General Environmental Sciences Concentration
The curriculum for the MS in Environmental Sciences allows students to gain strong scientific understanding of ways to study, evaluate, and interpret environmental realities and their impacts, as well as to manage and mitigate environmental problems. Objectives are to enable students to:
- Develop a basic literacy in the natural and social sciences and the humanities as they contribute to an understanding of environmental issues
- Critically analyze environmental problems
- Identify, research, and evaluate environmental problems
- Compare, contrast, implement, and manage short- and long-term solutions to environmental problems. The department recommends that students interested in the Environmental Sciences degree have prior knowledge of chemistry, algebra, statistics, and biology
Requirements
Core Requirements | ||
ENS 551 | Environmental Natural Sciences | 4 |
ENS 552 | Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities | 4 |
ENS 553 | Research Methods in Environmental Science | 4 |
General Environmental Sciences Concentration 1 | ||
Select electives in consultation with academic advisor | 24 | |
Closure | ||
ENS 510 | Thesis | 4 |
or ENS 520 | Graduate Project | |
Total Hours | 40 |
1 | Provides students with competency in research and management of interactions among physical, chemical, and biological systems in the environment. |