Program Overview

Northwestern University

Northwestern University offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs through its various schools and colleges.

Undergraduate Programs

• School of Communication: Offers undergraduate programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Studies, Dance, Human Communication Sciences, Interdepartmental Communication Options, Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, and Theatre.
• School of Education and Social Policy: Offers undergraduate programs in Elementary Teaching, Human Development in Context, Learning and Organizational Change, Learning Sciences, Secondary Teaching, and Social Policy.
• Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science: Offers undergraduate programs in Applied Mathematics, Architectural Engineering and Design, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Curious Life Certificate, Design Engineering (Engineering Design), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Environmental Engineering, Farley Center for Entrepreneurship, General Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Machine Learning and Data Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Segal Design Institute, and Robotics.
• Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications: Offers undergraduate programs in Integrated Marketing Communications and Journalism.
• Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences: Offers undergraduate programs in Advanced Expression, African Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, Arabic, Art History, Art Theory and Practice, Asian American Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Black Studies, Business Institutions, Catholic Studies, Chemistry, Chicago Field Studies, Chinese, Classics, Cognitive Science, Comparative Literary Studies, Comparative Race and Diaspora, Computer Science, Critical Theory, Data Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Economics, Empirical and Deductive Reasoning, English, Environmental Policy and Culture, Environmental Sciences, Ethics and Civic Life, French and Italian, Gender and Sexuality Studies, General Liberal Arts, German, Global Health Studies, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Historical Studies, History, Humanities, Integrated Science, International Studies, Italian, Japanese, Jewish Studies, Korean, Latin, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latina and Latino Studies, Legal Studies, Linguistics, Literature and Arts, Materials Science, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences, Mathematics, Middle East and North African Languages, Middle East and North African Studies, Molecular Biosciences, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Natural Sciences, Neurobiology, Neuroscience, Perspectives on Power, Justice, and Equity, Philosophy, Physics and Astronomy, Political Science, Portuguese, Psychology, Religious Studies, Russian, Science in Human Culture, Slavic Languages and Literatures, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Sociology, Spanish & Portuguese, Statistics and Data Science, Swahili, Turkish, Urdu, and Writing Program.

Graduate Programs

• School of Professional Studies: Offers graduate programs in Data Science, Global Health, Health Analytics, Healthcare Administration, Health Informatics, Information Design and Strategy, Information Systems, Liberal Studies, Literature, Prose and Poetry, Public Policy and Administration, Regulatory Compliance, Sports Administration, and Writing.
• The Graduate School: Offers graduate programs in various fields, including Accounting and Information Systems, African Studies, Anthropology, Applied Physics, Arabic, Art History, Art Theory & Practice, Asian Languages and Cultures, Astronomy, Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biostatistics, Black Studies, Career Development, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Chicago Field Studies, Chinese, CIC Traveling Scholar, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Classics - Readings in English, Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Science, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Studies, Comparative & Historical Social Science, Comparative Literary Studies, Comparative Race and Diaspora, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Counseling, Dance, Data Science, Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Engineering Science & Applied Math, English, Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Environmental Policy & Culture, Epidemiology, Finance, French, General Engineering, Genetic Counseling, German, Global Avant-garde and Modernist Studies, Global Health, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi and Urdu, History, Human Development & Social Policy, Humanities, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Initiative for Sustainability & Energy at NU, Interdisciplinary Biological Sciences Program, Interdisciplinary Seminar, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Latina and Latino Studies, Learning Sciences, Legal Studies, Linguistics, Management and Organizations, Managerial Econ & Strategy, Marketing, Master of Science in Clinical Investigation, Materials Science & Engineering, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, Media, Technology & Society, Medical Humanities and Bioethics, Medical Scientist Training, Medieval Studies, Middle East and North African Studies, MS in Family Therapy, Music, Music Composition, Music Education, Music Technology, Music Theory, Musicology, Neurobiology & Physiology, Neuroscience, Neuroscience (NUIN), Operations Management, Performance Studies, Persian, Philosophy, Physics, Plant Biology & Conservation, Political Science, Portuguese, Predictive Science and Engineering, Professional Development, Psychology, Public Health, Quantitative & Systems Biology, Radio/Television/Film, Religion, Reproductive Science and Medicine, Russian, Segal Design Institute, Slavic Languages & Literature, Sociology, Spanish, Spanish and Portuguese, Statistics, Swahili, TGS General Registrations, Theatre & Drama, Theatre, Turkish, and Urdu.

Civil and Environmental Engineering

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers two degree programs for undergraduate students, one in civil engineering and another in environmental engineering, as well as minors in environmental engineering and in architectural engineering and design.

