Yale
Tropical Resources Institute
www.environment.yale.edu/tri
Courses Relevant to Tropical Studies at Yale
Yale offers an array of courses for students interested in tropical studies. A selection of these courses is listed
below and is intended to help students navigate the tropical course offerings both within F&ES and at various
departments at Yale. Courses listed with an asterisk will not be offered in the 2012-13 academic year; names of
the instructor(s) are listed in parentheses. Detailed information can be found on the F&ES courses webpage:
http://www.environment.yale.edu/courses/.
F&ES GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES
Course
Number
Course Title
Social & Political Ecology
F&ES 520a:
F&ES 827b:
F&ES 836a:
Society and Environment: Introduction to Theory and Method
Contemporary Environmental Challenges in Africa*
Agrarian Societies: Culture, Society, History, and Development
F&ES 839a:
F&ES 869b:
Social Science of Development and Conservation
Disaster, Degradation, Dystopia: Social Science Approaches to
Environmental Perturbation and Change
Anthropology of the Global Economy for Development and
Conservation
The Black Box of Implementation:
Households, Communities, Gender*
Property Rights and Natural Resource Management*
Advanced Readings: Social Science of Development and
Conservation*
F&ES 877a:
F&ES 882b:
F&ES 952b:
F&ES 965b:
Tropical Ecology & Forestry
F&ES 653b
F&ES 659b:
F&ES 700b:
F&ES 729b:
F&ES 731b:
F&ES 732a:
F&ES 741b:
F&ES 969b
Agroforestry Systems: Productivity, Environmental Services, and
Rural Development*
Principles in Applied Ecology: The Practice of Silviculture
Alpine, Arctic, and Boreal Ecosystems Seminar
Caribbean Coastal Development: Cesium and CZM
Tropical Field Botany
Tropical Forest Ecology
Introduction to Indigenous Silviculture
Rapid Assessments in Forest Conservation*
Climate Change & Environmental Economics
F&ES 845a:
F&ES 848a:
F&ES 951b:
F&ES 963b:
Energy Issues in Developing Countries*
Climate Change: Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation*
Managing the Global Carbon Cycle*
Payments for Ecosystem Services*
Professor(s)
Dove
Bailis
Scott, Perdue,
Sivaramakrishnan
Carpenter
Dove
Carpenter
Carpenter
Doolittle
Carpenter
Montagnini
Ashton
Berlyn
Benoit
Kelly/Michelangeli
Montagnini
Peters
Ashton
Bailis
Bailis
Raymond, Bailis
Gentry, Ashton
F&ES GRADUATE-LEVEL COURSES (Continued)
Course #
Course Title
International Environmental Policy & Governance
F&ES 808b:
F&ES 829b
F&ES 850a:
F&ES 851a:
International and Comparative Forest Policy and Governance*
International Environmental Policy and Governance
International Organizations and Conferences
Environmental Diplomacy Practicum
Sustainable Development & Urban Issues
F&ES 855a
F&ES 863a
F&ES 899b:
Climate Change Mitigation in Urban Areas
Sustainability in Latin America: Issues and Topics
Sustainable Development in Post-Disaster Context: Haiti
Professor(s)
Cashore
Cashore
Geballe
Lee
Seto
Brewer
Geballe
OTHER RELEVANT COURSES AT YALE
Anthropology
ANTH 571b:
ANTH 577a:
ANTH 578b:
ANTH 720b:
ANTH 942b:
Modern Indonesia
Anthropology of the Contemporary: NGOs, States, and
International Bodies
Postwar Vietnam
Mesopotamian Origins
Research Seminar in South Asia Anthropology
Errington
Clarke
Harms
Weiss
Sivaramakrishnan
Environmental Studies (Note: EVST courses are undergraduate level)
EVST 285b:
Political Ecology: Nature, Culture, and Power
EVST 345a:
Environmental Anthropology
EVST 415b:
Biotechnology and the Developing World
EVST 422a:
Anthropology of Climate Change
Doolittle
Carpenter
Blum
Dove
History
HIST 810a:
HIST 820b:
HIST 846a:
HIST 849a:
HIST 902a:
Schwartz
Joseph
Magaziner
Harms
Summers
Introduction to Brazilian History
Problems in Modern Mexican History
Africa After Colonialism
Environmental History of Africa
Impact of Epidemic Disease in Context: Focus on Asia
International Relations
INRL 624b:
Global Health: Ethnographic Perspectives
INRL 713b:
Critical Issues in Development Policy
Inhorn
Britto
Law School
LAW 20107b:
LAW 20202a:
Rose
Brilmeyer/Carr
NGOs, Humanitarianism, and U.S. Foreign Policy
Property, Social Justice, and Environment
School of Management
MGT 529a:
Global Social Entrepreneurship
MGT 865b:
Global Social Enterprise
For more information, visit www.environment.yale.edu/tri
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