Course 1-12

Bachelor of Science in Climate System Science and Engineering

Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

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Foundational, Analytical and Computational Requirements

1.010A & 1.010B Probability: Concepts and Applications
OR 6.3700 Introduction to Probability

1.073 Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis
OR 1.074 Multivariate Data Analysis

6.100A Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python
OR 6.100L Introduction to Computer Science and Programming

6.100B Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science
OR CSE.C20[J] Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering

18.03 Differential Equations

Core Climate Requirements

  • 12.003  Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics

  • 1.020 Engineering Sustainability: Analysis and Design

  • 1.086 Physics of Renewable Energy Systems and Computational Analysis

  • 1.067(J) Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation
  • 12.385 Science, Politics & Environmental Policy
  • 11.169 Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
  • 14.42 Environmental Policy and Economics
  • 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy
  • 14.44(J) Energy Economics and Policy
  • 15.0201(J) Economics of Energy/Innovation/Sustainability
  • 12.349 Mechanisms and Models of the Global Carbon Cycle
  • 1.076 Carbon Management
  • 12.301 Climate Science
  • 1.108 Climate and Sustainability Lab — (CI-M)
  • 12.307 Weather and Climate Lab
  • 12.335  Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
  • 1.101/1.102 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design I & II
  • 1.106/1.107 Environmental Fluid Transport Processes and Hydrology Laboratory and Environmental Chemistry Laboratory   

Restricted and Unrestricted Electives

Students will be required to choose 7 restricted and unrestricted elective classes (depending on the units in their Core). These restrictive electives will be selected in consultation with their advisor to focus on the student’s specific interests.

Humanities, Social Science, and Economics

  • 11.003[J] Methods of Policy Analysis
  • 11.148 Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
  • 11.165 Urban Energy Systems and Policy
  • 11.169 Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
  • 12.385 Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy
  • 14.42 Environmental Policy and Economics
  • 14.44[J] Energy Economics and Policy
  • 17.30[J] Making Public Policy
  • 17.181 Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy
  • IDS.055[J] Science, Technology, and Public Policy
  • IDS.060[J] Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control
  • IDS.062[J] Global Environmental Negotiations
  • IDS.063[J] People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science 
  • 1.082 Ethics for Engineers
  • 24.03 Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food
  • 24.07 The Ethics of Climate Change
  • 24.191 Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life 
  • 3.982 The Ancient Andean World
  • 3.983 Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization
  • 4.211[J] The Once and Future City
  • 11.011 The Art and Science of Negotiation
  • 12.386[J] Environment and History
  • 21A.155 Food, Culture, and Politics
  • 21A.303[J] The Anthropology of Biology
  • 21A.312 Planetary Change and Human Health
  • 21A.407[J] Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice
  • 21A.410 Environmental Struggles
  • 21H.186 Nature and Environment in China
  • 21H.187 US Environmental Governance: from National Parks to the Green New Deal
  • 21H.383 Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000
  • 21L.449 The Wilds of Literature
  • 21W.012 Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought
  • 21W.036 Science Writing and New Media: Writing and the Environment
  • 21W.775 Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues
  • 22.04[J] Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
  • CMS.374[J] Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice
  • CMS.375 Reading Climate Through Media
  • EC.701[J] D-Lab: Development
  • STS.021[J] Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power

Foundational Science

  • 1.018[J] Fundamentals of Ecology
  • 1.080 Environmental Chemistry
  • 1.089 Earth’s Microbiomes
  • 12.001 Introduction to Geology
  • 12.002 Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science
  • 12.007 Geobiology: History of Life on Earth
  • 18.352[J] Nonlinear Dynamics: The Natural Environment
  • 1.071[J] Global Change Science
  • 1.085[J] Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
  • 12.306 Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry
  • 12.377 The History of Earth’s Climate

