Courses
A comprehensive catalog of Northwestern energy and sustainability-related classes, at both the undergraduate and graduate level, is searchable below. Don’t see a class that you think should be included? Please email trienens-ed@northwestern.edu.
Please note that cross-listed classes will appear twice, once under each primary listing.
| Course | Title | Term | Audience | School | TISE Course |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PHYSICS 333-1 | Advanced Electricity & Magnetism | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PHYSICS 333-2 | Advanced Electricity & Magnetism | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ELEC_ENG 402 | Advanced Electronic Devices | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| JOUR 425-2 | Advanced Health and Sciences Reporting | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| CHEM 435 CHEM 445 | Advanced Inorganic Chemistry: The Chemistry and Materials of Alternative Energy | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 445-0-02 CHEM 435-0-02 | Advanced Physical & Analytical Chemistry: The Chemistry and Materials of Alternative Energy | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 450-0-3 | Advanced Topics: Atmospheric and Climate Science | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 450-0-1 ISEN 495-0-21 | Advanced Topics: Communicating Science Beyond Academia | Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| EARTH 450-0-02 | Advanced Topics: Lake Michigan and Climate Change | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ELEC_ENG 414-0-01 | Advanced Topics in Quantum Electronics | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 309 HISTORY 309 | American Environmental History | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HISTORY 309 ENVR_POL 309 | American Environmental History | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ANTHRO 326 ENVR_POL 385 | Archaeologies of Sustainability and Collapse | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 385 ANTHRO 326 | Archaeologies of Sustainability and Collapse | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 202 | Biological and Ecological Principles | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 433 | Breakthrough Energy Efficiency and Net Zero Buildings | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 388-2 | Building Science II: Application for Sustainable Buildings | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| JOUR 416 | Capstone: Embedded Reporting - Field Research Reporting | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| ISEN 411 | Carbon Accounting and Corporate Sustainability Reporting | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 432 | Carbon Removal Use & Storage | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| MAT_SCI 459 | Charge Transport in Electronic Materials | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CHEM_ENG 408 | Chemical Engineering and Reactor Design | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CHEM_ENG 307 | Chemical Product Design | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 101-08-01 | Chicago Environmental Justice | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 463 | Circular Economy: Restorative and Regenerative System by Design | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| PPTYTORT 613 | Clean Energy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| ISEN 472 | Climate Activism & Its Business Impacts | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 309 | Climate and Energy - Law and Policy | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| EARTH 105 | Climate Catastrophes in Earth History | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 230 PHIL 275 | Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethical Dimensions | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| PHIL 275 ISEN 230 | Climate Change and Sustainability: Ethical Dimensions | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| LITARB 729 | Clinic: Environmental Advocacy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| LITARB 729 | Clinic: Environmental Law | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| CHEM 105-7-03 | College Seminar: Chemistry on the Green | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PPTYTORT 645 | Colloquium: Climate Change | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| EARTH 204 EARTH 390-0-9 | Communication for Geoscientists | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| BIOL_SCI 349 PBC 402 | Community & Population Ecology | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 342 ISEN 410 | Contemporary Energy and Climate Change | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| ISEN 410 EARTH 342 | Contemporary Energy and Climate Change | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| SSIM 917-5 | Corporate Social Innovation | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ISEN 405 | Corporate Sustainability & Value Creation | Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| BIOL_SCI 339 PBC 451 | Critical Topics in Ecology and Conservation | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 451 BIOL_SCI 339 | Critical Topics in Ecology and Conservation | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 451 BIOL_SCI 339 | Critical Topics in Ecology and Conservation | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| COMP_ENG 364 COMP_ENG 464 | Cyber-Physical Systems Design and Application | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| COMP_ENG 464 COMP_ENG 364 | Cyber-Physical Systems Design and Application | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| SSIM 947-5 | Decision-Making for Sustainable