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What you can expect out of the program:

Analyze and address problems:

  • Identify core problems and assumptions, and evaluate different perspectives on our socio-ecosystems (i.e., “the environment”).
  • Interrogate underlying assumptions and sources of information to navigate our complex and uncertain world.
  • Evaluate core social and natural science concepts pertaining to the environment.
  • Identify emergent conditions and risks, then seek out relevant information and skills in a self-directed, reflexive manner.
  • Consider the wellbeing of self and others in the face of complex environmental problems.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of research designs and methods and then identify appropriate designs and methods when faced with a given problem.
  • Choose a specialized method from a specific field and demonstrate competency in it by applying it to a given problem.

Acknowledge the importance of multiple ways of knowing as central to understanding the environment:

  • Recognizing the importance of diverse disciplinary, socio-cultural, and embodied ways of knowing the environment.
  • Analyze complex, interconnected socio-environmental systems and issues. Then, consider multidisciplinary, holistic approaches to addressing those issues.
  • Exploring the questions of social justice that intersect with environmental harms and the climate emergency.
  • Drawing upon experiential learning to enrich environmental knowledge and to translate that knowledge into concrete actions or deliverables.

Communicate to inform, propel and lead change:

  • Maintain and communicate a constructive view of the future.
  • Employ appropriate teamwork and project management skills to engage and complete group projects.
  • Clearly, effectively, and compellingly communicate information and understandings in written, visual, digital, and oral formats for varied audiences (e.g., policy, technical, public, friends & family) to motivate human environmental attitudes, actions, and changes at multiple levels.
  • Be prepared to critique, influence and/or participate in transforming decision-making to preserve the environment while balancing human needs:
  • By critiquing environmental decision-making and governance across multiple scales (such as local, regional, national, and global) to understand their interconnections and implications
  • By engaging in environmental decision-making and governance at various scales (personal, community, regional, national, global etc.) as a changemaker.

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