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ER-7: Sustainability-Related Courses

List of sustainability-related courses offered by Columbia: 88471 Social Epidemiology A&HF 4130 Gender and Violence A4027 Architechure Planning Preservation NY A4042 Workshop in Urban Studies A4124 Structures, Systems, and Materials A4356 CONTEMPORARY CHINESE CITY A4378 Living Architecture I A4379 Living Architecture II A4460x JAPANESE URBANISM A4556x URBANISM & UTOPIA A4753 Life A4780 Architecture and Human Rights A4787 BEYOND THE OUTLET: THE MATERIALITY OF DECENTRALIZED ENERGY SYSTEMS A4816 Climatic Design A6835x ASIAN URBANISM NOW A6849x URBAN DESIGN STUDIO A6850x URBAN DESIGN STUDIO II A6851x URBAN DESIGN STUDIO III AMST W3930 Food and American Life AMST W3930* Equity in American Higher Education ANTH 3005 Africa: Culture and Society ANTH 3090 Native America ANTH 3853 Moving Truths: The Anthropology of Transnational Advocacy Networks ANTH 3880 Listening: Ethnography of Sound ANTH 6057 Governmentality, Citizenship and Indigenous Political Critique ANTH 6078 Strange Resonances, Close Listenings ANTH G4201x Principles and Applications of Social and Cultural Anthropology ANTH G4246y The Politics of Reproduction ANTH G4390x Borders and Boudaries ANTH G6038 Place, Space, Nature ANTH G6045 Foundations in Social Inequality ANTH G6345y Poetics and Politics of Infrastructure ANTH G6621x Rotten Sun ANTH G9101 Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology ANTH S3908* Global Economy In Anthropological Perspective ANTH V1170* Islands ANTH v2010x Major Debates in the Study of Africa ANTH v2016x Gendered Migration in Transnational Asia ANTH V2400y Culture and Finance ANTH V3440 US Cities in Transition ANTH V3840 Urban life and cultural Imagination in South Asia ANTH V3883x Anthropology of Cultural Biology Living Diversity ANTH V3889x The Productivity of Crisis ANTH V3893x The Bomb ANTH V3924 Anthropology and Disaster ANTH V3950 Anthropology of Consumption ANTH V3970 Biological Basis of Human Variation ANTH V3989 Introduction to Urban Anthropology ANTH V3998y Race/Sexuality Science and Social Practice ANTH1002 Interpretation of Culture B6501-001 International Business B8000 Special Studies in Business B8200-001 Strategic Philanthropy B8202-001 Modern Political Economy B8299-006 The Private Sector and International Development B8299-007 Globalization and Markets B8299-011 Business in Society: Doing Well by Doing Good? B8399-004 Emerging Financial Markets B8399-030 Social Impact Real Estate Investing and Development B8499-003 The Nonprofit Sector & the City B8499-005 High Performing Nonprofits B8499-007 Deals: Public-Sector Problem Solving B8499-008 Launching Social Ventures B8499-009 Social Venture Incubator B9301-100 Financing Growth in Emerging Markets B9301-115 Project Finance B9301-119 Private Equity in Emerging Markets B9301-123 Financing Energy Markets B9301-136 Markets for the Poor B9410-001 Business Innovations in International Development B9455-017 Financing Social Ventures: Risk Capital for Expansion B9455-018 Impact Investing Seminar B9777-004 Private Equity & Entrepreneurship in Africa BC2240 Plant Evolution and Diversity BC2272 Ecology BC2841 Lab-Plant Evolution and Diversity CHEE E6252 Advanced surface and colloid chemistry CIEE E3250 Hydrosystems Engineering CIEN 4242 Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering CIEN E4100 Earthquake & Wind Engineering CIEN E4128 Civil engineering management CIEN E4163 Environmental Engineering: Wastewater CIEN E4250 Waste Containment Design and Practice CIEN E4260 Urban ecology studio CIEN E9101 and S9101 Civil engineering research CSER V3440* The Changing American City CSER W1012* History of Racialization in the United States CSER W1040 Critical Approach-Study of Eth & Race CSER W3222 Nature/Power:Environmental History of North America CSER W3928 Colonization/Decolonization CSER W3935* Sex in the Tropics CSER W3962* Who Is Indigenous: A Global Perspective EAEE 3901 Environmental Microbiology EAEE E3221 Environmental Geophysics EAEE E3999 Undergraduate Project II EAEE E4003 Introduction to Aquatic Chemistry EAEE E4006 Field