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Environmental Sciences 1 Environmental Sciences 1 Environmental Degree Requirements • Academic essay of at least 300 words addressing the following: 1. What are the most urgent environmental problems facing your Sciences community today? 2. How will a master’s degree in environmental studies help prepare you to address these problems? 3. Which Master of Science - Environmental Sciences area of environmental specialization appeals most to you? 4. A brief description of your academic background, including life www.uis.edu/ens/ experiences, that contribute to your academic preparation. Email: [email protected] • Two informative letters of recommendation from professors or Office Phone: (217) 206-7495 employers addressing applicant's academic ability, work ethic and Office Location: PAC 350 personal integrity • General Environmental Science Concentration Only: Must have identified a faculty member who agrees to serve as research Departmental Goals and Objectives advisor before application will be considered. Applicants to the Environmental Planning and Management or Sustainable The mission of the Department of Environmental Studies is to provide Development and Policy concentrations do not need prior approval students with the advanced interdisciplinary training necessary for from a research supervisor in order to apply. addressing environmental problems. Graduates of the department are prepared for diverse careers in environmental fields. Required Core Courses The principal emphasis in the MS degree is on professional ENS 551 Environmental Natural Sciences 4 development. The graduate degrees are designed for those who intend ENS 552 Environmental Social Sciences and Humanities 4 to enter the job market for the first time, as well as for mid-career ENS 553 Research Methods in Environmental Science 4 professionals. Faculty work with each student to create a specialized educational plan (developed before or during the first semester of Concentration Requirements and Electives 24 study). Students should consult advising documents for their chosen Closure 4 degree and concentrations. Total Hours 40 The Master's Degree Educational Plan The curriculum for the MS in Environmental Sciences allows students Development of an educational plan is a key activity through which to gain strong scientific understanding of ways to study, evaluate, student and academic advisor identify course work appropriate for the and interpret environmental realities and their impacts, as well as student’s background, aspirations, and needs. The plan indicates the to manage and mitigate environmental problems. Objectives are to courses for the chosen degree and concentration, and is developed enable students to: prior to or during the first semester of study. Upon completion of 1. develop a basic literacy in the natural and social sciences the plan the advisor and Department chair review the plan. Minor and the humanities as they contribute to an understanding of amendments (such as electives) may be made during the course of environmental issues; study with approval of the academic advisor; significant changes in direction (changes between concentrations or degrees) also require 2. critically analyze environmental problems; the approval of the Department chair and necessitate a Change of 3. identify, research, and evaluate environmental problems; and Curriculum form. Variances from Department requirements must be 4. compare, contrast, implement, and manage short- and long-term indicated and approved through a Student Petition process. solutions to environmental problems. The department recommends that students interested in the Environmental Sciences degree Grading Policy have prior knowledge of chemistry, algebra, statistics, and biology. Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a scale during their course of study. A maximum of four hours of C (2.0) grades (a Three concentrations are available: grade of C- or lower will not be acceptable) is applicable to an ENS • ES - General degree, provided each hour of C is balanced by an hour of A (a grade • ES - Environmental Planning and Management of A- will not be accepted), and an approved Student Petition is on file in the Office of Records and Registration. Failure to maintain an • ES - Sustainable Development and Policy overall graduate grade point average of 3.0 or higher will result in initiation of academic dismissal by the Department of Environmental Advising Studies. Courses that are offered on a letter-grade basis must be taken for a letter grade. All new on-ground students must participate in a graduate student orientation before their first semester. New online students must NOTE: Students also should refer to the campus policy on Grades complete a similar orientation online. In conjunction with his or Acceptable Toward Master’s Degrees section of this catalog. her academic advisor, each student must prepare an educational plan before or during completion of the first semester of study. The Master’s Closure educational plan is submitted to the department chair for final approval. MS candidates, with the assistance of their advisors and graduate committees, are required to complete one of the three available Environmental Sciences 2 closure options. For some ENS students, the culminating experience Courses of graduate-level work is a formal thesis. Other ENS students develop a substantial and carefully-designed graduate project, such as an ENS 101. Women and the Environment. 3 Hours. interpretive plan for a nature center, an exhibit for a museum or This course will examine how gender has influenced environmental visitors’ center, a film or multimedia show with supportive materials, movements in both developed and developing countries over the or a finished and well-researched draft of environmental legislation past three decades. Emphasis will be placed on the role of women in or policy. ENS students are required to present and defend their environmental protection, health, and justice movements. Students in thesis/graduate project proposal and completed thesis/graduate this course will understand why women, along with other oppressed project before the graduate committee. The third closure option groups, experience environmental damages disproportionately is the Capstone Closure course. The Capstone Closure option is and why the well-being of the natural environment is a feminist not available to students in the General Environmental Science issue. Course Information: This course fulfills a general education requirement at UIS in the area of Comparative Societies Social Concentration. The Capstone Closure option involves the completion of a 240-hour professional internship while enrolled in ENS 550. Before Sciences. enrolling in ENS 550, capstone students must identify a suitable ENS 151. Earth Science. 3 Hours. internship site and develop an internship plan in consultation with their This course introduces the physical processes and materials on our internship site supervisor and the capstone instructor. The capstone planet including natural resources, natural disasters, and climate. instructor determines whether the proposed internship activities and Understanding the dynamics that make up Earth and the discoveries learning goals meet departmental standards. Prior approval of the leading to this understanding allows us to grasp the impact the Earth internship plan is required in order to register for ENS 550. While has on society and our impact on the Earth. Course Information: This enrolled in ENS 550, students submit regular progress reports and course fulfills a general education requirement at UIS in the area of complete a final capstone presentation and a comprehensive final Physical Science without a Lab (IAI Code P1905). capstone report summarizing and analyzing their accomplishments ENS 201. Literature and the Environment. 3 Hours. and learning experiences during the internship. Explore and examine the historical chronology of principle American Students enroll for thesis or graduate project credit hours with the and European literature addressing the relationship between humans approval of their thesis/graduate project advisor. Students must enroll and the natural environment. Course Information: This course fulfills a in a total of four credit hours of closure; however, they may accrue the general education requirement at UIS in the area of Humanities. total in increments (thesis and graduate project only). Once students ENS 251. Introduction to Environmental Sciences. 3 Hours. begin taking closure hours, they are required by campus policy to be Basic processes and dynamics of ecosystems and development of enrolled in at least one closure hour per regular semester (fall and societal values pertinent to earth resources. Major environmental spring) until the four-credit hour closure requirement is completed. questions examined, along with options and implications involved in If the closure exercise is not completed by the time four credit hours resolution. Course Information: This course fulfills a general education have been completed, students must register for zero credit hours requirement at UIS in the area of Life Science without a Lab (IAI Code: (one billable hour) of ENS 511, ENS 529, or ENS 557 (as applicable) L1 905). in all subsequent regular semesters (fall and spring) until the closure ENS 262. Environmental Physical Geography. 3 Hours. exercise is completed. The physical elements of the landscape are examined with attention focused on climate and weather, the water balance, landforms, soils Online
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