY 130	Sociology of Food	5
SOCY 173	Water	5
SOCY 173X	Water and Sanitation Justice	5
SOCY 177E	Eco-Metropolis: Research Seminar in Urban and Environmental Studies	5
SOCY 179	Nature, Poverty, and Progress: Dilemmas of Development and Environment	5
SOCY 185	Environmental Inequality	5

UCDC

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