Methods for Environmental Engineering EAEE E4010 Remote Sensing and Environmental Change EAEE E4900 Applied Transport and Chemical Rate Phenomena EAEE E4901 Environmental Microbiology EAEE E6150 Industrial catalysis EAEE E6208 Combustion chemistry and processes EAEE E6240 Physical hydrology EAEE E8273 Mining Engineering Reports EAEE E9302 Mining engineering research ECON G4421 Topics on problems of emerging market economies ECON W2257 Global Economy ECON W4228 Urban Economics ECON W4438 Economics of Race in the U.S. ECON W4500 International Trade EEEB 6200 Professionalism in Science EEEB G4020 Population Genetics EEEB G4134 Behavioral Ecology EEEB G4140 Orinthology EEEB G4165 Pathogen Evolution: Genes, Organiisms, Populations & Ecosystems EEEB G4210 Herpetology EEEB G4789 Biogeography EEEB G4800 Teaching Conservation Biology EEEB G6020 Fundamentals of GIS in Ecology/Conservation EEEB G6110 Evolution EEEB G6300 Research Methods Seminar EEEB G6330 Conservation Psychology EEEB G6400 Amazonia Seminar EEEB G9501, 9502, 9503 Directed Research EEEB G9509 Directed Readings EEEB W 3997 & 8 Independent Study EEEB W3142 Evolutionary Ecology EEEB W3940 Current Controversies in Primate Behavior and Ecology EEEB W4010 Evolutionary Basis of Human Behavior EEEB W4248 Introduction to Population Genetics EEEB W4321 Human Nature: DNA, Race and Identity EEEB W4601 Biological Systematics EEEB W4700 Race: The Tangled Histroy of Biological Concept EESC BC3800x-BC3801y Senior Research Seminar EESC G6001x and y Earth Science Colloquium EESC G6003x and y Masters Research EESC G6810 The Carbon Cycle EESC G6908x Quantitative Methods of Data Analysis EESC G6921 Atmospheric Dynamics EESC G6923 Radiative Processes of Climate EESC G6927 Tropical Oceanography EESC G6928 Tropical Meterorology EESC G6930x Ocean Dynamics EESC G8010y Field Geology EESC G8666 History of Amphibians and Reptiles EESC G8667 History or Mammals EESC G9668x and y Seminar in Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution EESC G9910x and y Seminar in Atmospheric Science EESC G9931x and y Physical Oceanography Seminar EESC V1011 Earth: Origin, Evolution, Processes, and Future EESC V1030 Oceanography EESC V1053 Planet Earth EESC V1411 Earth: Origin, Evolution, Processes, and Future: Lectures EESC V2200 Earth's Environmental Systems: The Solid Earth System EESC V2300 Earth Science: Life EESC W056x Teaching and Learning Concepts in Earth Science EESC W3018 Weapons of Mass Destruction EESC W3101 Geochemistry for a Habitable Planet EESC W4008x Introduction to Atmospheric Science EESC W4050 Global Assessment and Monitoring Using Remote Sensing EESC W4051 Advanced Applications of Remote Sensing and Image Processing EESC W4076y Geologic Mapping EESC W4630 Air-Sea Interaction EESC W4885 Chemistry of Continental Waters EESC W4886 Isotope Hydrology EESC W4923 Biological Oceanography EESC W4924 Introduction to Atmospheric Chemistry EESC W4926 Chemical Oceanography EESC W4926y Principles of Physical Oceanography EESC W4960y Earth's Oceans and Atmosphere EMPA U6036 Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility ENVP U6275 GIS for International Studies ENVP U8201 Colloquium on Financial Management of Government FM K4320 Nonprofit Financial Management FM K4360 Grants FM W4370 Foundations of Fundraising/Dev FM W4380 Annual Campaigns HSPB W3950 Social History of American Public Health INAF U4090 Humanitarian Affairs Practicum INAF U6041 Corporate Social Responsibility: A Human Rights Approach INAF U6041 Corporate Social Responsibility INAF U6043 Integrated Development Practice INAF U6080 Energy Industry in Middle East/Africa INAF U6139 International Organizations INAF U6143 Gender and Human Rights INAF U6145 Journalism, Human Rights and Social Change INAF U6253 Introduction to International Development INAF U6256 Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship for Development INAF U6362 Global Collective Action INAF U6367 Global Slums: A Political Economy INAF U6475 Social Welfare and Development INAF U6480 Poverty and Development in Local Perspective INAF U6490 International Humanitarian Law INAF U6495 Policy and Practice