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Below is a collection of MIT graduate level sustainability courses that count towards the Sustainability Certificate elective requirements. While course details are provided, please be sure to verify course dates, times, and credits in the MIT course registration system, as updates may occur that are not immediately reflected on this page.
Course Title
1.076
Carbon Management
Fall | 12 Cr.
Carbon Management
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Introduces the carbon cycle and "climate solutions" + provides specialized knowledge to manage and offset carbon emissions for government entities and large corporations through nature-based solutions and technology.
Faculty: C Terrer
MW1-2.30 + Lab: F2-4
1.147
Startup Sustainable Tech
Spring | 12 Cr.
Startup Sustainable Tech
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2021 | Provides a practical introduction to key innovations in the fields of civil and environmental engineering that are currently having an impact.
Professor: B. Marelli
MWF 9:00
1.579
Materials in Agriculture, Food Security, and Food Safety
Fall | 12 Cr.
Materials in Agriculture, Food Security, and Food Safety
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2021 | Offers a unique perspective on the interplay between advanced materials, agriculture and food. Illustrates the impact that advanced materials-based innovation is imparting to four key areas of agriculture: management of plant diseases, mitigation of saline soil, enhancement of crop yield and productivity, and food safety and food security.
Faculty: B. Marelli
1.74
Land, Water, Food and Climate
Fall | 6 Cr.
Land, Water, Food and Climate
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Seminar examines food production in a changing world, with an emphasis on key scientific questions about the connections between natural resources, climate, and agriculture.
Faculty: McLaughlin
TR 2:30-4:00
1.C51
Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems
Spring | 6 Cr.
Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Students learn to leverage heterogeneous data from urban services, cities, and the environment, and apply machine learning methods to evaluate and/or improve sustainability solutions.
Professor: S. Amin
F 11AM and 12PM
10.986
Seminar in Energy Systems
Fall | 6 Cr.
Seminar in Energy Systems
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Seminar series on current research on energy systems modeling and analysis.
11.165
1.286
Urban Energy Systems and Policy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Urban Energy Systems and Policy
Fall
12 Cr.
1.286
Fall 2023 | Examines key issues in the current and future development of urban energy systems, such as technology, use, behavior, regulation, climate change, and lack of access or energy poverty.
Faculty: Hsu
TR 11:00-12:30
11.169
11.269
Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
Spring | 9 Cr.
Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
Spring
9 Cr.
11.269
Spring 2023 | Addresses economic growth, environmental preservation, and social equity through the lens of sustainability.
Faculty: Knox-Hayes
T 2:00-5:00
11.171
Indigenous Environmental Planning
Spring | 12 Cr.
Indigenous Environmental Planning
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Examines how Indigenous peoples' relationships to their homelands and local environments has been adversely affected by Western planning.
J. Knox-Hayes
11.255
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector
Spring | 12 Cr.
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Builds insight and skills about multi-party negotiation and consensus building. Relevant to all multi-sectoral work.
Faculty: Susskind
MW 3:30-5:30
11.308J
4.213J
Ecological Urbanism Seminar
Fall | 12 Cr.
Ecological Urbanism Seminar
Fall
12 Cr.
4.213J
Fall 2022 |Examines the urban environment as a natural phenomenon, human habitat, medium of expression, and forum for action
Spirn
M 2:00-5:00PM
11.350
Sustainable Real Estate: Economics and Business
Spring | 12 Cr.
Sustainable Real Estate: Economics and Business
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Designed for students who wish to gain deep insights into the tension and synergy between sustainability and the real estate industry.
W (7-8.30 PM)
Zheng, Palacios, Tan
11.368
Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Introduces frameworks for analyzing and addressing inequalities in the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, particularly by race and by class.
Faculty: Steil
Th 2-5
11.371J
1.818J
Sustainable Energy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Sustainable Energy
Fall
12 Cr.
1.818J
Fall 2023 | Assessment of current and potential future energy systems. Covers resources, extraction, conversion, and end-use technologies, with emphasis on meeting 21st-century regional and global energy needs in a sustainable manner.
Faculty: Golay, Friedberg
11.382
Water Diplomacy - The Science, Policy, and Politics of Managing Shared Resources
Spring | 12 Cr.
