Courses

Each year, over 300 sustainability-related courses are available at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. MS3 students enroll in courses from across the campus, including the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Geosciences, the Stockbridge School of Agriculture, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, and beyond.

Please also refer to the Program Overview in the Sustainability Science section of this Bulletin for program requirements. Visit our website to learn more about courses and the program requirements.

ARCH 597SB: ST-Sustainable Building

ARCH 597SD: ST-Sustainable Design

ARCH 697K: ST-Green Building & Historical Preservation

ARTS-EXT 509: Greening Your Nonprofit Arts Organization

BCT 511: Clean Energy Corps

BCT 520: Energy and Buildings

BCT 521: Environmental Control Systems

BCT 597D: Sustainable Building and LEED Certification

CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology

CE-ENGIN 565: Environmental Institutions and Policies

CE-ENGIN 597B: Potable Water for Small and Disadvantaged Communities

CE-ENGIN 671: Environmental Biological Processes

CE-ENGIN 697CC: Climate Impacts in New England

CE-ENGIN 697Z: Organic Compounds in Water and Wastewater

CE-ENGIN 776: Bioremediation of Contaminated Soils and Ground Water

ECO 602: Analysis of environmental data

ECO 604: Forest Stand Dynamics

ECO 605: Urban Forests: Structure, Function, Value

ECO 675: Ecological Economics and Sustainability

ECO 690E: Environmental Conflict and Collaborative Policy

ECO 690P: Public Engagement and Communication

ECO 691A: Research in Environmental Conservation

ECO 691B: The Future of Land Conservation in MA

ECO 691E: Ecological Responses to Climate Change

ECO 691VM: Video/Media for Communicating Science and Conservation

ECO 693E: Environmental Careers Seminar

ECO 697D: Social Conflict and Natural Resource Policy

ECO 697EC: Readings in Environmental Social Science

ECO 697FG: Biomass or Fracked Gas?

ECO 697I: Information Technology for the Public and Nonprofit Sectors

ECO 697J: Ecology of Diadromous Fishes

ECO 697MP: Coastal Marine Spatial Planning

ECO 697P: Natural Resources Policy and Administration

ECO 697PS: Perspectives on Sustainability (required)

ECO 697SB: Studies in Building Modeling Information

ECO 697SU: Applied Sustainability

ECO 697SV: Design/Implementation/Analysis: Surveys

ECO 697UF: Urban Forestry

ECO 697UW: Urban Wildlife Ecology Management

ECO 697V: Sustainability Science Field Trip

ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum

ECO 768: Wetlands Ecology and Conservation

ECO 777: Advanced Systems Ecology

ECON 797T: Political Economy of Agrarian Reform

EDUC 619: Qualitative Research Methods in Education

EDUC 706: Workshop in Science Education

EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment

EHS 567: Environmental Compliance & Regulations

ENVIRDES 553: Resource Policy and Planning

ENVIRSCI 504: Air Pollution and Climate Change Biology

ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry

ENVIRSCI 590A: Environmental Soil Science

FOOD-SCI 542: Food Chemistry

GEOGRAPH 592M: Computer Mapping

GEOGRAPH 593WG: Water Geographies

GEOGRAPH 697G: Geography, Policy, and the Environment

GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry

GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes

GEO-SCI 587: Hydrogeology

GEO-SCI 666: Water Resource Policy

GEO-SCI 670: Urban Environmental History

GEO-SCI 787: Hydrogeology Seminar

HISTORY 595F: Food, Culture, and Policy

HISTORY 691N: Conservation of Nature and Culture

HISTORY 797U: Landscape and Memory

HPP 590F: Food Insecurity, Climate Change, and Women's Resilience in the Developing World

LANDARCH 547: Landscape Pattern and Process

LANDARCH 582: Landscape and Green Urbanism

LANDARCH 587: People and the Environment

LANDARCH 591K: Advanced Topics in Green Infrastructure

LANDARCH 658: Planning for Climate Change

LANDARCH 695F: Campus Green Infrastructure

M&I-ENG 570: Solar and Direct Energy Conservation

M&I-ENG 573: Engineering Windpower Systems

M&I-ENG 597WE: Engineering of Offshore Wind Energy Development for Non-Engineers

MARKETNG 591C: Marketing for a Sustainable Business

NRC 528: Forest and Wetland Hydrology

NRC 540: Forest Resource Management

NRC 541: Urban Forest Management

NRC 563: Wetlands, Wildlife, Ecology, and Management

NRC 564: Wildlife Habitat Management

NRC 576: Water Resources Management and Policy

NRC 578: Watershed Science and Management

NRC 579: Cree Culture, Natural Resources, and Sustainability

NRC 585: Introduction to GIS

NRC 590C: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts

NRC 590IE: Invasive Ecology

NRC 590RE: Restoration Ecology

NRC 590TP: Adapting to Climate Change

NRC 590WS: Wetland Soils

NRC 597BG: Biomimicry and Green Chemistry for Sustainability

NRC 597EC: Analytical Methods for Energy and Climate Policy

NRC 597ED: Environmental Decision Making and Communication

NRC 597PE: Applied Plant Ecology and Conservation

NRC 597SE: Spirituality and Environmental Sustainability

NRC 597U: Greenhouse Gas Inventory Methods with Application to the University

NUTRITN 572: Community Nutrition

PUBHLTH 660: Issues in Environmental Health Policy and Law

PUBHLTH 690F: Social Justice

PUBP&ADM 604: Program & Policy Evaluation

PUBP&ADM 697NL: Nonprofit Law and Management

REGIONPL 558: Issues in Environmental Management

REGIONPL 574: City Planning

REGIONPL 575: Environmental Law and Resource Management

REGIONPL 577: Urban Policies

REGIONPL 580: Sustainable Cities

REGIONPL 587: People and the Environment

REGIONPL 591P: Low Carbon Cities

REGIONPL 592D: Intro to Urban Design

REGIONPL 620: Quantitative Methods In Planning

REGIONPL 625: Intro to GIS

REGIONPL 662: Cultural Heritage Policy and International Sustainability Practice

RES-ECON 696: Cost Benefit Analysis

RES-ECON 720: Environmental and Resource Economics

RES-ECON 731: Agricultural Production Economics

STOCKSCH 505: General Plant Pathology

STOCKSCH 530: Plant Nutrition

STOCKSCH 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry

STOCKSCH 596: Independent Study – Permaculture Design Certification with Sowing Solutions

STOCKSCH 597C: Plant Nutrition

STOCKSCH 597F: Intermediate Soil Science

STOCKSCH 597SA: Sustainable Aquaculture

STOCKSCH 597W: Artificial Treatment Wetlands

STOCKSCH 687: Phyto/Bioremediation

STOCKSCH 691S: Research in Sustainable Soil Management

SUSTCOMM 591B: Sustainable Communities

WGSS 692J: Feminism and Environmental Justice