Courses
Cornell Offers a Climate Change Minor
Many courses across Cornell deal with the multi-facets of climate change. This minor is structured such that it can be obtained without prerequisites, thus enabling students from most any degree at Cornell to obtain the minor.
It requires 6 courses (18 credits) with three required courses:
EAS 2680 – Climate and Global Warming
NTRES 3220 – Global Ecology and Management
EAS 2021 – Humans and Climate
Cornell Courses with a Climate Change Component:
The courses below address climate change issues and/or solutions in some way, shape or form. Note that not all are offered every year. To add courses, email cdc25@cornell.edu
AEM 2500 – Environmental and Resource Economics
BEE 2510 – Engineering for a Sustainable Society
BEE 3299 – Sustainable Development
BEE 4750 – Environmental Systems Analysis
BEE 4800 – Our Changing Atmosphere: Global Change and Atmospheric Chemistry (also EAS 4800)
BIOPL 2400 - Green World/Blue Planet
SEA 3780 – Oceans and Climate: Oceans in the Global Carbon Cycle
SEA 3790 – SEA Ocean Science and Public Policy (HA)
BSOC/STS 2061 – Ethics and the Environment
BSOC 3311 – Environmental Governance
BSOC/STS 4131 – Comparative Environmental History
CEE 6650 – Tranportation, Energy, and Environment Systems for Sustainable Development
COMM 4210 – Communication and the Environment
CRP 3506/6506 – Environmental Planning Seminar: Wilderness and Wildlands – Sustaining the Built Environment
CSS 3210 – Soil Management for Sustainability
CSS 4100 – The GMO Debate: Science and Society
EAS 1108 – Earth in the News
EAS 1540 – Introductory Oceanography (also BIOEE 1540)
EAS 2680 – Climate and Global Warming
EAS 3030 – Introduction to Biogeochemistry (also NTRES 3030)
EAS 3050 – Climate Dynamics
EAS 3220 – Biogeochemistry of the Hawaiian Islands
EAS 3340 – Microclimatology
EAS 3510 – Conservation Oceanography
EAS 4400 – Seminar on Climate Change Science, Impacts, and Mitigation
EAS 6480 – Air Quality and Atmospheric Chemistry (also MAE 6480)
HIST 3150 – Environmental History: The United States and Beyond
HORT 3600- Climate Change and the Future of Food
MAE 5010 – Future Energy Systems
NTRES 2010 – Environmental Conservation
NTRES 2201 – Society and Natural Resources
NTRES 2320 – Nature and Culture
NTRES 3140 – Conservation of Birds
NTRES 3220 – Global Ecology and Management
NTRES 3320 – Introduction to Ethics and Environment
NTRES 4300 – Environment and Natural Resources Policy Processes
NTRES 4330 – Applied Environmental Philosophy
PHIL 1940 – Global Thinking (also GOVT 2947)
SNES 2000 – Environmental Sciences Colloquium
SNES 1010 – Intro to the Science and Management of Environmental and Natural Resources (also NTRES 1010)
STS 3241 – Environment and Society
STS 4291 – Politics of Science
* Indicates the course is required under the Climate Change Minor.
For more information on courses with a climate change component, see the Cornell Sustainability Curricula – there are more than 200 courses relating to energy, environment, and economic development identified as specifically and substantially addressing sustainability compiled by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future.