Water Diplomacy - The Science, Policy, and Politics of Managing Shared Resources
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2021 | Examines the history and dynamics of international environmental treaty-making, or what is called environmental diplomacy.
Professor: L. Susskind
T 3:30-5:30PM
11.401
Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
Introduction to Housing, Community, and Economic Development
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2021 | Provides a critical introduction to the shape and determinants of political, social, and economic inequality in America, with a focus on racial and economic justice.
Faculty: Steil
TR 9:30-11:00
11.449
Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
Fall | 12 Cr.
Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Focus on measuring and reducing emissions from passenger transportation, primarily in urban areas, usingmultidisciplinary approaches.
Faculty: Salzberg
W 2-5
11.474
EC.715
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Spring | 12 Cr.
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Spring
12 Cr.
EC.715
Spring 2023 | Technology and policy options for improving access to clean water and sanitation globally.
Faculty: S. Murcott, S. Hsu
11.475
Navigating Politics & Power in Water & Sanitation Planning
Spring | 12 Cr.
Navigating Politics & Power in Water & Sanitation Planning
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2021 |Informs and prepares students to navigate the explicit and implicit power dynamics among stakeholders in decision-making processes that govern the planning and delivery of water and sanitation systems.
Carolini
F 10-1
11.540
Urban Transportation Planning and Policy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Urban Transportation Planning and Policy
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Examines the tensions and potential synergies among traditional transportation policy values of individual mobility, system efficiency and “sustainability”
J. Aloisi
F 2-5 pm
11.601
Intro to Environmental Policy and Planning
Fall | 12 Cr.
Intro to Environmental Policy and Planning
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Basics of international development from planning perspective. Integrated socio-economic and environmental approach.
Faculty: Susskind
TR 3:00 - 4:30
11.701
Intro to International Development Planning
Fall | 12 Cr.
Intro to International Development Planning
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Studies interactions between planners and institutions at different scales, from local to global/transnational. Emphasizes historical and institutional approaches to development planning.
B. Rajagopal
T, Th 2:30 - 4:00
11.S952
Socially Responsible Real Estate Development
Fall | 6 Cr.
Socially Responsible Real Estate Development
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Will teach you how to evaluate a development project and practice socially responsible real estate yourself by applying SIA, EIA, and consultation methods.
Faculty: Susskind
TR - 12:30
12.586
Modeling Environmental Complexity
Fall | 12 Cr.
Modeling Environmental Complexity
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | This course provides an introduction to the study of environmental phenomena that exhibit both organized structure and wide variability.
DH Rothman
TR 11-12:30 pm
12.885
11.373
Science, Politics and Environmental Policy
Fall | 9 Cr.
Science, Politics and Environmental Policy
Fall
9 Cr.
11.373
Fall 2023 | Examines the role of science in US and international environmental policymaking.
Faculty: Solomon, Knox-Hayes
F 1:00-4:00
14.003
Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | This course applies microeconomic theory to analysis of public policy. It builds from the microeconomic model of consumer behavior and extends to operations.
Faculty D.Autor
MW 10:30-12 pm Rec: F9
14.420
Environmental Policy and Economics
Spring | 12 Cr.
Environmental Policy and Economics
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2021 | Investigates the proper role of government in the regulation of the environment. Presents tools necessary to estimate the costs and benefits of a variety of environmental policies.
Professor: C. Balboni
TR 9:00-10:30, F 3:00
14.475
Environmental Economics
Spring | 12 Cr.
Environmental Economics
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2022 | Discusses theory and evidence on environmental externalities and regulatory, tax, and other government responses to problems of market failure.
Professor: C Balboni
TR 10:30 - 12:00, F 10:30 - 12:00
15.014
Applied Macro- and International Economics II
Spring | 6 Cr.
Applied Macro- and International Economics II
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | 15.014 focuses on using case studies to investigate the macro-environment in which firms operate. The course is divided in five parts.
Faculty: Rigobon
MW 10:00AM-11:30AM
15.020
Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
Fall | 12 Cr.
Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2022 | Covers energy and environmental market organization and regulation. Explores economic challenges and solutions to transforming energy markets to be more efficient, accessible, affordable, and sustainable.
MW 8:30-10AM
15.027
Opportunities in Developing Economies
Spring | 6 Cr.
