| Introductory | ||
| Natural Science | Social Science | Humanities |
| BIOL 0190A Adaptation to the environment | ENVS 0110 Humans, Nature, and the Environment |
RELS 0260 Religion Gone Wild |
| CHEM 0080A Energy | ||
| CHEM 0120 Chemistry of the Environment | ||
| CHEM 0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure | ||
| ENGN 0930A Appropriate Technology | ||
| GEOL 0160C Global Environmental Change | ||
| GEOL 0160D Living within the Landscape | ||
| GEOL 0220 Physical Processes in Geology | ||
| GEOL 0240 Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet | ||
| Intermediate | ||
| Natural Science | Social Science | Humanities |
| BIOL 0390 Vertebrate evolution and diversity |
ENVS 0410 Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Design | PHIL 0570 Environmental Ethics |
| BIOL 0420 Ecology | ENVS 0510 Problems in International Environmental Policy | |
| BIOL 0430 Diversity and Adaptation of Seed Plants | ENVS 0700A New England Environmental History | |
| BIOL 0470 Genetics | SOC 0150 Economic Development and Social Change | |
| BIOL 0480 Evolutionary Biology | ||
| BIOL 0800 Physiology | ||
| ENVS 0490 Environmental Science in a Changing World | ||
| ENVS 0850 Microbes in the Environment | ||
| GEOL 0310 Fossil Record | ||
| GEOL 0580 Foundations of Physical Hydrology | ||
| Upper Level | ||
| Natural Science | Social Science | Humanities |
| BIOL 1470 Conservation Biology |
ECON 1510 Economic Development | ANTH 1260 Indigenous people and Nature: Birds |
| BIOL 1400 Behavioral Ecology | ECON 1530 Health, hunger and the household in developing countries |
AMCV 1902C - The Presence of Thoreau: Environmental Philosophy in Action |
| BIOL 1480 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and the Functioning of Ecosystems | ENVS 1350 Environmental Economics and Policy | AMCV 1902X Emerson and Thoreau |
| BIOL 1490 Human Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning | ENVS 1400 Sustainable Design in the Built Environment | AMCV 1610K Brit and Amer Environmental Literature |
| BIOL 1800 Animal Locomotion | ENVS 1410 Environmental Law and Policy | HIST 1790 North American Environmental History |
| BIOL 1880 Comparative Biology of Vertebrates | ENVS 1455 Marine Conservation Science and Policy | HIST 1970C African Environmental History |
| CHEM 1900 Chemical Ecology: Pheromones, Poisons, and Chemical Messages | ENVS 1530 From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy | HIST 1140 Nature, Knowledge and Power |
| ENVS 1355 Environmental Issues in Development Economics | ENVS 1700A Cultural Competence and Ethics | LITR 1150A Ecopoetics in Practice |
| ENVS 1450 Ecosystem Analysis | ENVS 1720 Environmental Justice: The Science and Political Economy of Environmental Health and Social Justice | PHIL 0060 Modern Science and Human Values |
| ENVS 1460, 1470, 1480, 1490 Semester in Environmental Science (semester in residence at Marine Biological Laboratory) | ENVS 1800 Land-use Change in the Developing World | POLS 1020 Politics of the Illicit Global Economy |
| GEOL 1110 Estuarine oceanography | INTL 1000 Trade, Environment, Politics | RISD-ARCH 21st-06** The Architecture of Trees |
| GEOL 1130 Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles | INTL 1800L International Law of Sustainable Development | |
| GEOL 1150 Limnology | PSYC 0500 Mechanisms of Animal Behavior | |
| GEOL 1370 Environmental Geochemistry | ||
| Methods Courses | ||
| Natural Science | Social Science | Humanities |
| APMA 0650 Essential Statistics | AMCV 1902S Qualitative Research Methods | |
| BIOL 1420 Experimental Design in Ecology | ||
| ENVS 2680 Ecosystem Modeling for Non-Programmers | ||
| GEOL 1320 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Applications | ||
| GEOL 1330 Remote Sensing | ||
| 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. |
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| ENGN 1930Q Social Entrepreneurship | ||
| 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 * | ||
| GEOL 1970 Individual Study of Geologic Problems | ||
* The content of ENVS 1970 and ENVS 1971 may vary from natural to social sciences depending on the student's interests.
** RISD does not maintain direct links to courses. To find course descriptions for RISD classes, choose "prospective student" in web advisor and seach by term and department.