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Sustainability, Energy & Conservation

Welcome to the Sustainability, Energy & Conservation Career Community! Find resources and opportunities to launch your career in Sustainability, Energy & Conservation and learn about the many different areas students can pursue in the field. Browse this Community for career advice blogs, available career opportunities, and explore the resources to help you build your career and beyond.

Who’s Hiring? 9 Environmental Organizations Fighting Climate Change

A positive impact on the planet can begin with simple actions, like learning to compost or buying locally grown, in-season fruits and vegetables. Starting small can help you dip your toe into environmental work, but if you’re looking to grow …

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7 Climate Change Organizations You Should Know

Illustration by Marian Blair

Climate change, global warming, and extreme weather events seem to be prominent fixtures in the news cycle every day, everywhere you look. Scientists and government leaders around the world agree the planet is in a state of …

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Vault Guide to Environmental Science and Conservation Jobs

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Earth Science Jobs

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Vault Guide to Energy Jobs, Third Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Guide to Alternative Energy Jobs, Third Edition

The Vault Guides to Jobs series provides essential information about key careers and industries, with an emphasis on preparing for …

Vault Career Guide to Energy, Third Edition

In the midst of an energy boom that has positioned the United States as one of the world’s top oil-producing …

Vault Guide to Utilities Jobs, Second Edition

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Featured Courses

ECON 210 – Climate Change Economics and Policy

This course introduces students to the role of applied economics in climate change policy and analysis. Students will learn how…

HIST 374 – Food Security: History of an Idea

The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations has held that “food security exists when all people, at all…

ENVS 284 – Animal Law & Policy

This course will provide an overview of law and public policy as they apply to non-human animals. The course will…

ANTH 217 – Anthropology of Science

What are scientific facts? How do we know what we know? In this course, students will gain an introduction to…

ENVS 285 – Environmental Law & Policy

If you are interested in the environment and want some perspective on where our environmental law and policy came from,…

ENVS 350 – Environmental Justice & Sustainability

The US Environmental Protection Agency defines environmental justice as “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of…

ANTH 312 – Eat, Grow, Heal: The Anthropology of Food and Justice

This course uses the lens of justice to examine the politics of food. We will look at the cultural and…

ANTH 319 – Toxic Sovereignties: Life After Environmental Collapse

What politics emerge at the borders of life and nonlife? Representations of the human species as being on the brink…

ARCP 257 – Environmental Archaeology

Archaeological materials provide long-term records of how humans have modified past environments and how human societies respond to environmental change.…

ARST 220 – Ecological Design

Being at Home in the World is an introduction to the skills and thinking involved in the ecologically responsible creation…

BIOL 173 – Global Change and Infectious Disease

This course will cover how human demands upon the environment have come back to bite us through infectious diseases. The…

BIOL 220 – Conservation Biology

This course will focus on the biology of conservation rather than cultural aspects of conservation. However, conservation issues will be…

BIOL 346 – The Forest Ecosystem

This course examines basic ecological principles through the lens of forest ecosystems, exploring the theory and practice of forest ecology…

BIOL 365 – Calderwood Seminar in Public Writing: 21st-Century Biology

Twenty years ago, the landscape of biology looked very different. As the century began, the “rough draft” of the human…

CSPL 120 – Civic Engagement Practice

Wesleyan has a long tradition of civic engagement. CSPL 120 plays a critical role in helping continue this tradition. This…

CSPL 493: Internship

This course may be repeated for credit. Wesleyan has established a credit/uncredit internship course, CSPL 493, for students to receive…

ENVS 125F – Community Gardening

This course will provide students with skills and hands-on training so they can garden and grow food for themselves and…

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