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.

All courses carry 3 credits unless otherwise specified.

BCT 520: Energy and Buildings

BCT 521: Environmental Control Systems
Credit, 4.

BCT 597D: Sustainable Building and LEED Certification

BCT 597S: Building a Quick, Convincing Business Plan

BCT 597SD: Solar Energy Systems and Building Design

CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology

CE-ENGIN 565: Environmental Institutions and Policies

CE-ENGIN 671: Environmental Biological Processes
Credit, 4.

CE-ENGIN 697CC - 01: Climate Impacts in New England

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

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

ECO 604: Forest Stand Dynamics

ECO 675: Ecological Economics and Sustainability

ECO 690E: Environmental Conflict and Collaborative Policy

ECO 691A: Research in Environmental Conservation
Credit, 1.

ECO 691B: The Future of Land Conservation in MA
Credit, 1.

ECO 691VM: Video/Media for Communicating Science and Conservation
Credit, 2.

ECO 697D: Social Conflict and Natural Resource Policy

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

ECO 697J: Ecology of Diadromous Fishes

ECO 697P: Natural Resources Policy and Administration

ECO 697PS: Perspectives on Sustainability

ECO 697V: Sustainability Science Field Trip

ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum
Credit, 1 to 15.

ECO 797P: Population and Community Ecology

EDUC 706: Workshop in Science Education

EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment

ENVIRDES 553: Resource Policy and Planning

ENVIRSCI 504: Air Pollution and Climate Change Biology

ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry

ENVIRSCI 590A: Environmental Soil Science
Credit, 4.

GEOGRAPH 697G: Geography, Policy, and the Environment

GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry
Credit, 4.

GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes

GEO-SCI 587: Hydrogeology
Credit, 4.

GEO-SCI 666: Water Resource Policy

GEO-SCI 670: Urban Environmental History

GEO-SCI 787: Hydrogeology Seminar
Credit, 1.

HISTORY 595F: Food, Culture, and Policy

HISTORY 691N: Conservation of Nature and Culture
Credit, 4.

HISTORY 797U: Landscape and Memory
Credit, 4.

LANDARCH 547: Landscape Pattern and Process
Credit, 1.

LANDARCH 582: Landscape and Green Urbanism

LANDARCH 658: Planning for Climate Change

LANDARCH 695F: Campus Green Infrastructure

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

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
Credit, 4.

NRC 576: Water Resources Management and Policy

NRC 578: Watershed Science and Management

NRC 585: Introduction to GIS
Credit, 4.

NRC 590IE: Invasive Ecology

NRC 590RE: Restoration Ecology

NRC 590TP: Adapting to Climate Change

NRC 597BG: Special topics – Biomimicry and Green Chemistry for Sustainability

NRC 597ED: Environmental Decision Making and Communication

PUBHLTH 660: Issues in Environmental Health Policy and Law

PUBHLTH 690F: Social Justice

REGIONPL 558: Issues in Environmental Management

REGIONPL 574: City Planning

REGIONPL 575: Environmental Law and Resource Management

REGIONPL 577: Urban Policies

REGIONPL 587: People and the Environment

REGIONPL 591P: Low Carbon Cities

REGIONPL 592D: Intro to Urban Design

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 596: Independent Study – Permaculture Design Certification with Sowing Solutions

STOCKSCH 597A: Phyto/Bioremediation
Credit, 1.

STOCKSCH 597C: Plant Nutrition
Credit, 1.

STOCKSCH 597F: Intermediate Soil Science

STOCKSCH 597SA: Sustainable Aquaculture

STOCKSCH 597W: Artificial Treatment Wetlands

STOCKSCH 691S: Research in Sustainable Soil Management
Credit, 1.