The Chicago area, despite its urban character, is home to significant biodiversity. Situated at the intersection of the northern boreal forest, prairie, savanna, and dune environments, Chicago is a crossroads for more than just our own species. Here the great eastern tallgrass prairies met oak-hickory woodlands as well as wetlands, savannas, swamps, and other associations, forming a complex mosaic of environments. The long history of human habitation in this region has significantly transformed local environments, but not all pre-contact environments have vanished and local efforts at restoration and conservation have begun to make a significant difference in the extent and health of indigenous plants and animals. Our logo is derived from the Hickory (Carya); local oak-hickory forests are dominated by Shagbark Hickory (C. ovata) and Bitternut Hickory (C. cordiformis).- Environmental economics and policy track
- Socio-natural systems and frameworks track
- Courses fulfilling the environmental sciences requirement
I. Environmental economics and policy track
Anthropology
22000/35500. The Anthropology of Development
245/40500/514. Traditional People's Intellectual Rights
Economics
26500. Environmental Economics
26510. Advanced Topics in Environmental Economics
Big Problems
29000. Energy and Energy Policy
Geographical Sciences
22700/32700. Urban Structure and Process
23500/33500. Urban Geography
26100/36100. Roots of the Modern American City
26600/36600. Economics of Urban Policies
42400. Urban Landscapes as Social Text
Environmental Studies
23100. Environmental Law
23500. Political Sociology
23600. The Environment in U.S. History
23700. Technology and Environment in History
24101. U.S. Environmental Politics
24301. International Development: Theory, Politics, and Policy
24400. Is Development Sustainable?
24701. U.S. Environmental Policy
24800. The Complex Problem of World Hunger
24901. Global Environmental Politics
25501. Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Agriculture
28001. Environmental Ethics
Political Science
20407. The Environment and International Security
21308. Disasters, Narratives, and Philosophy
22200. Introduction to Political Economy of Development
Public Policy
20000. Economics for Public Policy
21800. Economics and Environmental Policy
22100. Politics and Policy
22200. Public Policy Analysis
22300. Problems of Public Policy Implementation
23000. Organizational Analysis
24600. Economic Development in the Inner City
24800. Urban Policy Analysis
Sociology
20104/30104. Urban Structure and Process
20122/30122. Introduction to Population
20129/30129. Economic Development in the Inner City
20146/30146. Culture and Politics
20152/30152. Migration and Immigration: Causes and Consequences
II. Socio-natural systems and frameworks track
Anthropology
21204/33800. Intensive Study of a Culture: The Brazilian Amazon
22000/35500. The Anthropology of Development
22400/34900. Big Science and the Birth of the National Security State
28000/36600. Health and Demography in Archaeological Perspective
28210/48210. Colonial Ecologies
28410/38810. Zooarchaeology
28500/48200. Political Ecology
29100/39100. Archaeobotanical Analysis
39205. Landscape History and Place Making
Art History
15700. Introduction to the American-Built Environment
26305/36305. American Landscapes, 1926 to 1964
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
26300. Medicine in Traditional China
English
18903. The Lives of Animals
25104. Nature Writing and Spirituality in America
25403. American West
Environmental Studies
22501 Urban Ecology: Environmental History of the Modern City
23500. Political Sociology
23600. The Environment in U.S. History
23700. Technology and Environment in History
24400. Is Development Sustainable?
24800. The Complex Problem of World Hunger
25501. Environmental Justice, Human Rights, and Agriculture
28001. Environmental Ethics
28402: Religion and Environment
28600 Ideas of Nature 1400-1900
28700. Environment and the Body
Geographical Sciences
20100/30100. Cultural Geography
21900/31900. Historical Geography of the United States
22100/32100. Changing America, 1900 to the Present
22700/32700. Urban Structure and Process
23500/33500. Urban Geography
25300/35300. Seminar: Problems in the Human Geography of the Middle East
25400-25800/35400-35800. Ancient Landscapes I, II
26100/36100. Roots of the Modern American City
26300. The Chinese Environment
26600/36600. Economics of Urban Policies
29400/39400. Readings in Nature and Culture
42400. Urban Landscapes as Social Text
HIPS
17502. Modern Science
29507 Nature as Technology: A Philosophical and Historical Investigation
History
22705/32705. Empire, Science and Environment 1492-1800
Human Development
21500. Darwinian Health
International Studies
23101. Contemporary Global Issues I
23102. Contemporary Global Issues II
Philosophy
20300/30300. Scientific and Technological Change
22201/32201. Genetics in an Evolutionary Perspective
24901. Moral/Immoral, Natural/Unnatural
25100. Evolutionary Theory and Its Role in the Human Sciences
Political Science
20407. The Environment and International Security
21308. Disasters, Narratives, and Philosophy
22200. Introduction to Political Economy of Development
Sociology
20104/30104. Urban Structure and Process
20122/30122. Introduction to Population
20129/30129. Economic Development in the Inner City
20146/30146. Culture and Politics
20152/30152. Migration and Immigration: Causes and Consequences
III. Courses fulfilling the environmental sciences requirement
Anthropology
28100/38100. Evolution of the Hominoidea
28300/38200. Comparative Primate Morphology
28400/38800. Bioarchaeology and the Human Skeleton
28600/38600. Apes and Human Evolution
Biology
BIOS 10110. Biological Issues and Paradigms
20184. Biological Diversity
20185. Ecology and Evolution
11104. Genetically Modified Food: Calamity or Cornucopia?
11109. Molecules to Cells and Back
13106. The Hungry Earth: Light, Energy, and Subsistence
13107. Environmental Ecology
13109. Ecology
13113. Prairie Ecosystems: Lessons of Sustainability in the Past, Present, and Future
23232. Ecology and Evolution in the Southwest
23233. Ecology and Evolution in the Southwest, Field School
23241. Primate Evolution
23246. The Diversity and Evolution of Plants
23248. Primate Behavior and Ecology
23252. Field Ecology
23254. Mammalian Ecology
23266. Evolutionary Adaptation
23280. The Science behind Genetically Modified Organisms
23289. Marine Ecology
23299. Plant Development and Molecular Genetics
23351. Ecological Applications to Conservation Biology
23401. Mutualisms and Symbiosis
23406. Biogeography
02810. The Complex Problem of World Hunger
29286. Biological and Cultural Evolution
29291. The History of U.S. Public Health
29299. History of Public Health in Latin America
Environmental Studies
11101-11201-11301. General Chemistry I, II, III: Variant A
12100. Chemistry and the Atmosphere
12402. Life through a Genomic Lens
14200. The Dynamic Environment: Global Systems and Climate During the Emergence of Humankind
14300. Settlement Systems, the Management of Nature, and the Emergence of Humankind within a Dynamic Environment
27400. Principles of Epidemiology
Geophysical Sciences
13100. Physical Geology
13300. The Atmosphere
13400. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast
21200. Physics of the Earth
23200. Climate Dynamics of the Earth and Other Planets
23300. Physical Oceanography
23400. Chemical Oceanography
23800. Global Biogeochemical Cycles
23900. Environmental Chemistry
24500. Atmosphere and Ocean in Motion
25300. The Planetary Footprint of Farming
25400. Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast
Natural Science
10300. Biological Evolution
Physical Sciences
10900. Ice-Age Earth
11000. Environmental History of the Earth
Pending funding, the Program for the Global Environment and the Environmental Studies program will sponsor an undergraduate organized and run conference during the 2008-09 academic year. The program will provide funding, staffing, and advising for this project. We invite interested undergraduates in any major or concentration to submit preliminary proposals.
