Electives

Masters of the Environment

All MENV courses, including courses from other specializations, can be taken by students in the program as electives. The MENV program also offers a wide variety of topics, methods, and skills courses from which students can choose. See full list of ENVM courses here.

Sample MENV Electives

ENVM 6100-005 (3) Business Fundamentals for Environmental Professionals: Providing a general overview of business management, this course introduces MENV students to the multiple facets of business including innovation, the entrepreneurial process/mindset, and common business structures and processes. Business case creation will be used as a proxy for understanding and innovating within a business and involves many key areas including ideation to opportunity recognition to opportunity evaluation to business modeling to presenting the case. Innovation is central to this process and students will be challenged to develop creative solutions to a real business problem or need. The course is experiential and students will conduct analyses to assess the feasibility of a business case.

ENVM 6100 (3) Environmental Statistics: Learn how to reason with data using the scientific method and the methodology and application of linear regression modeling, as well as become more familiar with statistical software. Case studies drawn from each specialization will be analyzed to illustrate the uses of data analytics for the environmental scientist.

ENVM 6100-009 (3) Essentials of Sustainable Business: The overarching goal of this course is to provide students with a personalized, yet comprehensive overview of the core concepts, strategies and practices of socially responsible and sustainable business. To do so, we will examine topics from ten core perspectives: Accounting, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Economics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Corporate Governance, Finance, Human Resources & Org. Behavior, Marketing, Operations & Supply Chain, and Strategy. Each of these subject areas will be covered in chapters of our core texts – The Ten Day MBA & The Sustainable MBA – and in whitepapers written by the instructor (The Sustainable Business Reader), as well as via articles, films, case studies, guest speakers, and site visits.

Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of people, both ancient and modern, in their cultural, biological, and environmental contexts. The discipline incorporates a wide range of theoretical and methodological traditions, drawing on and contributing to approaches in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Anthropology Electives

Architectural Engineering

Architectural engineers focus on the engineering aspects of buildings; they design the structural systems, the mechanical systems and the lighting and electrical systems of buildings, while tackling the challenges related to managing the construction process. Architectural engineers design and build facilities that improve the standard of living and overall quality of life. They are creative problem solvers meeting the challenges of energy needs, building systems, urban development and community planning. Architectural engineers design functional and aesthetic lighting solutions, create buildings prepared to withstand earthquakes and other natural disasters or invent affordable green technology to heat, cool and power homes, offices and large facilities with energy from the sun.

Architectural Engineering Electives

Business

The Leeds School of Business offers an innovative agenda designed to leverage our unique assets: the intellectual capital of Leeds faculty, our innovative and best-in-class curriculum, our focus on the "whole student" experience, our strong network of alumni and industry partners and our firm commitment to student support. World-class faculty provide the foundation for breakthrough thinking—creating knowledge from research, disseminating knowledge through teaching and applying knowledge in collaboration with the business community. Faculty discoveries are frequently published in prestigious academic journals and discussed in media outlets such as the Wall St. Journal, the New York Times, CNBC and more.

Business Electives

Engineers measuring and installing a stake in the ground.

Civil Engineering

Civil engineers design and supervise the construction of the buildings and infrastructure that make up society, including roads, bridges, tunnels, skyscrapers, transit systems, water treatment facilities and offshore structures. They are problem solvers meeting the challenges of pollution, clean drinking water, climate change, energy and transportation needs, urban development and community planning for the megacities of the twenty-first century.

Civil Engineering Electives

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

The EBIO graduate program provides advanced training in a wide variety of biological disciplines ranging from Biogeochemistry to Community Ecology to Evolutionary Genetics. The goal of the EBIO graduate program is to produce scientists, educators, and citizens who are equipped with skills to build careers that advance knowledge about life on Earth. Graduates of the EBIO program are well-positioned to pursue a wide range of careers that include academia, science education, wildlife biology, conservation biology, resource management, environmental consulting, and environmental law.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Electives

Economics

The Department of Economics strives to maintain a diverse graduate student population. Graduate students find they are participating in a program with an excellent job placement record that trains them well for careers in teaching, research and government or private sector employment.Students in the program build supportive, lasting relationships with fellow students and faculty.

