MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative

Sustainability Courses

Credit: Marty Nee

Students can choose from over 60 sustainability courses institute wide as they pursue the Sustainability Certificate.

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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. 

Approved courses from academic year 2024 and 2025:

Course Title
1.076 Carbon Management Fall 12 Cr.
1.713J
Land-Atmosphere Interactions Spring 12 Cr.
1.760 Carbon Management Spring 12 Cr.
1.800 Chemicals in the Environment Spring 12 Cr.
1.834J
Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales Fall 12 Cr.
1.845 Introduction to the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle and Ecosystem Ecology Spring 12 Cr.
1.878J
Nuclear Energy and the Environment: Waste, Effluents, and Accidents Spring 12 Cr.
1.C51
Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems Spring 6 Cr.
10.817
Atmospheric Chemistry Fall 12 Cr.
10.986 Seminar in Energy Systems Fall 6 Cr.
11.255 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector Spring 12 Cr.
11.258 Sustainable Urbanization Research Seminar Fall 3 Cr.
11.265 Topics on Housing Finance and Social Equity Spring 6 Cr.
11.268 Laws of the Land: Land Use and Environmental Law and Policy Fall 6 Cr.
11.271 Indigenous Environmental Planning Spring 12 Cr.
11.308J
Ecological Urbanism Seminar Spring 12 Cr.
11.350 Sustainable Real Estate: Analysis and Investment Spring 12 Cr.
11.367 Land Use Law and Politics: Race, Place, and Law Spring 12 Cr.
11.368 Environmental Justice: Law and Policy Fall 12 Cr.
11.371J
Sustainable Energy Fall 12 Cr.
11.382 Water Diplomacy: The Science, Policy, and Politics of Managing Shared Resources Spring 12 Cr.
11.449 Decarbonizing Urban Mobility Spring 12 Cr.
11.474
D-Lab: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Spring 12 Cr.
11.474
D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Spring 12 Cr.
11.477J
Urban Energy Systems and Policy Fall 12 Cr.
11.526J
Comparative Land Use and Transportation Planning Spring 12 Cr.
11.540 Urban Transportation Planning and Policy Fall 12 Cr.
11.547J
Global Aging & the Built Environment Spring 12 Cr.
11.592 Renewable Energy Facility Siting Clinic Spring 12 Cr.
11.601 Intro to Environmental Policy and Planning Fall 12 Cr.
11.701 Intro to International Development Planning Fall 12 Cr.
11.S187
Social Carbon Economy Fall 12 Cr.
11.S938
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Urban Transport Planning Fall 6 Cr.
11.S941 Green Finance Fall 12 Cr.
11.S951 Joint Urban Design Workshop in China Fall 6 Cr.
12.586 Modeling Environmental Complexity Fall 12 Cr.
12.740 Paleoceanography Spring 12 Cr.
12.812 The General Circulation of the Atmosphere and Climate Change Fall 9 Cr.
12.849 Mechanisms and Models of the Global Carbon Cycle Spring 12 Cr.
12.860 Climate Variability and Diagnostics Fall 12 Cr.
12.860 Climate Variability and Diagnostics Spring 12 Cr.
12.885
Science, Politics and Environmental Policy Fall 9 Cr.
14.003 Microeconomic Theory and Public Policy Fall 12 Cr.
14.475 Environmental Economics Spring 12 Cr.
15.014
Applied Macro- and International Economics II Spring 6 Cr.
15.016J Climate and Energy in the Global Economy Spring 12 Cr.
15.018 Current Debates of Macroeconomics and Public Policy Spring 6 Cr.
15.029J United States Energy Policy: Lessons Learned for the Future Fall 6 Cr.
15.035 Energy Market Dynamics in a Decarbonizing Economy Spring 6 Cr.
15.232 Breakthrough Ventures: Effective Business Models in Frontier Markets Spring 6 Cr.
15.268 Choice Points: Thinking about Life and Leadership through Literature (Restricted to Sloan Fellow MBAs) Spring 9 Cr.
15.270 Ethical Practice: Leading Through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design Spring 6 Cr.
15.308 Leading the Way: Individual and Organizational Strategies for Advancing DE&I Spring 9 Cr.
15.335 Organizations Lab: Leading with Impact Spring 9 Cr.
15.366 Climate and Energy Ventures Fall 12 Cr.
15.376 AI for Impact: Solving Societal-Scale Problems Spring 9 Cr.
15.379J
Mobility Ventures: Driving Innovation in Transportation Systems Fall 12 Cr.
15.385 Innovating for Impact Fall 6 Cr.
15.389 Global Entrepreneurship Lab Fall 12 Cr.
15.399 Entrepreneurship Lab Fall 12 Cr.
15.410 Finance Ethics & Regulation Fall 3 Cr.
15.499 Practice of Finance: Climate and Social Impact Investing Spring 9 Cr.
15.655
Law, Technology and Public Policy Fall 12 Cr.
15.657
Technology, Globalization & Sustainable Development Fall 12 Cr.
15.663J
Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control Spring 12 Cr.
15.671 U-Lab: Transforming Business, Society and Self Fall 6 Cr.
15.677J
Urban Labor Markets and Employment Policy Spring 12 Cr.
15.679 USA Lab: Bridging the American Divides Spring 9 Cr.
15.700 Leadership and Integrative Management (Restricted to EMBA, 1st year) Spring 9 Cr.
15.708 Global Organizations Lab: Action Learning Project (Restricted to EMBA, 2nd Year) Spring 15 Cr.
15.723 Advanced Applied Macroeconomics and Interntaional Institutions (Restricted to EMBA, 2nd Year) Spring 6 Cr.
15.736 Intro to System Dynamics (Restricted to EMBA) Spring 9 Cr.
15.737 Advanced System Dynamics (Restricted to EMBA Students and Alumni) IAP
3 Cr.
15.765J Global Supply Chain Management Spring 6 Cr.
15.768 Management of Services: Concepts, Design and Delivery Fall 9 Cr.
15.769 Operations Strategy Spring 9 Cr.
15.783J
Product Design & Development Spring 12 Cr.
15.847
Consumer Behavior Fall 9 Cr.
15.871 Introduction to System Dynamics Spring 6 Cr.
15.873 System Dynamics for Business and Policy Spring 9 Cr.
15.874
Environmental Governance and Science Fall 9 Cr.
15.878 Sustainable Business Lab (S-Lab) Spring 9 Cr.
15.910 Innovation Strategy Fall 6 Cr.
15.915 Business Strategies for a Sustainable Future Spring 9 Cr.
15.S05 SSIM: Energy Management and AI: Strategies for a Sustainable Future Spring 9 Cr.
15.S08 SSIM: Optimization of Energy Systems Spring 12 Cr.
15.S09 SSIM: Optimization of Energy Systems Fall 12 Cr.
15.S13 SSIM: Identifying Opportunities in Climate Tech Spring 6 Cr.
15.S21 SSIM: Building and Using Imagined Futures: Thinking Forward in a Post-Global World (Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows, EMBA Students, and Alumni) IAP
3 Cr.
15.S22 SSIM: Pursuing Happiness and a Meaningful Life (Restricted to Sloan Fellows & 2nd year MBAs) Spring 6 Cr.
15.S56 SSIM: ESG Disclosure, Measurement, and Impact (Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows, EMBA Students, and Alumni) IAP
3 Cr.
15.S62 SSIM: Management of Services (Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows, EMBA Students, and Alumni) IAP
3 Cr.
15.S65 SSIM: Smarter Together…But How: Leveraging DEI to Amplify Opportunities (Restricted to MIT Sloan Fellows, EMBA Students, and Alumni) IAP
3 Cr.
15.S70 Impact Ventures: A Practical Perspective for Entrepreneurial Leaders Moving Ideas to Impact in the Developing World Fall 12 Cr.
2.760 Global Engineering Fall 12 Cr.
2.83 Energy, Materials and Manufacturing Spring 12 Cr.
2.S985 Exploring Sustainability at Different Scales Fall 12 Cr.
21A.155 Food, Culture, and Politics Fall 12 Cr.
22.780
Nuclear Waste Management Fall 12 Cr.
24.634 Global Justice, Gender, and Development Fall 12 Cr.
3.088
Social Life of Materials Spring 12 Cr.
3.372 Lightweighting and Structural Optimization Spring 12 Cr.
3.70 Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy Spring 12 Cr.
4.227 Landscapes of Energy Spring 12 Cr.
4.228 Contemporary Urbanism Proseminar: Theory and Representation Fall 12 Cr.
4.255J
Site and Environmental Systems Planning Spring 15 Cr.
4.329 Climate Visions Fall 12 Cr.
4.464
Environmental Technologies in Buildings Fall 12 Cr.
4.481 Building Technology Seminar Fall 3 Cr.
4.624 Dwelling & Building: Cities in the Global South Fall 12 Cr.
5.82J Principles of Innovation Spring 6 Cr.
6.7121
Principles of Modeling, Computing and Control for Decarbonized Electric Energy Systems Fall 12 Cr.
EC.701
D-Lab: Development Fall 12 Cr.
EC.782
D-Lab: Applications of Energy in Global Development Fall 12 Cr.
EC.782
Applications of Energy in Global Development Fall 12 Cr.
EC.789
D-Lab: Water, Climate Change and Planetary Health Spring 12 Cr.
EC.791 Introduction to Energy in Global Development Spring 12 Cr.
EC.988 The Social Life of Materials Spring 12 Cr.
IDS.521
Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation Fall 12 Cr.
IDS.522 Mapping and Evaluating New Energy Technologies Fall 12 Cr.
MAS.842
Safeguarding the Future Spring 12 Cr.
MAS.858
Asking How Space Enabled Designs Advance Justice and Development Fall 12 Cr.
MAS.859J Space Technology for the Development Leader Spring 6 Cr.
SCM.251 Supply Chain Financial Analysis Fall 9 Cr.
SCM.283 Humanitarian Logistics Spring 6 Cr.
SCM.290 Sustainable Supply Chain Management Spring 6 Cr.
SCM.291 Procurement Fundamentals Spring 6 Cr.
STS.432J
Narrating the Anthropocene: Understanding a Multi-Species Universe Fall 9 Cr.
STS.434 Postapocalyptic Science and Technology Studies Fall 9 Cr.

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