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.
ANTHRO 597CM: ST- Community Based Methods
ARCH 520: Building Physics I
ARCH 597SB: ST-Sustainable Building Systems
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 525: Solar Energy Systems & Building Design
BCT 590S: Topics in Sustainable Building Systems and Construction Technology
BCT 597D: Sustainable Building and LEED Certification
BCT 597F: Wood Design Studio
CE-ENGIN 509: Transportation System Analysis
CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology
CE-ENGIN 565: Environmental Institutions and Policies
CE-ENGIN 577: Surface Water Quality Modeling
CE-ENGIN 597B: Potable Water for Small and Disadvantaged Communities
CE-ENGIN 597D: ST-Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Global Development
CE-ENGIN 597R: Water Resources Planning
CE-ENGIN 597S: Transportation Sustainability
CE-ENGIN 597W: Water Resources Engineering and Sustainability
CE-ENGIN 670: Transport Processes in Environmental and Water Resources
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 692C: S-Sustainable Building System Seminar
ECO 693E: Environmental Careers Seminar
ECO 697D: Social Conflict and Natural Resource Policy
ECO 697DL: ST-Sustainable Building and LEED Certification
ECO 697EC: Readings in Environmental Social Science
ECO 697PS: Perspectives on Sustainability (required)
ECO 697SB: Studies in Building Modeling Information
ECO 697SF - Special Topics- Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems
ECO 697SU: Applied Sustainability
ECO 697SV: Design/Implementation/Analysis: Surveys
ECO 697UF: Urban Forestry
ECO 697UW: Urban Wildlife Ecology Management
ECO 697V: Sustainability Science Perspectives on the Field
ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum (required)
ECO 768: Wetlands Ecology and Conservation
ECO 777: Advanced Systems Ecology
ECON 697EV: ST-Environmental Policy
ECON 797EV: Political Economy of the Environment
ECON 797T: Political Economy of Agrarian Reform
EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment
EHS 565: Environmental Health Practices
EHS 666: Env. & Occupational Toxicology
EHS 567: Environmental Compliance & Regulations
EHS 790VS: Graduate Seminars in Environmental Health
ENVIRDES 553: Resource Policy and Planning
ENVIRSCI 504: Air Pollution and Climate Change Biology
ENVIRSCI 515: Microbiology of the Soil
ENVIRSCI 564H: Environmental Soil Science
ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
ENVIRSCI 596W: Independent Study- Wetland Plants
FOOD-SCI 590A: Food Science Policy
GEOGRAPH 592B: S-GIS Seminar
GEOGRAPH 593WG: Water Geographies
GEOGRAPH 693W: S-WebGIS
GEOGRAPH 697G: Geography, Policy, and the Environment
GEOGRAPH 697V: ST-Political Geographies & Political Ecologies of COVID 19
GEO-SCI 517: Sedimentary Geochemistry
GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes
GEO-SCI 558: Paleoclimatology
GEO-SCI 587: Hydrogeology
GEO-SCI 666: Water Resource Policy
GEO-SCI 670: Urban Environmental History
GEO-SCI 687: Advanced Hydrogeology
GEO-SCI 691EC: ST-Ecohydrology
HISTORY 595F: Food, Culture, and Policy
HISTORY 691N: Conservation of Nature and Culture
HISTORY 797U: Landscape and Memory
HPP 583: Global Health in Dev World
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 592A: Plants in Landscape
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
M&I-ENG 754: Economic Decision Making
NRC 528: Forest and Wetland Hydrology
NRC 540: Forest Resource Management
NRC 541: Urban Forest Management
NRC 547: Global Change Ecology
NRC 563: Wetlands, Wildlife, Ecology, and Management
NRC 564: Wildlife Habitat Management
NRC 566: Restoration Ecology
NRC 576: Water Resources Management and Policy
NRC 578: Watershed Science and Management
NRC 579: Cree Culture, Natural Resources, and Sustainability
NRC 581: Wetlands Assessment and Field Techniques
NRC 585: Introduction to GIS
NRC 590C: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts
NRC 590EC: Analytical Methods for Energy & Climate Policy
NRC 590M: Marine Ecology
NRC 590RE: Restoration Ecology
NRC 590TP: Adapting to Climate Change
NRC 590WS: Wetland Soils
NRC 597: ST-Applied Plant Ecology and Conservation
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 597LP: Land Protection Tools & Techniques
NRC 597PE: Applied Plant Ecology and Conservation
NRC 597Q - Special Topics- Environmental Leadership in Practice
NRC 597U: Greenhouse Gas Inventory Methods with Application to the University
NUTRITN 572: Community Nutrition
NUTRITN 577: Nutrition Problems in US
NUTRITN 578: Nutrition Problems in the Developing World
POLISCI 797E: ST-Powering Development: Water, Energy and Environment
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 582: Landscape and Green Urbanism
REGIONPL 585: Planning for Climate Change
REGIONPL 587: People and the Environment
REGIONPL 591I: S-Sustaining Green Infrastructure Planning & Design
REGIONPL 591P: Low Carbon Cities
REGIONPL 592D: Intro to Urban Design
REGIONPL 620: Quantitative Methods In Planning
REGIONPL 625: Intro to GIS
REGIONPL 630: Theory & Practice of Public Participation
REGIONPL 651: Planning History & Theory
REGIONPL 652: Tools & Tech in Planning
RES-ECON 720: Environmental and Resource Economics
RES-ECON 731: Agricultural Production Economics
SPP 697EV: ST-Environmental Policy
SPP 697SE: Social and Environmental Enterprise
STOCKSCH 505: General Plant Pathology
STOCKSCH 525: Mycology
STOCKSCH 530: Plant Nutrition
STOCKSCH 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
STOCKSCH 587: Phyto/Bioremediation
STOCKSCH 596: Independent Study – Permaculture Design Certification with Sowing Solutions
STOCKSCH 597C: Plant Nutrition
STOCKSCH 597F: Intermediate Soil Science
STOCKSCH 597S: ST-Advanced Community Food Systems
STOCKSCH 597SA: Sustainable Aquaculture
STOCKSCH 597W: Artificial Treatment Wetlands
STOCKSCH 650: Global Challenges in Agriculture and Environment
STOCKSCH 691S: Research in Sustainable Soil Management
STOCKSCH 692B: S-Soils & Climate Change
SUSTCOMM 591B: Sustainable Communities
WGSS 692J: Feminism and Environmental Justice