Electives | Environmental Solutions Initiative

Discovery

1.008	Engineering for a Sustainable World
1.009	Climate Change
1.091	Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork
2.00C/1.016[J]/EC.746[J]	Design for Complex Environmental Issues: Building Solutions and Communicating Ideas 4
2.981	New England Coastal Ecology
3.002	Materials for Energy
12.000	Solving Complex Problems 4
12.12	Nature's Sandbox: The History of Ancient Environments, Climate, and Life
22.011	Nuclear Engineering: Science, Systems and Society
SP.310	Engagement and Discovery Through the Terrascope Field Experience 4
SP.360	Terrascope Radio 4
SP.361	Majors and Careers Through a Terrascope Lens 4

Applied Problem Solving

1.004	Startup Sustainable Tech
1.013	Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design
1.020	Engineering Sustainability: Analysis and Design
1.102	Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design II
1.107	Environmental Chemistry Laboratory
2.00A	Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth
2.651/EC.711[J]	Introduction to Energy in Global Development
4.218	Disaster Resilient Design
4.411/EC.713[J]	D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory
6.C01 & 1.C01	Modeling with Machine Learning: from Algorithms to Applications (6.C01) and Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems (1.C01)
10.496/1.096[J]	Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems
11.007	Urban and Environmental Technology Implementation Lab
11.173/1.103[J]	Infrastructure Design for Climate Change

Economic and Global Systems

14.42	Environmental Policy and Economics
14.43/15.0201[J]	Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
14.44/15.037[J]	Energy Economics and Policy
15.8731	System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Complex Problems
21H.383	Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000
IDS.437/1.813[J]/11.466[J]/15.657[J]	Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development

Energy x Sustainability

3.18	Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy
5.371	Continuous Flow Chemistry: Sustainable Conversion of Reclaimed Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel
8.21	Physics of Energy
10.04	A Philosophical History of Energy
10.05	Foundational Analyses of Problems in Energy and the Environment
10.390/2.60[J]	Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
22.081/2.650[J]/10.291[J]	Introduction to Sustainable Energy
IDS.521	Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation

Ethics and Just Futures

6.9320/1.082/2.900/10.01/16.676/20.005/22.014	Ethics for Engineers
11.148	Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
11.171	Indigenous Environmental Planning
21A.155	Food, Culture, and Politics
22.04/STS.084[J]	Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
24.03	Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food
24.07	The Ethics of Climate Change
24.191	Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life
STS.032	Energy, Environment, and Society
WGS.160/STS.021[J]	Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
WGS.275/21A.407[J]/21G.057[J]/STS.022[J]	Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice

Life and Ecology

1.089	Earth's Microbiomes
7.30/1.018[J]/12.031[J]	Fundamentals of Ecology
12.007	Geobiology: History of Life on Earth
21A.303/STS.060[J]	The Anthropology of Biology

Materials and Material Culture

1.035	Mechanics of Materials
3.081	Industrial Ecology of Materials
3.094	Materials in Human Experience
3.19	Sustainable Chemical Metallurgy
3.982	The Ancient Andean World
3.983	Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization
4.657	Design: The History of Making Things

Media, Communications and Literature

21L.449	The Wilds of Literature
21W.012	Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought
21W.036	Science Writing and New Media: Writing and the Environment
21W.775	Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues
CMS.374[J]	Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice
CMS.375/4.376[J]	Reading Climate Through Media
STS.034	Science Communication: A Practical Guide

Negotiations, Politics and Policy

11.003/17.303[J]	Methods of Policy Analysis
11.011	The Art and Science of Negotiation
12.385	Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy
17.181	Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy
17.30/11.002[J]	Making Public Policy
17.309/IDS.055[J]/STS.082[J]	Science, Technology, and Public Policy
IDS.060/17.393[J]/1.801[J]/11.021[J]	Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control

Planet Earth and Climate Science

1.061	Transport Processes in the Environment
1.061A	Transport Processes in the Environment I
1.071/12.300[J]	Global Change Science
1.080	Environmental Chemistry
1.085/12.336[J]	Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
12.001	Introduction to Geology
12.002	Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science
12.003	Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics
12.021	Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment
12.086	Modeling Environmental Complexity
12.104	Geochemistry of Natural Waters
12.301	Climate Science
12.306	Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry
12.349	Mechanisms and Models of the Global Carbon Cycle
12.372	Elements of Modern Oceanography
12.377	The History of Earth's Climate
12.390	Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
18.352/12.009[J]	Nonlinear Dynamics: The Natural Environment

The Built Environment

4.211/11.016[J]	The Once and Future City
4.401	Environmental Technologies in Buildings
4.432	Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods
11.113	The Economic Approach to Cities and Environmental Sustainability
11.123	Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes
11.149	Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
11.158	Behavioral Science and Urban Mobility
11.165	Urban Energy Systems and Policy

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