Resilience Courses at Northeastern University
With more than 110 affiliated faculty members directly tied to the resilience imperative, as well as the range of expertise and education available across Northeastern University, harnessing this knowledge is critical.
Selected Resilience Courses
A variety of resilience-related courses are available across all nine of Northeastern's colleges.
African Studies
- AFRS 1270. Introduction to Global Health
- AFRS 2464. Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- AFRS 3424. Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities in the African Diaspora
Architecture
- ARCH 2260. Introduction to Building Systems
- ARCH 2355. Architecture Conservation: Intervention, Transformation, and Reuse
- ARCH 3210. Environmental Systems
- LARC 2130. Sustainable Urban Site Design
- LARC 2230. Introduction to Sustainable Site Planning and Design
- ARCH 5210. Environmental Systems
- ARCH 5230. Structural Systems
Anthropology
- ANTH 1101. Peoples and Cultures
- ANTH 2305. Global Markets and Local Culture
- ANTH 3200. Cities in Global Context
- ANTH 3418. Wired/Unwired: Cybercultures and Technopolitics
Bioengineering
- BIOE 5115. Dynamical Systems in Biological Engineering
- BIOE 5510. Bioengineering Products/Technology Commercialization
Biology
- BIOL 1141. Microbes and Society
- BIOL 1143. Biology and Society
- BIOL 2329. Bioethics
- BIOL 3607. Current Trends in Reproductive Sciences
Biotechnology
- BIOT 5219. The Biotechnology Enterprise
- BIOT 5226. Biotechnology Entrepreneurship
- BIOT 5330. Drug Safety and Immunogenicity
- BIOT 5920. Foundations in Vaccine Regulatory Science
Chemical Engineering
- CHME 2320. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
- CHME 3322. Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics 2
- CHME 5631. Biomaterials Principles and Applications
Civil and Environmental Engineering
- CIVE 1200. How Cities Work: Experiencing Urban Infrastructure
- CIVE 2260. Materials for the Built Environment
- CIVE 2320. Structural Analysis
- CIVE 2324. Concrete Structure Design
- CIVE 2334. Environmental Engineering: Principles, Technology, and Sustainability
- CIVE 2340. Geotechnical Engineering
- CIVE 3430. Engineering Microbiology and Ecology
- CIVE 3435. Environmental Pollution Fate and Transport
- CIVE 4542. Foundation Engineering and Design
- CIVE 5150. Climate and Atmospheric Change
- CIVE 5250. Organic Pollutants in the Environment
- CIVE 5281. Coastal Dynamics and Design
- CIVE 5300. Environmental Sampling and Analysis
- CIVE 5363. Climate Science, Engineering Adaptation, and Policy
- CIVE 5536. Hydrologic and Hydraulic Design
Communications
- COMM 1255. Communication in a Digital Age
- COMM 1412. Social Movement Communication
- COMM 2300. Risk Communication
- COMM 2303. Global and Intercultural Communication
- COMM 2551. Free Speech in Cyberspace
- COMM 2625. Communication, Technology, and Society
- COMM 3304. Communication and Inclusion
Computer Science
- CS 4100. Artificial Intelligence
- CS 4610. Robotic Science and Systems
Criminal Justice
- CRIM 2340. Corporate Security: Securing the Private Sector
- CRIM 3030: Global Criminology
- CRIM 4040: Crime Prevention
- CRIM 4660. Communities and Crime
- CRIM 4800. Crime Mapping
- CRIM 5203: Security in the 21st Century
Cybersecurity
- CY 2550. Foundations of Cybersecurity
- CY 3740. Systems Security
- CY 4170. The Law, Ethics, and Policy of Data and Digital Technologies
- CY 4740. Network Security
- CY 5001. Cyberspace Technology and Applications
- CY 5010. Foundations of Information Assurance
- CY 5061. Cloud Security
- CY 5062. Introduction to IoT Security
- CY 5130. Computer System Security
- CY 5150. Network Security Practices
- CY 5200. Security Risk Management and Assessment
- CY 5240. Cyberlaw: Privacy, Ethics, and Digital Rights
- CY 5250. Decision Making for Critical Infrastructure
- CY 5770. Software Vulnerabilities and Security
Data Science
- DS 4200. Information Presentation and Visualization
Dialogues of Civilization
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Earth and Environmental Studies
- ENVR 1110. Global Climate Change
- ENVR 1120. Oceans and Coasts
- ENVR 1400. Foundations in Environmental and Sustainability Sciences
- ENVR 2401. Food Justice and Community Development
- ENVR 3150. Food Security and Sustainability
- ENVR 3200. Water Resource
- ENVR 3201. Coastal Sustainability: Ecology and Coupled Human-Natural Systems in Southeast Asia
