printer friendly pageIPER 200: Sustaining Action: Research, Analysis and Writing for the Public
Preference to graduate students and senior undergraduates in environmental, natural and social sciences, engineering, journalism. Students help produce and publish SAGE, an eco advice column, by choosing, researching, and answering questions about sustainable living submitted by Stanford alumni. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
Terms: Aut, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Hayden, T. (PI)
IPER 220: Special Topics Seminar
For E-IPER Ph.D. and joint degree M.S. students; other graduate students with consent of instructor. Challenges of interdisciplinary research; collaborations across disciplines. Topical or methodological focus depending on faculty and student interests. May not be offered every quarter. May be repeated for credit.
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 5 units total)
IPER 225: E-IPER Current Topics Seminar
For E-IPER Ph.D and joint degree M.S. students only. Weekly presentations of E-IPER students' research and other program-related projects, internships, and jobs. Occasional guest speakers. Active participation including individual or team presentation and attendance required for credit. May be repeated once for credit. Grading C/NC only.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
1 times
(up to 2 units total)
Instructors:
Doyle, H. (PI)
;
Vitousek, P. (PI)
IPER 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)
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