Living Lab Courses

The primary course devoted to the campus living lab concept is ENST 302/SOCI 304 Environmental Issues: Rice into the Future. This course, led by the Executive Director of Rice’s sustainability program, focuses specifically on campus-oriented sustainability projects.

Several other courses regularly engage the sustainability office on campus-oriented projects. These include, but are not limited to:

  • ANTH 368/568: Social Design Studio
  • ARCH 301: Design Studio - Building Ecologies
  • ARCH 322/622: Case Studies in Sustainability: The Regenerative Repositioning of New or Existing Rice Campus Buildings
  • ARCH 350: Landscape Methods
  • ARCH 450: Tall Timbers (Advanced Seminar)
  • ARCH 550: On Immediacy: Furniture and Object Design for Architects (Advanced Seminar)
  • BIOS 127: TreeSTEM
  • BIOS 204: Community Garden
  • BIOS 210: Introduction to Research
  • BIOS 318: Microbiology Lab
  • BIOS 322/EBIO 324: Conservation Biology Lab
  • BIOS 330: Insect Biology Lab
  • BIOS 337: Field Bird Biology Lab
  • BIOS 339: Plant Diversity Lab
  • BIS 423/523: Conservation Biology
  • BIOS 495/EBIO 495: Topics in Environmental Science
  • BUSI 220: Design Thinking
  • BUSI 364/GLHT 364/SOSC 364: Innovation for Social Impact
  • BUSI 369: New Enterprises
  • CEVE 302: Sustainable Design
  • CEVE 307/507: Energy and the Environment
  • CHBE 281/ENST 281: Engineering Solutions for Sustainable Communities
  • CHBE 571/671: Flow & Transport Porous Media I/II
  • ENGI 120: Introduction to Engineering Design
  • ENGL 310/ENST 310: Nonfiction Nature Writing
  • ENST 250: Understanding Energy
  • MLSC 552: Conserving Biodiversity
  • NSCI 120: Introduction to Scientific Research