Business | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| CIV_ENV 387 | Design of Sustainable Urban Developments | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| SSIM 940 | Early Stage Impact Investing | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ENVR_SCI 201 | Earth: A Habitable Planet | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 201 | Earth - A Habitable Planet | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 203 | Earth in the Anthropocene | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| EARTH 343 | Earth Systems Modelling | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 346 | Ecohydrology | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| GEOG 240 | Economic Geography | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PROJ_MGT 449 | Economics of Sustainability | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 422 | Electrify Everything: Beneficial Electrification, EVs, and Beyond | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CHEM_ENG 441 | Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| MAT_SCI 382 | Electrochemical Energy Materials and Devices | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| MAT_SCI 483 | Electrochemistry for Energy Storage and Conversion | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PHYSICS 414-1 | Electrodynamics | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| MAT_SCI 385 MAT_SCI 485 | Electronic and Thermal Properties of Materials | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| MAT_SCI 485 MAT_SCI 385 | Electronic and Thermal Properties of Materials | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ELEC_ENG 381 | Electronic Properties of Materials | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PHYSICS 359 | Electronics | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ELEC_ENG 327 | Electronic System Design II: Project | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 498 | Energy & Sustainability Practicum (10 week consulting project) | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 407-1 | Energy and Sustainability Economics | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 409 | Energy and Sustainability Market Foundations | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 353 | Energy Geostructures & Geosystems | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 440 | Energy Project Development & Finance | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 201 | Engineering Possibilities: Decision Science in the Age of Smart Technologies | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ANTHRO 383 ENVR_POL 385 | Environmental Anthropology | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 383 ANTHRO 383 | Environmental Anthropology | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 306 CHEM 406 | Environmental Chemistry | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 406 CHEM 306 | Environmental Chemistry | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| ECON 372 | Environmental Economics | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 308 | Environmental Justice | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 338 GBL_HLTH 338 | Environmental Justice | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| GBL_HLTH 338 ENVR_POL 338 | Environmental Justice | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 365 | Environmental Laboratory: CIV_ENV Seniors | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 365 | Environmental Laboratory: CIV_ENV Seniors | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PPTYTORT 610 | Environmental Law | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| CIV_ENV 303 | Environmental Law and Policy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 361-1 | Environmental Microbiology | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 260 | Environmental Systems and Processes | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 440 | Environmental Transport Processes | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 212 SOCIOL 212 | Environment and Society | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 212 SOCIOL 212 | Environment and Society | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| SOCIOL 212 ENVR_POL 212 | Environment and Society | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ACCT 459 | ESG Investing and Sustainability Reporting | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| CFS 387 | Field Studies in Environment, Science, and Sustainability | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 408 | Finance Fundamentals for Energy and Sustainability | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 454 | Financing the Energy Transition | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| EARTH 102-6-1 | First Year Seminar: Sustainability and Social Justice | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 105-6-1 | First Year Seminar: Sustainability Meets Environmental Justice | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PHYSICS 110-6 | First-Year Seminar Physics & Climate Change | Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PHYSICS 101-8-03 | First-Year Seminar Physics & Climate Change | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 105-8-3 | First Year Writing Seminar: Chemistry on the Green | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENGLISH 105-8-23 | First-Year Writing Seminar: Eco-Fiction and Human Metamorphosis | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM 105-8-4 | First Year Writing Seminar: What Will it Take to Reach Carbon-Neutrality by 2050 | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 211 SOCIOL 211 | Food and Society: An Introduction | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| SOCIOL 211 ENVR_POL 211 | Food and Society: An Introduction | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ELEC_ENG 225 | Fundamentals of Electronics | Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 450 | Fundamentals of Energy Trading and Risk Management | Spring 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_POL 340 HISTORY 376 | Global Environments and World History | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HISTORY 376 ENVR_POL 340 | Global Environments and World History | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 452 | Government Incentives in Energy & Sustainability | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CHEM 393 | Green Chemistry | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 337 GBL_HLTH 337 | Hazard, Disasters, and Society | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| GBL_HLTH 337 ENVR_POL 337 | Hazard, Disasters, and Society | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| JOUR 383 SCIMEDIA 518 | Health and Science Reporting | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| SCIMEDIA 518 JOUR 383 | Health and Science Reporting | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| ISEN 401 | History & Politics of Resource Innovation - Energy, Transportation, and Water | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_SCI 203 | Humans and the Environment | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 434 | Hydrogen in the Energy Transition | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| FINC 946 | Impact Investing and Sustainable Finance | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ENTREP 340 | Innovate for Climate: Solving Problems Affecting the Great Lakes | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| INTL_ST 395-0-21 | Integrating Project Seminar: International Climate Change Politics & Policy | Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PROJ_MGT 485 | Intelligent Transportation Systems | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENGLISH 205-0-20 | Intermediate Composition: Nature & the Nature of Argument | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PPTYTORT 660 | International Environmental Law | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| PPTYTORT 660 | International Environmental Law | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| POLI_SCI 349 ENVR_POL 390-0-23 | International Environmental Politics | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 220 | Introduction to Energy Systems for the 21st Century | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| ENGLISH 283 | Introduction to Literature and the Environment | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 210 | Introduction to Sustainability: Challenges and Solutions | (Last Offered) Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 371 | Introduction to Transportation Planning and Analysis | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| SOCIOL 276-0-21 ENVR_POL 390-0-21 | Introductory Topics: Sociology of Disaster | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 402 | ISEN 402 Fundamentals of Natural Resource Distribution | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| JOUR 301-0-30 | Journalism in Practice: Environmental Reporting in a High Stakes Climate | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| JOUR 301-0-26 | Journalism in Practice: Video Reporting on the Environment and Climate Change | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| CHEM_ENG 307 | Kinetics and Reactor Engineering | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM_ENG 355 | Kinetics and Reactor Engineering | Spring 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| DSGN 407 | Making Things Sustainable | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| SSIM 938 | Managing Sustainability Transformations | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| MAT_SCI 381 | Materials for Energy-Efficienct Technology | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| MAT_SCI 195 | Materials for the Energy Solution | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| COMM_ST 381 SOCIOL 376-0-22 | Media, Movements & Social Change | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | School of Communication | No |
| PROJ_MGT 448 | Metrics of Sustainability | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 443 | Microbial Ecology for Resource Recovery | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| AMER_ST 310-0-20 ENVR_POL 390-0-25 | Museum Seminar: Black Art and Ecology | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-25 AMER_ST 310-0-20 | Museum Seminar: Black Art and Ecology | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| BIOL_SCI 339 PBC 451 | Native American Environmental Issues and the Media | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| JOUR 367 ENVR_POL 390-0-35 | Native American Environmental Issues and the Media | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| AMER_ST 310-0-4 ENVR_POL 390-0-22 | Natural Disaters | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ECON 373 | Natural Resource Economics | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENTREP 474 ISEN 420 | Nuvention: Energy and Sustainability | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 420 ENTREP 474 | NUvention: Energy and Sustainability | Fall 2024 and Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| OPNS 951 | Operations for Social Impact | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ELEC_ENG 385 | Optoelectronics | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| BIOL_SCI 333 ENVR_SCI 390-0-04 | Plant-Animal Interactions | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| BIOL_SCI 350 PBC 401 | Plant Evolution & Diversity | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 401 BIOL_SCI 350 | Plant Evolution & Diversity | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| PBC 402 BIOL_SCI 349 | Plant Population & Community Ecology | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| ANTHRO 382 ENVR_POL 384 | Political Ecology | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 384 ANTHRO 382 | Political Ecology | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CHEM_ENG 345 | Process Optimization for Energy and Sustainability | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 361-2 | Public & Environmental Health | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| SSIM 948 | Quantifying Social Return | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ELEC_ENG 403 | Quantum Semiconductors | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 404 | Resource Markets Design, Regulation, and Reform | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 421 | Scaling Sustainable Technology | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 495-0-33 | Selected Topics: Environmental Metabolomics | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 495-0-1 | Selected Topics: Environmental Particles and Surface Chemistry | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 495-0-1 | Selected Topics: Granular Materials for Geosystem Engineering | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| IEMS 490-0-3 | Selected Topics in Industrial Engineering: Smart Grid Systems | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ELEC_ENG 409 | Semiconductor Lasers | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 339 | Silent but Loud: Negotiating Health in a Cultural, Food, Poverty, and Environmental Caste | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| SSIM 957-5 | Social Change Essentials: Methods, Money, and Partnerships | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| SSIM 452 | Social Innovation Practicum | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ELEC_ENG 384 | Solid State Electronic Devices | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-25 | Special Topics: Applied Policy Analysis | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-30 HUM 370-6-24 | Special Topics: Art, Ecology, and Politics | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HUM 370-6-24 ENVR_POL 390-0-30 | Special Topics: Art, Ecology, and Politics | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-26 | Special Topics: Art and Nature in Renaissance Europe | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| MECH_ENG 395-0-25 MECH_ENG 495-0-11 | Special Topics: Bio-inspired Surface Engineering | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| MECH_ENG 495-0-11 MECH_ENG 395-0-25 | Special Topics: Bio-inspired Surface Engineering | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-22 LEGAL_ST 376-0-23 POLI_SCI 390-0-26 | Special Topics: Climate Change Law and Policy | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| LEGAL_ST 376-0-23 ENVR_POL 390-0-22 POLI_SCI 390-0-26 | Special Topics: Climate Change Law and Policy | Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| POLI_SCI 390-0-26 ENVR_POL 390-0-22 LEGAL_ST 376-0-23 | Special Topics: Climate Change Law and Policy | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-24 | Special Topics: Climate Geoengineering | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 495-0-21 EARTH 450-0-1 | Special Topics: Communicating Science Beyond Academia | Winter 2024 | Graduate | The Graduate School | Yes |
| EARTH 390-0-9 EARTH 204 | Special Topics: Communication for Geoscientists | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| COMP_ENG 395-0-3 COMP_ENG 495-0-3 | Special Topics: Computing and Sustainability | WInter 2025 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| COMP_ENG 495-0-3 COMP_ENG 395-0-3 | Special Topics: Computing and Sustainability | WInter 2025 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| COMP_ENG 395-0-81 COMP_ENG 495-0-81 | Special Topics: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges and Design | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| COMP_ENG 495-0-81 COMP_ENG 395-0-81 | Special Topics: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Challenges and Design | Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-20 | Special Topics: Contemporary Issues in Energy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-21 | Special Topics: Cultural Resource Management and Environmental Policy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-20 COMP_LIT 301-0-30 HUM 370-6-30 | Special Topics: Culture in a Changing Climate | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HUM 370-6-30 COMP_LIT 301-0-30 ENVR_POL 390-0-20 | Special Topics: Culture in a Changing Climate | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-08 PBC 470-0-7 | Special Topics: Data Analysis and Visualization for Scientists | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| PBC 470-0-7 ENVR_SCI 390-0-3 | Special Topics: Data Analysis and Visualization for Scientists | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| JOUR 490-0-27 | Special Topics: Energy, Climate Change, & Global Security | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| COMM_ST 395-0-20 | Special Topics: Environmental Art and Advocacy | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | School of Communication | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-25 HUM 370-3-21 | Special Topics: Environmental Justice in Modern South Asia | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HUM 