Students follow three steps in their degree program.
The core consists of four introductory courses where students are exposed to the different approaches, perspectives, and world views that will help them gain an understanding of the complexity and conflicts that underlie most environmental problems. Through the core program students go beyond the confines of their individual views of environment. Domain Domains listed below provide a trans-disciplinary study of a particular theme or component of the environment. Additional Domains are being developed in several areas. Final Core Finally, students in the two senior courses of the core will apply the general and specialized knowledge that they have gained in the program to the analysis of some specific, contemporary environmental problems.