Climate System Science and Engineering (Course 1-12)
Climate System Science and Engineering
Bachelor of Science in Climate System Science and Engineering
General Institute Requirements (GIRs)
The General Institute Requirements include a Communication Requirement that is integrated into both the HASS Requirement and the requirements of each major; see details below.
| Summary of Subject Requirements | Subjects |
|---|---|
| Science Requirement | 6 |
| Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Requirement; at least two of these subjects must be designated as communication-intensive (CI-H) to fulfill the Communication Requirement. | 8 |
| Restricted Electives in Science and Technology (REST) Requirement [can be satisfied with 18.03 and 12.003 in the departmental program] | 2 |
| Laboratory Requirement (12 units) [Laboratory Requirement (12 units) [can be satisfied with 1.108 in the Departmental Program]] | 1 |
| Total GIR Subjects Required for SB Degree | 17 |
| Physical Education Requirement | |
|---|---|
| Swimming requirement, plus four physical education courses for eight points. |
Departmental Program
Choose at least two subjects in the major that are designated as communication-intensive (CI-M) to fulfill the Communication Requirement.
| Foundational Analytical and Computational Requirements | Units | |
| 1.010A & 1.010B | Probability: Concepts and Applications and Causal Inference for Data Analysis | 12 |
| or 6.3700 | Introduction to Probability | |
| 1.073 | Introduction to Environmental Data Analysis | 6 |
| or 1.074 | Data Science Fundamentals | |
| 18.03 | Differential Equations | 12 |
| Select 12 units of the following: | 12 | |
| Introduction to Programming and Computer Science | ||
| Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python and Introduction to Computational Thinking and Data Science | ||
| Introduction to Computer Science Programming in Python and Introduction to Computational Science and Engineering | ||
| Core Requirements | ||
| Climate Science | ||
| 12.003 | Introduction to Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics | 12 |
| 12.301 | Climate Science | 12 |
| Energy Decarbonization | ||
| 1.086 | Physics and Engineering of Renewable Energy Systems | 12 |
| Climate and Energy Policy (choose one) | 9-12 | |
| Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy | ||
| People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science | ||
| Energy Economics and Policy | ||
| Global Carbon Cycle (choose one) | 12 | |
| Carbon Management | ||
| Introduction to the Global Carbon Cycle | ||
| Group Design | ||
| 1.108 | Climate and Sustainability Lab (CI-M) | 12 |
| CI-M Lab (choose one) | 12 | |
| Weather and Climate Laboratory (CI-M) | ||
| Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry (CI-M) | ||
| Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering Design and Sensing and Intelligent Systems (CI-M) | ||
| Environmental Fluid Mechanics Lab and Water and Air Quality Laboratory (CI-M) | ||
| Restricted Electives | ||
| Students are required to take at least 45 units of Restricted Electives selected from subjects offered across the Institute to form a coherent program of study. Restricted Electives are chosen in consultation with the student’s academic advisor and the program of study must be documented with the 1-12 Academic Programs Office. | 45 | |
| Units in Major | 168 | |
| Unrestricted Electives | 48 | |
| Units in Major That Also Satisfy the GIRs | (36) | |
| Total Units Beyond the GIRs Required for SB Degree | 180-183 | |
The units for any subject that counts as one of the 17 GIR subjects cannot also be counted as units required beyond the GIRs.
Restricted Electives
| Humanities, Social Science, and Economics | ||
| Policy | ||
| Methods of Policy Analysis | ||
| Environmental Justice: Law and Policy | ||
| Urban Energy Systems and Policy | ||
| Global Climate Policy and Sustainability | ||
| Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy | ||
| Environmental Policy and Economics | ||
| Energy Economics and Policy | ||
| Sustainability: Political Economy, Science, and Policy | ||
| Making Public Policy | ||
| Science, Technology, and Public Policy | ||
| Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Pollution Prevention and Control | ||
| People and the Planet: Environmental Governance and Science | ||
| Ethics | ||
| Ethics for Engineers | ||
| Good Food: The Ethics and Politics of Food | ||
| Being, Thinking, Doing (or Not): Ethics in Your Life | ||
| The Ethics of Climate Change | ||
| Climate in the Humanities | ||
| The Ancient Andean World | ||
| Ancient Mesoamerican Civilization | ||
| The Once and Future City | ||
| The Art and Science of Negotiation | ||
| Food, Culture, and Politics | ||
| The Anthropology of Biology | ||
| Planetary Change and Human Health | ||
| Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice | ||
| Environmental Struggles | ||
| Nature and Environment in China | ||
| The History of US Environmental Governance | ||
