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PLANTS, FOOD, AND PEOPLE
Introductory
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
BIOL 0190E Botanical roots of modern medicine ANTH 0310 Human Evolution ARCH 0770 Food and Drink in Classical Antiquity
BIOL 0190F Darwinian medicine ECON 0510 Development and the International Economy RELS 0260 Religion Gone Wild
BIOL 0190H Plants, Food and People ENVS 0110 Humans, Nature, and the Environment  
CHEM 0330 Equilibrium, Rate, and Structure SOC 0150 Economic Development and Social Change  
GEOL 0160F Patterns in nature and society SOC 0300 Environment and Society  
GEOL 0160C Global Environmental Change    
GEOL 0220 Physical Processes in Geology    
GEOL 0240 Earth Systems History    
Intermediate
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
BIOL 0420 Ecology ANTH 1241 Bioethics and Culture PHIL 0570 Environmental Ethics
BIOL 0430 Diversity and Adaptation of Seed Plants ANTH 1320 Anthropology and International Development  
BIOL 0440 Plant Organism ANTH 1600 Hunter-Gatherer Adaptations  
  ANTH 1550 Ancient Environments  
BIOL 0460 Insect biology ECON 1430 Population Economics  
BIOL 0470 Genetics ECON 1510 Economic development  
BIOL 0480 Evolutionary Biology ECON 1520 The Economic Analysis of Institutions  
CHEM 1900 Chemical Ecology: Pheromones, Poisons, and Chemical Messages ECON 1530 Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries  
CHEM 0120 Chemistry of the Environment ECON 1540 International Trade  
ENVS 0490 Environmental Science in a Changing World ENVS 0510 Problems in International Environmental Policy  
ENVS 0850 Microbes in the Environment ENVS 0700A New England Environmental History  
GEOL 0310 Fossil Record    
GEOL 0580 Foundations of Physical Hydrology    
Upper Level
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
BIOL 1470 Conservation Biology
ECON 1600 Economics of the Middle East AMCV 1610Q H. D. Thoreau and His Heritage
BIOL 1480 Terrestrial Biogeochemistry and the Functioning of Ecosystems ENVS 1350 Environmental Economics and Policy AMCV 1610K British and American Environmental Literature
BIOL 1490 Human Impacts on Ecosystem Functioning ENVS 1410 Environmental Law and Policy AMCV 1900P Four Modern Poets of Nature in Local and International Context: Frost, Hopkins, Bishop, and Ammons
BIOL 1550 Biology of Emerging Microbial Diseases ENVS 1530 From Locke to Deep Ecology: Property Rights and Environmental Policy AMCV 1901B Literary Natural History
ENVS 1450 Ecosystem Analysis ENVS 1710 Environmental Health and Policy AMCV 1902C The Presence of Thoreau: Environmental Philosophy in Action
ENVS 1460, 1470, 1480, 1490 Semester in Environmental Science (semester in residence at Marine Biological Laboratory) INTL1800W Population and Environment HIST 1790 North American Environmental History
     
Methods Courses
Natural Science Social Science Humanities
APMA 0650 Essential Statistics AMCV 1902S Qualitative Research Methods  
BIOL 1420 Experimental Design in Ecology    
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 1930Q Social Entrepreneurship
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.