Master of Environmental Science and Management
Environmental Justice
This specialization emphasizes environmental justice as an intersectional approach to integrate science, policy, ethics and the knowledge of marginalized populations to address environment challenges related to water, land and air pollutants; plastics; food and seafood insecurity; land and sea loss; climate change; ecocide; racial capitalism; and transactional, extractive practices.
This is a skills-based program that emphasizes community-based educational experiences. Student will learn to analyze the issues, problems, and solutions affecting people, land, air, and water, through the lens of social justice, which includes addressing the disproportionate and adverse human health, societal, biophysical, and environmental effects of structurally systemic forms of discrimination, past and present.
Graduates will be prepared for an array of professional careers in communications, public engagement, program management, policy making, advocacy, and education working with nonprofits, informal learning institutions, schools, scientific and environmental agencies, and community-based organizations.
Requirements
Core courses (21 credits), including:
- Social Sciences (9 credits)
- Required:
- BES/MAF 505 Doing Ethnography
- BES 533 Using Multimedia to Communicate Science
- Plus one course from the following:
- AAF 484 Global Equity, Justic, and Social Media
- BES/MAF/SAS 547 Political Ecology for the Environment and Life Sciences
- COM 455 Science and Communication in a Century of Limits
- COM 460 Environmental Communication: Local and Global
- MAF 531 Environmental Justice
- NRS 542 Environmental Crisis Communication
- SOC 413 Gender Inequality
- SOC 428 Institutional Racism
- WRT 534 Visualizing Environmental Advocacy
- Required:
- Natural Sciences (9 credits)
- Quantitative Methods (3 credits)
Elective courses (6-10 credits)
Culminating Experience (3 credits: EVS 505, 597, or 598)
Graduate seminar (2 credits)
Kendall Moore