Humanitarian Assistance INAF U6497 Humanitarian Crises in East Congo INAF U6680 US Energy Security: Geopolitics of Oil & Gas INAF U6735 Issues in Rural Development INAF U6751 International Human Rights Law: Politics and Relevance INAF U8172 Theory, History, and Practice of Human Rights INAF U8177 Human Rights in Post-Communist Eurasia INAF U8186 Humanitarian Challenges INAF U8562 Maritime Transportation, Law & Public Policy INAF U8785 Gender, Poliitics, and Development ITSF 4018 Anthropology and Development ITSF 4160 Human Rights Education in Africa: Politics, Policies & Pedagogies ITSF 4199 Educational Planning and Sustainability ITSF 4603 Human and Social Dimensions of Peace ITSF 5015 Political Anthropology L6071-001 Law and Development L6173-001 Critical Legal Thought L6223-001 Comparative Constitutional Law L6243-001 Employment Discrimination Law L6250-001 Immigration Law L6272 Land Use L6363-001 Professional Responsibility Issues in Public Interest Practice L6459-001 The Law of Genocide L6473-001 Labor Law L6506-001 Gender Justice L6601-001 Externship: City and State Policy Advocacy L6601-002 Externship: City and State Policy Advocacy - Fieldwork L6604-001 Externship: Immigration Law L6604-002 Externship: Immigration Law - Fieldwork L6667-001 Frederick Douglass Moot Court L6873-001 Nalsa Moot Court L6905-001 Antidiscrimination Law L8021-001 S. International Law and Its Others: Race, Religion and the Question of Civilization L8044-001 S. Human Rights At Home: Domestic Human Rights Advocacy L8144-001 S. The Legal and Political Economy of Hunger L8194-001 S. Antidiscrimination, Equality and the Law L8271-001 S. Access to Healthcare L8409-001 S. Lawyering for Social and Institutional Change L8482-001 S. Immigration Law: The Removal Practice and Procedure L8814-001 S. Cuba: Law, Policy and Transition L8993-001 S. The Law of Occupation L9060-001 S. Immigration Law and Policy L9131-001 Community Enterprise Clinic L9151-001 S. Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Discrimination, Identity and Power L9164-001 S. Labor Rights in a Global Economy L9165-001 S. Transitional Justice L9183-001 S. Nuremberg Trials and War Crimes Law L9192-001 S. Welfare Law: Legal Issues and Policy Choices L9213-001 S. Race and Gender-Conscious Remedies L9220-001 S. Race and Poverty Law L9232-001 Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic L9232-002 Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic L9239-001 Mediation Clinic L9239-002 Mediation Clinic L9252-001 S. Human Rights, Law and Development Workshop L9408-001 S. Housing Discrimination L9549-001 S. Queer Theory Workshop L9832-001 S. Human Rights Reparations Under Domestic and International Law LAND K4102 Plant Materials: Woody Trees and Shrubs I LAND K4103 Plant Materials: Woody Trees and Shrubs II LAND K4112 Landscape Technology: Site Grading and Drainage LAND K4113 Landscape Technology: Construction and Site Details LAND K4200 History and Theory of Gardening and Landscape Design MECE 4302 Advanced Thermodynamics MECE 4304 Turbomachinery MECE 4305 Mechanics and Thermodynamics Propulsion MECE E6100 Advanced Mechanics of Fluids MECE E6104 Case Studies in Computational Fluid Dynamics MECE E6313 Advanced Heat Transfer MSTC 4043 Science and the Environment MSTC 4056 Concepts in Earth Science MSTC 4057 Concepts in Earth Science II MSTC 5056 General Oceanography MSTC 5058 Advanced Topics in Earth & Environmental Sciences P6330 Radiobiology for Medical Physicists P6670 Accountability-Humanitarian AID P6810 Introduction to Global Health P6811 Priorities in Global Public Health P8108 Survival Analysis P8306 Occupational and Environmental Hygiene P8307 Molecular Epidemiology P8308 Molecular Toxicology P8311 Basic and Applied Nutritional Science: Emerging Global Issues P8313 Toxicokinetics P8325 Risk Assessment, Management & Communication P8380 Health Physics Applications P8403 Nutritional Epi P8406 Infectious Disease Epidemiology P8414 Cancer Epidemiology P8465 Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS P8469 Epidemiology of Malaria P8470 Epidemiology of Alcohol and Drug Disorders P8471 Social Epidemiology