The current degree requirements are below. Remember you are required to fulfill the requirements from the academic year you were admitted. Please refer to the handbook from your year of admission as needed.

15 credit hours

Required Core (3 credit hours)
BIO 578 Environmental Leadership and Communication (3)

Electives (12 credit hours)
policy and management (3)
communication (3)
leadership (3)
open elective (3)

Additional Curriculum Information
Students must choose 3 credit hours of approved elective coursework within each of the elective categories listed above. If a student takes a course that is less than 3 credit hours, the student must take more than 1 course in that category to meet the 3 credit hour requirement.

Policy and management

• BIO 517/SOS 518 Uncertainty and Decision Making (3)

• BIO 412/BIO, SOS, GPW 598 Conservation in Practice (3)

• ERM 528 International Environmental Management (3)

• ERM 540 International Environmental Law and Policy (3)

• HSD 501 Science and Technology Policy (3)

• HSD 502 Advanced Science and Technology Policy (3)

• PAF 505 Public Policy Analysis (3)

• PAF 540 Advanced Policy Analysis (3)

• SOS/PAF 545 Organizations, Sustainability and Public Policy (3)

Communication

• SOS 598 Communicating about Sustainability (3)

• SOS 577 Interdisciplinary Writing Seminar (3)

• SOS 545 Organizations, Sustainability and Public Policy (3)

• PRM 470 Environmental Communication (3)

• COM 414 Crisis Communication (3)

• CMN 598 Environmental Risk and Communication Advocacy (3)

Leadership

• SST 591 Transformational Leadership and Embodied Activism (3)

• MGT 513 Mindful Leadership (3)

• MGT 545 Becoming Leaders Who Matter (3)

• NLM 560 Leadership and Ethics in the Nonprofit Sector (3)

• PAF 508 Organization Behavior (3)

• PAF 529 Organization Change and Development (3)

• PAF 574 Diversity, Ethics, and Leading Public Change (3)

Open elective

Choose an additional course from any of the above categories.