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Minor in Environment and Sustainability

Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA

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Program
Award
Minor
CIP
03.0209
Total credits (published)
57
Credits (computed from items)
54-60
Catalog edition
2026
Checklist type
degree-program
Identifiers
IPEDS UNITID
166683
CourseShelf checklist
CK_166683_db30adeb
CollegeTransfer.Net
Institution Transfer Profile
Source
CourseShelf publish 61

Requirements to complete

Every course or condition the catalog lists, in the catalog's order.

Environment and Sustainability Foundation

1 item
  1. 12.387[J]
    People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science
    Not resolved to a course
    9

Context and Perspective

22 items
  1. Select one of the following: 1,2,3
    Not resolved to a course
    12
  2. 3.088
    The Social Life of Materials
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 10.05
    Foundational Analyses of Problems in Energy and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 11.068
    Environmental Justice, Science, and Technology
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 11.169
    Global Climate Policy and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 11.170
    Cities and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 11.171
    Indigenous Environmental Planning
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 12.385
    Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 17.181
    Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  10. 21A.312
    Planetary Change and Human Health
    Not resolved to a course
  11. 21A.403[J]
    Anthro-Engineering: Green Steel, Green Jobs
    Not resolved to a course
  12. 21A.404
    Living Through Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  13. 21A.406[J]
    Anthro-Engineering: From Lab to Land - Infrastructures of Climate Justice in the Pacific Northwest
    Not resolved to a course
  14. 21A.408[J]
    Anthro-Engineering: Decarbonization at the Million-Person Scale
    Not resolved to a course
  15. 21A.410
    Environmental Struggles
    Not resolved to a course
  16. 21H.186
    Nature and Environment in China
    Not resolved to a course
  17. 21H.187
    The History of US Environmental Governance
    Not resolved to a course
  18. 22.04[J]
    Social Problems of Nuclear Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  19. 24.233
    The Ethics of Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  20. STS.031[J]
    Environment and History
    Not resolved to a course
  21. STS 039
    History of Native Science
    Not resolved to a course
  22. STS 066
    Discards, Technologies, and Everyday Ecologies
    Not resolved to a course

Sustainable Solutions

20 items
  1. Select at least 9 units of the following: 1,2,3,4
    Not resolved to a course
    9-12
  2. 1.006
    Tools for Sustainable Design
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 1.103[J]
    Infrastructure Design for Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 1.UAR[J]
    Climate and Sustainability Undergraduate Advanced Research
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 2.00A
    Designing for the Future: Earth, Sea, and Space
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 2.00C[J]
    Design for Complex Environmental Issues 5
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 2.651[J]
    Introduction to Energy in Global Development
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 2.722[J]
    D-Lab: Design
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 4.328
    Climate Visions
    Not resolved to a course
  10. 6.7120
    Principles of Modeling, Computing and Control for Decarbonized Electric Energy Systems
    Not resolved to a course
  11. 10.421[J]
    Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation
    Not resolved to a course
  12. 11.007
    Urban and Environmental Technology Implementation Lab
    Not resolved to a course
  13. 11.025[J]
    D-Lab: Development
    Not resolved to a course
  14. 11.092
    Renewable Energy Facility Siting Clinic
    Not resolved to a course
  15. 22.033
    Nuclear Systems Design Project
    Not resolved to a course
  16. EC 715
    D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
    Not resolved to a course
  17. EC 716
    Thermal Energy Networks for Decarbonization of Campuses, Neighborhoods, and Cities
    Not resolved to a course
  18. EC 719
    D-Lab: Climate Change and Planetary Health
    Not resolved to a course
  19. EC 724
    D-Lab: Smallholder Agriculture
    Not resolved to a course
  20. STS 038
    Risky Business: Food Production, Environment, and Health
    Not resolved to a course

Electives

electives · 1 item
  1. Select a minimum of 24 units from the categories below: 1,2,3,4
    Not resolved to a course
    24-27

Discovery

12 items
  1. 1.008
    Engineering for a Sustainable World
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 1.009
    Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 1.016[J]
    Design for Complex Environmental Issues 5
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 1.091
    Traveling Research Environmental eXperience (TREX): Fieldwork
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 2.981
    New England Coastal Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 3.002
    Materials for Energy and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 12.000
    Solving Complex Problems 5
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 12.12
    Nature's Sandbox: The History of Ancient Environments, Climate, and Life
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 22.011
    Nuclear Engineering: Science, Systems, and Society
    Not resolved to a course
  10. SP 310
    Engagement and Discovery Through the Terrascope Field Experience 5
    Not resolved to a course
  11. SP 360
    Terrascope Radio 5
    Not resolved to a course
  12. SP 361
    Majors and Careers Through a Terrascope Lens 5
    Not resolved to a course

Applied Problem Solving

17 items
  1. 1.004
    Startup Sustainable Tech
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 1.005
    Experiential Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 1.013
    Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 1.020
    Modeling and Decision-Making for Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 1.107
    Water and Air Quality Laboratory
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 1.C03[J]
    Computational Methods for Engineering Sustainable Systems
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 2.652[J]
    Applications of Energy in Global Development
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 3.003
    Small Planet Engineering: Climate, Energy, and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 3.004
    Small Planet Engineering: Climate, Energy, and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  10. 4.218
    Disaster Resilient Design
    Not resolved to a course
  11. 10.496[J]
    Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems
    Not resolved to a course
  12. 11.173[J]
    Infrastructure Design for Climate Change
    Not resolved to a course
  13. 11.188
    Introduction to Spatial Analysis and GIS Laboratory
    Not resolved to a course
  14. 12.307
    Weather and Climate Laboratory
    Not resolved to a course
  15. 12.335
    Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry
    Not resolved to a course
  16. 15.772[J]
    D-Lab: Supply Chains
    Not resolved to a course
  17. EC.713[J]
    D-Lab Schools: Building Technology Laboratory
    Not resolved to a course