Modeling and Computation

  • 12.086 Modeling Environmental Complexity
  • 4.432 Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods
  • 6.C01 Modeling with Machine Learning: from Algorithms to Applications
  • 1.C01 Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems
  • 15.8731 System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Complex Problems
  • 6.3400 Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks 
  • 6.9010 Introduction to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems
  • 6.9080 Introduction to EECS via Robotics
  • 6.1200[J] Mathematics for Computer Science
  • 6.1910 Computation Structures
  • 6.3700 Introduction to Probability
  • 6.3800 Introduction to Inference
  • 6.4100 Artificial Intelligence
  • 18.200 Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • 18.200A Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • 18.211 Combinatorial Analysis
  • 6.1210 Introduction to Algorithms
  • 6.1010 Fundamentals of Programming
  • 6.1220[J] Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • 6.1400[J] Computability and Complexity Theory
  • 6.1800 Computer Systems Engineering
  • 6.3730[J] Statistics, Computation and Applications
  • 6.3900 Introduction to Machine Learning
  • 6.4120[J] Computational Cognitive Science
  • 6.4400 Computer Graphics
  • 6.4530[J] Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology
  • 6.5151 Large-scale Symbolic Systems
  • 6.5831 Database Systems
  • 6.8301 Advances in Computer Vision
  • 6.8371 Digital and Computational Photography
  • 6.8611 Quantitative Methods for Natural Language Processing
  • 6.8701 Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution
  • 6.8711[J] Computational Systems Biology: Deep Learning in the Life Sciences
  • 18.404 Theory of Computation
  • 6.1220[J] Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • 6.1020 Software Construction
  • 6.1040 Software Studio
  • 6.1060 Software Performance Engineering
  • 6.1100 Computer Language Engineering
  • 6.1920 Constructive Computer Architecture
  • 6.4200[J] Robotics: Science and Systems
  • 6.4550[J] Interactive Music Systems
  • 6.5081 Multicore Programming

Climate Mitigation and Adaptation

  • 2.60[J] Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
  • 2.652[J] Applications of Energy in Global Development
  • 3.002 Materials for Energy
  • 3.18 Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy
  • 5.371 Continuous Flow Chemistry: Sustainable Conversion of Reclaimed Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel
  • 5.372 Chemistry of Renewable Energy
  • 8.21 Physics of Energy
  • 10.04 A Philosophical History of Energy
  • 10.05 Foundational Analyses of Problems in Energy and the Environment
  • 12.021 Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment
  • 14.43[J] Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
  • 22.081[J] Introduction to Sustainable Energy
  • EC.711[J] Introduction to Energy in Global Development
  • IDS.065[J] Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation
  • 1.005 Experiential Sustainability
  • 1.006 Tools for Sustainable Design
  • 1.013 Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design
  • 1.103[J] Infrastructure Design for Climate Change
  • 4.657 Design: The History of Making Things
  • 10.496[J] Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems
  • 22.033 Nuclear Systems Design Project
  • 1.UAR[J] Climate and Sustainability Undergraduate Advanced Research
  • EC.713[J] D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory
  • EC.720[J] D-Lab: Design
  • 1.061 Transport Processes in the Environment
  • or 1.061A Transport Processes in the Environment I
  • 1.070A[J] Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources
  • 1.070B[J] Introduction to Hydrology Modeling
  • 12.104 Geochemistry of Natural Waters
  • 12.372 Elements of Modern Oceanography
  • 12.390 Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
  • EC.715 D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
  • EC.719 D-Lab: Water, Climate Change, and Health
  • 1.035 Mechanics of Materials
  • 3.081 Industrial Ecology of Materials
  • 3.094 Materials in Human Experience
  • 3.19 Sustainable Chemical Metallurgy
  • 4.218 Disaster Resilient Design
  • 4.401 Environmental Technologies in Buildings
  • 11.123 Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes
  • 11.149 Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
  • 11.158 Behavioral Science and Urban Mobility
  • EC.733[J] D-Lab: Supply Chains
  • 1.004 Startup Sustainable Tech

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