Brown University is proud to support a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum, with over 2,000 courses offered every year from over 40 academic departments. Students at Brown can study environmentally-related material from any vantage point: from the "Renewable Energy Technologies" class in the Engineering department to "Wild Literature in the Urban Landscape" offered by the Center for Environmental Studies.  

Brown also encourages both faculty and students to capitalized on the university’s sustainability efforts and use Campus as a Living Lab for research and learning.  

Here are a few of the primary academic departments that host courses on energy and the environment. 

Biology & Medicine	Environmental Studies
Chemistry	Geology
Engineering	Physics

Or use the Center for Environmental Studies website to browse cource offerings by theme:

Energy, Climate, and Global Change	Marine and Aquatic Environments
Human Health and Environment	Plants, Food, and People
Human Interaction with the Natural World	Sustainable Design