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What you can expect out of the program:

Analyze and address problems:

  1. 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:

  1. Recognizing the importance of diverse disciplinary, socio-cultural, and embodied ways of knowing the environment.
  2. Analyze complex, interconnected socio-environmental systems and issues. Then, consider multidisciplinary, holistic approaches to addressing those issues.
  3. Exploring the questions of social justice that intersect with environmental harms and the climate emergency.
  4. 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:

  1. Maintain and communicate a constructive view of the future.
  2. Employ appropriate teamwork and project management skills to engage and complete group projects.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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