Opportunities in Developing Economies
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2021 | Investigates the role of the private sector in developing economies, highlighting how solving market failures can improve overall welfare
Suri
TR 2:30PM-4:00PM
15.029J
United States Energy Policy: Lessons Learned for the Future
Fall | 6 Cr.
United States Energy Policy: Lessons Learned for the Future
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Students will have the opportunity to compare the working of U.S. policies confronting a wide range of energy issues.
Faculty: J. Deutch
TF 9:30 am - 11:00 am
15.032
Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector
Spring | 12 Cr.
Engineering, Economics and Regulation of the Electric Power Sector
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | The course presents an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective of electric power systems, with regulation providing the link among the engineering, economic, legal and environmental viewpoints.
Fall 2020 | Familiarizes students with the potential contributions and risks of using geoengineering technologies to control climate damage from global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions.
Zuber
15.038
Energy Economics and Policy
Spring | 12 Cr.
Energy Economics and Policy
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2022 | Theoretical and empirical perspectives on individual and industrial demand for energy, energy supply, energy markets, and public policies affecting energy markets.
Knittel
TR 2:30PM-4:00PM
15.219
Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy
Spring | 12 Cr.
Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2020 | The course focuses heavily on accelerating the transition to cleaner forms of energy, as well as on the management of climate change, air quality, and other environmental challenges around the world.
Faculty: Karplus
TR 1:00-2:30
15.225
Modern Business in China: China Lab
Spring | 12 Cr.
Modern Business in China: China Lab
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2021 | The purpose of this course is to analyze these two countries within a coherent analytical framework (must be a sustainability-related project).
Faculty: Grant, Huang
MW 10:00AM-11:30AM
15.226
Modern Business in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Lab
Spring | 12 Cr.
Modern Business in Southeast Asia: ASEAN Lab
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | This class explores current issues in Southeast Asia’s political economy and business with a focus on key challenges that global managers need to consider as they define strategies and navigate their relationships with the local environment and the broader issue of China’s influence in the region (must be a sustainability-oriented project).
15.232
Breakthrough Ventures: Effective Business Models in Frontier Markets
Spring | 6 Cr.
Breakthrough Ventures: Effective Business Models in Frontier Markets
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Examines how new approaches to operations, revenue, marketing, finance, and strategy enable improved social outcomes in resource-limited settings across Africa, Latin America, and Asia.
Faculty: Sastry
TR 1:00PM-2:30PM
15.270
Ethical Practice: Leading Through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design
Spring | 6 Cr.
Ethical Practice: Leading Through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Introduction to ethics in business, with a focus on business management. Students explore theoretical concepts in business ethics, and cases representing the challenges they will likely face as managers.
Faculty: Hafrey
M;W 1:00PM-2:30PM
15.308
Leading the Way: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I
Spring | 9 Cr.
Leading the Way: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Opportunity to address both individual skills and organizational strategies for advancing equity and inclusion.
Faculty: Blackburn, Kelly
T 4:00PM-7:00PM
15.366
Climate and Energy Ventures
Fall | 12 Cr.
Climate and Energy Ventures
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Project-based approach to innovation and venture creation in the energy sector and sectors that can mitigate climate change. Explores how innovation and entrepreneurial concepts apply (or do not apply) to the significant opportunities in these industries. Working in teams, students create new ventures specifically for the energy sector or to address climate change. Lectures guide teams through key elements of their projects. 15.390 is recommended as a prerequisite.
Faculty: Hynes, O'Sullivan
Th 5:30-8:00pm
15.375
EC.731
Global Ventures
Fall | 12 Cr.
Global Ventures
Fall
12 Cr.
EC.731
Fall 2023 | Seminar on founding, financing, and building entrepreneurial ventures in developing nations. Challenges students to craft enduring and economically viable solutions to the problems faced by these countries. Cases illustrate examples of both successful and failed businesses, and the difficulties in deploying and diffusing products and services through entrepreneurial action. Explores a range of established and emerging business models, as well as new business opportunities enabled by innovations emerging from MIT labs and beyond. Students develop a business plan executive summary suitable for submission in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition's Accelerate Contest or MIT IDEAS.