370-3-21 ENVR_POL 390-0-25 | Special Topics: Environmental Justice in Modern South Asia | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| HUM 370-3 | Special Topics: Environmental Justice in Modern South Asia | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 495-0-22 | Special Topics: Ethics & Leadership in the Climate Crisis | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-28 | Special Topics: Food & Culture | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 470-0-1 ENVR_SCI 390-0-01 | Special Topics: GIS Level 1 | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| PBC 470-0-5 ENVR_SCI 390-0-2 | Special Topics: GIS Level 1 | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-2 PBC 470-0-5 | Special Topics: GIS Level 1 | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-02 | Special Topics: GIS - Raster & Remote Sensing | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-01 PBC 470-0-1 | Special Topics: GIS - Vector Focused | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 495-0-20 MECH_ENG 467 | Special Topics: Industrial Energy Management & Utilization | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | Yes |
| ISEN 495-0-22 | Special Topics: Industrial Energy Management & Utilization | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| MECH_ENG 467 ISEN 495-0-20 | Special Topics: Industrial Energy Management & Utilization | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-22 | Special Topics: International Environmental Law and Policy | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-23 POLI_SCI 349 | Special Topics: International Environmental Politics | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-23 | Special Topics: International Wildlife Law and Policy | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-21 | Special Topics: Introduction to Ethnobiology Theory and Practice | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-21 | Special Topics: Introduction to Ethnobiology Theory and Practice | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ELEC_ENG 495-0-85 | Special Topics: Introduction to Nanophotonics and Plasmonics Science | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ELEC_ENG 395-0-1 ELEC_ENG 495-0-76 | Special Topics: Introduction to Smart Grid Systems | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 495-0-01 | Special Topics: Land & Climate Change | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| ISEN 495-0-23 | Special Topics: Life Cycle Assessment - Business Applications | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-23 | Special Topics: Maple Syrup and Climate Change | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-23 | Special Topics: Maple Syrup and Climate Change | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-27 RELIGION 369-0-24 | Special Topics: Media, Earth, and Making and a Difference | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-24 | Special Topics: Media and the Environment | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-35 JOUR 367 | Special Topics: Native American Environmental Issues and the Media | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-24 ANTHRO 390-0-1 | Special Topics: Nature, Culture, and Environmentalism | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-21 POLI_SCI 390-0-31 | Special Topics: Ocean Law and Policy | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| LEGAL_ST 376-0-22 ENVR_POL 390-0-21 POLI_SCI 390-0-25 | Special Topics: Ocean Law and Policy | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| POLI_SCI 390-0-25 ENVR_POL 390-0-21 | Special Topics: Ocean Law and Policy | Winter 2025 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| MAT_SCI 495-0-1 | Special Topics: Physical Chemistry of Polymers | https://class-descriptions.northwestern.edu/4970/MEAS/MAT_SCI/23387 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-04 BIOL_SCI 333 | Special Topics: Plant-Animal Interactions | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 390-0-08 ENVR_SCI 390-0-03 PBC 470-0-2 | Special Topics: R Data Science | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-03 PBC 470-0-2 | Special Topics: R Data Science | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 470-0-2 ENVR_SCI 390-0-3 | Special Topics: R Data Science | Winter 2025 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-26 | Special Topics: Red Power: Indigenous Resistance in the US and Can | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-32 | Special Topics: Sociology of Consumption | (Last Offered) Winter 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-21 SOCIOL 276-0-21 | Special Topics: Sociology of Disaster | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-24 | Special Topics: The World That Fossil Fuels Made | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-22 POLI_SCI 329 | Special Topics: US Environmental Politics | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-27 CIV_ENV 395-0-25 | Special Topics: Water and Arid Lands: Israel and the Middle East | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 395-0-25 ENVR_POL 390-0-27 | Special Topics: Water in Arid Lands: Israel and the Middle East | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CHEM_ENG 395-0-21 | Special Topics in Chemical Engineering: Electrochemical Energy Storage | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ELEC_ENG 495-0-3 | Special Topics in Electrical Engineering: Sustainable Computing | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-24 POLI_SCI 390-0-21 | Special Topics in Environmental Policy & Culture: Research in Global Climate Change: Science, Rights | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-22 | Special Topics in