The courses listed below are an overview of what is offered for undergraduate students in environment and ecology-focused programs. The semester each course is vailable is noted via F (Fall), S (Spring), and Su (Summer). A full list of courses offered for each area, including course descriptions and requirements, can be found on the 2019-2020 MSU Course Bulletin website.

Courses indicated in bold are offered as summer field courses. These summer courses are an excellent opportunity for students to get out of the classroom and gain hands-on experience, valuable knowledge, and lasting connections in the field.  They offer a combination of classroom or online instruction with field trips designed to take advantage of southwest Montana's natural learning environment. For more information about these kinds of courses please visit the Summer Field Courses webpage. 

* = Course available online only

Agricultural Science - AGSC

  • AGSC 101 - Introduction to Agricultural and Environmental Resources - F
  • AGSC 242 - Crop Identification - F
  • AGSC 341 - Field Crop Production - S
  • AGSC 342 - Forages* - F
  • AGSC 356 - Plant Nutrition and Soil Fertility Management - F
  • AGSC 401 - Integrated Pest Management* - F
  • AGSC 428 - Cropping Systems and Sustainable Agriculture - S
  • AGSC 450 - Plant Disease Control - S
  • AGSC 454 - Agrostology - F
  • AGSC 465R - Health, Agriculture, Poverty - S

Anthropology - ANTY

  • ANTY 375 - Anthropology of Humans and the Environment* - S

Biology - General - BIOB

  • BIOB 100IN - Organism Function - F, S
  • BIOB 110CS - Introduction to Plant Biology - S
  • BIOB 170IN - Principles of Biological Diversity - F, S
  • BIOB 280 - Miracle Molds, Magic Mushrooms: Fungi in Our World - S
  • BIOB 420 - Evolution - S
  • BIOB 480 - Conservation Genetics - F
  • BIOB 484 - Population Genetics - F

Biology - Ecological - BIOE

  • BIOE 103CS - Environmental Science and Society - F, S
  • BIOE 370 - General Ecology - F, S
  • BIOE 375 - Ecological Responses to Climate Change - S
  • BIOE 405 - Behavioral and Evolutionary Ecology - S
  • BIOE 408 - Rocky Mountain Vegetation - F
  • BIOE 416 - Alpine Ecology
  • BIOE 420 - Field Ornithology - F, Su
  • BIOE 421 - Yellowstone Wildlife Ecology * and Onsite - Su
  • BIOE 422 - Insect Ecology - S
  • BIOE 424 - Ecology of Fungi - F
  • BIOE 427RN - Research in Freshwater Ecology - F
  • BIOE 428 - Freshwater Ecology - F
  • BIOE 435 - A Study of Local Ecosystems for Teachers* - F
  • BIOE 436 - Symbiosis for Teachers: Eat, Prey, Love* - S
  • BIOE 439 - Stream Ecology - F
  • BIOE 440R - Conservation Biology - F
  • BIOE 445 - Macrosystems Ecology: Linking Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems Across Scales - S
  • BIOE 455 - Plant Ecology - S
  • BIOE 491 - Special Topics: Aquatic Insects - F

Biology - Organismal - BIOO

  • BIOO 162CS - Insects and Human Society - S
  • BIOO 220 - General Botany - F, S
  • BIOO 230 - Identification of Seed Plants - S
  • BIOO 262IN - Introduction of Entomology - F
  • BIOO 415 - Ichthyology - S
  • BIOO 418 - Ecological Phsyiology of Aquatic Organisms - F
  • BIOO 435 - Plant Systematics - F
  • BIOO 465 - Insect Identification - S
  • BIOO 470 - Ornithology - S
  • BIOO 475 - Mammalogy - F

Biological Engineering - EBIO

  • EBIO 100 - Introduction to Biological Engineering - F
  • EBIO 125CS - Microbes in the Environment - F

Chemistry - CHMY

  • CHMY 340 - Environmental Chemistry - S

Chemical Engineering - ECHM

  • ECHM 100 - Introduction to Chemical Engineering - F
  • ECHM 205CS - Energy and Sustainability - F, S

Civil Engineering - ECIV

  • ECIV 101 - Introduction to Civil Engineering - F
  • ECIV 320 - Geotechnical Engineering - F, S
  • ECIV 333 - Water Resources Engineering - F, S
  • ECIV 406 - Sustainability Issues in Construction - S
  • ECIV 420 - Earth and Foundation - S
  • ECIV 425 - Geotechnical Structures - F
  • ECIV 431 - Open Channel Hydraulics - F
  • ECIV 435 - Closed-Conduit Hydraulics - S

Economics - ECNS

  • ECNS 132 - Economics and the Environment
  • ECNS 332 - Economics of Natural Resources - F, S

Environmental Engineering - EENV

  • EENV 340 - Principles of Environmental Engineering - F, S
  • EENV 341 - Physical and Chemical Treatment Processes - F 
  • EENV 342 - Biological Treatment Process - S
  • EENV 387 - Environmental Laws and Regulation - S
  • EENV 432 - Advanced Engineering Hydrology - F
  • EENV 434 - Groundwater Supply and Remediation - S
  • EENV 440 - Water Chemistry for Environmental Engineers - F
  • EENV 441 - Natural Treatment Systems - S
  • EENV 443 - Air Pollution Control - F
  • EENV 445 - Hazardous Waste Treatment - F
  • EENV 489R - Environmental Engineering Design - F, S
  • EENV 499R - Environmental Engineering Design II - F, S