Faculty: Bonsen, Pentland
TR 10:00-12:00
15.385
Innovating for Impact
Fall | 6 Cr.
Innovating for Impact
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Provides a structured approach to innovation and entrepreneurship that creates business value while solving social and environmental problems. Covers physical domains of sustainability, e.g., waste, water, food, energy, and mobility, as well as social and human capital domains, such as health and education. Students explore case studies of critical decisions made in the early stages of an enterprise that help determine its impact. Considers perspective and tools applicable to the startup context or to new lines of business in existing enterprises.
Faculty: J. Jay
WF 8:00-9:30
15.389
Global Entrepreneurship Lab
Fall | 12 Cr.
Global Entrepreneurship Lab
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2022 | Experiential study of the climate for innovation and determinants of entrepreneurial success. Students work in teams of four with the top management of a company to address a real-world business challenge, gaining insight as to how companies build, run, and scale a new enterprise. Focuses primarily on start-ups operating in emerging markets. Restricted to graduate students. *Student's must petition, must be a sustainability-related project.
Faculty: Johnson
TR 2:30-4:00PM
15.499
Social Impact Investing
Spring | 6 Cr.
Social Impact Investing
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | This course provides an introduction to social impact investing – an investment approach intentionally seeking to create both financial return and positive social impact that is actively measured.
Faculty: Rao
TR 2:30-4:00
15.655
IDS.435
Law, Technology and Public Policy
Fall | 12 Cr.
Law, Technology and Public Policy
Fall
12 Cr.
IDS.435
Fall 2023 | Examines the relationship between law and the development of science and technology, the ways in which law, economics, and technological change shape public policy, and compares law and economics as alternative paradigms for encouraging sustainability, growth, and employment.
Faculty: Ashford, Caldart
T/Th 4:00-6:00
15.657
SCM.137
Technology, Globalization & Sustainable Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
Technology, Globalization & Sustainable Development
Fall
12 Cr.
SCM.137
Fall 2023 | Lecture course on governmental policies for encouraging sustainable growth, improving the environment, and advancing employment in developed and developing countries.
Faculty: Ashford, Hall
W 4:00-6:30
15.662
People and Profits: Shaping the Future of Work
Spring | 12 Cr.
People and Profits: Shaping the Future of Work
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Examines the role of business, alongside government and labor, in creating good quality jobs in a vibrant, equitable economy.
Faculty: Stansbury
TR 8:30AM-10:00AM
15.663
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics
Spring | 12 Cr.
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 |Reviews and analyzes federal and state regulation of air and water pollution, hazardous waste, green-house gas emissions, and the production and use of toxic chemicals.
Ashford, Caldart
TR 3:30 - 5:00PM
15.671
U-Lab: Transforming Business, Society and Self
Fall | 6 Cr.
U-Lab: Transforming Business, Society and Self
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Experiential opportunity to practice new leadership skills, such as deep listening, being present (mindfulness), and generative dialogue. In weekly coaching circles, each student has one full session to present their current leadership edge and receive feedback from peer coaches. Includes an additional action learning project.
Faculty: Scharmer
Th 5:30-9pm
15.677
11.427J
Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy
Spring | 12 Cr.
Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy
Spring
12 Cr.
11.427J
Spring 2023 | Discusses the broader trends in the labor market, how urban labor markets function, public and private training policy, other labor market programs, the link between labor market policy and economic development, and the organization of work within firms.
Faculty: Anna Stansbury
Th 1:00PM-4:00PM
15.679
Bridging the American Divides: Work, Community and Culture - USA Lab
Spring | 9 Cr.
Bridging the American Divides: Work, Community and Culture - USA Lab
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Opportunity for group study by graduate students on current topics related to management not otherwise included.
Faculty: McDowell, Hafrey
W 2:30PM - 5:30PM
15.768
Management of Services: Concepts, Design and Delivery
Fall | 9 Cr.
Management of Services: Concepts, Design and Delivery
Fall
9 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Explores the use of operations tools and perspectives in the service sector, including both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations. Builds on conceptual frameworks and cases from a wide range of service operations, selected from health care, hospitality, internet services, supply chain, transportation, retailing, food service, entertainment, financial services, humanitarian services, government services, and others
Faculty: Ton
15.769
Operations Strategy
Spring | 9 Cr.
