Approved Electives for the Environmental Studies Minor
- Two courses are required from each category (A and B).
- At least one course in Category A should have a lab.
- Only one course in each category may be a “cognate” course. Cognate courses, marked with an asterisk, are valuable for minor but are not as centrally focused on environmental studies methodologies and materials as other courses on the list.
- Pay close attention to “double-counting” rules for your major. You are encouraged to choose electives outside of your major.
- Click here to see courses being offered at Bryn Mawr and Haverford
- Click here to see courses being offered at Swarthmore
Category (A) Environmental Science, Math and Engineering
Category (B) Social Sciences and Humanities
Tri-Co Environmental Studies Elective Courses
Bryn Mawr College Environmental Studies Electives
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Tri-Co Environmental Studies Elective Course |
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Bryn Mawr College Environmental Studies Electives |
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Category A Courses |
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Course # |
Name of Course |
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BIOL 210 |
Biology and Public Policy |
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BIOL 220 (L) |
Ecology |
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BIOL 225 * |
Biology of Plants |
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BIOL 250 * |
Computational Methods |
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BIOL 255 |
Microbiology |
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BIOL 323 |
Coastal and Marine Biology |
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BIOL 332 |
Global Change Biology |
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GEOL 101 (L) |
How the Earth Works |
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GEOL 102 |
Earth: Life of A Planet |
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GEOL 103 (L) |
Earth Systems and the Environment |
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GEOL 203 (L) |
Biosphere Through Time (Paleobiology ) |
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GEOL 206 * |
Energy Resources and Sustainability |
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GEOL 209 |
Natural Hazards & Human Populations |
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GEOL 302 |
Low Temperature Geochemistry |
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GEOL 314 |
Marine Geology |
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MATH 210 * |
Differential Equations w/ Apps (Environmental Problems) |
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Category B Courses |
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ANTH 203 |
Human Ecology |
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ANTH 210 |
Medical Anthropology |
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ANTH 237 |
Environmental Health |
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ANTH 244 |
Global Perspectives on Early Farmers and Social Change |
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ANTH 325 |
Mobility, Movement and Migration |
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ANTH 454 |
Political Economy in Vietnam |
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ARCH 104 |
Agriculture and Urban Revolution |
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ARCH 245 |
The Archaeology of Water |
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CITY 201 |
Introduction to GIS for Social and Environmental Analysis |
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CITY 229 |
Topics in Comparative Urbanism-Global Exurbia |
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CITY 250* |
Growth and Spatial Organization of Cities |
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CITY 278 |
American Environmental History |
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CITY 329 |
Advanced Topics in Urban Environments: Sensing the City |
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CITY 345 |
Advanced Topics in Environment and Society - Environmental Studies |
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EAST 352 |
China’s Environment: History, Policy, and Rights |
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EALCB 355 |
Animals, Vegetables, Minerals |
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EAST 362 |
Environment in Contemporary East Asia |
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ECON 225* |
Economic Development |
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ECON 234 |
Environmental Economics |
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ECON 242 |
Economics of Local Environmental Programs |
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ECON 335 |
East Asian Development |
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EDUC 268 |
Educating for Environmental Literacy |
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EDUC 285 |
Ecologies of Minds and Communities |
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ENGL 204* |
Literatures of American Expansion |
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ENGL 216 |
Re-creating Our World |
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ENGL 218 |
Ecological Imaginings (formerly ENG 313) |
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ENGL 268 |
Native Soil: Indian Land & American Lit 1588-1840 |
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ENGL 251 |
Food For Thought |
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ENGL 275 |
Food Revolutions |
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ENGL 335 |
Beyond the Human |
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ENVS 216 |
The Edible Environment: Theory and Ethics |
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FREN 325 |
The Human and the Environment |
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HART 377 |
Topics in Modern Architecture |
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HIST 212 |
Pirates, Travelers and Natural Historians |
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HIST 237* |
Urbanization in Africa |
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PHIL 238 |
Science, Technology and the Good Life |
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PHIL 240 |
Environmental Ethics |
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POLS 222 |
Introduction to Environmental Issues |
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POLS 256 |
