Academic requirements
30 hours minimum of total credits, consisting of:
Graded coursework (21 credits minimum)
- 2 credits of SOE 592 or 597: Advanced Special Topics
- 3 credits of SOE 544, or other policy/society/management course
- 3 credits of statistics or math
- 13 credits of additional graded course work
At least 8 credits of graded courses must be SOE pre-fix,
15 credits minimum of graded course work at the 500-level
6 credits maximum of non-graduate (300-400 level) graded course work.
Ungraded coursework
- 1 credit of SOE 501: Graduate Skills Seminar
- 2 credits of SOE 598: Research Seminar in Environmental Sciences
Thesis
- 6 credits minimum of SOE 700, 2 of which must be taken in the semester of the final exam
- Courses taken for audit or courses graded Pass/Fail may not be used on the program of study
The program requires a thesis and a final oral exam/thesis defense.
Examples of courses to meet MS ES requirements
Examples of graduate courses satisfying Policy/Society/Management requirement:
- SOE 544 Environmental Assessment
- SOE 532 Applied Environmental Toxicology
- SOE 535 Water Resources Science and Management
- SOE 545 Hazardous Waste Management
- SOE 594 Environmental and Natural Resources Issues and Ethics
- POL_S 544 The Politics of Policy Process
Examples of graduate courses satisfying Quantitative skills requirement:
- STAT 508 Environmental Spatial Statistics
- STAT 512 Analysis of Variance of Designed Experiments
- STAT 516 Time Series
- STAT 519 Applied Multivariate Analysis
- STAT 520 Statistical Analysis of Qualitative Data
- STAT 523 Statistical Methods for Engineers and Scientists
- STAT 535 Regression Analysis
- STAT 544 Applied Stochastic Processes
- MECH 521 Fundamentals of Fluids I
- MECH 523 Computational Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer
- MECH 532 Finite Elements