This degree provides the student with curriculum and research opportunities in one of the world’s most significant science and policy issues: the environment. Students will study environmental ecosystems, impact of industrialization, economics, regulation, ethics, law, and management issues. They also have the opportunity to focus their courses of study in directions of environmental administration, emergency management, and waste management/pollution control. This degree is applicable for government and industry environmentally related professions. It also can serve as a foundation degree for study at the doctorate level in related fields.
Degree Program Objectives
In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcomes objectives, the Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. Graduates in this degree program will be able to: - Develop management strategies that incorporate environmental compliance standards and achieve organizational missions.
- Analyze and assess the interconnections among subfields of environmental systems to comprehend treatment, remediation, and disposal systems.
- Assess the direct and indirect costs of environmental regulation, problems, and corrective actions.
- Use the theory and practice of environmental policy and management to develop and evaluate global and local environmental strategies and policies including analysis of environmental issues, industrial-environmental relations, public and private environmental issues, and global environmental issues.
- Quantitatively and qualitatively evaluate the consequences of ecological destruction on public health, productivity, and social and economic welfare.
Degree Program Requirements Core Courses (18 semester hours)
PS500/POL 500 - Research Methods in Social Science
DM578/EVS 501 - Environmental Management
DM614/EVS 508 - Environmental Ethics
DM631/EVS 502 - Environmental Economics
DM632/EVS 503 - Environmental Policy, Regulation, and Law
DM650/EVS 610 - Fundamentals of Environmental Systems Major Courses (12 semester hours)
EM501/EDM 500 - Chemistry of Hazardous Materials
EM517/EDM 522 - International Disaster Management
EM503/EDM 530 - Economics of Disaster
EM500/EDM 611 - Case Analysis – Crisis and Disaster
DM616/EVS 630 - Waste Management and Pollution Control
EM524/FSC 560 - Wildland Fire Management and Organization
Graduate Electives (6 semester hours)
From other courses not taken to meet required, core, or major requirements.
EM705/EVS 790 - Separate Comprehensive Examination Taken once all other degree requirements have been met. Total Hours: 36 semester hours |
