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 546: Critical Knowledge Practices: Teaching, Research, Movements
ANTHRO 602: Community Based Methods
ARCH 520: Building Physics I
ARCH 621: Environmental Technology
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 560: AltMaterialConstrSyst/Sustain
BCT 597X: Special Topics- LEED AP Exam Accelerator
CE-ENGIN 501: CompMethods/EnvironmentalEngin
CE-ENGIN 509: Transportation System Analysis
CE-ENGIN 513: Pedestrians and Bicyclists
CE-ENGIN 547: Pipes and Pits: Drinking Water
CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology
CE-ENGIN 562: Water Resources Engineering and Sustainability
CE-ENGIN 566: Climate Change for Engineers
CE-ENGIN 569: Water Distribution and Wastewater Collection
CE-ENGIN 575: Advanced Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
CE-ENGIN 577: Surface Water Quality Modeling
CE-ENGIN 580: Drinking Water for All: A Community-Engaged Learning Class
CE-ENGIN 671: Environmental Biological Processes
CE-ENGIN 680: Water Chemistry
CE-ENGIN 681: Advanced Topics in Hydrology & Water ResEng
CHEM-ENG 518: Green Chemical Engineering
ECO 602: Analysis of environmental data
ECO 605: Urban Forests: Structure, Function, Value
ECO 606: Perspectives on Sustainability - REQUIRED
ECO 609: Sustainability Science Perspectives from the Field
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 615: Pathways to Zero
ECO 620: Studies in Building Information Modeling
ECO 621: Landscape Ecology
ECO 622: Conservation Biology
ECO 626: Recreational Fisheries Science and Conservation
ECO 631: Public Engagement and Communication
ECO 668: Design/Implem/Analysis:Surveys
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 697GA: ST- Sustainable Building & LEED Certification
ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum - REQUIRED
ECO 768: Wetlands Ecology and Conservation
EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment
EHS 565: Environmental Health Practices
EHS 567: Environmental Compliance & Regulations
EHS 666: Env. & Occupational Toxicology
ENVIRSCI 515: Microbiology of the Soil
ENVIRSCI 554: Sustainable Food Systems
ENVIRSCI 561: Analytical Methods for Energy and Climate Policy
ENVIRSCI 562: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts
ENVIRSCI 564H: Environmental Soil Science
ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
ENVIRSCI 580: Drinking Water for All: A Community-Engaged Learning Class
ENVIRSCI 585: Inorganic Contaminants in Soil, Water, and Sediment
ENVIRSCI 587: Phyto/Bioremediation
ENVIRSCI 589: Responding to Climate Change
FOOD-SCI 590A: Food Science Policy
GEOGRAPH 642: Environmental Geography and Sustainability
GEOGRAPH 664: Water Sustainability & Action
GEOGRAPH 693W: S-WebGIS
GEOGRAPH 694P: S-Political Geography: Energy Transitions
GEOGRAPH 697G: Rethinking US Environmental Policy
GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
GEO-SCI 552: Climate Change: Impacts and Solutions
GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes
GEO-SCI 558: Paleoclimatology
GEO-SCI 573: Environmental Geophysics
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 587: People and the Environment
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 652: Ocean Renewable Energy
M&I-ENG 686X: Multi-Criteria Decision Making
M&I-ENG 754: Economic Decision Making
NRC 520: Environmental Education
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 560: Aquatic Ecology
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 568: Wetland Soils
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 583: Environmental Leadership in Practice
NRC 585: Introduction to GIS
NRC 588: WebGIS
NRC 589: Responding to Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
NRC 590C: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts
NRC 590D: Marine Conservation and Policy
NRC 590IE: Invasion Ecology
NRC 590M: Marine Ecology
NRC 592C: Seminar- Streamflow Ecology
NUTRITN 572: Community Nutrition
NUTRITN 575: Culture, Nutrition & Health
NUTRITN 577: Nutrition Problems in US
REGIONPL 525: Housing Policy and Equity
REGIONPL 572: Scenario Planning
REGIONPL 574: City Planning
REGIONPL 580: Sustainable Cities
REGIONPL 585: Planning for Climate Change
REGIONPL 587: People and the Environment
REGIONPL 591I: Sustaining Green Infrastructure Planning & Design
REGIONPL 620: Quantitative Methods In Planning
REGIONPL 625: Intro to GIS
REGIONPL 630: Theory & Practice of Public Participation
REGIONPL 635: Research Issues in Land Arch
REGIONPL 651: Planning History & Theory
REGIONPL 652: Tools & Tech in Planning
REGIONPL 673: Spatial Analysis & Regional Development
SCH-MGMT 564: ST-Sustainable Product Innovation
SCH-MGMT 590STA: Sustainable Startups
SCH-MGMT 640: Corporate Finance
SCH-MGMT 758: Supply Chain Management
SPP 601: Politics and Policy Process
SPP 602: Public Management
SPP 604: Program&Policy Eval
SPP 605: Economics & Public Policy
SPP 630: Nonprofit Law and Management
SPP 690STK: Local to Global Sustainability
SPP 697SE: ST-Social and Environmental Enterprise
STOCKSCH 505: General Plant Pathology
STOCKSCH 510: Management and Ecology of Plant Diseases
STOCKSCH 530: Plant Nutrition
STOCKSCH 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry
STOCKSCH 580: Soil Fertility
STOCKSCH 585: Inorganic Contaminants in Soil, Water, and Sediment
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: Soils & Climate Change
SUSTCOMM 533: Urban Greening Theory & Practice
SUSTCOMM 574: City Planning