Energy and Environment
STIA’s concentration in Energy & Environment examines the key energy and environmental challenges of our time, with a focus on international and transboundary topics such as climate change, renewable energy, water, oceans, biodiversity, and the arctic. Students are encouraged to build competency in a specific area of focus — for example clean energy and climate policy; ecology, biodiversity and conservation; energy and environmental security; or space technology and policy; among others. Students are also encouraged to receive training in tools appropriate for conducting and evaluating energy and environmental research and analysis, for example GIS and remote sensing. Students interested in energy technology and policy should consider taking physics for their science fundamentals sequence. Other students might consider taking the biology, chemistry, or environment and sustainability science sequence.
Concentration Chair: Joanna Lewis
Concentration courses:
Fall
- STIA 2270 – Environmental Geoscience
- STIA 3173 – Environmental Policy
- STIA 3376 – Financial Tech: Global South
- STIA 4102 – Clean Energy Innovation
- STIA 4119 – Energy and Environment in Eurasia
- STIA 4131 – Physics and Chemistry of Earth’s Climate
- STIA 4155 – Global Energy Transitions and Models
- STIA 4159 – Environmental Security
- STIA 4230 – Data Science for a Changing Climate
- STIA 4303 – Haiti: Development Case Study
- STIA 4416 – Spaceflight and Globalization
- STIA 4962 – Deep Decarbonization
- STIA 4963 – Policy for Clean Air and Health
- GBUS 4421 – Energy: Players, Markets & Project Finance
- GBUS 4461 – Political Economy of Cities: LA & Asia
- MSFS 5520 – The Energy Transition
- MSFS 5540 – International Climate Policy and Diplomacy
- MSFS 5560 – Energy Diplomacy
Spring
- STIA 3181 – Water
- STIA 3196 – Environmental Change: Engaging the Public
- STIA 4156 – Life on High Seas: Ecology and Policy
- STIA 4161 – The Electric Grid
- STIA 4164 – Environmental Security in the Arctic
- STIA 4170 – Sea Level Change and Coastal Adaptation
- STIA 4172 – Water, Conflict, and Peace
- STIA 4174 – International Energy Governance
- STIA 4235 – GIS for Environmental Analysis
- STIA 4406 – Space Security & Exploration
- STIA 4554 – Remote Sensing
- STIA 4966 – Energy and Environment in China
- ENST 3292 – Topics in Marine Conservation
- ENST 3360 – Environmental Remote Sensing
- GLOH 4404 – Global Environmental Health & Climate Change
- GOVT 3243 – The Politics of Climate Change
- HIST 3415 – Neighboring Worlds: Mars, Moon, Venus and Asteroids in History
- ISIM 4400 – Environmental Migration
*Exact course offerings may vary each semester. Please refer to the schedule of classes for the latest STIA course schedules and search by the concentration attribute (SFS/STIA Energy/Environment).