Operations Strategy
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Provides unifying framework for analyzing strategic issues in manufacturing and service operations.
Faculty: Zheng
T;Th 8:30AM-10:00AM/2:30PM-4:00PM
15.783
Product Design and Development
Spring | 12 Cr.
Product Design and Development
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Project-based course on product design; teaches design for environment.
Faculty: Eppinger, Yang
TR1:00PM-4:00PM
15.847
15.8471
Consumer Behavior
Spring | 9 Cr.
Consumer Behavior
Spring
9 Cr.
15.8471
Spring 2023 | Examines the behavior of consumers through the lens of behavioral economics, cognitive science, and social psychology.
Faculty: David Rand
15.871
Introduction to System Dynamics
Fall | 6 Cr.
Introduction to System Dynamics
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Introduction to systems thinking and system dynamics modeling applied to strategy, organizational change, and policy design. (Also offered in Spring).
Sustainability Certificate Requirement
Faculty: Johan Chu; David Keith
15.873
System Dynamics for Business and Policy
Fall | 9 Cr.
System Dynamics for Business and Policy
Fall
9 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Focuses on developing the skills and tools needed to successfully apply systems thinking and simulation modeling in diverse real-world settings. Also offered in Spring.
Faculty: Johan Chu
Counts towards Sustainability Certificate requirements
15.874
12.387
Environmental Governance and Science
Fall | 9 Cr.
Environmental Governance and Science
Fall
9 Cr.
12.387
Fall 2023 | Introduces governance and science aspects of complex environmental problems and approaches to solutions. Introduces quantitative analyses and methodological tools to analyze environmental issues that have human and natural components. Demonstrates concepts through a series of in-depth case studies of environmental governance and science problems.
Faculty: Selin
F 10:00-1:00
15.878
Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab)
Spring | 9 Cr.
Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab)
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Drawing on academic and practical experiences, students will engage in a semester-long project focused on a host organization's sustainability challenge.
Faculty: Patten, J Repenning
W 4:00PM-7:00PM
Sustainability Certificate requirement | Co-req:15.915: Business Strategies for a Sustainable Future
15.915
Business Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Spring | 9 Cr.
Business Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Learn how businesses and organizations can play their part in tackling sustainability challenges ranging from over-fishing, labor rights, and supply chain resiliency.
Faculty: Jay, Patten, Sterman
T;Th 10:00AM-11:30AM
Sustainability Certificate requirement | Required for 15.878: Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab), can be taken concurrently.
15.S05
SSIM: Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Spring | 6 Cr.
SSIM: Energy Efficiency and Smart Grid Strategies for a Sustainable Future
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Discusses emerging energy opportunities at building, sub-national (city/state), and national scale for developing and deploying efficient grids.
Faculty: Michaels
TR 1:00PM-2:30PM
15.S70
Impact Ventures
Fall | 12 Cr.
Impact Ventures
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | A practical perspective - must be an effort linked to sustainability. (Only available to Legatum Fellows)
Faculty: Mitchell
Th 5:30-8pm
15.S9
SSIM: Managing Crucial Conversations About & Across Difference
Fall | 6 Cr.
SSIM: Managing Crucial Conversations About & Across Difference
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2020 | This course gives us an opportunity to understand why it can be so hard to talk about and across our different identities (with a particular focus on race and gender).
Faculty: Blackburn
WF 8:00-9:00AM
2.760
Global Engineering
Fall | 12 Cr.
Global Engineering
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Combines rigorous engineering theory and user-centered product design to create technologies for developing and emerging markets.
Faculty: Winter
MW 1-2.30
2.832
Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT
Spring | 12 Cr.
Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Working in teams, students address the problem of reducing MIT's greenhouse gas emissions in a manner consistent with the climate goals of maintaining our planet in a suitable regime to support human society and the environment.
Professor: T. Gutowski, J. Newman
MW9.30-11
2.871
D-Lab: Supply Chains
Spring | 12 Cr.
D-Lab: Supply Chains
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Introduces concepts of supply chain design and planning with a focus on supply chains for products destined to improve quality of life in developing countries.
Professor: S. C. Graves
MW 9:30-11:00 AM
2.965[J]
Global Supply Chain Management
Spring | 6 Cr.
