The Climate Curriculum Database is designed to allow students, professors, and others in the WashU community to find courses related to climate change in all of its related disciplines, from economics to architecture to engineering. Each course links to the WebStac course listing, where more information about syllabi, course descriptions and enrollment can be found. The course listings can be sorted by school, department, or topic.
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Bio 5925 Matter and Energy Transformations
Sophia Hayes, Victoria May, Charles McWilliams
% related to climate change: <50%
BIOL 3900 Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy
Barbara Schaal
Read a student’s review of the course here.
Chem 182 Current Challenges in Energy and the Environment
Sophia Hayes
% related to climate change: 50–75%.
Econ 4721 Advanced Topics in Modern Economic Growth
Yongseok Shin, Gary Hansen
% related to climate change: <50%
EECE 101 Introduction to Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering
Daniel Giammar, Trent Silbaugh
% related to climate change: <50%
EnSt 101 Earth’s Future: Causes and Consequences of Global Climate Change
Tristam Kidder, Brent Williams
Same as L48 Anthro 100, FYP 101A, E44 EECE 112
EnSt 3068 An Inconvenient Truth: The Human History of Climate Change
Venus Bivar
% related to climate change: 75–100%.
EnSt 452 International Climate Negotiation Seminar
Beth Martin
% related to climate change: 75–100%.
EPSc 141 FYS: Unearthing the Science of Climate Change
Bronwen Konecky
% related to climate change: 75–100%
EPSc 201 Earth and the Environment
Michael Wysession
% related to climate change: <50%
Same as L82 EnSt 201
GS (IAS) 4414 Gender Analysis for International Affairs
Amy Heath-Carpentier
% related to climate change: <50%
Physics 171A Physics and Society
Mark Alford
Same as L82 EnSt171A.
% related to climate change: <50%.
Pol Sci 3211 Public Opinion and American Democracy
Betsy Sinclair
% related to climate change: <50%
Same as AMCS 327
*These topics are derived from the table of contents of the IPCC AR6 report.