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The department offers a variety of courses each year whose titles and descriptions can be found in the college catalog<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition faculty develop courses with thematic topics that focus on different areas of emphasis and others that integrate across the areas of emphasis.\u00a0 The following course list reflects topics offerings in the current academic year and those offered in prior years.\u00a0 Courses counting for specific areas of emphasis or other requirements in the major and concentration are listed in parenthesis ( ).<\/p>\n

2026 – 2027<\/h2>\n

Fall 2026<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281 A: Top: Environmental Connections: Systems<\/strong>– Elizabeth Abraham & Anne Gothmann (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 281 B: Top: Environmental History<\/strong>– Emma Gilheany (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 281 C&D: Top: The Indigenous Arctic<\/strong> – Emma Gilheany (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 381: Top: Environmental Storytelling<\/strong> – Juliet Patterson (Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

Spring 2027<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281 A&D: Top: Mixed Methods Enviro Analysis<\/strong> – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences \/ Social Sciences)
\nENVST 281 B&C: Top: Ecosystem Health<\/strong> – Elizabeth Abraham (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 381A: Top: Global Energy Humanities<\/strong> – Jenna Coughlin (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 381B: Top: Pyroecology <\/strong>– Martha Zillig (Natural Sciences)<\/p>\n

2025 – 2026<\/h2>\n

Fall 2025<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281 A&B: Top: Environmental History<\/strong> – Nicholas Reich (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 281 C&D: Top: Ecosystem Health<\/strong> – Elizabeth Abraham (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 381A: Top: Environmental Storytelling<\/strong> – Juliet Patterson (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 381B: Top: Oceanography<\/strong> – Anne Gothmann (Natural Sciences)<\/p>\n

Interim 2026<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Mixed Methods of Enviro Analysis<\/strong> – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences \/ Social Sciences)<\/p>\n

Spring 2026<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Mixed Methods Enviro Analysis<\/strong> – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences \/ Social Sciences)
\nENVST 381A: Top: Zoonotic Diseases<\/strong> – Elizabeth Abraham (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 381B: Top: Feminism in the Extraction Zone<\/strong> – Nicholas Reich (Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

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2024 – 2025<\/h2>\n

Fall 2024<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281 A&B: Top: Environmental History<\/strong> – Max Dresow (Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 381: Top: Environmental Storytelling<\/strong> – Juliet Patterson (Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

Interim 2025<\/h3>\n

ENVST 381: Top: Advanced Topics ES<\/strong> – Max Dresow (Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

Spring 2025<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Mixed Methods Enviro Analysis<\/strong> – Xochi Castaneda-Camacho (Natural Sciences \/ Social Sciences)<\/p>\n

2023 – 2024<\/h2>\n

Fall 2023<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281 A&B: Top: Architecture and Ecology<\/strong> – Daniel Handeen (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 381: Top: Environmental Storytelling<\/strong> – Juliet Patterson (Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

Interim 2024<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Life Cycle Thinking<\/strong> – Jason Hill<\/p>\n

Spring 2024<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Food System Sustainability<\/strong> – Jason Hill<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2022 – 2023<\/h2>\n

Spring 2023<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281: Top: Transnational\/Green Bldg<\/strong> – Anthony Lott
\nENVST 281B: Top: Critical Ecological Literacy<\/strong> – Jake Grossman (Natural Sciences)
\nENVST 281C: Top: World Environmental History<\/strong> – Robert Campbell
\nENVST 282: Top: Environment, Film & Media<\/strong> – Andrea Schmidt<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2021 – 2022<\/h2>\n

Spring 2022<\/h3>\n

ENVST 281A: Transnationalism Green Building <\/strong>(Social Science)
\nENVST 281B: Biophilia <\/strong>(Arts & Humanities)
\nENVST 381: Ethics of Climate Change <\/strong>(Arts & Humanities)<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2019 – 2020<\/h2>\n

Spring 2020<\/h3>\n

281 Community Natural Resource Management <\/strong>(Social Sciences) \u2013 Megan Butler
\n381 Theo-Ethics of Climate Change<\/strong>\u00a0(Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Kiara Jorgenson
\n396 DUR Freshwater Responses to Environmental Factors<\/strong>\u00a0(Natural Science) \u2013 Meredith Holgerson<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2018 – 2019<\/h2>\n

Fall 2018<\/h3>\n

PHYS 396B DUR<\/strong>\u00a0Climate Proxies in Coral Skeletons<\/strong> (Natural Science)\u00a0 – Anne Gothmann<\/p>\n

Spring 2019<\/h3>\n

281 Biophilia<\/strong>\u00a0(Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Kiara Jorgenson
\n381B Race, Environment & Art<\/strong>\u00a0(Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Matt Rohn
\n381A Conservation Science & Management<\/strong> (Natural Science) \u2013 Meredith Holgerson
\nPHYS 396B DUR Climate and the Albedo of Ice and Snow\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0(Natural Science)\u00a0 – Alden Adolph<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2017 – 2018<\/h2>\n

Fall 2017<\/h3>\n

281 Integration and Applications in Environmental Studies<\/strong> (Experiential Component) \u2013 Paul Jackson
\n381\u00a0The Nature of Art<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Matt Rohn<\/p>\n

January 2018<\/h3>\n

281 Nature, Culture, and Nation: Environmental Film and Literature in the United States and Germany<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Seth Peabody
\nArt 261\u00a0O’Keeffe’s Art and New Mexico<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Matt Rohn<\/p>\n

Spring 2018<\/h3>\n

281A Environmental Impact of Fences<\/strong> (Natural Science) \u2013 Charles Umbanhowar
\n281B Integration & Application in EnvSt<\/strong> (Experiential Component) \u2013 Ben Kopec
\n381 Oceanography<\/strong> (Natural Science) \u2013 Anne Gothmann
\nArt 396\u00a0DUR Creating an Ecocritical Exhibit<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) \u2013 Matt Rohn<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

2016 – 2017<\/h2>\n

Fall 2016<\/h3>\n

381 Paleoecology and Ecosystem Change<\/strong> (Natural Science) – Charles Umbanhowar<\/p>\n

January 2017<\/h3>\n

381 Wendell Berry: Literature as Environmental Rhetoric<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) – Mark Allister<\/p>\n

Spring 2017<\/h3>\n

281A Biophilia<\/strong> (Arts and Humanities) –\u00a0Kiara Jorgenson
\n281B Integration and Applications in Environmental Studies<\/strong> (Experiential Component) – Paul Jackson<\/p>\n

Summer 2017<\/h3>\n

Film 230 Media and the Environment – Iceland<\/strong>\u00a0(Arts and Humanities) – Linda Mokdad<\/p>\n

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