Economics Electives

Engineering for Developing Communities

The Engineering for Developing Communities Program managed by the Mortenson Center combines classroom work, research and development, and real world, on-the-ground experience to train engineers to work in partnership with organizations in developing communities worldwide. Our goal is to create sustainable and appropriate solutions to meet people's basic needs.

Engineering for Developing Communities Electives

EDEN 5001 (3) Special Topics in Development Engineering

Environmental Design

As one of the most prominent environmental design programs in the nation, students are shaping the world around them, creating more beneficial and meaningful environments, communities and experiences. Environmental design offers an interdisciplinary approach to design, combining research, transformative thinking and real-world applications. Specialize in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning or design.

Environmental Design Electives

Environmental Studies

The Environmental Studies program at CU-Boulder is a hub for facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration in environment and sustainability. Environmental Studies courses integrate the academic divisions of natural science, social science, and humanities, providing skill and knowledge applicable to the pursuit of solutions to environmental challenges faced globally, nationally, regionally, and locally. The program nurtures interdisciplinary academic training for undergraduate and graduate students, provides guidance for students with career aspirations in environment and sustainability venues, promotes diverse professional education experiences, fosters fundamental and applied research, forms meaningful connections with communities beyond the university, and integrates innovative, interdisciplinary programs unified by the themes of environmental research.

Environmental Studies Electives

Geology

Geology is a science concerned with the Earth - its relationship to the solar system, its origin and developmental history, its structure and composition, its dynamic processes, and its evolution. Geology also relates to human endeavors and needs, including the use of natural resources, the preservation of the environment, global change, and the mitigation of geologic hazards.

Geology Electives

Journalism

As a journalism student, you’ll learn to gather information, conduct interviews and produce compelling journalism content across multiple media, while upholding the very highest professional and ethical standards. Students will master the technology and journalistic skills to produce videos, audio and graphics for mobile platforms, the web, social media, television, radio and print.

Journalism Electives

Law

The University of Colorado Law School is one of the top public law schools in the United States.

Law Electives

Management

The Management and Entrepreneurship area of emphasis is led by the Leeds School of Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations and Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics faculty divisions.

Management Electives

Mechanical Engineering

Hands-on learning, advanced research, and an entrepreneurial spirit are defining the next generation of engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering learn from a vibrant faculty conducting diverse research in consumer products, robotics, thermodynamics, energy, and the environment.

Mechanical Engineering Electives

Philosophy

The Graduate Program in Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder is designed to provide students with a broad and intensive training in philosophy.

Philosophy Electives

Political Science

The Department of Political Science offers instruction and research in the art and science of politics. Students and faculty study six basic fields: American government and politics, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, international relations and empirical theory and methodology.

Political Science Electives

Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of human social behavior. It considers how societyinfluences individuals, and how individuals influence society. Sociologists describe and explain the actions of persons, groups, organizations, classes and entire societies. They also design and evaluate social programs and public policy. The study of sociology includes social theory, research methods, social stratification, race relations, social change, criminology, demography, sex roles, religion, social psychology and human ecology.

Sociology Electives

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Statistics

The Mathematics Department of the University of Colorado Boulder offers a broad range of research interests in Mathematics, including Algebraic and Differential Geometry, Combinatorics, Logic and Foundations, Mathematical Physics, Number Theory, Noncommutative Geometry, Operator Algebras, Probability, and Topology.

Theatre

The Department of Theatre & Dance is a community of students, scholars, artists and artisans who regard the collaborative and creative process as the core of education. We engage with that process at all levels of our work as we pursue excellence and understanding.

Theatre Electives

THTR 5049 (1-4) Special Topics in Theatre

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