A. Integrating Analyses of Natural Resource Issues (2 credits, currently NR 378)
B. Concentration (at least 15 credits)
To be individually designed with approval of Graduate Studies Committee. The choice of courses should indicate a focus or specialization within environmental thought and culture (broadly defined), with a conceptually integrated curriculum of courses supporting the student’s research project and drawn from the humanities, the social sciences, the natural and applied sciences, and/or other areas.
Electives to be chosen from the following lists or other petitioned courses:
(i) Regularly offered ENVS/RSENR courses available for graduate credit include the following. (All are 3-credit courses except where noted.)
NR 354 Seminar in Environmental Policy
NR 360 Environmental Sociology
NR 361 Politics of Landscape, Place, and Nature (2 credits)
NR 220 Landscape Ecology (2 credits)
NR 262 International Problems in Natural Resource Management
NR 275 Natural Resource Planning: Theory and Methods
NR 285 Human Behavior and Environmental Management
NR 385 Research Seminar
ENVS 294 Environmental Education
RM 235 Outdoor Recreational Planning
RM 240 Park and Wilderness Management
RM 255 Environmental Interpretation
Please see ENVS and RSENR course calendars for a complete list of courses being offered.
(ii) The following courses have all been offered in recent years as Special Topics (285, 295, 385) courses or will be offered in 2004-05 by participating faculty. It is expected that most of these will become regular offerings (with their own course numbers at the 200- or 300-level) as graduate demand for them increases.
NR 2xx Human Behavior and Environmental Management
NR 2xx Sustainable Tourism in the Northern Forest
ENVS 2xx Environmental Conflict Resolution
ENVS 2xx Environmental Peace Movements
ENVS 2xx Sustainability, Ecotourism, and Environmental Interpretation
ENVS 2xx Perspectives in Ecophilosophy
ENVS 2xx Feminist Ethics and the Environment
ENVS 2xx Buddhism and Ecology
ENVS 2xx Political Economy of the Environment
ENVS 2xx Environment, Communication, and Culture
ENVS2xx/HST201 History on the Land
ENVS2xx/ANTH295 Field Methods in Environmental Research
(iii) Examples of appropriate courses available for graduate credit in other departments include the following:
ANTH 283 Colonialism
BOT295/NR385 Reading the Landscape
CDAE 205 Rural Communities in Modern Society
CDAE 208 Agricultural Policy and Ethics
CDAE 218 Community Organization and Development
CDAE 237 Economics of Sustainable Development
EDFS 347 Qualitative Research Methods
ENSC 222 Pollution Ecology
GEOG 278 Gender, Space and Environment
GEOL 295 Vermont Field Geology
HP 201 Architecture, Landscape and History
HST 295 Environmental History
SOC 213 Women in Development in Third World Countries
C. Master’s Research Thesis (NR 391) or Project Thesis (NR 392) - 6 to 9 credits
D. Additional courses to meet 30 credits for degree
Admission requirements: Undergraduate degree in a discipline related to the intended specific field of study. Satisfactory scores on the General Test of the Graduate Record Examination.
