Elective Courses

Any energy climate change-related course offered at Notre Dame may be taken as an elective for the Energy Studies Minor (ESM). The options vary each semester. Courses not listed below, including those taken abroad, may be acceptable with approval. Students can use the attribute ENST in PATH Class Search to find most but not all electives.

Courses that qualify for the business, economics, or policy (BEP) requirement are marked with asterisks. Others may be used with approval.

Students in the ESM are required to have prerequisites before registering for a course. If students believe they can handle the material or if a class is full, they should contact the professor directly to see if they can take the class. ND Energy cannot get students into classes in other departments.

Courses listed as ENER provide seats specifically for students in the ESM. Once those seats are filled, students might be able to register through a cross-listed section. If a cross-listed course is part of another minor, please contact that department or professor to seek permission to fill a vacant seat or to get on the waitlist.

For additional information or questions, please contact Anne Berges Pillai, apillai@nd.edu. To view previous course offerings, visit Historical Course Offerings.

Fall 2024 Elective Course Offerings
Accountability in a Sustainable World* ACCT 40160
Actinide Chemistry CE 60382
Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics CBE 60553
Analog and Digital Circuit Design EE 30142
Analysis and Modeling of Hydrologic Systems CE 60456
Appalachia: Land and People*
HIST 30027
SUS 30027
Applications of Electromagnetics EE 30152
Audio Technology EE 30076
Biology 1: Big Questions Mod 1 BIOS 10169
Biology 1: Big Questions Mod 2 BIOS 10170
Carbon Neutral Development through Net Impact Design*
ARCH 43611
SUS 43611
Chemical Reaction Engineering CBE 40445
Computational Fluid Dynamics AME 40532
Continuum Mechanics AME 60624
Corporate Governance and Catholic Social Teaching*
BES 40470
FIN 40470
THEO 40641
Current Topics in Envir Science BIOS 40491
Digital Integrated Circuits CSE 30342
Discipleship: Loving Action for Justice in CST THEO 20625
Distributed Systems CSE 40771
Earth Focus
ENER 20333
PHYS 10033
PHYS 20333
Ecology, Ethics, and Solitude THEO 40610
Economics of Climate Change* ECON 40534
Electricity & Magnetism PHYS 30471
Electrochemistry and Electrochemical Engineering CHEM 40435
Elementary Cosmology
PHYS
10240
30239
Energy Studies Minor Capstone Seminar B ENER 37003
Energy Studies Minor Capstone Seminar C ENER 37004
Engineering Physics I: Mechanics PHYS 10310
Environment Food & Society*
HESB 30369
SOC 20666
SOC 21666
STV 20666
SUS 20666
Environmental Biotechnology CE 40330
Environmental Isotope Geochemistry CE 40381
Environmental Policy* MGA 60206
Environmental Systems I ARCH 40411
Ethics of Climate Change PHIL 43304
Food, Culture, Ethics, Planet*
ANTH 43406
STV 43406
Gas Turbines and Propulsion AME 40431
General Ecology
BIOS 30312
SUS 30312
Geochemistry
CE 40300
SC 40300
Geomorphology for Engineers and Scientists
CE 30500
SC 30500
Global Change and Civilization
ANTH 40805
ANTH 60805
BIOS 40524
STV 40805
SUS 40805
Heat Transfer AME 30334
Human-Centered Design for Social Innovation*
CST 30555
GLAF 30110
HESB 30385
PS 30555
SEI 30555
STV 30555
Indigenous Environments*
ANTH 30592
ANTH 30614
HIST 32908
ILS 30104
SUS 30592
Intermediate Fluid Mechanics AME 60635
Intermediate Heat Transfer AME 60634
Intro to Circuitry & Electronics PHYS 20430
Introduction to Applied Mathematical Methods II ACMS 20750
Introduction to Chemical Engineering Analysis CBE 20255
Introduction to Condensed Matter Physics
PHYS 50501
PHYS 60501
Introduction to Ecological Horticulture BIOS 20204
Introduction to Environmental Engineering CE 30300
Mechanics II AME 20222
Migrants and Mobility in the Age of Mass Movement*
AFST 30692
ANTH 30307
CHR 30141
EURO 30141
GLAF 30141
HIST 30926
ILS 30103
Naval Ships Systems I NSCI 30301
Our Global Environment: History and the Anthropocene*
HIST 30998
STV 30998
Phase Equilibria and Separations CBE 30370
Physical Chemistry I CHEM 30321
Physical-Chemical Water Treatment Processes CE 30320
Physics A: Mechanics PHYS 10411
Physics C: Thermo & Relativity PHYS 20433
Physics of Astrophysics PHYS 50201
Physics of Astrophysics PHYS 60201
Physics of Cells PHYS 50401
Planet Earth
CE 20110
CE 20111
CE 20111
SC 20110
Policy Lab: Global Challenges to the National Security of the United States GLAF 30901
Politics of Public Policy*
HESB 43899
ILS 43504
POLS 30048
Principles of Biochemistry CHEM 40420
Principles of Physics I PHYS 10111
Quantum Mechanics CHEM 40649
Radioactivity & Society PHYS 20063
Radioactivity and Its Implications for Environment and Society PHYS 10063
Science, Technology, and Society*
ANTH 20556
CDT 20510
GLAF 20102
STV 20556
Social Movements* SOC 40514
Social Science USem: Pol. of Climate Change* POLS 13181
Social Science USem: Solutions* POLS 13181
Solid State and Materials Chemistry CHEM 40616
Solutions: Science, Politics, and Saving the Planet* POLS 40491
Sustainability: Principles and Practices SUS 20010
Sustainability@ ND/SMC/HCC THEO 20672
Sustainable America*
AMST 30105
HIST 30105
HPPS 30103
ILS 30007
SUS 20608
The Ethics of Emerging Weapons Technology PHIL 20628
The Geopolitics of Energy
HESB 30313
POLS 30242
STV 30242
The Science and Strategy of Nuclear War PHYS 20065
Thermal Physics PHYS 30461
Thermodynamics AME 20231
Time Series Analysis ACMS 40842
Transport Phenomena I CBE 30355
Transportation Engineering and Construction CE 40620
Water, Disease & Global Health
BIOS 60610
CE 40355
CE 60355
PS 40355
Wind Turbine Performance, Control and Design
AME 40530
ENER 40530