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Immersive Courses

Find opportunities to accrue and apply environmental knowledge through travel, field trips, laboratory experiences, and other immersive courses at Penn.

PLEASE NOTE:

Navigate by School to explore environmental experiential learning courses. This list is based on the most recent update of the EII course inventory and has been cross-checked with academic units, but may not reflect the most up-to-date offerings. Visit Path@Penn to ensure the course you are interested in is offered and that you are eligible to take it. We welcome additions to this course list; email contact@environment.upenn.edu with suggestions. 

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School of Arts and Sciences
Wharton School
Annenberg School for Communication
Weitzman School of Design
Graduate School of Education
School of Engineering and Applied Science
Penn Carey Law
Perelman School of Medicine
School of Nursing
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#SAS
Link field url: #SAS

School of Arts and Sciences

Anthropology

  • ANTH 0050: Great Transformations - Penn Museum
  • ANTH 1440: Liquid Histories and Floating Archives - Field trip(s)
  • ANTH 5440: Public Environmental Humanities - Public engagement

Biology

  • BIOL 4313: Energy Transformations and Living Off the Grid - Flow Motion
  • BIOL 4600 / BIOL 5600: Field Botany - Field trips and Laboratory

Chemistry

  • CHEM 7660: Electrochemistry: Methods and Chemical Applications - Laboratory

Cinema Studies

  • CIMS 2506: Remediating the Environment - Public engagement

Organizational Dynamics

  • DYNM 7660: Global Collaboration for Sustainability - The Food-Water-Energy Nexus in Italy - Travel
  • DYNM 7810: Dynamic Hub of the Americas: Entrepreneurship & Sustainable Development - Travel
  • DYNM 7870: Intersection B/T Business Agility & Sustainability & Its Impact on Org Design in Netherlands - Travel

East Asian Language and Civilizations

  •  EALC 5955: Environment, Climate, and Culture in Japan - Travel

Earth & Environmental Science

  • EESC 1002: Geology Laboratory - Field trip(s)
  • EESC 3003: Penn in the Alps - Travel
  • EESC 5720: Environmental Due Diligence - Field trip(s)
  • EESC 6664: Field Study of Soils - Field trip(s)

Environment Studies

  • ENVS 1540 / GRMN 1150: Comparative Cultures of Sustainability - Travel
  • ENVS 1615: Urban Environments: Speaking about Lead in West Philadelphia - Public engagement
  • ENVS 1625: Community Based Environmental Health - Public engagement
  • ENVS 1645: Urban Environments: The Urban Asthma Epidemic - Public engagement
  • ENVS 1665: Air Pollution: Sources & Effects in Urban Environments - Academically Based Community Service (ABCS)
  • ENVS 2400 / HIST 2157: Petrosylvania: Reckoning With Fossil Fuel - Field trip(s)
  • ENVS 3103: Penn Global Seminar: Case Studies in Environmental Sustainability - Field trip(s)
  • ENVS 4250: Our Water Planet - Field trip(s)
  • ENVS 5404: Wetlands - Field trip(s)
  • ENVS 5744: Regional Field Ecology - Travel
  • ENVS 6414: Creating Gateways to the Land with Smarter Conservation Strategies - Field trip(s)
  • ENVS 6611: Floodplain Management in a Changing Climate - Field trip(s)

Spanish and Portuguese

  • SPAN 0093 / URBS 0093 / LALS 0093 / ENVS 0054 / ANTH 0930: Latinx Environmental Justice - Academically Based Community Service course (ABCS)

Urban Studies

  • URBS 0248: The Food Chain - Field trip(s)
  • URBS 2060: Public Environment of Cities: An Introduction to the Urban Landscape - Field trip(s)
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#W
Link field url: #W

Wharton School

  • LGST 2600: Climate and Environmental Leadership in Action: Building a Sustainable Future - Field trip(s)
  • LGST 4010:  Global Social Enterprise Consulting Project - Hands-on project
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#C
Link field url: #C

Annenberg School for Communication

  • COMM 4330: Climate Change and Communication: Theories and Applications - Interviews
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#F
Link field url: #F

Weitzman School of Design

  • FNAR 3250: MATTERS: Connecting Arts + Design to Materials, and Materials to Labor + Land - Workshop
  • LARP 7600: Topics in Ecological Design - Hands-on projects
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#GSE
Link field url: #GSE

Graduate School of Education

  • EDUC 2500: Nature RX - Field trip(s)
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#SEAS
Link field url: #SEAS

School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • MEAM 2200: Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering - Laboratory
  • MEAM 2300: Bicycles: The Mechanical Advantage - Public engagement
  • CBE 5440: Computational Science of Energy and Chemical Transformations - Hands-on projects
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#L
Link field url: #L

Penn Carey Law

  • LAW 6130: Climate Change and the Energy Revolution - Hands on exercises
  • LAW 7770: Environmental Law in Practice - Field trip(s)
  • LAW 8340: Externship: EPA - Externship
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#PSOM
Link field url: #PSOM

Perelman School of Medicine

  • PUBH 6250: Public Health, Cities, & the Climate Crisis - Public engagement
Anchor link: https://environment.upenn.edu/immersive-courses#N
Link field url: #N

School of Nursing

  • NURS 5350: Comparative Health Systems – Nursing and Midwifery Response to Global Health Crises - Field trip(s)
  • NURS 5750: Health, Sustainability, Built Environment Design - Tour