Pillar elective subjects

Elective subjects in Engineering for Sustainability
1.007 Big Engineering: Small Solutions with a Large Impact 6 Fall
1.011 Project Evaluation and Management 12 Spring
1.016[J] (same subject as 2.00C) Design for Complex Environmental Issues: Building Solutions and Communicating Ideas 9 Spring
2.00A Fundamentals of Engineering Design: Explore Space, Sea and Earth 9 Spring
2.627 Fundamentals of Photovoltaics 12 Fall
3.094 Materials in Human Experience 9 Spring
3.983 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization 9 Spring
4.401 Environmental Technologies in Buildings 12 Fall
4.411[J] D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory 12 Fall
4.42[J] Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings 12 Fall
4.432 Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods 12 Spring
12.000 Solving Complex Problems 9 Fall
12.213 Alternate Energy Sources 6 IAP
22.033 Nuclear Systems Design Project 15 Fall
22.04[J] Social Problems of Nuclear Energy 12 Fall
22.081[J] Introduction to Sustainable Energy 12 Fall
EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development 12 Fall
EC.711[J] D-Lab: Energy 12 Spring
EC.714 D-Lab: Earth 6 Spring
EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Innovations for the Common Good 9 Fall
EC.716 D-Lab: Waste 9 Fall
EC.733[J] D-Lab: Supply Chains 12 Fall
Elective subjects in Environmental Histories and Cultures
1.016[J] (same subject as 2.00C) Design for Complex Environmental Issues: Building Solutions and Communicating Ideas 9 Spring
3.094 Materials in Human Experience 9 Spring
3.982 The Ancient Andean World 9 Fall
3.983 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization 9 Spring
4.622 Islamic Gardens and Geographies 12 Spring
10.04 A Philosophical History of Energy 12 Spring
10.05 Foundational Analyses of Problems in Energy and the Environment 12 Spring
11.016[J] The Once and Future City 12 Spring
17.051 Ethics of Energy Policy 12 Fall
24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food 12 Spring
21A.155 Food, Culture, and Politics 12 Spring
21A.303[J] The Anthropology of Biology 12 Fall
21G.417 Cultural Geographies of Germany: Nature, Culture, and Politics 12 Spring
21H.185[J] Environment and History 12 Fall
21H.380[J] People and Other Animals 12 Fall
21H.383 Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000 12 Spring
21L.449 The Wilds of Literature 12 Spring
21W.012 Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought 12 Fall
21W.036 Science Writing and New Media: Writing and the Environment 12 Fall
21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues 12 Spring
EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development 12 Fall
EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Innovations for the Common Good 9 Fall
SP.360 Terrascope Radio 12 Spring
STS.009 Evolution and Society 12 Fall
STS.032 Energy, Environment, and Society 12 Spring
Elective subjects in Environmental Governance
1.801[J] Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control 12 Fall
1.802[J] Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation, and Biotechnology 12 Spring
11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes 9 Spring
11.142 Geography of the Global Economy 12 Spring
11.148 Environmental Justice: Law and Policy 12 Fall
11.162 Politics of Energy and the Environment 12 Spring
17.181 Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy 12 Fall
17.309[J] Science, Technology, and Public Policy 12 Fall
17.411 Globalization, Migration, and International Relations 12 Spring
21A.410 Environmental Struggles 12 Spring
EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development 12 Fall
EC.711[J] D-Lab: Energy 12 Spring
EC.714 D-Lab: Earth 6 Spring
EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Environmental Innovations for the Common Good 9 Fall
EC.716 D-Lab: Waste 9 Fall
EC.733[J] D-Lab: Supply Chains 12 Fall
IDS.062[J] Global Environmental Negotiations 6 Fall
Elective subjects in Earth Systems and Climate Science
1.018A[J]
 & 1.018B[J] Fundamentals of Ecology I 
and Fundamentals of Ecology II 12 Fall
1.078 Introduction to Soil Science 12 Fall
1.080A
 & 1.080B Environmental Chemistry I
 and Environmental Chemistry II 12 Spring
1.089 or 1.089A Environmental Microbiology or Environmental Microbiology I 6-12 Spring
2.981 New England Coastal Ecology 3 IAP
3.982 The Ancient Andean World 9 Fall
8.21 Physics of Energy 12 Spring
12.000 Solving Complex Problems 9 Fall
12.001 Introduction to Geology 12 Fall
12.002 Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science 12 Spring
12.003 Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics 12 Fall
12.007 Geobiology: History of Life on Earth 12 Spring
12.021 Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment 12 Fall
12.102 Environmental Earth Science 12 Fall
12.104 Geochemistry of the Earth and Planets 12 Fall
12.120 Environmental Earth Science Field Course 6 IAP
12.170 Essentials of Geology 12 Fall
12.174 Biogeochemistry of Natural and Perturbed Systems 12 Spring
12.307 Weather and Climate Laboratory 15 Spring
12.335 Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry 12 Fall
12.349 Mechanisms and Models of the Global Carbon Cycle 12 Spring
12.385 Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy 9 Fall
20.106[J] Systems Microbiology 12 Fall
EC.714 D-Lab: Earth 6 Spring

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