Our Environment and Sustainability Ph.D. equips students with diverse perspectives to develop profound new ideas, knowledge, and approaches to the most important concerns facing people and the planet. The program provides training to develop a deep understanding of the structures of the current environment and sustainability issues today and to develop analytical research to address them. This requires learning in multiple disciplines and how they, together, can better provide greater knowledge to bear to the social, environmental, political, scientific, and economic factors creating the situation we face today. Our goal is to prepare students for a range of careers in academia, as well as public and private sectors.
 

Course Requirements

To encourage an open-ended, problem-driven focus in our student-focused program, the fixed requirements of the program are limited:

1. Core Course: A two-quarter core sequence of “Issues and Methods in Environment and Sustainability”
2. Six quarters of participation in advanced seminars on Environment and Sustainability.
3. Electives – beyond the common requirements, each student will develop an individual program of study in consultation with their advisors and committee to master a range of disciplinary knowledge, skills, and research methods.
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