The student's thesis committee should be comprised of three members, representing at least two different fields, with one being a member of the Environmental Studies Council. A student's project is supervised by a single faculty member. Courses outside Environmental Studies are chosen with prior approval of the faculty adviser and consistent with the student's area of interest. For further information, consult the graduate program adviser. Discussions of interdisciplinary approaches to environmental problems and research methods.
Students prepare seminars and papers on research design for potential thesis topics.
Meets graduate writing requirement. Demonstrations and field trips. Research methods and statistics used in the field of environmental studies. Research tools used in such areas a environmental field studies, environmental experiments, social environmental impacts, environmental attitudes and behavior and environmental trend analysis. Use of secondary data sources and computer required.