Civil Engineering

Civil Engineering is an international profession that provides solutions for pressing societal challenges for both the natural and built environment. Civilian infrastructure systems provide safe and efficient transportation systems for people, food, and manufactured goods; safe and energy efficient residential and commercial buildings; support the ecological and human health by protecting the quality of water, air, and land; and support the energy sector with power plants and their support structures.

Environmental Engineering

Environmental Engineers are the technical professionals who identify and design solutions for environmental problems. They provide answers to questions about the potentially harmful interrelationships between human civilization and the environment. Environmental engineers apply scientific and technological knowledge to eliminate or reduce environmental problems.

Programs of Study

• Civil Engineering Degree
• Environmental Engineering Degree
• Architectural Engineering and Design
• Environmental Engineering Minor

Courses

The department offers a wide range of courses, including:

• CIV_ENV 101-0 Introduction to Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CIV_ENV 195-0 Introductory Course in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CIV_ENV 201-0 Engineering Possibilities: Decision Science in the Age of Smart Technologies
• CIV_ENV 202-0 Biological and Ecological Principles
• CIV_ENV 203-0 Earth in the Anthropocene
• CIV_ENV 205-0 Economics and Finance for Engineers
• CIV_ENV 216-0 Mechanics of Materials I
• CIV_ENV 220-0 Structural Art
• CIV_ENV 221-0 Theory of Structures I
• CIV_ENV 250-0 Earth Surface Engineering
• CIV_ENV 260-0 Environmental Systems and Processes
• CIV_ENV 280-1 Architectural Engineering & Design Seminar I
• CIV_ENV 280-2 Architectural Engineering & Design Seminar II
• CIV_ENV 280-3 Architectural Engineering & Design Seminar III
• CIV_ENV 295-0 Introductory topics in Civil and Environmental Engineering
• CIV_ENV 301-1 Professional Development Seminar I
• CIV_ENV 301-2 Professional Development Seminar II
• CIV_ENV 302-0 Engineering Law
• CIV_ENV 303-0 Environmental Law and Policy
• CIV_ENV 304-0 Civil and Environmental Engineering Systems Analysis
• CIV_ENV 306-0 Uncertainty Analysis
• CIV_ENV 308-0 Environmental Justice
• CIV_ENV 309-0 Climate and Energy - Law and Policy
• CIV_ENV 314-0 Organic Geochemistry
• CIV_ENV 317-0 Biogeochemistry
• CIV_ENV 320-0 Structural Analysis--Dynamics
• CIV_ENV 321-0 Concrete Properties
• CIV_ENV 323-0 Structural Steel Design
• CIV_ENV 325-0 Reinforced Concrete
• CIV_ENV 326-0 Engineering Forensics
• CIV_ENV 327-0 Finite Element Methods in Mechanics
• CIV_ENV 328-0 Computational Forensics and Failure Analysis
• CIV_ENV 330-0 Engineering Project Management
• CIV_ENV 332-10 Building Construction Estimating
• CIV_ENV 336-10 Project Scheduling
• CIV_ENV 346-0 Ecohydrology
• CIV_ENV 352-0 Foundation Engineering
• CIV_ENV 353-0 Energy Geostructures & Geosystems
• CIV_ENV 361-1 Environmental Microbiology
• CIV_ENV 361-2 Public & Environmental Health
• CIV_ENV 364-0 Sustainable Water Systems
• CIV_ENV 365-0 Environmental Laboratory
• CIV_ENV 366-0 Dynamics in Chemical Transport and Reaction
• CIV_ENV 367-0 Chemical Processes in Aquatic Systems
• CIV_ENV 368-0 Sustainability: The City
• CIV_ENV 370-0 Emerging Organic Contaminants
• CIV_ENV 371-0 Introduction to Transportation Planning and Analysis
• CIV_ENV 374-0 Data Science for Urban Systems
• CIV_ENV 376-0 Transportation System Operations
• CIV_ENV 377-0 Choice Modelling in Engineering
• CIV_ENV 382-1 Capstone Design I
• CIV_ENV 382-2 Capstone Design II