Global Supply Chain Management
Spring
6 Cr.
Focuses on the planning, processes, and activities of supply chain management for companies involved in international commerce. Not regularly offered.
2.S985
Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales
Fall | 12 Cr.
Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability from various perspectives using the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the MIT campus and research.
Faculty: Gutowski, Newman
MW 1:00-2:30PM
21A.155
Food, Culture, and Politics
Fall | 12 Cr.
Food, Culture, and Politics
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | This course explores connections between what we eat and who we are through cross-cultural study of how personal and collective identities, social relations.
Faculty: H. Paxson
TR2.30-4
21A.429
STS.320J
Environmental Conflict and Social Change
Fall | 12 Cr.
Environmental Conflict and Social Change
Fall
12 Cr.
STS.320J
Fall 2022 | Explores the complex interrelationships among humans and natural environments, focusing on non-western parts of the world in addition to Europe and the United States.
C. Walley
W 1-4
22.780
Nuclear Waste Management
Fall | 12 Cr.
Nuclear Waste Management
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Examines nonproliferation aspects, disposal of excess weapons plutonium, and transmutation of long lived radiation.
MW 1-2:30 pm
24.634
Global Justice, Gender, and Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
Global Justice, Gender, and Development
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Interdisciplinary subject that examines questions of feminism, international women's issues, and globalization.
S. Haslanger, L. McDonald
W 9:30-12:30 pm
3.70
Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy
Spring | 12 Cr.
Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Develops the materials principles, limitations and challenges in clean energy technologies, including solar, energy storage, thermoelectrics, fuel cells, and novel fuels.
Faculty: H. Tuller
TR 1:30 - 3:00
4.228
Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation
Fall | 0 Cr.
Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation
Fall
0 Cr.
Fall 2023 | UNITS ARRANGED. Critical introduction to key contemporary positions in urbanism to the ends of researching, representing, and designing territories that respond to the challenges of the 21st century.
Faculty: R. Ghosn
W 2-5 pm
4.401
4.464
Environmental Technologies in Buildings
Fall | 12 Cr.
Environmental Technologies in Buildings
Fall
12 Cr.
4.464
Fall 2023 | The study of the thermal, luminous and acoustical behavior of buildings
Faculty: Reinhart
MW 11:00-12:30
5.00
Energy Technology and Policy: From Principles to Practice
Fall | 9 Cr.
Energy Technology and Policy: From Principles to Practice
Fall
9 Cr.
Develops analytical skills to lead a successful technology implementation with an integrated approach that combines technical, economical and social perspectives.
Professor: Zuber
5.811
Fifty Years of U.S. Energy Policy – Lessons for the Future
Fall | 6 Cr.
Fifty Years of U.S. Energy Policy – Lessons for the Future
Fall
6 Cr.
Fall 2022 | Students will have the opportunity to compare the working of U.S. policies in confronting a wide range of energy issues, from oil import dependence, climate policy, nuclear proliferation, in a domestic and an international context.
Faculty: John Deutch
6.712
Principles of Modeling, Computing and Control for Decarbonized Electric Energy Systems
Fall | 12 Cr.
Principles of Modeling, Computing and Control for Decarbonized Electric Energy Systems
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | Apply a dynamic systems-level approach and engage emerging research on efficient, sustainable, and physically and economically feasible electric power systems.
MW 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm RECITATION: R 11
CMS.875
Reading Climate Through Media
Spring | 12 Cr.
Reading Climate Through Media
Spring
12 Cr.
Fall 2021 | Explores how climate is construed in the contemporary media in order to gain a better understanding of how views of climate change are shaped and received in the public sphere.
Professor: J. Paradis
T 7:00-10:00PM
EC. 782
2.652J
D-Lab: Applications of Energy in Global Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
D-Lab: Applications of Energy in Global Development
Fall
12 Cr.
2.652J
Fall 2020 | Issues in international development, appropriate technology and project implementation addressed through lectures, case studies, guest speakers and laboratory exercises. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session.
Faculty: Frey, Verploegen
TR 3-5
EC.701
EC.781
D-Lab: Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
D-Lab: Development
Fall
12 Cr.
EC.781
Fall 2023 | Issues in international development, appropriate technology and project implementation addressed through lectures, case studies, guest speakers and laboratory exercises. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session.