Economic and Global Systems

7 items
  1. 2.760
    Global Engineering: Green Machines
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 14.42
    Environmental Policy and Economics
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 14.43[J]
    Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 14.44[J]
    Energy Economics and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 15.0201[J]
    Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 15.8731
    System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Complex Problems
    Not resolved to a course
  7. STS 040
    A Global History of Commodities
    Not resolved to a course

Energy x Sustainability

9 items
  1. 3.18
    Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 5.371
    Continuous Flow Chemistry: Sustainable Conversion of Reclaimed Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 5.372
    Chemistry of Renewable Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 6.2200
    Electric Energy Systems
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 8.21
    Physics of Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 10.04
    A Philosophical History of Energy
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 10.390[J]
    Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 22.003
    NEET Seminar: Renewable Energy Machines
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 22.081[J]
    Introduction to Sustainable Energy
    Not resolved to a course

Ethics and Just Futures

9 items
  1. 6.9320
    Ethics for Engineers
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 8.226
    Forty-three Orders of Magnitude
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 21A.155
    Food, Culture, and Politics
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 24.03
    Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 24.191
    Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life
    Not resolved to a course
  6. STS.022[J]
    Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  7. STS 032
    Energy, Environment, and Society
    Not resolved to a course
  8. WGS.160[J]
    Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power
    Not resolved to a course
  9. WGS.275[J]
    Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice
    Not resolved to a course

Life and Ecology

4 items
  1. 1.089
    Environmental Microbial Biogeochemistry
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 7.30[J]
    Fundamentals of Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 12.031[J]
    Fundamentals of Ecology
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 21A.303[J]
    The Anthropology of Biology
    Not resolved to a course

Materials and Material Culture

9 items
  1. 1.035
    Mechanics of Materials
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 3.081
    Industrial Ecology of Materials
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 3.087
    Materials, Societal Impact, and Social Innovation
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 3.094[J]
    Materials in Human Experience
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 3.19
    Sustainable Chemical Metallurgy
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 3.982
    The Ancient Andean World
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 3.983
    Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 4.657
    Design: The History of Making Things
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 22.078[J]
    Nuclear Energy and the Environment: Waste, Effluents, and Accidents
    Not resolved to a course

Media, Communications, and Literature

7 items
  1. 21L.449
    The Wilds of Literature
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 21W.012
    Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 21W.036
    Science Writing and New Media: Writing and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 21W.775
    Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues
    Not resolved to a course
  5. CMS.374[J]
    Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice
    Not resolved to a course
  6. CMS 375
    Reading Climate Through Media
    Not resolved to a course
  7. STS 034
    Science Communication: A Practical Guide
    Not resolved to a course

Negotiations, Politics, and Policy

10 items
  1. 11.003[J]
    Methods of Policy Analysis
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 11.011
    The Art and Science of Negotiation
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 11.148
    Environmental Justice: Law and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 15.2191[J]
    Global Energy: Politics, Markets, and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 17.30[J]
    Making Public Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 17.309[J]
    Science, Technology, and Public Policy
    Not resolved to a course
  7. IDS.060[J]
    Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control
    Not resolved to a course
  8. IDS.061[J]
    Regulation of Chemicals, Radiation, and Biotechnology
    Not resolved to a course
  9. IDS.062[J]
    Global Environmental Negotiations
    Not resolved to a course
  10. IDS.066[J]
    Law, Technology, and Public Policy
    Not resolved to a course

Planet Earth and Climate Science

19 items
  1. 1.061
    Transport Processes in the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 1.061A
    Transport Processes in the Environment I
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 1.071[J]
    Global Change Science
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 1.080[J]
    Chemicals in the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 1.070A[J]
    Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 1.085[J]
    Air Pollution and Atmospheric Chemistry
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 12.001
    Introduction to Geology
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 12.002
    Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science
    Not resolved to a course
  9. 12.003
    Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics
    Not resolved to a course
  10. 12.021
    Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment
    Not resolved to a course
  11. 12.086
    Modeling Environmental Complexity
    Not resolved to a course
  12. 12.104
    Geochemistry of Natural Waters
    Not resolved to a course
  13. 12.301
    Climate Science
    Not resolved to a course
  14. 12.306
    Atmospheric Chemistry Models & Climate
    Not resolved to a course
  15. 12.349
    Mechanisms and Models of the Global Carbon Cycle
    Not resolved to a course
  16. 12.372
    Elements of Modern Oceanography
    Not resolved to a course
  17. 12.377
    The History of Earth's Climate
    Not resolved to a course
  18. 12.390
    Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean
    Not resolved to a course
  19. 18.352[J]
    Nonlinear Dynamics: The Natural Environment
    Not resolved to a course

The Built Environment

8 items
  1. 4.211[J]
    The Once and Future City
    Not resolved to a course
  2. 4.401
    Environmental Technologies in Buildings
    Not resolved to a course
  3. 4.432
    Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods
    Not resolved to a course
  4. 11.113
    The Economic Approach to Cities and Environmental Sustainability
    Not resolved to a course
  5. 11.123
    Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes
    Not resolved to a course
  6. 11.149
    Decarbonizing Urban Mobility
    Not resolved to a course
  7. 11.158
    Behavioral Science, AI, and Urban Mobility
    Not resolved to a course
  8. 11.165
    Urban Energy Systems and Policy
    Not resolved to a course
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