MS in Resource Management and Administration: Leadership and Management of Sustainable Systems
Location: AU New England
Credits for Degree: 30 semester credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Classroom, Fieldwork, Online
Standard time to completion: 28 months
Program Overview
This 30-credit program can be completed in five (5) semesters, while giving students the flexibility to earn a master’s degree while continuing to work full-time. Students develop the specific skills to address multi-issue, multi-stakeholder environmental problems. This includes managing the necessary resources, such as expertise, networks, money, communication and time within the regulatory realities of protecting, conserving and restoring the environment.
Students returning to continue their education will have an opportunity to gain the latest thinking in regards to effective responses to a changing climate, sustainable approaches to managing energy and materials, communication and facilitation approaches to effectively marshal stakeholders and how to develop solutions that acknowledges who and what are most vulnerable and that addresses environmental justice.
You will engage with LMSS faculty that are not only environmental scholars but have many years of experience as practitioners addressing real-world environmental problems at regional, national, and international scales. The faculty give priority to teaching and advising so that each student can build upon their past experiences and visualize a critical path towards their next role as an environmental professional.
The LMSS curriculum pathway can meet the requirements for the Professional Science Master’s (PSM) designation based on the courses the student selects. The required courses below consist of 4 of the 18 required STEM credits and 13 of the 12 required PLUS credits for PSM designation. LMSS students would need to ensure their elective courses include 14 additional STEM credits. LMSS students obtain the required PLUS course credits in their required courses. In addition, an LMSS student would need to take an additional course to meet the STEM credit requirement for PSM.
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