Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment

Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment
Area of Specialization Curriculum
The Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment area of specialization is guided by the Center on Food Security and the Environment (FSE) and the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development (PESD) at FSI. Students must complete two required courses, and choose at least three electives from the pre-approved list below - for a minimum of 20 total units.
Courses
Required Courses
Complete two of the following courses
CEE 207A: Understanding Energy
INTLPOL 271: Climate Politics: Science and Global Governance
INTLPOL 272: Topics and Methods in Global Environmental Policy I
Approved Electives
Currently Offered (AY 2024-25)
BIO 279: The Science & Practice of Valuing Nature for a Better World (BIO 179, EARTHSYS 179, EARTHSYS 279)
CEE: 207A: Understanding Energy
CEE 207S: Understanding Energy - Essentials
CEE 226: Life Cycle Assessments for Complex Systems
CEE 226E: Techniques and Methods for Decarbonized and Energy Efficient Building Design
CEE 241C: Global Infrastructure Projects Seminar
CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries
CEE 273S: Electricity Economics
CEE 323A: Infrastructure Finance and Governance
CEE 330B: Quest for an Inclusive Clean Energy Economy (CEE 130B, EARTHSYS 130B, EARTHSYS 330B)
EARTHSYS 185: Feeding Nine Billion
EARTHSYS 194A: Environmental Justice Colloquium
EARTHSYS 212: Human Society and Environmental Change
EARTHSYS 213: Innovation for Climate and Sustainability
EARTHSYS 254: Environmental Governance
ECON 155: Climate Change and Global Inequality
ENERGY 203: Stanford Climate Ventures
ENERGY 203A: Big Ideas & Open Opportunities in Climate-Tech Entrepreneurship
ENERGY 205: Hydrogen Economy
ENERGY 308: Carbon Dioxide and Methane Removal, Utilization, and Sequestration
ESS 223: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
ESS 234: Climate Displacement, Migration, and Mobility (HUMRTS 224)
GSBGEN 386: Public Policy for Climate Innovation
GSBGEN 559: The Technology, Politics, and Finance for Solving Global Warming
GSBGID 501: Climate Finance in Private Markets
INTLPOL 273: Public Policy and Sustainability Challenges: Israel and the Middle East
INTLPOL 358: Business, Social Responsibility, and Human Rights
LAW 2503: Energy Law
LAW 2504: Environmental Law and Policy
LAW 2506: Natural Resources Law and Policy
LAW 2508: The Business of Water
MS&E 243: Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis
PHYSICS 240: Introduction to the Physics of Energy
SUST 210: Pursuing Sustainability: Managing Complex Social Environmental Systems
Inactive Courses
AFRICAAM 207: Emergent Thinking: Abolition and Climate Change
BIOS 230: Successful Fieldwork in Global Health Research
CEE 218X: Shaping the future of the Bay Area
CEE 257: Sustainable Finance and Investment Seminar
CEE 263D: Air Pollution and Global Warming: History, Science, and Solutions
CEE 263H: Sustainable Energy Decisions
CEE 265E: Adaption to Sea Level Rise and Extreme Weather Events
CS 325B: Data for Sustainable Development
EARTHSYS 159: Economic, Legal, and Political Analysis of Climate-Change Policy
EARTHSYS 206: World Food Economy
EARTHSYS 217: Biology and Global Change
ECON 251: Natural Resources and Energy Economics
ECON 261: The Engineering Economics of Electricity Markets
ENERGY 271: Energy Infrastructure, Technology and Economics
ENVRES 222: Climate Law and Policy
ENVRES 226: Energy Law
ENVRES 240: Environmental Decision-Making and Risk Perception
HISTORY 303E: Infrastructure and Power in the Global South
INTLPOL 266: Managing Nuclear Waste: Technical, Political and Organizational Challenges
INTLPOL 275: International Environmental Governance
INTLPOL 276: Energy Markets and Policy
INTLPOL 371: Policy Practicum: Assessing the Impact of China's Global Infrastructure Spending on Climate Change
LAW 2513: Climate: Politics, Finance, and Infrastructure
LAW 7823: Advanced Negotiation: International
PUBLPOL 265F: Environmental Governance and Climate Resilience
SUST 225: Decision Making for Sustainability
SUSTAIN 348: Public Policy for Climate Innovation