Faculty: S. L. Hsu, B. Sanyal
MW3.30-5, F 3:30-5
EC.750
EC.785
Humanitarian Innovation: Design for Relief, Rebuilding, and Recovery
Spring | 12 Cr.
Humanitarian Innovation: Design for Relief, Rebuilding, and Recovery
Spring
12 Cr.
EC.785
Spring 2020 | This course pilots a new approach to humanitarian innovation, focusing on how to teach refugees and displaced the design process so that they can create technologies and tools to improve their lives.
Faculty: Smith, Thompson
MW 1:00-3:00
EC.782
EC.712
Applications of Energy in Global Development
Fall | 12 Cr.
Applications of Energy in Global Development
Fall
12 Cr.
EC.712
Fall 2023 | Engages students through practical, project-focused and community-based approaches to advance the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 7, which seeks to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy.
EC.783
Entrepreneurship for the Idealist
Spring | 12 Cr.
Entrepreneurship for the Idealist
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | The mission of this class is to inspire and prepare students to undertake the work of making the world just. You start by exploring the nature of a just world – what ideals must you commit yourself to, and why? How are those ideals reconciled with the constraints the world ‘as it is’ imposes?
Faculty: Manish Bhardwaj
W 10-1
EC.787
D-Lab: Education and Learning
Spring | 9 Cr.
D-Lab: Education and Learning
Spring
9 Cr.
Spring 2022 | Using innovative and proven best-practice models to create curriculum and implement instruction about design thinking, science, engineering, global learning, community activism, and more.
Faculty: Nam
R 7:00-9:00 PM
EC.789
D-Lab: Water, Climate Change and Health
Spring | 12 Cr.
D-Lab: Water, Climate Change and Health
Spring
12 Cr.
Spring 2023 | This course addresses mitigation and adaptation to climate change as it pertains to water and health.
Faculty: Hsu, Nam
R 2:00-5:00PM
EC.791
EC.711
D-Lab: Introduction to Energy in Global Development
Spring | 12 Cr.
D-Lab: Introduction to Energy in Global Development
Spring
12 Cr.
EC.711
Spring 2023 | Provides a project-based approach that engages students in understanding and addressing the applications of alternative energy technology in developing countries. Focuses on compact, robust, low-cost systems for generating electrical power.
Faculty: Verploegen
MW10:30-12:00, F10:00-12:00
EC.988
3.088
Social Life of Materials
Spring | 12 Cr.
Social Life of Materials
Spring
12 Cr.
3.088
Spring 2023 | This class focuses on historically and socially-informed sustainable and equitable materials design.
Faculty: C. Ortiz, E.F. Spero
MW 12:30P-2:00P
IDS.521
Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation
Fall | 12 Cr.
Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall2023| This class explores global greenhouse gas emissions from energy systems and potential levers for reducing emissions
Trancik
TR11-12.30
IDS.522
Mapping and Evaluating New Energy Technologies
Fall | 12 Cr.
Mapping and Evaluating New Energy Technologies
Fall
12 Cr.
Fall 2023 | This graduate seminar reviews various energy conversion and storage technologies, and decision models for investors, policy-makers, and engineers.
Faculty: J. Trancik
W 2:30-5:30 pm
SCM.124
IDS.521
Energy Systems and Climate Change
Fall | 12 Cr.
Energy Systems and Climate Change
Fall
12 Cr.
IDS.521
Fall 2022 | Policy implications and basic understanding of energy technologies and their climate impacts.
Faculty: Trancik
TR 11:00-12:30
SCM.283
Humanitarian Logistics
Spring | 6 Cr.
Humanitarian Logistics
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Explores how logistics management principles apply in dynamic, resource-constrained contexts, ranging from humanitarian crisis response to international development. Note: SCM.283/4 meet together - SCM.284 will also count for the certificate, though is not a requirement.
Faculty: Goentzel
MW 1-2:30
SCM.290
Sustainable Supply Chains
Spring | 6 Cr.
Sustainable Supply Chains
Spring
6 Cr.
Spring 2023 | Focus on the fundamental tools and techniques required to analyze and design environmentally sustainable supply chain systems.