Teachers are needed for nature centers, travel and adventure programs. Students often use the policy and analysis program as preparation for continued academic work leading to graduate degrees in law, planning or public administration. Curriculum Environmental policy and analysis is broadly interdisciplinary, requiring courses in natural science, social science and the humanities. It is coordinated by the Center for Environmental Programs. Students take a course in biology and three other science courses, economics and a literature course that focuses on nature writing.
Students are also select from a pool of courses in a wide range of environmental subjects.
Flexibility in the requirements encourages students to concentrate on individual interest areas. Some focus areas include protection of wilderness regions, land development, restoration and preservation, conservation of endangered and threatened species, and recreation leadership. The program offers a concentration in land planning which includes instruction in geographic information systems. This course provides skills and tools to reproduce computerized data on overlay maps that can be used for analysis of greenspace, traffic patterns, population growth trends or pollution transport through the environment. The faculty is highly qualified and many of the courses in the program were developed by the instructors teaching them.