Global Climate Politics |
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POLS 310* |
Comparative Public Policy |
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POLS 321* |
Technology and Politics/Cross-listed with CITY 321 |
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POLS 339* |
Bureaucracy and Democracy in America |
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POLS 354* |
Comparative Social Movements |
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SOCL 165 |
Problems in the Natural and Built Environment |
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SOCL 247 |
Environmental Social Problems |
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SPAN 203 |
La Naturaleza Como Identidad Political |
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Haverford College Environmental Studies Electives |
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Category A Courses |
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Course # |
Name |
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BIOL 118 |
Plants and People |
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BIOL 310 * |
Molecular Microbiology (half-credit) |
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BIOL 314 * |
Photosynthesis (half-credit) |
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BIOL 316 |
Biochemical Adaptations (Cross-listed with ENVS 316) |
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BIOL 356 |
Advanced Topics in Biology of Marine Life |
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CHEM 112 * (L) |
Chemical Dynamics |
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CHEM 150 |
Intro to Oceanography |
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CHEM 358 |
Topics in Environmental Chemistry (half-credit) |
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Category B Courses |
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ANTH 112 |
The Anthropology of Architecture |
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ANTH 203 |
Imagining the Arctic: Reading Contemporary Ethnographies of the North |
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ANTH 217 |
Methods in Design Anthropology |
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ANTH 224 |
Microbes – Animals – Humans: Ethnographic Adventures in Multispecies Worlds |
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ANTH 281 |
Nature/Culture: Introduction to Environmental Anthropology |
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ANTH 302* |
Oil, Culture, Power |
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ANTH 309 |
Anthropology and Urban Ecology |
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EALCH 305 |
Art and the Environment of East Asia (Cross-listed with ENVS 305) |
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ECON 229 |
New Institutional Economics and Natural Resources |
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ECON 234 |
Environmental Economics |
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ECON 334 |
Natural Resource Economics |
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ENGL 257* |
British Topographies |
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ENGL 356 |
Studies in American Environment and Place |
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ENVS 250 |
Geographical Information Systems |
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ENVS 206 |
Introduction to Permaculture (Cross-listed with ICPRH206) |
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ENVS 281 |
Nature/Culture: An Introduction to Environmental Anthropology |
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HIST 119* |
International History of the United States |
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HIST 214 |
Early American Environmental History |
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HIST 237* |
Geographies of the Occult and Witchcraft |
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HIST 348 |
Walter Benjamin on Lancaster Avenue |
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POLS 261* |
Global Civil Society |
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PSYC 304 |
Environmental Psychology and Conservation |
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SPAN 311 |
Green Latin America: Culture and the Environment (Cross-listed with ENVS 311) |
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WRPR 172 |
Ecological Imaginaries: Identity, Violence and the Environment |
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Swarthmore College Environmental Studies Electives |
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Category A Courses |
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Course # |
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BIOL 002 |
Organismal and Population Biology |
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BIOL 009 |
Our Food |
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BIOL 016 * (L) |
Microbiology |
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BIOL 017 * (L) |
Microbial Pathogenesis and Immune Response |
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BIOL 020 * (L) |
Animal Physiology |
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BIOL 025 * (L) |
Plant Biology |
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BIOL 026 * (L) |
Invertebrate Biology |
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BIOL 031 * (L) |
History and Evolution of Human Food |
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BIOL 034 * (L) |
Evolution |
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BIOL 036 (L) |
Ecology |
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BIOL 037 * |
Conservation Genetics |
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BIOL 039 (L) |
Marine Biology |
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BIOL 115E * |
Plant Molecular Genetics - Biotechnology |
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BIOL 116 * |
Microbial Processes and Biotechnology |
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BIOL 135 |
Parasite Ecology and Conservation |
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BIOL 136 |
Molecular Ecology and Evolution |
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BIOL 137 |
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function |
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CHEM 001 (L) |
Chemistry and the Human Environment |
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CHEM 043 * (L) |
Analytical Methods and Instrumentation |