| Technology and the Global Economy, 1000-2000 | ||
| The Wilds of Literature | ||
| Writing and Rhetoric: Food for Thought | ||
| Science Writing and New Media: Writing and the Environment | ||
| Writing about Nature and Environmental Issues | ||
| Social Problems of Nuclear Energy | ||
| Transmedia Art, Extraction, and Environmental Justice | ||
| Reading Climate Through Media | ||
| D-Lab: Development | ||
| Science Activism: Gender, Race, and Power | ||
| Environment and History | ||
| Science Communication: A Practical Guide | ||
| Foundational Science | ||
| Earth Science | ||
| Fundamentals of Ecology | ||
| Chemicals in the Environment | ||
| Environmental Microbial Biogeochemistry | ||
| Introduction to Geology | ||
| Introduction to Geophysics and Planetary Science | ||
| Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry | ||
| Global Change Science | ||
| Atmospheric Chemistry Models & Climate | ||
| The History of Earth's Climate | ||
| Modeling & Computation | ||
| Modeling Urban Energy Flows for Sustainable Cities and Neighborhoods | ||
| Fundamentals of Programming | ||
| Software Construction | ||
| Software Design | ||
| Software Performance Engineering | ||
| Computer Language Engineering | ||
| Mathematics for Computer Science | ||
| Introduction to Algorithms | ||
| Design and Analysis of Algorithms | ||
| Computability and Complexity Theory | ||
| Computer Systems Engineering | ||
| Computation Structures | ||
| Constructive Computer Architecture | ||
| Introduction to EECS via Communication Networks | ||
| Introduction to Probability | ||
| Statistics, Computation and Applications | ||
| Introduction to Inference | ||
| Introduction to Machine Learning | ||
| Computational Cognitive Science | ||
| Robotics: Science and Systems | ||
| Computer Graphics | ||
| Principles and Practice of Assistive Technology | ||
| Interactive Music Systems | ||
| Multicore Programming | ||
| Large-scale Symbolic Systems | ||
| Database Systems | ||
| Advances in Computer Vision | ||
| Digital and Computational Photography | ||
| Quantitative Methods for Natural Language Processing | ||
| Computational Biology: Genomes, Networks, Evolution | ||
| Computational Systems Biology: Deep Learning in the Life Sciences | ||
| Introduction to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems | ||
| Introduction to EECS via Robotics | ||
| Modeling with Machine Learning: from Algorithms to Applications and Machine Learning for Sustainable Systems | ||
| Modeling Environmental Complexity | ||
| System Dynamics: Tools for Solving Complex Problems | ||
| Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics | ||
| Principles of Discrete Applied Mathematics | ||
| Combinatorial Analysis | ||
| Theory of Computation | ||
| Climate Mitigation and Adaptation | ||
| Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Energy | ||
| Fundamentals of Advanced Energy Conversion | ||
| Applications of Energy in Global Development | ||
| Materials for Energy and Sustainability | ||
| Materials Science and Engineering of Clean Energy | ||
| Continuous Flow Chemistry: Sustainable Conversion of Reclaimed Vegetable Oil into Biodiesel | ||
| Chemistry of Renewable Energy | ||
| Physics of Energy | ||
| A Philosophical History of Energy | ||
| Foundational Analyses of Problems in Energy and the Environment | ||
| Earth Science, Energy, and the Environment | ||
| Economics of Energy, Innovation, and Sustainability | ||
| Introduction to Sustainable Energy | ||
| Introduction to Energy in Global Development | ||
| Energy Systems for Climate Change Mitigation | ||
| Design | ||
| Experiential Sustainability | ||
| Tools for Sustainable Design | ||
| Senior Civil and Environmental Engineering Design | ||
| Infrastructure Design for Climate Change | ||
| Climate and Sustainability Undergraduate Advanced Research | ||
| Design: The History of Making Things | ||
| Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems | ||
| Nuclear Systems Design Project | ||
| D-Lab: Design | ||
| Water & Hydrology | ||
| Transport Processes in the Environment | ||
or 1.061A | Transport Processes in the Environment I | |
| Introduction to Hydrology and Water Resources | ||
| Introduction to Hydrology Modeling | ||
| Geochemistry of Natural Waters | ||
| Elements of Modern Oceanography | ||
| Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean | ||
| D-Lab: Water, Sanitation and Hygiene | ||
| D-Lab: Climate Change and Planetary Health | ||
| Structures & Materials | ||
| Mechanics of Materials | ||
| Industrial Ecology of Materials | ||
| Materials in Human Experience | ||
| Sustainable Chemical Metallurgy | ||
| Disaster Resilient Design | ||
| Environmental Technologies in Buildings | ||
| Big Plans and Mega-Urban Landscapes | ||
| Transportation & Supply Chain | ||
| Decarbonizing Urban Mobility | ||
| Behavioral Science, AI, and Urban Mobility | ||
| D-Lab: Supply Chains | ||
| Business & Innovation | ||
| Startup Sustainable Tech | ||