Environmental Justice Course List


International:

 

SNRE

NRE 555.001          Climate and Development (F)

NRE 563.001          International Environmental Policy (Lemos)  (W)

NRE 565.001          Principles for Sustainability (Princen)  (W)

NRE 664.001          Food and Fuel: Research Questions at the base of the Economy  (F)

NRE 501.036          Consumption, Trade, and Environmental Input-Output Analysis (Xu) (W)

NRE 501.055          Race, Space, and Disparate Environmental Impacts (W)        

NRE 501.117          IFRI: Institutions and Resources: Theory and Methods (Agrawal) (F)

NRE 501.123          Political Ecology, Environmental Security, and Conflict (Butt) (F)

NRE 677.041          Climate Change Adaptation (Bierbaum) (F)

 

Public Health

EIHLTH/EHS 502       Developing Areas (Nriagu) [W]

EPID 666                    Health and Socioeconomic Development (Stein)

HBEHED 516             Global Health: Anthropological Perspectives (Padilla) [F]

 

Public Policy

PubPol 759                 Genetics and Biotechnology Policy (Parthasarathy) [W]

 

Urban Planning

UP 658                       Urban and Regional Planning in Developing Countries (Shatkin)

 

Analytics:

 

Two analytic courses (6 credits). One must be statistics; the other course must be from the SNRE Analytics list.  Both lists can be found online:

 

http://www.snre.umich.edu/degree_programs/analytics_list

 

http://www.snre.umich.edu/sites/snre.umich.edu/files/Statistic%20Courses%201110_1.pdf

 

Electives:

 

Three or more credit hours, they must be from any U-M graduate courses offered at 400 level or above.

Recommended Electives:  

SNRE

NRE 501.032                    Transportation, Energy, and Climate (DeCicco)

NRE 501.007                     Aquaculture and Sustainability (Diana)

NRE 513                           Strategies for Sustainable Development (Hoffman)

NRE 514/EHS 572            Environmental Impact Assessment

NRE 531.001                     Principles of GIS (Brown)

NRE 532                           Natural Resource Conflict Management Theory (Wondolleck)

NRE 533                           Negotiation Skills in Environmental Dispute Resolution (Yaffee & Wondolleck)

NRE 540                           GIS and Natural Resource Applications (Brines)

NRE 556                           Field Ecology. (Perfecto)

NRE 560/UP 560              Behavior and Environment (DeYoung)

NRE 562                            Environ Policy & Politics (Yaffee)

NRE 566                            Public Opinion and the Environment. (Mohai.)

NRE 687                             Landscape Analysis and Planning

NRE 570                            Microeconomics with Natural Resource Applications (Moore)

NRE 576/UP 576               Ecological Design Approaches to Brownfield Redevelopment (Nassauer)

Law

Law 684                             Health Law and Policy

Law 771                             How to Save the Planet

Law 791                             Environmental Crimes

Law 805                             Environmental Justice

Law 889                             Race, Poverty, and the American City

Political Science

POLSCI 730                                  Women and Employment Policy

Public Health

PH 505                                Introduction to Environmental Health

PH 500                               Principles of Environmental Health Sciences

HBEHED 623                      Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities [W]

HBEHED 632                     Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities Research & Interventions [F]

HBEHED 640                     Community Organization for Health Education

HBEHED 690                     Environmental Health Education

EHS 680                            Environmental Management of Hazardous Substances. Batterman. [W]

EHS 507                            Principles of Exposure Assessment [F]

EHS 508                            Principles of Risk Assessment. Maynard. [W]

EHS 509                            Principles of Ecological Toxicology. Basu. [W]

EHS 574                            Environmental Chemistry

EHS 591                            Equity Issues in Environmental Health Sciences

EHS 688                            Topics in Environmental Health Sciences

  EPID 705                           Epidemiology in Public Health Policy

Public Policy

PubPol 510                        The Politics of Public Policy

PUBPOL 573                      Benefit/Cost Analysis

PubPol 642                         Socioeconomic Policy and Public Health Policy. House. [F]

  PubPol 736                        Poverty and Inequality. Corcoran. [F]

Sociology

SOC 622                              Social Stratification

Urban Planning

UP 507                                Geographic Information Systems. Grengs.

UP 654                                Concepts and Techniques of Community Participation.

UP 696                                Social Justice and the City. Kinder.

Research Methodology Courses

Sociology

Soc 522                             Qualitative Research Methods

Soc 600                              Survey Methodology

Statistics

Stat 403                             Introduction to Quantitative Research Methods

Political Science

PolSci 680                          Problems in Behavioral Research Methods

Public Health

HBE/HED 733                    Community-Based Participatory Research. (Israel)

 

 Opus:

 At most, 6 credit hours of NRE 700 (thesis/practicum) or 6 credits hours of NRE 701 (project); see OAP for opus requirement changes

 

Cognates:

 Minimum of 4 credit hours outside of SNRE.  They can be double counted with either required or elective courses.