Field Study Courses at UC Berkeley

Field courses emphasize experiential learning with cohorts of students. From studying ecology in the mountains to making urban ethnographic films, the below courses offer deeply transformative learning experiences. This list is a work-in-progress list. If you want to suggest a course for this list, please email info.discovery@berkeley.edu


African American Studies:

AFAM 182AC: Social Movements and Organizing

    • This will be offered in the spring semester with an option for a 197 internship option

Anthropology / Archeology: 

Anthropology 134A: Field Course in Archaeological Methods

Anthropology 138B: Field Production of Ethnographic Film

Anthropology 169B: Research Methods in Socio-cultural anthropology

AGRS N172A:  Ancient Greek and Roman Studies

Biology 

BIO 1B: Introductory Biology, Field Section

Education courses

EDUC 190: UCB students work with middle school students

EDUC 140: UCB students work with high school students

EDUC 144: Practicum in Education

Engineering

Materials Science & Engineering

MSE 199: Supervised Independent Study

H194: Honors Undergraduate Research

Mechanical Engineering

MEC ENG 100: Electronics for the Internet of Thing

MEC ENG 102 B: Mechatronics Design

MEC ENG 103: Experimentation and Measurements

English

​English 199: Supervised Independent Study for Advanced Undergraduates

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

ESPM 105A, Sierra Nevada Ecology

ESPM 105B, Forest Measurements

ESPM 105C, Forest Silviculture and Utilization

ESPM 105D, Forest Management and Assessment

ESPM C107 / IB 158LF, Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands

ESPM 109A-E, Island Sustainability Program, Moorea

ESPM C115C / IB C176L, Fish Ecology

ESPM C115A / IB C171, Freshwater Ecology

ESPM 116B, Grassland and Woodland Ecology

ESPM 118, Agroecology 

ESPM 132, Spider Biology

ESPM 139A course (Genetics of Amphibian Declines CURE)

ESPM 140, General Entomology

ESPM 147, Field Entomology

ESPM 162A / ANTH 119, Health, Medicine, Society and Environment 

ESPM 181A, Fire Ecology

ESPM 186, Management of Rangeland Ecosystems

Ethnic Studies

​​197: Community Field Study

Geography / Geology courses:

GEOG 180: Field Methods for Physical Geography

GEOG 181: Urban Field Study

GEOG 182: Field Study of Buildings and Cities

GEOG 172: Sonic Geographies

Integrative Biology

IB 11: California Natural History

IB 82: Introduction to Field Research in Integrative Biology (new course)

​​IB 102LF:Introduction to California Plant Life with Laboratory

IB 104LF:Natural History of the Vertebrates with Laboratory

IB 113L:Paleobiological Perspectives on Ecology and Evolution

IB 117LF:Medical Ethnobotany Laboratory

IB 157LF:Ecosystems of California

IB 158LF:Biology and Geomorphology of Tropical Islands

IB 173LF:Mammalogy with Laboratory

IB 174LF:Ornithology with Laboratory 

IB 175LF:Herpetology with Laboratory

IB 177LF:Ichthyology: An Introduction to the Scientific Process Through Research on 

Fishes

IB C110L:Biology of Fungi with Laboratory

Linguistics

LINGUIS 140: Field Methods

Music

Music 106: Electronic Music Production and History

Music 48: Introduction to Music Therapy

Music 197: Field Studies in Music

Social Welfare

SOC WEL 97/197: Field Studies in Social Welfare