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