Looking for interesting courses to take this Winter quarter? Check out our Environmental Studies Winter course flyers and enroll now, while there’s still space!

Environmental Studies Courses

ENVIR 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies – Great course for exploring environmental majors. Learn about environmental issues in a local and global context.

ENVIR 200: Communication for Environmental Studies – Develop the skills necessary to engage, analyze, write, and speak about complex environmental issues in a variety of disciplinary contexts with particular values and emphases. Course restricted to Environmental Studies majors.

ENVIR 250: Research Methods for Environmental Studies – Get experience with data collection and apply it to an environmental lens.

ENVIR 439 Attaining a Sustainable Society – Explore how food, energy and policy movements are moving our society towards a more sustainable future.

ENVIR 480: Sustainability Studio – Focus on the different aspects of green purchasing at UW and industry-wide.

ENVIR 485: Environmental Planning and Permitting in Practice – Great course for students interested in Environmental Law, Policy & Planning. Open to juniors and seniors.

ENVIR 495B: Farm Lunch Seminar – Deepen your understanding of urban food systems and agriculture. This quarter, focus on carbon and climate as it relates to food.

ENVIR 495D: Environmental Education Field Practicum – Design an environmental studies curriculum and teach it to 8th graders.

ENVIR 495F: Environmental Communication, Messaging & Outreach – Learn how to put communications theory into practice and listen to guest speakers who are communications professionals. Focus on individual networking and marketing, presentation skills, and professional environmental communication for science, policy, advocacy, and business. 

Courses shared with other departments

ENVIR 243/PHIL 243: Environmental Ethics

ENVIR 313/ESS 313: Environmental Earth Sciences

ENVIR 384/POL S 384: Global Environmental Politics

ENVIR 495A/GERMAN 298A: Cultures of Extinction: Contemporary Challenges to Diversity