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MINOR IN ENVIRONMENT AND

MINOR IN ENVIRONMENT AND or EC.720[J] D-Lab: Design SUSTAINABILITY Electives Select 36 units from the following: 1, 2 36

Open to all MIT undergraduates in any major, the Environment and 1.006 Tools for Sustainability Minor (E&S Minor) oers students the opportunity 1.008 Engineering to Societal to apply their STEM and major-course knowledge to some of the Challenges most critical and challenging problems facing humanity. The minor 1.009 Change equips students with interdisciplinary knowledge and real-world 1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental experience needed to understand, diagnose, and develop solutions Engineering Design to complex problems faced by society as it strives for social and 1.018[J] Fundamentals of environmental sustainability. Students tailor their MIT education 1.020 Engineering Sustainability: Analysis to their professional goals, preparing to apply the principles of and Design sustainability in diverse workplace contexts, including business/ industry, government, civil society, and academia. 1.035 Mechanics of Materials 1.061 Transport Processes in the The E&S Minor combines a wide range of elds of inquiry to Environment directly engage environmental and climate challenges facing 1.071[J] Global Change and around the globe. Fundamentally, these 1.075 Water Resource Systems challenges aect both human systems and the earth systems on which we depend. Planetary challenges include , 1.080 Environmental risks to oceans and forests, degradation to both 1.085[J] Air and Atmospheric and material resources, and fundamental transformations Chemistry of biogeochemical cycles. Challenges facing society include 1.089 Earth's Microbiomes widespread and intransigent environmental injustice, expanding 1.091 Traveling Research Environmental urban and agricultural pollution, technological and economic lock- eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork in of and all manner of production and consumption 1.092 Traveling Research Environmental systems, and a global dependence on carbon intensive . eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork The minor prioritizes integrative, interdisciplinary learning that is Analysis and Communication critical for eectively understanding and addressing the complexities 1.102 Introduction to Civil and of environmental issues today and in the future, and is structured Environmental Engineering Design II on four pillars: Earth Systems and Climate Science, Environmental 1.107 Governance, Environmental Histories and Cultures, and Engineering 2.00A Fundamentals of Engineering Design: for Sustainability. Upon completion of the minor, students will have Explore Space, and Earth achieved learning outcomes in seven categories: Systems Thinking; 2.00C[J] Design for Complex Environmental Sustainable Design; "Manus;" Know Your Planet; Social Context; Issues: Building Solutions and Ethical Decision-making; and Impactful Communication. Communicating Ideas 3 The E&S Minor is comprised of ve to six subjects (a minimum of 2.60[J] Fundamentals of Advanced Energy 57 units). Students take two core required subjects, then select a Conversion minimum of 36 units of elective subjects to cra a program that 2.812 Solving for at MIT reflects their own particular interests. 2.813 Energy, Materials, and Manufacturing 2.981 New England Coastal Ecology Core Curriculum 2.982 Ecology and Sustainability of Coastal 12.387[J] People and the Planet: 9 Ecosystems and Science 3.081 of Materials 11.004[J] People and the Planet: 12 3.094 Materials in Human Experience Environmental Histories and 3.18 and Engineering of Engineering Clean Energy or EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development 3.19 Sustainable Chemical or EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 3.982 The Ancient Andean World or EC.719 D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health 3.983 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization

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4.218 Disaster Resilient Design 12.349 Mechanisms and Models of the 4.401 Environmental Technologies in Global Buildings 12.372 Elements of Modern 4.432 Modeling Urban Energy Flows 12.377 The History of Earth's Climate for Sustainable Cities and 12.385 Science, Politics, and Environmental Neighborhoods Policy 4.657 Design: The History of Making Things 12.390 Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere 8.21 of Energy and Ocean 10.01 Ethics for Engineers 14.42 Environmental Policy and Economics 10.04 A Philosophical 14.44[J] and Policy 10.05 Foundational Analyses of Problems in 15.0201[J] Economics of Energy, , and Energy and the Environment Sustainability 11.002[J] Making Public Policy 15.2191[J] Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and 11.003[J] Methods of Policy Analysis Policy 11.007 Urban and 15.8731 System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Implementation Lab Complex Problems 11.011 The Art and Science of Negotiation 15.913 Strategies for 11.113 The Economic Approach to Cities and 15.915 Laboratory for Sustainable Business Environmental Sustainability 17.181 Sustainability: Political Economy, 11.016[J] The Once and Future City Science, and Policy 11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban 17.309[J] Science, Technology, and Public Landscapes Policy 11.142 Geography of the Global Economy 20.106[J] Applied Microbiology 11.148 Environmental Justice: Law and 21A.155 Food, Culture, and Politics Policy 21A.312 Planetary Change and Human Health 11.158 Behavioral Science and Urban 21A.303[J] The Anthropology of Mobility 21A.407[J] Gender, Race, and Environmental 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy Justice 11.169 Global Climate Policy and 22.033 Nuclear Systems Design Project Sustainability 21A.410 Environmental Struggles 3 12.000 Solving Complex Problems 21G.417 Cultural Geographies of : 12.001 Introduction to Geology , Culture, and Politics 12.002 Introduction to Geophysics and 21H.185[J] Environment and History Planetary Science 21H.380[J] People and Other Animals 12.003 Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, 21H.383 Technology and the Global Economy, and Climate Dynamics 1000-2000 12.007 Geobiology: History of Life on Earth 21L.449 The Wilds of Literature 12.009[J] Nonlinear Dynamics: The Natural 21W.012 Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Environment Thought 12.021 , Energy, and the 21W.036 Science Writing and New Media: Environment Writing and the Environment 12.086 Modeling Environmental Complexity 21W.775 Writing about Nature and 12.104 of Natural Waters Environmental Issues 12.170 Essentials of Geology 22.04[J] Social Problems of Nuclear Energy 12.301 Climate Science 22.081[J] Introduction to 12.306 Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry 24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of 12.307 Weather and Climate Laboratory Food 12.335 Experimental 24.07 The Ethics of Climate Change

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24.132 Workshop in Ethical Engineering a student’s major or other minor degree may also count toward the 24.191 Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): E&S Minor elective requirement. Ethics in Your Life There are no restrictions on the number of subjects that may count CMS.375 Reading Climate Through Media towards a student's HASS Concentration and the E&S Minor. A 4 EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development student may petition to have a subject that is not listed on the EC.711[J] Introduction to Energy in Global electives listing count towards the E&S Minor. Development For more information, contact Sarah Meyers ([email protected]), EC.713[J] D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Education Program Manager at the MIT Environmental Solutions Laboratory Initiative (ESI) or visit the ESI education website (https:// EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/environment-sustainability-minor). 4

EC.719 D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health 4 EC.720[J] D-Lab: Design 4 EC.724 D-Lab: Smallholder 4 EC.733[J] D-Lab: Supply Chains IDS.060[J] , Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control IDS.061[J] Regulation of Chemicals, , and Biotechnology IDS.062[J] Global Environmental Negotiations IDS.521 Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation SP.360 Terrascope Radio 3 STS.009 Evolution and Society STS.032 Energy, Environment, and Society STS.034 Science Communication: A Practical Guide STS.052 Living with Risk: Threats, Accidents, and Disasters in a Technological Age WGS.160[J] Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Total Units 57

1 See the Environment & Sustainability Minor website (https:// environmentalsolutions.mit.edu/environment-sustainability-minor) for potential elective and core subject substitutions or additions. 2 Not all electives in the E&S Minor are oered every academic year, and some electives have prerequisites that are outside of the E&S Minor program. Please visit the MIT Subject Listing (http://student.mit.edu/ catalog) for a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute list of oered classes. 3 Up to two Terrascope (https://terrascope.mit.edu) subjects may count towards the E&S Minor. 4 If EC.701[J], EC.715, EC.719, or EC.720[J] is counted as a core required subject, it cannot also count as an elective.

A minimum of four subjects (or 48 units) taken for the Environment and Sustainability minor cannot also count toward a student's major or other minor. In other words, only one subject that counts toward

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