Environmental Science - ENSC

  • ENSC 110 - Land Resources and Environmental Science - F
  • ENSC 210 - Role of Plants in the Environment - S
  • ENSC 245IN - Soils - F
  • ENSC 260 - Evolution for Environmental Scientists - S
  • ENSC 272CS - Water Resources - F, S, Su
  • ENSC 353 - Environmental Biogeochemistry - F
  • ENSC 407 - Environmental Risk Assessment - F
  • ENS 410R - Biodiversity Survey and Monitoring Methods - F
  • ENSC 443 - Weed Ecology and Management - F
  • ENSC 444 - Watershed Hydrology - F
  • ENSC 445 - Watershed Analysis - S
  • ENSC 448 - Stream Restoration Ecology - F
  • ENSC 454 - Landscape Pedology - F
  • ENSC 460 - Soil Remediation - S
  • ENSC 461 - Restoration Ecology - F
  • ENSC 464 - Computational Techniques for Environmental Science - S
  • ENSC 465 - Environmental Biophysics - S
  • ENSC 466 - Chemical Ecology - F
  • ENSC 468 - Ecosystem Biogeochemistry and Global Change - S

Earth Systems - ERTH

  • ERTH 101IN - Earth System Sciences - F, S
  • ERTH 102CS - Topics in Earth Sciences - F, S
  • ERTH 210IN - Honors Earth System Science - F, S
  • ERTH 212RN - Yellowstone: Scientific Lab - F
  • ERTH 303 - Weather and Climate - F, S
  • ERTH 307 - Principles of Geomorphology - F
  • ERTH 450R - Snow Dynamics and Accumulation - S
  • ERTH 484 - Quaternary Environment - F
  • ERTH 491 - Special Topics: Geology and History of GNP - F

Geography - GPHY

  • GPHY 184 - Our Digital Earth
  • GPHY 284 - Introduction to GIS Science and Cartography - F, S, Su
  • GPHY 326 - Geography of Energy Resources - S
  • GPHY 329 - Environment and Society - F
  • GPHY 384 - Advanced GIS and Spatial Analysis - F, S
  • GPHY 402 - Water and Society - F
  • GPHY 411 - Biogeography - S
  • GPHY 426 - Remote Sensing - S
  • GPHY 429R - Applied Remote Sensing - S
  • GPHY 441R - Mountain Geography - F
  • GPHY 484R - Applied GIS and Spatial Analysis - S

Geology - GEO

  • GEO 103CS - Introduction to Environmental Geology - S
  • GEO 105IN - Oceanography - F
  • GEO 211 - Earth History and Evolution - S
  • GEO 302 - Mineralogy and Optical Mineral - F
  • GEO 305 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology - S
  • GEO 309 - Sedimentation and Stratigraphy - F
  • GEO 315 - Structural Geology - S
  • GEO 428 - Field Methods - S
  • GEO 429R - Field Geology - Su
  • GEO 433 - Tectonics - F
  • GEO 440 - Volcanology - F
  • GEO 443 - Principles of Sedimentary Petrology - S
  • GEO 445 - Glacial Geology - F
  • GEO 471 - Geochronology and Thermochronology - S
  • GEO 491 - Special Topics: Subsurface and Petroleum Geology - F
  • GEO 497 - Geology Instruction - F, S

Honors College - HONR

  • HONR 275 - Extreme Microbiology in Yellowstone - F

History - American - HSTA

  • HSTA 468 - History of Yellowstone - F
  • HSTA 470 - American Environmental History - S

History - World - HSTR

  • HSTR 205CS - The World Environment* - Su
  • HSTR 467 - History of Mountaineering - F

Literature - LIT

  • LIT 202CS - The Environmental Imagination - S

Liberal Studies - LS

  • LS 103 - Gateway to Sustainability - F
  • LS 301 - Interdisciplinary Seminar: Environment and Society* - Su
  • LS 411 - Sustainable Cities - S

Microbiology and Environmental Health - MBEH

  • MBEH 294 - Careers in Environmental Health - S

Natural Resource Science and Management - NRSM

  • NRSM 101 - Natural Resource Conservation - F
  • NRSM 102 - Montana Range Plants - F
  • NRSM 235 - Range and Pasture Monitoring - F
  • NRSM 236 - Small Pasture Management - S
  • NRSM 240 - Natural Resource Ecology - F
  • NRSM 330 - Fire Ecology and Management - F
  • NRSM 350 - Vegetation of Western Wildlands - S
  • NRSM 351 - Biomes of Western Wildlands - S
  • NRSM 353 - Grazing Ecology and Management - S
  • NRSM 421 - Holistic Thought and Mangement* - S
  • NRSM 430 - Natural Resource Law - S
  • NRSM 453 - Habitat Inventory and Analysis - F
  • NRSM 455 - Riparian Ecology and Management - S

Philosophy - PHL

  • PHL 322 - Philosophy and Environmental Ethics* - Su
  • PHL 345 - Philosophy of Science - S

Political Science - PSCI

  • PSCI 362 - Natural Resource Policy - S

Sociology - SOCI

  • SOCI 470 - Environmental Sociology - F

Sustainable Food and Bioenergy - SFBS

  • SFBS 146 - Introduction to Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems - S
  • SFBS 346 - Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems Summer Field Course - Su
  • SFBS 451R - Sustainable Food Systems - S
  • SFBS 466 - Food Systems Resilience, Vulnerability, and Transformation - S

Fish and Wildlife Science and Management - WILD

  • WILD 201 - Introduction to Fish and Wildlife - F
  • WILD 355 - WIldlife and Livestock Habitat Restoration - F