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College of Engineering
Aerospace Engineering (AERO)
Courses within AERO include courses that focus on the fluid dynamics of the atmosphere, space flight systems, or other aspects of space instrumentation that may be relevant for climate.
- AERO/SPACE 581 Space System Management
- AERO/SPACE 582 Spacecraft Technology
Chemical Engineering (CHE)
- CHE 597 Regulatory Issues for Scientists, Engineers and Managers
- CHE 686 Case Studies in Environmental Sustainability
Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering (CLaSP)
Courses within CLaSP include courses that focus on the physical aspects of the climate system, including atmospheric dynamics, clouds and precipitation processes, the cryosphere, and atmospheric composition and chemistry.
- CLIMATE 410. Earth System Modeling
- CLIMATE 411 (EARTH 411). Cloud and Precipitation Processes
- CLIMATE 421 (EARTH 421) (ENVIRON 426). Introduction of Physical Oceanography
- CLIMATE 463 (ENSCEN 463). Air Pollution Meteorology
- CLIMATE 466 Carbon-Climate Interaction
- CLIMATE 473 Climate Physics
- CLIMATE 474 (EARTH 474) Ice Sheets, Glaciers and Climate Change
- CLIMATE 479 (ENSCEN 479) Atmospheric Chemistry
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE)
Courses within CEE include courses that focus on a physical understanding of hydrology, air quality, and engineering approaches that are relevant for greenhouse gas emissions, energy, and ecosystem services.
- CEE 421 Hydrology and Floodplain Hydraulics
- CEE 428 Introduction to Groundwater Hydrology
- CEE 465 Environmental Process Engineering
- CEE 587/SEAS 588 Water Resource Policy
- CEE 520 Physical Processes of Land-Surface Hydrology
- CEE 549. Geoenvironmental Engineering
- CEE 555 Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure Systems
- CEE 563 Air Quality Engineering Fundamentals
- CEE 564 Greenhouse Gas Control
- CEE 567/ESENG 567 Energy Infrastructure Systems
- CEE 586/SEAS 557 Industrial Ecology
- CEE 588 (CHE 590) Sustainability Finance: Investment Models for Green Growth
- CEE 589 Risk and Benefit Analysis in Environmental Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)
- EECS 463 Power Systems Design and Operation
Integrative Systems + Design (ISD)
- ISD 520 Introduction to Systems Engineering
Mechanical Engineering (ME)
- MECHENG 489 Sustainable Engineering and Design
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering (NAME)
- NAVARCH 420 (ENSCEN 420) (CLIMATE 420) Environmental Ocean Dynamics
- NAVARCH 528 (CLIMATE 528)(ENSCEN 529) Remote Sensing of Ocean Dynamics
Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences (NERS)
- NERS 211 (ENSCEN 211) Introduction to Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
- NERS 250 Fundamentals of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences
- NERS 532 Nuclear Safeguards
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA)
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- EEB 408 Modeling for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- EEB 466 Mathematical Ecology
Earth and Environmental Sciences
- EARTH 452 Paleo-oceanography
- EARTH 446 Paleo-climatology
- EARTH 520 The Changing Ocean
- EARTH 596 Communicate Your Science
Political Science
- POLSCI 497 Politics of Energy in the Developing World
Psychology
- PSYCH 442 Perception, Science and Reality
Communications & Media
- COMM 413 Environmental Communications
- COMM 467 Debating Politics and Science
School of Environment and Sustainability (SEAS)
- EAS 550 Systems Thinking for Sustainable Development
- EAS 552 Ecosystem Services
- EAS 555 Climate and Development
- EAS 560 Behavior and Environment: Transitional Thinking for the New Normal
- EAS 574 Sustainable Energy Systems *
- EAS 592 / URP 542 Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts 8
- EAS 576 Sustainability Finance: Investment Models for Green Growth *
- EAS 615 Renewable Electricity and the Grid
- EAS 501.022 Climate Economics and Policy (< 3 credits)
- EAS 677.041 Climate Change Adaptation (< 3 credits)
A. Alfred Taubman College of
Architecture and Urban Planning
These courses focus explicitly on the links between architecture, urban planning, sustainability, and sustainable planning relevant for considering any long term solutions to climate challenges.
- ARCH 426 Environmental Systems
- ARCH 515 Sustainable Systems
- URP 423 Int’l Urban & Environmental Planning
- URP 427 Foundations of Sustainable Food Systems
- URP 506 Planning Methods
- URP 507 Fundamentals of Planning Practice
- URP 522 Collaborative Planning
- URP 532 Sustainability and Social Change
- URP 542 / EAS 592 Environmental Planning: Issues and Concepts
University of Michigan Law School
- LAW671 Climate Change Law
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Any solution to the climate challenge will interact with policy and regulations. Elective courses from the GFFSPP focus explicitly on policy and regulations impactful to climate change.
- PUBPOL 468 Oil & Gas Policy in the US
- PUBPOL 495.003 Policy Seminar: Energy and Climate
- PUBPOL 519 Sustainable Energy Systems
- PUBPOL 563 Politics of Environmental Regulation
- PUBPOL 564 Government Regulation of Industry and the Environment PUBPOL 754 Research Seminar in Science, Technology and Public Policy
University of Michigan School of Public Health
- EHS/EPID 608 Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology
- EHS 683 Air Pollution and Global Health
If you have any questions about the Climate Change Solutions Graduate Certificate Certificate Program, including application and completion requirements, please email CLaSP Student Services.