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CHEM 103 |
Topics in Environmental Chemistry |
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ENGR 003 * |
Problems in Technology |
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ENGR 004A |
Environmental Protection |
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ENGR 004B * |
Swarthmore and the Biosphere |
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ENGR 035 * (L) |
Solar Energy Systems |
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ENGR 057 * (L) |
Operations Research (also ECON 032) |
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ENGR 063 (L) |
Water Quality and Pollution Control |
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ENGR 066 (L) |
Environmental Systems |
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MATH 056 * |
Modeling |
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PHYS 002E * |
FYS: Energy |
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PHYS 024 (L) |
The Earth's Climate and Global Warming |
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Category B Courses |
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ANTH 023C |
Anthropological Perspectives on Conservation |
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ANTH 035* |
Pictured Environments: Japanese Landscapes and Cityscapes |
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ANTH 080B |
Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages |
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CHIN 087 |
Water Policies, Water Issues: China/Taiwan and the U.S. |
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Governance and Environmental Issues in China |
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Environmental Economics (Cross-listed with ENVS 020) |
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FYS: Imagining Natural History |
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Writing Nature |
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ENGL 089E |
Ecofeminism (Cross-listed with ENVS 042) |
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ENGL 089B |
Materials that Matter: Environmental Literature in the Anthropocene Cross-listed with ENVS 044) |
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ENGR 003 |
Problems in Technology |
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ENGR 035 |
Solar Energy Systems (Cross-listed with ENVS077) |
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Human Nature, Technology, and the Environment |
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ENVS 003 |
Environmental Policy and Economics |
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ENVS 004 |
Sustainable Community Action |
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ENVS 005 |
Changemakers |
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ENVS 006 |
FYS: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days |
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ENVS 010 |
Earth’s Climate and Global Warming |
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ENVS 043B |
Environmental Justice: Theory and Action |
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ENVS 070 |
Geographic Information Systems |
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ENVS 071 |
Remote Sensing of Environment |
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ENVS 072 |
GIS for Public Health |
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ENVS 085 |
Urban Community Actions |
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ENVS 089 |
Sustainable Research Methods |
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Directed Reading in Environmental Studies (Permission of the instructor required.) |
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Research Project |
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Environmental History of Africa |
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Narratives of Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan |
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Anthropological Linguistics: Endangered Languages |
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Food Revolutions: History, Politics, Culture |
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LITR 086R |
Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture |
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MATH 056 |
Modeling (Cross-listed with ENVS 079) |
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POLS 010F |
First-Year Seminar: When Disaster Strikes |
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Environmental Ethics |
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Introduction to GIS for Social Environmental Analysis |
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Environmental Policy and Politics (Cross-listed with ENVS022) |
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POLS 043B |
Environmental Justice: Theory and Action |
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The Politics of Population (Cross-listed with ENVS 023) |
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Applied Spatial Analysis with GIS: Special Topics |
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POLS 087 |
Water Policies, Water Issues: China/Taiwan and the U.S. |
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POLS 088 |
Governance and Environmental Issues in China |
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RELG 006C |
FYS: Visions of the End: Hope and Despair in the Last Days |
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Religion and Ecology (Cross-listed with ENVS 040) |
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RUSS 086 |
Nature and Industry in Russian Literature and Culture |
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Race, Gender, Class and Environment |
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SOAN 060 |
China, Brazil and the Global Food Environment (Cross-listed with ENVS 032) |
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SOAN 055 |
Climate Disruption, Conflict and Peacemaking (Cross-listed with ENVS 031) |
Contact Us
Bi-Co Environmental Studies
Bryn Mawr Point of Contact, Bi-Co Environmental Studies
Don Barber, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Geology, on the Harold Alderfer Chair in Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr College
dbarber@brynmawr.edu | 610-526-5110
Haverford Point of Contact, Bi-Co Environmental Studies
Joshua Moses, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Haverford College
610-896-1487
jmoses@haverford.edu