- ENVR 3202. Coastal Sustainability: The Blue Economy of the Gulf of Maine
- ENVR 3415. Environmental Pollution: Fate and Transport
- ENVR 3600. Oceanography
- ENVR 5600. Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology
- EEMB 3455. Ecosystems Ecology
- EEMB 3470. Coastal Ecology and Sustainability
- EEMB 5528. Marine Conservation Biology
- EEMB 5538. Conservation and Restoration of Marine Systems
- EEMB 5546. Sustainability of the Land-Sea Interface
Economics
- ECON 1230. Healthcare and Medical Economics
- ECON 1240: Economics of Crime
- ECON 1291. Development Economics
- ECON 1711. Economics of Sustainability
- ECON 3404: International Food Policy
- ECON 3410: Labor Economics
- ECON 3413. Health Economics and Healthcare Policy
- ECON 3414. Economics of Human Capital
- ECON 3420. Urban Economic Issues
- ECON 3422. Economics of Transportation
- ECON 3423. Environmental Economics
- ECON 3424: Law and Economics
- ECON 3425. Energy Economics
- ECON 3462. Bubbles, Busts, and Bailouts: Market and Regulatory Failures in the Financial Crisis
- ECON 4635. International Economics
- ECON 4650. Economic Growth and Applications
- ECON 5292: Gender and Developmental Economics
- ECON 5293: Agriculture and Development
Energy Systems
- ENSY 5100. Hydropower
- ENSY 5200. Energy Storage Systems
- ENSY 5300. Electrochemical Energy Storage
- ENSY 5400. Power Plant Design and Analysis
- ENSY 5500. Smart Grid
Entrepreneurship
- ENTR 2301. Innovation!
- ENTR 2304. Industry Disruption and Corporate Transformation
- ENTR 2206. Global Social Enterprise
- ENTR 2414. Social Responsibility of Business in an Age of Inequality
- FINA 2720. Sustainability in the Business Environment
- MGMT 3315. Managing Organizational Change and Disruption
- ENTR 4506. Advanced Studies in Social Innovation Entrepreneurship
- ENTR 6214. Social Enterprise
Human Services
- HUSV 1101. Social Change and Human Services
- HUSV 2200: Psychological First Aid
- HUSV 2401. Food Justice and Community Development
- HUSV 2960. Intercultural Studies through Human Services
- HUSV 2970. Research Methods for Human Services
- HUSV 3520. Child Intervention and Treatment
- HUSV 3570. The Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy, and Social Change
- HUSV 3900. Social Policy
International Affairs
- INTL 2240. Global Population and Development
- INTL 2464. Natural Resources and Sustainable Development
- INTL 3200. Cities in a Global Context
- INTL 3400: International Conflict and Negotiation
- INTL 3450. Security, Culture, Power
- INTL 3520: Global Political Economy
- INTL 5100: Climate and Development
- INTL 5268: International Environmental Policy
Physics
- PHYS 1132. Energy, Environment, and Society
Political Science
- POLS 1160. International Relations
- POLS 2340. Business and Government
- POLS 2345. Urban Policies and Politics
- POLS 2357. Growth and Decline of Cities and Suburbs
- POLS 2358. Current Issues in Cities and Suburbs
- POLS 2390. Science, Technology, and Public Policy
- POLS 2395. Environmental Politics and Policy
- POLS 3320. Politics and Mass Media
- POLS 3405. International Political Economy
- POLS 3408. International Security
- POLS 3409: Global Governance
- POLS 3423. Terrorism and Counterterrorism
- POLS 3486. International Development
- POLS 5408. International Security
Public Policy and Urban Affairs
- PPUA 5100. Climate and Development
- PPUA 5238. Climate Change and Global Urbanization
- PPUA 5240. Health Policy and Politics
- PPUA 5249. Sustainable Urban Coastal Policy
- PPUA 5262. Big Data for Cities
- PPUA 5264. Energy Democracy and Climate Resilience: Technology, Policy, and Social Change
- PPUA 5265. Urban and Regional Policy in Developing Countries
- PPUA 5270. Food Systems and Public Policy
- PPUA 6502. Economic Analysis for Policy and Planning
- PPUA 6505. Public Budgeting and Financial Management
- PPUA 6532. Building Resilience into Local Government
- PPUA 7237. Advanced Spatial Analysis of Urban Systems
- PPUA 7346. Resilient Cities
- PPUA 7511. Sustainability and Resilience Research Seminar
Sustainability
- INPR 2183. Sustainability & Resilience
Sociology
- SOCL 1245. Sociology of Poverty
- SOCL 1246. Environment and Society
- SOCL 2485. Environment, Technology, and Society
- SOCL 3200. Cities in Global Context
- SOCL 3465. Globalization and the Evolution of Human Societies
Telecommunications
- TELE 5340. Telecommunications Public Policy and Business Management
- TELE 5350. Telecom and Network Infrastructure