Courses
Each year, over 400 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, Department of Geosciences, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, School of Public Policy, Nutrition, and Resource Economics.
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
ARTS-EXT 509: Greening/Nonprofit Arts Org
BCT 511: Clean Energy Corps
BCT 520: Energy and Buildings
BCT 521: Environmental Control Systems
BCT 525: Solar Energy Systems & Building Design
BCT 590STA: Alternative Material Construction Systems for Sustainability
BCT 597Q: Living Labs: Solving for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainability
BCT 597X: Special Topics- LEED AP Exam Accelerator
CE-ENGIN 509: Transportation System Analysis
CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology
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 597U: ST-Water Planning Under Climate Change
CE-ENGIN 597W: Water Resources Engineering and Sustainability
CE-ENGIN 597WR: ST-Water Resources Engineering
CE-ENGIN 597WS: ST-WaterSupply&WastewatrCollec
CE-ENGIN 671: Environmental Biological Processes
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 605: Urban Forests: Structure, Function, Value
ECO 606: Perspectives on Sustainability - REQUIRED
ECO 610: Offshore Wind Energy: Technology, Resources, Grid Integration, and Trends
ECO 611: Offshore Wind Energy: Environmental Impacts, Siting, Permitting and Stakeholder Engagement
ECO 612: Offshore Wind Energy- Project Economics, Deployment, and Business Logistics
ECO 614: Sustainability and Smart Growth Systems
ECO 620: Studies in Building Information Modeling
ECO 621: Landscape Ecology
ECO 626: Recreational Fisheries Science and Conservation
ECO 631: Public Engagement and Communication
ECO 675: Ecological Economics and Sustainability
ECO 691A: S-Current Research in Environmental Conservation
ECO 691E: S-Ecological Responses to Climate Change
ECO 692C: S-Sustainable Building System Seminar
ECO 692S: Readings/SustainableBldgSyst (Seminar)
ECO 693E: S-Environmental Careers Sem
ECO 697CL: Diversity/Inclusion/Pedagogy
ECO 697CR: The Conservation Canon
ECO 697EC: ST-C Environmental Social Science
ECO 697P: Special Topics- Pathways to Zero: Retrofitting Existing Buildings to Net-Zero Carbon Emissions
ECO 697V: ST-Sustainability Science Perspectives on the Field
ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum - REQUIRED
ECO 768: Wetlands Ecology and Conservation
ECON 697EV: ST-Environmental Policy
EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment
EHS 565: Environmental Health Practices
EHS 567: Environmental Compliance & Regulations
EHS 666: Env. & Occupational Toxicology
EHS 790VS: Graduate Seminars in Environmental Health
ENVIRSCI 515: Microbiology of the Soil
ENVIRSCI 564: Sustainable Food Systems
ENVIRSCI 564H: Environmental Soil Science
ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
ENVIRSCI 587: Phyto/Bioremediation
ENVIRSCI 596W: Independent Study- Wetland Plants
FOOD-SCI 590A: Food Science Policy
GEOGRAPH 593WG: Water Geographies
GEOGRAPH 693W: S-WebGIS
GEOGRAPH 697G: Geography, Policy, and the Environment
GEOGRAPH 697S: ST-Environmental Geography and Sustainability
GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes
GEO-SCI 558: Paleoclimatology
GEO-SCI 587: Hydrogeology
GEO-SCI 591CM: Introduction to Climate and Environmental Modeling
GEO-SCI 591NE: S-Climate Change Impacts
GEO-SCI 595P: S-Diversity/Inclusion/Pedagogy
GEO-SCI 691EC: ST-Ecohydrology
HPP 583: Global Health in Dev World
HPP 632: Social Justice & Public Health
LANDARCH 547: Landscape Pattern and Process
LANDARCH 591I: S-Sustaining Green Infrastructure Planning & Design
LANDARCH 592A: Plants in Landscape
LANDARCH 661: Cultural Landscapes: Documentation, Values, and Policy
M&I-ENG 570: Solar and Direct Energy Conservation
M&I-ENG 573: Engineering Windpower Systems
M&I-ENG 686X: Multi-Criteria Decision Making
M&I-ENG 754: Economic Decision Making
NRC 525: Governing the Commons
NRC 528: Forest and Wetland Hydrology
NRC 540: Forest Resource Management
NRC 541: Urban Forest Management
NRC 547: Global Change Ecology
NRC 554: Sustainable Food Systems
NRC 561: Analytical Methods for Energy and Climate Policy
NRC 562: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts
NRC 563: Wetlands, Wildlife, Ecology, and Management
NRC 564: Wildlife Habitat Management
NRC 566: Restoration Ecology
NRC 574: Land Protection Tools & Techniques
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 582: Landscape Ecology & Conservation: Patterns and Processes in New England
NRC 585: Introduction to GIS
NRC 588: S-WebGIS
NRC 589: Responding to Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
NRC 590AE: Aquatic Ecology
NRC 590C: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts
NRC 590D: Marine Conservation and Policy
NRC 590M: Marine Ecology
NRC 590WS: S-Wetland Soils
NRC 592C: Seminar- Streamflow Ecology
NRC 597EE: Environmental Education
NRC 597EJ: ST-Social Movements & Environmental Justice
NRC 597FS: ST-Sustainable Food Systems
NRC 597Q: ST-Environmental Leadership in Practice
NUTRITN 572: Community Nutrition
NUTRITN 575: Culture, Nutrition & Health
NUTRITN 577: Nutrition Problems in US
REGIONPL 525: Housing Policy and Equity
REGIONPL 574: City Planning
REGIONPL 580: Sustainable Cities
REGIONPL 585: Planning for Climate Change
REGIONPL 587: People and the Environment
REGIONPL 591I: S-Sustaining Green Infrastructure Planning & Design
REGIONPL 597S: ST-Scenario Planning
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
REGIONPL 673: Spatial Analysis & Regional Development
SCH-MGMT 640: Corporate Finance
SCH-MGMT 758: Supply Chain Management
SPP 597GC: Governing the Commons
SPP 601: Politics and Policy Process
SPP 602: Public Management
SPP 604: Program&Policy Eval
SPP 605: Economics & Public Policy
SPP 697EV: ST-Environmental Policy
SPP 697NL: ST-Nonprofit Law and Management
SPP 697SE: ST-Social and Environmental Enterprise
STOCKSCH 505: General Plant Pathology
STOCKSCH 530: Plant Nutrition
STOCKSCH 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
STOCKSCH 587: Phyto/Bioremediation
STOCKSCH 596: Independent Study – Permaculture Design Certification with Sowing Solutions
STOCKSCH 650: Global Challenges in Agriculture and Environment
STOCKSCH 687: Phyto/Bioremediation
STOCKSCH 690S: Soil Ecology
STOCKSCH 692B: S-Soils & Climate Change
SUSTCOMM 533: Urban Greening Theory & Practice
SUSTCOMM 574: City Planning