Recommended Advisor Approved Electives and Liberal Studies

The courses below present a non-exhaustive list that can be used as liberal studies or advisor approved electives to complement the engineering curriculum. These courses cover a range of topics, including global climate change science and policy, environmental justice and governance, and sustainability. Be sure to check whether a given course is approved to fulfill a liberal studies requirement (https://apps.engineering.cornell.edu/liberalstudies/).

• AIIS 1110 Indigenous Issues in Global Perspectives (3 cr., Spring)
• ASIAN 2273 Religion and Ecological Sustainability (3 cr., Fall)
• AEM 1500 An Introduction to the Economics of Environmental and Natural Resources (3 cr., Spring)
• AEM 2500 Environmental and Resource Economics (3 cr., Fall)
• AEM 2555 Corporate Sustainability: The Business Challenge (3 cr., Fall)
• AEM 4510/ECON 3865 Environmental Economics (3 cr., Spring)
• AEM 4515 Business and Economics of Energy (3 cr., Fall)
• COML 2036 Literature and the Elements of Nature (4 cr., Spring)
• COML 4902 Environmental Humanities: Theories and Methods (4 cr., Fall)
• CRP 3840 Green Cities (3 cr., Fall)
• CRP 5545 Urban Adaptation to Climate Change (3 cr., Spring)
• DSOC 3150 Climate Change and Global Development: Living in the Anthropocene (3 cr., Fall)
• DSOC 3400 Agriculture, Food, Sustainability and Social Justice (3 cr., Fall)
• EAS 4443 Global Climate Change Science and Policy (4 cr., Fall)
• ECON 3850 Economics and Environmental Policy (3 cr., Fall)
• ENGL 3675 The Environmental Imagination in American Literature (4 cr., Spring)
• ENGL 3795 Communicating Climate Change (4 cr., Fall, Spring)
• ENGRG 3600 Ethical Issues in Engineering Practice (3 cr., Spring)
• HIST 2581 Environmental History (4 cr., Spring)
• HIST 4262 Environmental Justice: Past, Present, and Future (4 cr., Fall)
• NTRES 3320 Introduction to Ethics and the Environment (4 cr., Spring)
• NTRES 3330 Ways of Knowing: Indigenous and Place-Based Ecological Knowledge (4 cr., Fall)
• NTRES 4750 Environmental Justice and Policy (3 cr., Spring)
• NTRES 4600 Planning for Environmental Conservation and Sustainability (3 cr., Fall)
• PLBIO 2400 Green World, Blue Planet (3 cr., Fall)
• STS 2061 Ethics and the Environment (3 cr., Spring)
• STS 2851 Communication, Environment, Science, and Health (3 cr., Spring)
• STS 3241 Environmental Sociology (3 cr., Spring)
• STS 3311 Environmental Governance (3 cr., Fall)
• STS 4280 Health and Environmental Justice (4 cr., Spring)