Dec 21, 2024  
University Catalog 2024-2025 
    
University Catalog 2024-2025

Resource Management and Administration, International Sustainable Development and Climate Change Concentration, MS


MS in Resource Management and Administration: International Sustainable Development and Climate Change
Location: AU New England
Credits for Degree: 30 semester credits
Standard Mode of Instruction: Flexible
Standard time to completion: 24 months

Program Overview

This Master’s program gives students the flexibility to earn a master’s degree while continuing to work full-time. RMA students learn how to build stakeholder capacity, practice effective communication strategies, and provide leadership and management to organizations and communities facing a myriad of challenges due to difficult resource management decisions, especially within the context of a changing climate. Students do this through a combination of weekend coursework and applied research projects with faculty, other students, and organizations working in this field.

The core curriculum classes meet online in the fall and spring semesters, with a 5-6 day intensive at the beginning of the first summer term, along with three immersive international field studies courses.

The ISDCC curriculum pathway can meet the requirements for the Professional Science Master’s (PSM) designation based on the electives the student selects. The required courses meet the 18 required STEM credits and 7 of the 12 required PLUS credits for PSM designation. ISDCC students would need to ensure their elective courses include 5 additional PLUS credits. This requires an ISDCC student taking additional credits above the required 30 degree program.

Current Tuition and Fees 

University Tuition and Fees  

Electives - 2 Semester Credits


Students will select their electives with guidance and consultation from the academic advisor. The student can choose from all of the courses offered in the Antioch School of the Environment Master’s degree programs. Examples of courses include:  

  • Dispute Resolution, Climate Migration
  • Climate Change: Public Health
  • Proposal Writing & Project Management
  • Climate Impacts Communication and Engagement
  • Facilitation, and Stakeholder Capacity Building
  • Climate Impacts Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning
  • Zero Waste Strategies
  • Energy Resilience
  • Watershed Science & Management
  • Wetlands
  • Policy Advocacy: Climate Change
  • Stewardship and Land Protection Techniques
  • Global Cultural Awareness
  • Participatory Action Research
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Participatory GIS
  • Applied Ecological Principles
  • Political Economy and Sustainability
  • Conservation Psychology
  • Available field trips
  • And more!