Master of Science in Environmental Policy and Management

This general concentration allows you to select from all concentration courses offered within this program, enabling you to create your own focused area of study.

This general concentration allows you to select from all concentration courses offered within this program, enabling you to create your own focused area of study.

Teaches how to design, implement, and evaluate sustainable developments, landscapes, and environments. Covers interactions between humans and their environment and government policies. Legislation, socio-political influences, and the analysis of development plans for adherence to professional standards and principles are covered.

Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:

• Detail the elements necessary to design, implement, and evaluate sustainable developments, landscapes, and environments.
• Analyze the complex and dynamic interactions between humans and their environment.
• Explain the role of government policy at municipal, regional, national, and global levels to achieve sustainable development.
• Apply theoretical concepts to practical applications in order to design and implement sustainable environmental planning.
• Apply principles of environmental policymaking and environmental legislation, as well as socio-political influences to the field of environmental planning.
• Critically analyze complex, and often competing development plans for adherence to professional environmental planning and sustainability principles.

Looks at the complex and dynamic interactions between humans and their environment. Examines the role of government policies and the barriers preventing full sustainability implementation. Topics covered include how sustainability solves complex environmental problems and meets critical resource needs from a local to global scale.

Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:

• Detail the principles of sustainability and the roles of multiple disciplines in their effective implementation.
• Analyze the complex and dynamic interactions between humans and their environment.
• Assess the role of government policy at municipal, regional, national, and global levels in achieving sustainable development.
• Analyze the political, regulatory, and economic barriers that prevent full implementation of sustainable products, goods and services.
• Apply the principles of sustainability to complex environmental problems.
• Analyze the role of sustainability in meeting critical resource needs, such as renewable energy and water quality and quantity, on the local, regional, national, and global scale.

Examines fundamental concepts and principles of fish and wildlife management, and why human activity has an effect on populations. Teaches how legal regulations, policies, and politics influence management. The role of collaboration and partnerships in meeting critical resource needs on a national and global scale is also covered.

Upon successful completion of this concentration, the student will be able to:

• Describe the fundamental concepts and principles of the management of fish and wildlife resources.
• Assess the impact of human activities on the survival and management of fish and wildlife populations.
• Analyze the regulations, policies, and politics that influence the management of fish and wildlife in the U.S.
• Analyze the complex and dynamic interactions between fish and wildlife resources and their environment.
• Assess the political, regulatory, and economic barriers that prevent the preservation and restoration of species and populations.
• Analyze the role of collaboration and partnerships in meeting critical fish and wildlife resource needs, such as species restoration, threatened and endangered species management, and landscape level conservation, both on the national and global scale.

Studies global environmental and climate change, and examines the potential impacts on environmental policy and society, via scholarly research and real-world case studies. Emphasis is on the implications of environmental change for environmental managers, including management decision-making and strategies.