Free Environment Courses

How are people affected by overcrowding, traffic congestion, and noise? Why do people litter or vandalize their environments? How do buildings affect their occupants?

Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging?

This survey course introduces students to the important and basic material on human fertility, population growth, the demographic transition and population policy.

The collection includes twenty full lectures out of the twenty-four lecture sessions, and features occasional guest lecture as well as in-class discussions.

Introduction to Oceanography is a class that provides a general introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system.

This course presents the principles of evolution, ecology, and behavior for students beginning their study of biology and of the environment.

Economist Jeffrey Sachs addresses the ongoing and urgent problem of sustainable development in these intimate MOOC course lectures provided by YouTube.

UCI BioSci 94 covers the following topics: Patterns of diversity, ecology, and evolutionary biology, with an emphasis on the Tree of Life and how its members are distributed and interact.

A General Education Course introducing non-Life Science Majors to the Life Sciences, challenging them to explore and understand important issues in the field.

Our Earth's Future is about the science of climate change and how to talk about it. You will learn from scientists in the fields of climatology, oceanography, Earth science, and anthropology who study how climate change is affecting people, populations, and ways of life.