Early selection of a topic allows students to garner information in an orderly way that makes the writing easier and the experience more meaningful. Second, papers tend to be too long or too short. Papers must be between 20 and 30 pages long, somewhere between a class paper and a thesis. 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.