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HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH ECOSYSTEMS
Introductory
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
BIOL 0190A Adaptation to the environment

ENVS 0110 Humans, Nature, and the Environment

RELS 0260 Religion Gone Wild
CHEM 0080A Energy    
CHEM 0120 Chemistry of the Environment    
CHEM 0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure    
ENGN 0930A Intermediate Technology    

GEOL 0160C Global Environmental Change

   
GEOL 0160D Living within the Landscape    
GEOL 0220 Physical Processes in Geology    
GEOL 0240 Intro to Earth Systems History    
Intermediate
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities

BIOL 0390 Vertebrate evolution and diversity

ENVS 0410 Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Design

PHIL 0570 Environmental Ethics
BIOL 0420 Ecology ENVS 0510 Problems in International Environmental Policy  
BIOL 0430 Diversity and Adaptation of Seed Plants ENVS 0700A New England Environmental History  
BIOL 0470 Genetics SOC 0150 Economic Development and Social Change  
BIOL 0480 Evolutionary Biology    
BIOL 0800 Physiology    
ENVS 0490 Environmental Science in a Changing World    
GEOL 0310 Fossil Record    
GEOL 0580 Foundations of Physical Hydrology    
Upper Level
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities

BIOL 1470 Conservation Biology

ECON 1510 Economic Development ANTH 1260 Indigenous people and Nature: Birds
BIOL 1400 Behavioral Ecology

ECON 1530 Health, hunger and the household in developing countries

AMCV 1902C - The Presence of Thoreau: Environmental Philosophy in Action
BIOL 1800 Animal Locomotion ENVS 1350 Environmental Economics and Policy AMCV 1902X Emerson and Thoreau
BIOL 1880 Comparative Biology of Vertebrates ENVS 1400 Sustainable Design in the Built Environment AMCV 1610K Brit and Amer Environmental Literature
CHEM 1900 Chemical Ecology: Pheromones, Poisons, and Chemical Messages ENVS 1410 Environmental Law and Policy HIST 1790 North American Environmental History
ENVS 1450 Ecosystem Analysis ENVS 1455 Marine Conservation Science and Policy HIST 1970C African Environmental History
ENVS 1460, 1470, 1480, 1490 Semester in Environmental Science (semester in residence at Marine Biological Laboratory) ENVS 1530 From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy HIST 1140 Nature, Knowledge and Power
ENVS 1500 Human Impacts on Ecosystem Function ENVS 1720 Environmental Justice: The Science and Political Economy of Environmental Health and Social Justice LITR 1150A Ecopoetics in Practice
GEOL 1110 Estuarine oceanography ENVS 1800 Land-use Change in the Developing World PHIL 0060 Modern Science and Human Values
GEOL 1130 Ocean Biogeochemical Cycles   POLS 1020 Politics of the Illicit Global Economy

GEOL 1150 Limnology

  RISD-ARCH 21st-06 The Architecture of Trees
GEOL 1370 Environmental Geochemistry    
PSYC 0500 Mechanisms of Animal Behavior    
     
Methods Courses
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
APMA 0650 Essential Statistics AMCV 1902S Qualitative Research Methods  
BIOL 1420 Experimental Design in Ecology    
ENVS 2680 Ecosystem Modeling for Non-Programmers    

GEOL 1320 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Applications

   
GEOL 1330 Remote sensing    
Applied or Community-Based Courses
These courses frequently draw on skills and knowledge from natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in developing practical solutions to environmental problems. Therefore, they are not assigned to specific categories.
ENGN 1930Q Social Entrepreneurship

ENVS 1920 Analysis and Resolution of Environmental Problems

Capstone
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
BIOL 1950 & BIOL 1960 Directed Research/ Independent Study ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study *  
ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study *    
GEOL 1970 Individual Study of Geologic Problems    

* The content of ENVS 1970 and ENVS 1971 may vary from natural to social sciences depending on the student's interests.

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