P8477 Epi Modeling for Infectious Diseases P8507 Health and International Development: Institutions, Policies, and Politics P8539 Health and Health Systems in Low Income Countries P8590-064 Poverty, Public Policy and Child Development P8605 Public Health Aspects of Reproductive Health P8610 SRH and HIV/AIDS: Clinical, Policy, and Program Perspectives P8620 Protection of Children in Disaster and War. A Global Classroom Linked to Practitioners in Northern Uganda - Pilot Project P8685 Migration, Health: Global/Local Perspective P8688 Forced Migration Practicum-Seminar P8709 Seminar in Sexuality, Gender, Health, and Human Rights P8737 Emerging Topics in Urbanism and Community Health P8746 Persuasion and Coercion-Public Health P8747 The Ethics of Public Health P8760 Medical Anthropology: Trafficking, Sex Work, Health, and Human Rights P9350 Global Master's Essay I P9360 Master's Essay Critical Literature Review P9361 Master's Essay Research I P9362 Master's Essay Research II P9419 Masters Essay in Epidemiology I P9420 Masters Essay in Epidemiology II PEPM U8147 Development Economics PLA4008 Planning Theory PLA4022 Fundamentals for Planners PLA4035 Negotiantions for Planners PLA4112 Physical Structure of Cities PLA4151 Economics for Planners PLA4387 Public/Private Partnerships NYC PLA4394 Planning for Disasters PLA4501 Local Economic Development Planning PLA4577 Intro to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Planners PLA4609 Politics of International Placemaking PLA4620 Public Financing of Urban Development PLA6052 Planning Law PLA6108 LAND USE PLANNING PLA6213 WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT PLA6216 NYC Land Use Approvals PLA6222 Affordable Housing Financing, Development and Policy PLA6228 Invest Strategies/Distress ENV PLA6232 Advanced GIS PLA6245 Fundamentals of Building Systems PLA6460 Redevelopment Policy PLA6573 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLA6911 Urban Planning Studio-Hudson River Park PLAN A4329 Disaster Planning PLAN A4501 Local Economic Development Planning POLS G4626 Global Justice & Democracy POLS W3585 Political Economy of Development PUAF U6411 Global Food Systems SCNC W3010 Science, Technology and Society SOCI W3243 China Today: Change, Inequalities, and Social Life SOCI W3265 Sociology of Work and Gender SOCI W3324 Global Urbanism SUMA K4180 Writing About Global Science for the International Media U4656 Latin America Poverty Laboratory U4759 Human Rights Practicum I U6040 International Energy Project Development & Financing U6054 Oil Markets & Trading U6082 Energy Industry in East Asia U6112 Urban Ecology U6151 Human Rights & Children U6185 Health & International Development U6221 Risk Assessment & Toxicology U8216 Economics for Environmental Policy II U9000.012 Capstone URBS v2200 Introduction to GIS Methods URBS V3200 Spatial Analysis: GIS Methods and Urban Case Studies URBS V3308 Intro to Urban Enthographies URBS V3310 Science and Technology in Urban Environments URBS v3315 Metropolitics of Race and Place URBS V3550 Community Building URBS V3920 Social Entrepreneurship URBS V3992-V3993 Senior Seminar: the Built Environment V3201 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN I V3211 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III V3312.001 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE: Making, Merging W4303 Gender, Globalization, Empire W8829-001 S. 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By blending scientific research, education and practical solutions, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, is working to help guide the world onto a path toward sustainability. The Institute, under the direction of Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, comprises more than 30 research centers and some 850 scientists, postdoctoral fellows, staff and students. Working across many disciplines to study and create solutions for problems in public health, poverty, energy, ecosystems, climate, natural hazards and urbanization. Course offerings and sustainability-related courses numbers were calculated for each time a course is offered as a separate course.