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.
ARCH 597SB: ST-Sustainable Building ARCH 597SD: ST-Sustainable Design ARCH 697K: ST-Green Building & Historical Preservation ARTS-EXT 509: Greening Your Nonprofit Arts Organization BCT 520: Energy and Buildings BCT 521: Environmental Control Systems BCT 597D: Sustainable Building and LEED Certification BCT 597S: Building a Quick, Convincing Business Plan CE-ENGIN 560: Hydrology CE-ENGIN 565: Environmental Institutions and Policies CE-ENGIN 597B: Potable Water for Small and Disadvantaged Communities 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 693E: Environmental Careers Seminar ECO 697D: Social Conflict and Natural Resource Policy ECO 697EC: Readings in Environmental Social Science ECO 697FG: Biomass or Fracked Gas? ECO 697I: Information Technology for the Public and Nonprofit Sectors ECO 697J: Ecology of Diadromous Fishes ECO 697MP: Coastal Marine Spatial Planning ECO 697P: Natural Resources Policy and Administration ECO 697PS: Perspectives on Sustainability ECO 697SB: Studies in Building Modeling Information ECO 697SU: Applied Sustainability ECO 697SV: Design/Implementation/Analysis: Surveys ECO 697UF: Urban Forestry ECO 697UW: Urban Wildlife Ecology Management ECO 697V: Sustainability Science Field Trip ECO 698S: Sustainability Science Practicum ECO 768: Wetlands Ecology and Conservation ECO 777: Advanced Systems Ecology ECON 797T: Political Economy of Agrarian Reform EDUC 619: Qualitative Research Methods in Education EDUC 706: Workshop in Science Education EHS 562: Air Quality and Assessment EHS 567: Environmental Compliance & Regulations ENVIRDES 553: Resource Policy and Planning ENVIRSCI 504: Air Pollution and Climate Change Biology ENVIRSCI 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry ENVIRSCI 590A: Environmental Soil Science FOOD-SCI 542: Food Chemistry GEOGRAPH 592M: Computer Mapping GEOGRAPH 593WG: Water Geographies GEOGRAPH 697G: Geography, Policy, and the Environment GEO-SCI 519: Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry GEO-SCI 557: Coastal Processes GEO-SCI 587: Hydrogeology GEO-SCI 666: Water Resource Policy GEO-SCI 670: Urban Environmental History GEO-SCI 787: Hydrogeology Seminar HISTORY 595F: Food, Culture, and Policy HISTORY 691N: Conservation of Nature and Culture HISTORY 797U: Landscape and Memory 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 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 MARKETNG 591C: Marketing for a Sustainable Business NRC 528: Forest and Wetland Hydrology NRC 540: Forest Resource Management NRC 541: Urban Forest Management NRC 563: Wetlands, Wildlife, Ecology, and Management NRC 564: Wildlife Habitat Management NRC 576: Water Resources Management and Policy NRC 578: Watershed Science and Management NRC 579: Cree Culture, Natural Resources, and Sustainability NRC 585: Introduction to GIS NRC 590C: Clean Energy and Climate Policy in Massachusetts NRC 590IE: Invasive Ecology NRC 590RE: Restoration Ecology NRC 590TP: Adapting to Climate Change NRC 590WS: Wetland Soils 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 597PE: Applied Plant Ecology and Conservation NRC 597SE: Spirituality and Environmental Sustainability NUTRITN 572: Community Nutrition 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 587: People and the Environment REGIONPL 591P: Low Carbon Cities REGIONPL 592D: Intro to Urban Design REGIONPL 620: Quantitative Methods In Planning 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 505: General Plant Pathology STOCKSCH 530: Plant Nutrition STOCKSCH 575: Environmental Soil Chemistry STOCKSCH 596: Independent Study – Permaculture Design Certification with Sowing Solutions STOCKSCH 597C: Plant Nutrition STOCKSCH 597F: Intermediate Soil Science STOCKSCH 597SA: Sustainable Aquaculture STOCKSCH 597W: Artificial Treatment Wetlands STOCKSCH 687: Phyto/Bioremediation STOCKSCH 691S: Research in Sustainable Soil Management SUSTCOMM 591B: Sustainable Communities WGSS 692J: Feminism and Environmental Justice |