Environmental Policy and Culture: : Cultural Resource Management and Environmental Policy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-20 | Special Topics in Environmental Policy and Culture: Contemporary Issues in Energy | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENGLISH 384 ENVR_POL 390-0-26 | Special Topics in Literature and the Environment: Climate Change Literature | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-26 ENGLISH 384 | Special Topics in Literature and the Environment: Climate Change Literature | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| POLI_SCI 390-0-21 ENVR_POL 390-0-24 | Special Topics in Political Science: Research in Global Change: Science, Rights | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ENVR_POL 390-0-22 AMER_ST 310-0-4 | Special Topics Natural Disasters | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| BIOL_SCI 336 PBC 415 | Spring Flora | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 415 BIOL_SCI 336 | Spring Flora | Spring 2024 | Graduate | The Graduate School | No |
| ISEN 431 | Storage and Microgrids | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 497 | Strategy & Project Management Fundamentals (for MSES Practicum) | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| PROJ_MGT 466 | Strategy for Corporate Sustainability | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PPTYTORT 614 | Structured Transactions: Environmental Law | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Pritzker School of Law | No |
| ENGLISH 339 ENVR_POL 390-0-27 | Studies in Shakespeare: Green Worlds? Shakespeare's Environmental Questions | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| COMP_LIT 301-0-30 ENVR_POL 390-0-20 HUM 370-6-30 | Studies in World Literature: Culture in a Changing Climate | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| IEMS 381 | Supply Chain Modelling and Analysis | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CHEM_ENG 365 | Sustainability, Technology, and Society | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| CIV_ENV 368 | Sustainability: The City | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PROJ_MGT 441-5 | Sustainability in Construction | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PROJ_MGT 441-5 | Sustainability in Construction | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 470 | Sustainability in Water and Wastewater | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| SSIM 636 | Sustainability Lab | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| PROJ_MGT 445 | Sustainability Policy and Regulatory Context | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PROJ_MGT 443 | Sustainability Strategies in Organizations | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 461 | Sustainable Branding | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 471 | Sustainable Food | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ISEN 462 | Sustainable Supply Chain Management - Principles, Trends, & Practical Realities | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| CIV_ENV 364 | Sustainable Water Systems | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| PROJ_MGT 446 | System Thinking for Sustainable Design | Winter 2025 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| STRT 458 | The Economics of Energy Markets and the Environment | Spring 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |
| ISEN 473 | The Future of Food and Agriculture | Fall 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_SCI 202 | The Health of the Biosphere | Winter 2025 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 106 | The Ocean, the Atmosphere, & Our Climate | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| EARTH 106 | The Ocean, the Atmosphere & Our Climate | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Medill School of Journalism | No |
| HISTORY 251 | The Politics of Disaster: A Global Environmental History | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ISEN 390-0-20 MECH_ENG 380 | Thermal Energy Systems Design | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | Yes |
| MECH_ENG 380 ISEN 390-0-20 | Thermal Energy Systems Design | Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| RELIGION 369-0-24 ENVR_POL 390-0-27 | Topics: Media, Earth, and Making a Difference | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ANTHRO 290-0-3 | Topics in Anthropology: Infrastructure, Power, and Justice in the Anthropocene | Fall 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| ANTHRO 390-0-1 ENVR_POL 390-0-24 | Topics in Anthropology: Nature, Culture, and Environment | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| SOCIOL 376-0-22 COMM_ST 381 | Topics in Sociological Analysis: Media, Movements & Social Change | (Last Offered) Winter 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| CIV_ENV 479 | Transportation Systems Planning and Management | (Last Offered) Fall 2023 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | No |
| ISEN 412 | Understanding Global Energy & Sustainability Markets | Spring 2024 | Graduate | McCormick School of Engineering | Yes |
| ENVR_SCI 390-0-7 PBC 470-0-3 | Urban Ecology | (Last Offered) Spring 2024 | Undergraduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| PBC 470-0-3 ENVR_SCI 390-0-7 | Urban Ecology | (Last Offered) Spring 2024 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| POLI_SCI 329 ENVR_POL 390-0-22 | US Environmental Politics | (Last Offered) Spring 2023 | Graduate | Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences | No |
| STRT 959-5 | What Every MBA Should Know About Climate Change | Fall 2024 | Graduate | Kellogg School of Management | No |