New York University offers a wide range of courses related to the environment within its various departments and schools and colleges.  Undergraduates and graduate students can take courses ranging from urban planning in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to environmental politics and education in the Steinhardt School of Education. Use this section of our website to locate courses of interest that can be applied to your degree program.

• College of Arts and Sciences
• Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
• New York University School of Law
• Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
• Steinhardt School of Education

College of Arts and Sciences

www.nyu.edu/cas

• V23.0008 The Living Environment
• V23.0017 Field Biology and Elements of Ecology
• V23.0880 Environmental Science: Principles and Practice
• V49.0001 Evolution of the Earth
• V49.0010 Earth System Science
• V49.0012 Whole Earth Science: The Global Environment
• V49.0330 Cities and Geology
• V49.0440 Continental Drift, Seafloor Spreading, and Plate Tectonics
• V49.0705 Field Geology
• V49.0875 Limits of the Earth: Issues in Human Ecology
• V99.0101 Introduction to Metropolitan Studies
• V99.0221 Urban Housing: Critical Issues
• V99.0232 Law and Urban Problems
• V99.0238 Urban Schools in Crisis: Policy Issues and Perspectives
• V99.0243 Work and Wealth in the City: The Economics of Urban Growth
• V99.0244 Community Empowerment V99.0245 Sexual Identity and Urban Community
• V99.0264 Social Welfare: The State and the City
• V99.0270 Women in the Urban Environment
• V99.0280 City Planning: Social and Economic Aspects
• V99.0311 Economics of the Environment
• V99.0320 Shaping the Urban Environment
• V99.0322 Environmental Design: Issues and Methods
• V99.0370 Government of New York City
  

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

www.nyu.edu/gsas/

• G23.1004 (G48.1004) Environmental Health
• G23.1005 (G48.1005) Ecotoxicology: A Case Study of the Hudson River
• G23.1006 (G48.1006) Toxicology
• G23.1065 Tropical Field Ecology (Meets in Mexico in January, intersession)
• G23.1069 Principles of Evolution
• G23.1070 Ecological Botany
• G23.1073 Biotic Resources: Integrative Approaches to Biodiversity and Conservation
• G23.1074 Neotropical Field Botany
• G23.1082 Genes and Animal Behavior
• G23.1201 Earth Biology
• G23.2035 (G48.2035) Environmental Hygiene Measurements
• G23.2310 (G48.2310) Principles of Toxicology
• G23.2315 (G48.2315) Environmental Immunotoxicology
• G31.1603 Economic Development I
• G48.2039 Introduction to Epidemiology
• G48.2307 Molecular Toxicity of Metals and Trace Elements
• G48.2309 Environmental Carcinogenesis
• G48.2310 (G23.2310) Principles of Toxicology
• G48.2315 Environmental Immunotoxicology
• G49.2224 Museum Education
• G49.2225 Museums and Interactive Technologies
• G49.3330 Topics in Museum Studies: Museums of Science, Nature and Industry
• G49.3332 Exhibition Planning & Design
• G65.1108 Introduction to the City
• G65.1115 The Public City
• G65.1813 Garbage in Gotham: The Anthropology of Trash
• G65.2108 Introduction to the City II
• G83.2284 Contemporary Ethical Theory
• G83.2285 Ethics: Selected Topics
• G93.2145 Globalization: History, Dimensions and Dynamics

New York University School of Law

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• L01.3013 Natural Resources Law
• L01.3035 Environmental Law
• L01.3546 Public Interest Environmental Law Practice Seminar
• L03.3055 Law of Nonprofit Organizations
• L03.3532 International Environmental Law
• L06.3006 Education Law
• L06.3598 Animal Law
• L10.3012 Urban Planning: Theoretical and Comparative Aspects
• L10.3020 Land Use Regulation

Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

www.wagner.nyu.edu/courses

• P11.1603 Urban Planning, Development and Decision Making  
• P11.1605 Land Use Regulation
• P11.2125 Foundations of Nonprofit Management
• P11.2126 Institute in Risk Management in Environmental Health and Protection
• P11.2234 Ecoleadership
• P11.2411 Policy Formation and Policy Analysis
• P11.2418 Policy Issues in Primary and Secondary Education
• P11.2415 Public Policy and Planning in New York
• P11.2470 Transportation Policy
• P11.2610 Environmental Impact Assessment Process and Procedures
• P11.2612 Urban Infrastructure and Environmental Services
• P11.2615 Environmental Management and Planning
• P11.2617 Environmental Law
• P11.2618 Geographic Information Systems and Planning
• P11.2625 Workshop in Planning and Management of the Urban Waterfront
• P11.2628 Technology & Media and Cities
• P11.2641 Urban Transportation Planning
• P11.2650 Population Change, Immigration and Public Policy
• P11.2878 Decision Making in Environmental Health
• P11.4122 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
• P11.4123 Internet Applications for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
• P11.4125 Advocacy for Public and Nonprofit Organizations
• P11.4135 Nonprofit Governance

Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

www.steinhardt.nyu.edu

• E14.2010 Science Experience in Elementary School
• E14.2021 Science in a Historical Perspective
• E14.2050 Using New York City's Non-Formal Science Resources to Teach Science
• E33.2015 Food Policy
• E50.1003 Introduction to Philosophy of Education
• E50.1500 Introduction to Environmental Ethics
• E50.2000 Feminist Philosophies of Education
• E50.2003 Philosophy of Education: Social Foundations
• E50.2013 Values, Morals and Schools: What Ought I to Do?
• E50.2015 Professional Ethics
• E50.2019 Foundations of Environmental Thought
• E50.2020 Contemporary Debates in Environmental Ethics
• E50.2021 Environmental Politics
• E50.2025 Final Seminar in Environmental Conservation Education
• E50.2030 Internship in Environmental Conservation Education
• E50.2060 Feminist Ideas of Teaching and Research
• E50.2083 Frontiers of Knowledge
• E50.2089 Philosophy of Scientific Inquiry
• E50.2090 Science and the Professions