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SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Introductory
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
CHEM 0080A Energy ENVS 0110 Humans, Nature, and the Environment ARCH 0400 City and Sanctuary in the Ancient World
CHEM 0120 Chemistry of the Environment   ARCH 1150 Urbanism in the Archaeological Record
ENGN 0930A Intermediate Technology    
GEOL 0160D Living within the Landscape


 
GEOL 0220 Physical Processes in Geology    
GEOL 0240 Earth: Evolution of a Habitable Planet    
Intermediate
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
BIOL 0420 Ecology
ENVS 0700A New England Environmental History AMCV 1611U History of American Technology
BIOL 0430 Diversity and Adaptation of Seed Plants ENVS 0410 Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Design AMCV 1900S Green Cities: Parks and Designed Landscapes in Urban America
ENVS 0490 Environmental Science in a Changing World ENVS 0510 Problems in International Environmental Policy AMCV 1901O Rivers in the Industrial City
RISD-ARCH 2156 Environmental Design I ** SOC 0150 Economic Development and Social Change AMCV 1903E City of the American Century: The Culture and Politics of Urbanism in Postwar New York City
RISD-ARCH 2168 High Performance Structures **   COLT 1810S Literature and the City
RISD-ID 24ST-10 Pocket Windpower **   HIAA 0850 Modern Architecture
RISD-ARCH 2158-01 Environmental Design II (Spring) **   RISD-ID 2502-01 Product Design "101" (Winter 2008) **
Upper Level
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
BIOL 1490 Human Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning ECON 1410 Urban economics
AMCV 1611U History of American Technology
  ECON 2410 Urbanization AMCV 2220B Culture, Politics and the Metropolitan-Built Environment - Zipp
  ECON 2420 The Structure of Cities HIST 1790 North American Environmental History
  ENGN 1930M Industrial Design PHIL 0570 Environmental Ethics
  ENGN 1930S Land Use and Built Environment: An Entrepreneurial View RISD-ARCH 2182 The Presence of Things **
  ENVS 1350 Environmental Economics and Policy RISD-ARCH 21ST-02 Solar Decathalon **
  ENVS 1400 Sustainable Design in the Built Environment RISD-ARCH 21ST-06 The Architecture of Trees **
  ENVS 1410 Environmental Law and Policy RISD-ARCH 21ST-04 Interior for Sustainable Comm **
  ENVS 1530 From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy RISD-ARCH-2149-01 Hybrid House (Winter 2008) **
  ENVS 1800 Land-use Change in the Developing World  
  SOC 1330 Remaking the City  
Methods Courses
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
APMA 0650 Essential Statistics    
ENVS 2680 Ecosystem Modeling for Non-Programmers    
GEOL 1320 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Applications    
GEOL 1330 Remote sensing    

Applied or Community-Based Courses
These courses frequently draw on skills and knowledge from natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities in developing practical solutions to environmental problems. Therefore, they are not assigned to specific categories.

ENGN 1930T Vehicle Design
ENGN 1930V Engineers of the Future: Architects of Dreams
ENGN 1930U Renewable Energy Technologies
ENVS 1920 Analysis and Resolution of Environmental Problems
Capstone
Natural Science
Social Science
Humanities
BIOL 1950 & BIOL 1960 Directed Research/ Independent Study ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study *  
ENVS 1970 & ENVS 1971 Independent Study *    
GEOL 1970 Individual Study of Geologic Problems    

* The content of ENVS 1970 and ENVS 1971 may vary from natural to social sciences depending on the student's interests.
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