Concerned about climate change? Looking for ways to make sense of the complicated relationships between modern science and technology and environmental degradation? Want to learn how scientific expertise informs policy-making, innovation, and shapes the world around us? The Energy and Environment concentration gives students a chance to dive deeper into the ways that science and technology both reflect and shape (quite literally) the environment around us. From studying the history of environmental disasters to confronting the climate crisis of today, students in the Energy and Environment concentration are empowered to think critically about the ways science and technology have been used, imagined, and implicated in the creation of the world as we know it.

(Course attribute code: ASTE)

Up to three (3) non-College courses* may be in the submajor.  

Up to two science courses 2000-level and above may count for the submajor where appropriate.

 

Departmental courses:

HSOC 3803: Bodies and Borders: Health, Place and Displacement
STSC 1761: Nature and the City: Place, Memory and Environment
STSC 1880: Environment and Society
STSC 3185: Global Radiation History: Living in the Atomic Age 1945 - Present

Non-departmental courses:

ANTH 2080: Anthropology of Futurity (DSGN 3120)
ANTH 3595: Ecologies of Belonging (URBS 3595)
BEPP 2630: Environment and Energy Economics and Policy (OIDD 2630)*
BIOL 1380: Energy Transformations and Living-Off-the-Grid
BIOL 2610: Ecology: From Individuals to Ecosystem
COMM 3180: Stories from Data*
EAS 3010: Climate Policy and Technology*
EAS 4010: Energy and Its Impacts: Technology, Environment, Economics, Sustainability*
EAS 4020: Renewable Energy and Its Impacts: Technology, Environment, Economics, Sustainability*
EESC 2300: Global Climate Change
ENGL 1595: Ecocritical Lit: Nature, Ecology, and the Literary Imagination
ENGL 3423: Planet on the Brink: Climate and Environment Journalism
ENVS 3100: Environmental Case Studies
ENVS 4600: Environmental Policy
LGST 2150: Environmental Management: Law and Policy*
PHYS 0016: Energy, Oil and Global Warming
STSC 2018: Science in the Public
URBS 1030: Industrial Metropolis
URBS 2900: Metropolitan Nature

Also check this website for courses relevant to this submajor:  https://ppeh.sas.upenn.edu/courses/course-list

 

Updated 06/07/2023