Getting ready to register for Autumn courses? Check out Environmental Studies offerings! Registration begins on May 6.

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.
TTh 9:30a – 11:20a, F 10:30a – 11:20a | Ned Schaumberg | 5 credits

ENVIR 239: Sustainability: Personal Choices, Broad Impacts – Explore how food, energy and policy movements are moving our society towards a more sustainable future. Open to all majors.

ENVIR 250: Research Methods for Environmental Studies – Get experience with data collection and apply it to an environmental lens.
MWF 9:30a – 10:20a | Tim Billo | 5 credits

ENVIR 280: Natural History of the Puget Sound – Explore and understand the landscape of Western Washington and the species that inhabit it. Field trips to the Olympic Peninsula, Whidbey Island and east slopes of the Cascades.

ENVIR 300: Analysis of Environmental Cases – Learn to use data from the social and natural sciences to inform how environmental decisions are made.
TTh 2:30p – 4:20p | Yen-Chu Weng | 5 credits

ENVIR 440: Environmental Pedagogy – Develop the tools for teaching environmental topics while learning the culture of teaching in immersive settings.

ENVIR 460: Power, Privilege and Preservation – Examine the potential for more socially just and ecologically sustainable approaches to protected areas management.

ENVIR 480: Sustainability Studio – Work with UW on socially responsible purchasing and conduct cost-benefit analyses on responsible supply chains.

Courses shared with other departments

ENVIR 221/HSTAA 221: Environmental History of the U.S.

ENVIR 362/ESRM 362: Introduction to Restoration Ecology

ENVIR 379/SOC 379/ESRM 371: Environmental Sociology

ENVIR 384/POL S 384: Global Environmental Politics

ENVIR 416/PHIL 416: Ethics and Climate Change

ENVIR 418/COM 418: Communication and the Environment

ENVIR 476/SMEA 476: Introduction to Environmental Law and Process