The department offers a variety of courses each year whose titles and descriptions can be found in the college catalog. In addition faculty develop courses with thematic topics that focus on different areas of emphasis and others that integrate across the areas of emphasis. The following course list reflects topics offerings in the current academic year and those offered in prior years. Courses counting for specific areas of emphasis or other requirements in the major and concentration are listed in parenthesis ( ).
2025 – 2026
Fall 2025
ENVST 281 A&B: Top: Environmental History – Nicholas Reich (Arts & Humanities)
ENVST 281 C&D: Top: Ecosystem Health – Elizabeth Abraham (Natural Sciences)
ENVST 381A: Top: Environmental Storytelling – Juliet Patterson (Arts & Humanities)
ENVST 381B: Top: Oceanography – Anne Gothmann (Natural Sciences)
Interim 2026
ENVST 281: Top: Mixed Methods of Enviro Analysis – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences / Social Sciences)
Spring 2026
ENVST 281: Top: Mixed Methods Enviro Analysis – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences / Social Sciences)
ENVST 381A: Top: Advanced Topics ES – Elizabeth Abraham (Natural Sciences)
ENVST 381B: Top: Advanced Topics ES – Nicholas Reich (Arts & Humanities)
2021 – 2022
Spring 2022
ENVST 281A: Transnationalism Green Building (Social Science)
ENVST 281B: Biophilia (Arts & Humanities)
ENVST 381: Ethics of Climate Change (Arts & Humanities)
2019 – 2020
Spring 2020
281 Community Natural Resource Management (Social Sciences) – Megan Butler
381 Theo-Ethics of Climate Change (Arts and Humanities) – Kiara Jorgenson
396 DUR Freshwater Responses to Environmental Factors (Natural Science) – Meredith Holgerson
2018 – 2019
Fall 2018
PHYS 396B DUR Climate Proxies in Coral Skeletons (Natural Science) – Anne Gothmann
Spring 2019
281 Biophilia (Arts and Humanities) – Kiara Jorgenson
381B Race, Environment & Art (Arts and Humanities) – Matt Rohn
381A Conservation Science & Management (Natural Science) – Meredith Holgerson
PHYS 396B DUR Climate and the Albedo of Ice and Snow (Natural Science) – Alden Adolph
2017 – 2018
Fall 2017
281 Integration and Applications in Environmental Studies (Experiential Component) – Paul Jackson
381 The Nature of Art (Arts and Humanities) – Matt Rohn
January 2018
281 Nature, Culture, and Nation: Environmental Film and Literature in the United States and Germany (Arts and Humanities) – Seth Peabody
Art 261 O’Keeffe’s Art and New Mexico (Arts and Humanities) – Matt Rohn
Spring 2018
281A Environmental Impact of Fences (Natural Science) – Charles Umbanhowar
281B Integration & Application in EnvSt (Experiential Component) – Ben Kopec
381 Oceanography (Natural Science) – Anne Gothmann
Art 396 DUR Creating an Ecocritical Exhibit (Arts and Humanities) – Matt Rohn
2016 – 2017
Fall 2016
381 Paleoecology and Ecosystem Change (Natural Science) – Charles Umbanhowar
January 2017
381 Wendell Berry: Literature as Environmental Rhetoric (Arts and Humanities) – Mark Allister
Spring 2017
281A Biophilia (Arts and Humanities) – Kiara Jorgenson
281B Integration and Applications in Environmental Studies (Experiential Component) – Paul Jackson
Summer 2017
Film 230 Media and the Environment – Iceland (Arts and Humanities) – Linda Mokdad