Sustainability Science MS
| Accelerated MS in Sustainability Science | Curriculum overview |
Accelerated MS in Sustainability Science Curriculum Outline
| Major Required (Core) Courses (Total courses required = 6, including one from each of the categories A+B+C) | ||
| Course Number | Course Title | Credit Hours |
| The following three courses are REQUIRED for all students | ||
| ECO 597S | Perspectives on Sustainability | 3 |
| ECO 691A | Fall Seminar | 1 |
| ECO 692 | Spring Seminar | 1 |
| A: Environmental Systems (choose any 1) | ||
| ECO 621 ECO 697LU GEOSCI 530 LANDARCH 547 | Landscape Ecology Land-Use and Watershed Management Environment and Population Landscape Pattern and Process | 3 3 3 3 |
| B: Urban and Social Systems (choose any 1) | ||
| GEOSCI 670 REGIONPL 591B LANDARCH 591F REGIONPL 577 | Urban Environmental History Sustainable Cities Green Urbanism Urban Policies | 3 3 3 3 |
| C: Economics & Politics of Sustainability (choose any 1) | ||
| ECO 697Z ECON 765 GEOSCI 597G RESECON 720 | Environmental Economics and Sustainability Economics of Development – Structural Problems Geography Policy and the Environment Environmental & Resource Economics | 3 3 3 3 |
| SubTotal # Core Credits Required | 14 | |
| Concentration & Elective Course Choices (Total courses required = 5, at least three of which are within a single concentration area and at least one elective chosen from a second area) | ||
| 1: Environmental Quality | ||
| ENTOM 574 | Disease Vector Biology | 3 |
| ENVIRSCI 504 | Air Pollution & Climate Change Biology | 3 |
| ENVIRSCI 575 | Environmental Soil Chemistry | 3 |
| ENVIRSCI 585 | Animal and Environmental Toxicology | 3 |
| MICROBIO 597E | Environmental Microbiology | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 562 | Air Quality Assessment | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 565 | Environmetal Health Practices | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 590N | Indoor Environmetal Health | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 666 | Environmental & Occupational Toxicology | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 671 | Risk Assessment and Management | 3 |
| PUBHLTH 690F | Social Justice | 3 |
| RGNPL 591G | Housing Public Health | 3 |
| SubTotal # Concentration Credits Required | 9+6=15 | |
| 2. Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture | ||
| ENTOMOL 581 | Integrated Pest Management | 3 |
| NUTR 576 | Nutrition Problems in the U.S. | 3 |
| NUTR 578 | Nutrition in the Developing Wold | 3 |
| NUTR 597 | Food & Nutrition Policy | 3 |
| NUTR 640 | Public Health Nutrition | 3 |
| NURT 678 | Topic in International Nutrition | 3 |
| POLISCI 784 | Environmental Policy | 3 |
| PLNTSOIL 555 | Urban Plant Biology | 3 |
| PLNTSOIL 597A | Phyto/Bioremediation | 3 |
| PLNTSOIL 590B | Sustainable Food & Farming | 3 |
| PPA 697K | Compararative Public Policy | 3 |
| SubTotal # Concentration Credits Required | 9+6=15 | |
| 3. Water Sustainability and Climate Change | ||
| CEE 661 | Subsurface Pollution | 3 |
| GEOSCI 587 | Hydrogeology | 3 |
| GEOSCI 519 | Aqueous and Environmental Geochemistry | 3 |
| GEOSCI 591C | Environmental and Climate Modeling | 3 |
| GEOSCI 697V | Water Geographies: Conflict and Sustainability | 3 |
| ECO 528 | Forest and Wetland Hydrology | 3 |
| ECO 597R | Watershed Science & Management | 3 |
| ECO 597W | Wetlands Assessment & Field Techniques | 3 |
| ECO 697LU | Land Use & Watershed Management | 3 |
| ECO 768 | Wetlands Ecology & Conservation | 3 |
| REGIONPL 591CC | Planning for Climate Change | 3 |
| SubTotal # Concentration Credits Required | 9+6=15 | |
| 4. Urban Sustainabilty | ||
| ARCHDES 520 | Building Energy and Environmental Systems | 3 |
| BCT 597D | Sustainable Building and LEED Certification | 3 |
| BCT 597B | Building Energy Performance Analysis | 3 |
| ECO 697U | Urban Ecology | 3 |
| GEOSCI 670 | Housing and Urban Development | 3 |
| LANDARCH 604 | Urban Design | 3 |
| LANDARCH 591F | Green Urbanism | 3 |
| M&I ENG 570 | Solar & Direct Energy Conservation | 3 |
| PUBADMIN 697BB | Urban and Housing Policy | 3 |
| REGIONPL 591BB | Sustainable Cities | 3 |
| SubTotal # Concentration Credits Required | 9+6=15 | |
| Internship/Project Requirement related to primary concentration area | ||
| ECO 696 | Practicum in Sustainability | 4 |
| SubTotal # Concentration Credits Required | 4 | |
| Curriculum Summary | ||
| Total number of courses required for the degree: | 12 | |
| Total credit hours required for degree: | 33 | |
| Prerequisite Other Additional Requirements: | N/A | |
Last updated October 24, 2011 by Roxann Cormier
