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