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ENERGY, CLIMATE, AND GLOBAL CHANGE  
Introductory
Natural and Life Science Social Science Humanities

BIOL  0190A Adaptation to the Environment

ANTH 0110 Anthropology and Global Social Problems  
CHEM 0080A Energy ANTH 0310 Human Evolution  
CHEM 0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure ENVS 0110 Humans, Nature, and the Environment  
ENGN 0930A Appropriate Technology    
GEOL 0160C Global Environmental Change    

GEOL 0160D Living within the Landscape

   
GEOL 0220 Physical Processes in Geology    
GEOL 0230 Geochemistry    
GEOL 0240 Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet    
Intermediate
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
BIOL 0390 Vertebrate Evolution and Diversity ENVS 0510 Problems in International Environmental Policy AMCV 1610K British and American Environmental Literature
BIOL 0480 Evolutionary Biology ENVS 0700A New England Environmental History PHIL 0570 Environmental Ethics

BIOL 0800 Physiology

  RISD-ID 2502-01 Product Design "101" (Winter 2008) **
CHEM 1170 Environmental Chemistry    
ENVS 0490 Environmental Science in a Changing World    
GEOL 0310 Fossil Record    
RISD-ARCH 2156 Environmental Design I (Fall) **    
RISD-ID 24ST-10 Pocket Windpower (Fall) **    
RISD-ARCH 2158-01 Environmental Design II (Spring) **    
Upper Level
Natural Science Social Science Humanities

BIOL 1470 Conservation Biology

ENGN 1930M Industrial Design AMCV 1530 Technology and Material Culture: Automobile in American Life
BIOL 1480 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and the Functioning of Ecosystems

ENVS 1350 Environmental Economics and Policy

AMCV 1611U History of American Technology
BIOL 1490 Human Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning ENVS 1400 Sustainable Design in the Built Environment INTL 1800W Population and Environment in China
ENGN 1930U - Renewable Energy Technologies ENVS 1410 Environmental Law and Policy RISD-ARCH 21st-02 Solar Decathalon (winter term)
GEOL 1120 Paleo-ceanography ENVS 1530 From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy RISD-ARCH-2149-01 Hybrid House (Winter 2008) **
GEOL 1130 Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles ENVS 1720 Environmental Justice: The Science and Political Economy of Environmental Health and Social Justice RISD-ID 24ST-07 Vehicles Crossing Borders (Fall) **
GEOL 1240 Stratigraphy and Sedimentation    

GEOL 1350 Weather and Climate

   
GEOL 1960E Late Quaternary Environmental Change    
GEOL 1960F Patterns in Nature, in Society    

PHYS 1530 Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

   
     
Methods Courses
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
APMA 0650 Essential Statistics AMCV 1902S Qualitative Research Methods  
ENVS 2680 Ecosystem Modeling for Non-Programmers ECON 1620 Introduction to Econometrics  

GEOL 1320 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Applications

ECON 1630 Econometrics I  
GEOL 1330 Remote Sensing ECON 1640 Econometrics II  
PHYS1600 Computational Physics POLS 1200 Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation  
Applied or Community-Based Courses
These courses frequently draw on skills and knowledge from natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in developing practical solutions to environmental problems. Therefore, they are not assigned to specific categories.
ENGN 1930T Vehicle Design
ENGN 1930U Renewable Energy Technologies
ENGN 1930V Engineers of the Future: Architects of Dreams
ENVS 1920 Analysis and Resolution of Environmental Problems
Capstone
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
BIOL 1950 & BIOL 1960 Directed Research/ Independent Study ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study *  
ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study * ENVS 1965Environmental Change  
GEOL 1970 Individual Study of Geologic Problems    
ENVS 1965Environmental Change    

* The content of ENVS 1970 and ENVS 1971 may vary from natural to social sciences depending on the student's interests.

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