Under special conditions selected students may investigate specific environmental issues and problems. The instructor and the student will agree on a formal semester plan/learning contract, which will be filed with the Environmental Studies Program Director and will include weekly reports to the instructor.
Under special conditions selected students may investigate specific environmental issues and problems. The instructor and the student will agree on a formal semester plan/learning contract, which will be filed with the Environmental Studies Program Director and will include weekly reports to the instructor.
Under special conditions selected students may investigate specific environmental issues and problems. The instructor and the student will agree on a formal semester plan/learning contract, which will be filed with the Environmental Studies Program Director and will include weekly reports to the instructor.
This course provides supervised professional experience in public and private sector positions, and is intended to introduce students to the skills and working environments of careers in environmental and sustainability studies. Students should consult with a ENS faculty member in advance of registering for this class. This course may be repeatable up to a maximum of six credit hours.
This course will draw on your interdisciplinary understanding of environmental issues and your problem-solving capacities developed while fulfilling Environmental Studies Minor requirements. It is a participatory capstone seminar designed to utilize and test your critical ability for independent thinking organized around specific environmental issues. Independent library work and writing assignments will be required in order to prepare for weekly, interactive topical seminar meetings.
This course will survey some of the most important environmental problems (climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water scarcity) and the tools needed to analyze, understand, and respond to these problems (market-based solutions, political economy, institutional economic theories, environmental ethics). Students will also explore new scientific ideas on sustainability to better understand the contemporary environmental problems the world is facing.
This course will explore the roles of governments, markets, and civil society in the creation, adoption, and implementation of environmental and sustainability rules and norms. We will evaluate leading environmental and policy strategies, including traditional state regulation, market-based incentives and regulations created by private actors (civil society and corporations/Corporate Social Responsibility). Increasingly, the interactions between different forms of regulation figure prominently in debates about environmental and sustainability governance.
The course provides students an understanding of the latest scientific research in the field of environment and sustainability studies and the tools to communicate this research effectively to the public. In addition, students will learn key technical writing skills to apply knowledge in environmental and sustainability studies. For technical writing, students will develop skills for writing letters, grant proposals, reports, and presentations for specific audiences.
Students will complete a significant research project in environmental and sustainability studies that includes reviewing relevant literature and collecting data. Students will design an independent research project using recognized research methodology and will collect and analyze data under the guidance of their faculty advisor and graduate committee. A learning contract with project clearly defined must be approved by supervising faculty member.
This course is part of the Plan B Capstone option for the MA in Applied Environmental and Sustainability Studies. Students will report on the significant research project in environmental and sustainability studies that they conducted in ENS 695 under the guidance of their faculty advisor. Students will complete a report on their research in a format agreed upon with their faculty advisor.
