It is acceptable to take a class paper and expand it to the appropriate length. Third, papers must have ethical content. Environmental ethics concerns decisions on environmental problems that involve competing values. Therefore, papers are unacceptable unless they deal with an environmental problem from an ethical perspective. For a list of previous Graduate EECP paper titles, click here .
Additional signatures confirm that the student has passed the required oral exam.
The original paper is then approved by the Graduate Coordinator. Oral Examination Graduate students are required to pass a brief oral exam before the Certificate is awarded. The purpose of the exam is to determine not only students' ability to integrate information from courses, lectures, and readings, but also to examine their knowledge of issues in constructing their own personal environmental ethic. The oral exam is taken after the course work is completed and before the required paper is approved. Students are responsible for arranging times and places with their committee members for this exam.