Develop and Safeguard the Built Environment

By specializing in Environment, Infrastructure and Transportation, students obtain the planning expertise needed to design and deliver public infrastructure services and safeguard environmental conditions for public health and welfare. The major goals of this specialization are to enable students to:

  • Evaluate and use knowledge and understanding of values and institutional contexts for environmental and infrastructure planning.
  • Explore theories and historical trends to evaluate relationships between environmental condition, public service capacity, and development options, and their consequences of human actions on the environment.
  • Understand choices about and ways of balancing the use and protection of environmental resources in urban and natural environmental contexts and in the context of other social needs.
  • Engage public interests in the process of environmental, infrastructure and transportation planning.

Students in this specialization have obtained jobs across the spectrum of the public, non-profit and private sectors at all jurisdictional levels and internationally, obtaining planning positions to:

  • Develop and incorporate environmental and infrastructure analyses and plans to shape major development activity as private consultants to government.
  • Review and evaluate environmental and infrastructure practices in state and local government planning and economic development agencies.
  • Promote education, communication and public choice processes in nonprofit transportation and environmental organizations.

Courses in the Wagner School

Please note: some courses are taught every other year.

Environmental Focus:

Infrastructure Focus:

In addition to the recommended Wagner School courses, students may choose electives offered through NYU's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, School of Education, and School of Law. Refer to the registration procedures for courses outside the Wagner School for more information.

Courses in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Courses in the Program in Environmental Health Sciences:

  • EHSC-GA 1004 (G23.1004), Environmental Health
  • EHSC-GA 1005, Ecotoxicology
  • EHSC-GA 2015-2016, General and Environmental-Toxicological Pathology I-II
  • EHSC-GA 2017, Environmental Radioactivity
  • EHSC-GA 2025, Current Problems in Environmental Health
  • EHSC-GA 2035 (EHSC-GA 2035), Environmental Hygiene Measurements I
  • EHSC-GA 2036 (EHSC-GA 2036), Environmental Hygiene Measurements II
  • EHSC-GA 2039, Environmental Epidemiology I
  • EHSC-GA 2044, Environmental Epidemiology II
  • EHSC-GA 2048, Air Pollution Transport and Modeling
  • EHSC-GA 2309, Environmental Carcinogenesis
  • EHSC-GA 2305, Environmental Contamination
  • EHSC-GA 2310 (EHSC-GA 2310), Principles of Toxicology
  • EHSC-GA 2315, Environmental Immunotoxicology

(Note: these courses are taught either in Sterling Forest, NY, at the NYU Medical Center (401 E. 30th Street), or on the NYU Washington Square campus.)

Courses in the Department of Biology:

  • BIOL-UA 1004, Environmental Health
  • BIOL-UA 1006, Toxicology
  • BIOL-UA 1201, Earth Biology

Courses in the Draper Program:

  • DRAP-GA 1813, Garbage in Gotham: The Anthropology of Trash

Courses in the School of Education

Courses in the Program in Environmental Conservation Education:

  • ENYC-GE 2019, Foundations of Environmental Thought
  • ENYC-GE 2022, Environmental Education
  • ENYC-GE 2020, Contemporary Debates in Environmental Ethics
  • ENYC-GE 2021, Environmental Politics

Courses in the Program in Health Education:

  • PUHE-GE 2356, Environmental Health Problems

Courses in the School of Law

  • LAW.11149, Environmental Law
  • LAW.10086, Advanced Environmental Law
  • LAW.10289-10142, International Environmental Law Clinic and Seminar
  • L02.11120, Environmental Law Clinic

Principal Faculty Advisors:

Hilary Ballon Zhan Guo Rae Zimmerman

Hilary Ballon

Zhan Guo

Rae Zimmerman