Carnegie Mellon University

Preapproved Science and Society Electives

Students can now choose to take 38-304 Reading and Writing Science to complete the requirement, or choose to take a course from a list below of preapproved electives to date:

09-225 Climate Change: Chemistry, Physics and Planetary Science
09-291 Environmental Systems on a Changing Planet
09-303 Hooked: The Molecular Basis of Addiction
09-403 Hooked: The Chemical Basis of Drug Addiction
09-510 Chemistry and Sustainability
12-100 Exploring CEE: Infrastructure and Environment in a Changing World
17-200 Ethics and Policy Issues in Computing
17-537 Artificial Intelligence Methods for Social Good
19-101 Intro to EPP
19-411 Global Competitiveness: Firms, Nations and Technological Change
19-421 Emerging Energy Policies
19-424 Energy and the Environment
19-425 Sustainable Energy for the Developing World
19-429 Climate Change Science and Solutions
19-437 Global Ecological Issues & Controversies
19-478 Engineering and Social Justice
33-115 Physics for Future Presidents
33-226 Physics of Energy
79-234 Technology and Society
79-275 Introduction to Global Studies
79-299 From Newton to the Nuclear Bomb: History of Science, 1750-1950
79-330 Medicine and Society
79-342 Introduction to Science and Technology Studies
80-245 Medical Ethics