The Climate Curriculum Database is designed to allow students, professors, and others in the WashU community to find courses related to climate change in all of its related disciplines, from economics to architecture to engineering. Each course links to the WebStac course listing, where more information about syllabi, course descriptions and enrollment can be found. The course listings can be sorted by school, department, or topic.

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Bio 5925 Matter and Energy Transformations

Sophia Hayes, Victoria May, Charles McWilliams

% related to climate change: <50%

BIOL 3900 Science for Agriculture and Environmental Policy

Barbara Schaal

Read a student’s review of the course here.

Chem 182 Current Challenges in Energy and the Environment

Sophia Hayes

% related to climate change: 50–75%.

Chemistry 182 Chemistry for Concerned Scientists

Sophia Hayes

% related to climate change: 50-75%

CWP 102 Citizen Scientist

Jen Smith, Nathaniel Farrell

% related to climate change: <50%

Econ 4721 Advanced Topics in Modern Economic Growth

Yongseok Shin, Gary Hansen

% related to climate change: <50%

EECE 101 Introduction to Energy, Environmental and Chemical Engineering

Daniel Giammar, Trent Silbaugh

% related to climate change: <50%

EECE 514 Atmospheric Science and Climate

Brent Williams

% related to climate change: 50–75%.

Engr 3460 Transportation Engineering

Shawn Leight

% related to climate change: <50%

EnSt 101 Earth’s Future: Causes and Consequences of Global Climate Change

Tristam Kidder, Brent Williams

Same as L48 Anthro 100, FYP 101A, E44 EECE 112

EnSt 3068 An Inconvenient Truth: The Human History of Climate Change

Venus Bivar

% related to climate change: 75–100%.

EnSt 405 Sustainability Exchange

Bill Lowry

% related to climate change: <50%.

EnSt 452 International Climate Negotiation Seminar

Beth Martin

% related to climate change: 75–100%.

EPSc 112 Engineering the Climate

Jennifer R. Smith

% related to climate change: 75–100%.

EPSc 131 Natural Disasters

Mike Krawczynski, Doug Wiens

% related to climate change: <50%

EPSc 141 FYS: Unearthing the Science of Climate Change

Bronwen Konecky

% related to climate change: 75–100%

EPSc 201 Earth and the Environment

Michael Wysession

% related to climate change: <50%

Same as L82 EnSt 201

EPSc 219 Energy and the Environment

Michael Wysession

% related to climate change: <50%

EPSc 353 Earth Forces

Michael Wysession, Slava Solomatov

% related to climate change: <50%

EPSc 385 Earth History

David Fike

% related to climate change: <50%.

EPSc 386 The Earth’s Climate System

Bronwen Konecky

% related to climate change: 75-100%

EPSc 453 Interior of the Earth

Douglas Wiens

% related to climate change: <50%.

EPSc 486 Paleoclimatology

Bronwen Konecky

% related to climate change: 75–100%

ESE 437 Sustainable Energy Systems

Jason Trobaugh

% related to climate change: <50%.

GS (IAS) 4414 Gender Analysis for International Affairs

Amy Heath-Carpentier

% related to climate change: <50%

MEMS 5422 Solar Energy Thermal Systems

Patricia Weisensee

% related to climate change: 75–100%

MPH 5323 TPS Climate Change and Public Health

Joseph Steensma

% related to climate change: 75–100%.

Phil 235F Environmental Ethics

Albert Nunez

% related to climate change: <50%.

Physics 171A Physics and Society

Mark Alford

Same as L82 EnSt171A.

% related to climate change: <50%.

Pol Sci 3211 Public Opinion and American Democracy

Betsy Sinclair

% related to climate change: <50%

Same as AMCS 327

Pol Sci 332B Environmental and Energy Issues

Bill Lowry

% related to climate change: <50%.

*These topics are derived from the table of contents of the IPCC AR6 report.