printer friendly pageIPER 242: Negotiating Sustainable Development (CEE 142A, CEE 242A)
How to create a more sustainable world by learning the skills required to negotiating tensions and differences between stakeholders who advocate for their own interests. How ecological, social, and economic interests can be effectively balanced and managed. How to be effective actors in the sustainability movement, and use frameworks to solve complex, multiparty processes. Case study analysis of domestic and international developments. Students negotiate on behalf of different interest groups in a variety of arenas. Guest speakers. Field trips. No prerequisites.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Christensen, S. (PI)
IPER 243: Energy and Environmental Policy Analysis (MS&E 243)
Concepts, methods, and applications. Energy/environmental policy issues such as automobile fuel economy regulation, global climate change, research and development policy, and environmental benefit assessment. Group project. Prerequisite: MS&E 241 or
ECON 50, 51.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Sweeney, J. (PI)
IPER 270: Graduate Practicum in Environment and Resources
Opportunity for E-IPER students to pursue areas of specialization in an institutional setting such as a laboratory, clinic, research institute, governmental agency, non-governmental organization, or multilateral organization. Meets US CIS requirements for off-campus employment with endorsement from designated school official.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr, Sum
| Units: 1-9
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Vitousek, P. (PI)
IPER 290: Capstone Project in Environment and Resources
Required for E-IPER Joint M.S. students; optional for E-IPER Ph.D. students. Complete and present final individual or team projects demonstrating the integration of professional (M.B.A., J.D., or M.D.) and M.S. in Environment and Resources degrees. Presentation and submission of final product required.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Phillips, K. (PI)
;
Vitousek, P. (PI)
IPER 310: Environmental Forum Seminar
Required core course for first year E-IPER Ph.D. students; optional for joint M.S. students; other graduate students with consent of instructor. Conceptual frameworks, analytical approaches, validity of conclusions from an interdisciplinary perspective. Participants attend the Woods Institute's Environmental Forum seminar series or other seminars on campus selected by faculty and students, followed by student-facilitated discussions.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Curran, L. (PI)
IPER 315: Environmental Research Design Seminar
Required core course for first year E-IPER Ph.D. students; optional for Joint M.S. students; other graduate students with instructor's permission. Series of faculty presentations and student-led discussions on interdisciplinary research design as exemplars of the research design theories discussed in
IPER 320. Designing Environmental Research. Topics parallel the
IPER 320 syllabus. Corequisite:
IPER 320.
Terms: Win
| Units: 1-2
Instructors:
Srinivasan, V. (PI)
IPER 320: Designing Environmental Research
Required E-IPER core course restricted to first year E-IPER Ph.D. students. Research design options for environmentally related research. Major philosophies of knowledge and how they relate to research objectives and design choices. Evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of alternative research designs, emphasizing methods, data, and argument. Development of individual research design proposals, including description and justification understandable to a non-specialist.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Davis, J. (PI)
IPER 330: Research Approaches for Environmental Problem Solving
Core course for first year E-IPER Ph.D. students. How to develop and implement interdisciplinary research in environment and resources. Assignments include development of research questions, a preliminary literature review, and a summer funding proposal. Course is structured on peer critique and student presentations of work in progress. Corequisite:
IPER 398 with the faculty member chosen to explore a possible dissertation topic.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
IPER 338: Environmental Science for Managers and Policy Makers
(Same as
LAW 608,
OIT 338.) Core course for joint J.D., M.B.A., or M.D. with M.S. in Environment and Resources; open to Law and GSB students; recommended for those who plan to apply to the joint degree program. Fundamentals of ecosystem services, climate change and energy systems. Spreadsheet modeling and Monte Carlo simulation applied to resource management and policy analysis.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
IPER 339: Advanced Environmental Science for Managers and Policymakers
(Same as
LAW 619 and
OIT 339.) Accelerated version of
IPER 338. Covers more environmental science by spending less class time on fundamentals of modeling. Students with background in modeling and environmental science should take
IPER 339 rather than
IPER 338.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4
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