• CIV_ENV 385-1 Architectural Engineering and Design 1: Fundamentals
• CIV_ENV 385-2 Architectural Engineering & Design 2: Intermediate
• CIV_ENV 385-3 Architectural Engineering & Design 3: Advanced Studio
• CIV_ENV 386-0 High Performance Architectural Design
• CIV_ENV 387-0 Design of Sustainable Urban Developments
• CIV_ENV 388-1 Building Science I: Fundamentals for Sustainable Buildings
• CIV_ENV 388-2 Building Science II: Application for Sustainable Buildings
• CIV_ENV 391-SA Engineering Nature in South Africa: Impacts on Human and Ecological Health
• CIV_ENV 394-SA Climate and Health Projects
• CIV_ENV 395-0 Special Topics in Civil and Environmental Engrg
• CIV_ENV 399-0 Projects
• CIV_ENV 410-0 Theory of Plates and Shells
• CIV_ENV 413-0 Experimental Solid Mechanics
• CIV_ENV 414-1 Mechanics of Composite Materials 1
• CIV_ENV 415-0 Theory of Elasticity
• CIV_ENV 416-0 Computational Nanodynamics
• CIV_ENV 417-1 Mechanics of Continua 1
• CIV_ENV 421-0 Prestressed Concrete Design
• CIV_ENV 422-0 Inelastic Analysis of Structures
• CIV_ENV 423-0 Matrix Analysis of Structures
• CIV_ENV 424-0 Stability of Structures
• CIV_ENV 425-0 Behavior of Reinforced Concrete
• CIV_ENV 426-1 Advanced Finite Element Methods 1
• CIV_ENV 426-2 Advanced Finite Element Methods 2
• CIV_ENV 428-1 Structural Design I
• CIV_ENV 428-2 Structural Design II
• CIV_ENV 428-3 Structural Design III
• CIV_ENV 430-0 Quasibrittle Fracture and Scaling
• CIV_ENV 435-10 Cost Engineering and Control
• CIV_ENV 440-0 Environmental Transport Processes
• CIV_ENV 442-0 Environmental Biotechnology for Resource Recovery
• CIV_ENV 443-0 Microbial Ecology for Resource Recovery
• CIV_ENV 447-0 Molecular Microbiology
• CIV_ENV 448-0 Computational Chemodynamics
• CIV_ENV 449-0 Environmental Particles and Surface Chemistry
• CIV_ENV 450-1 Soil Mechanics 1
• CIV_ENV 450-2 Soil Mechanics 2
• CIV_ENV 450-3 Soil Mechanics 3
• CIV_ENV 452-0 Unsaturated Soil Mechanics
• CIV_ENV 454-0 Constitutive Models for Soils
• CIV_ENV 455-0 Plasticity and Limit Analysis
• CIV_ENV 456-0 Computational Geotechnics
• CIV_ENV 457-0 Environmental Geotechnics
• CIV_ENV 458-0 Soil Dynamics
• CIV_ENV 468-0 Metals in the Environment
• CIV_ENV 471-1 Transportation Systems Analysis 1
• CIV_ENV 471-2 Transportation Systems Analysis 2
• CIV_ENV 472-1 Transportation System Operations and Control 1: Urban Networks
• CIV_ENV 472-2 Transportation System Operations and Control 2: Scheduled Modes and Real-Time
• CIV_ENV 474-0 Data Analytics for Urban Systems
• CIV_ENV 479-0 Transp Systems Planning & Management
• CIV_ENV 480-1 Travel Demand Analysis & Forecasting 1
• CIV_ENV 480-2 Advances in Travel Demand Analysis and Forecasting
• CIV_ENV 482-0 Evaluation and Decision Making for Infrastructure Systems
• CIV_ENV 483-0 Infrastructure Systems Analysis
• CIV_ENV 484-0 Advanced Theories of Traffic Flow
• CIV_ENV 495-0 Selected Topics in Civil Engineering
• CIV_ENV 497-0 Special Topics in Civil Engineering
• CIV_ENV 499-0 Projects
• CIV_ENV 504-0 Structural System Capstone Pre-design Seminar
• CIV_ENV 508-0 M.S. Research Paper for non-thesis option
• CIV_ENV 512-1 Structural Engineering & Mechanics Sem
• CIV_ENV 512-2 Structural Engineering & Mechanics Sem
• CIV_ENV 512-3 Structural Engineering & Mechanics Sem
• CIV_ENV 515-1 Geotechnics Seminar
• CIV_ENV 515-2 Geotechnics Seminar
• CIV_ENV 516-1 Seminar in Environmental Engineering & Science
• CIV_ENV 516-2 Seminar in Environmental Engineering and Science
• CIV_ENV 516-3 Seminar in Environmental Engineering and Science
• CIV_ENV 517-1 Seminar in Transportation Engineering
• CIV_ENV 517-2 Seminar in Transportation Engineering
• CIV_ENV 517-3 Seminar in Transportation Engineering
• CIV_ENV 590-0 Research