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The School
The School of Earth, Environment and Society offers innovative teaching and research programs in Geology, Geography, and Environmental
Studies. Each of these areas is affiliated with other departments and centers across campus and the region where faculty
and students have opportunities to share a wide range of interests in studying the earth, its environment and people’s interaction
with it. The strategic and leading role of the School is to maintain and enhance strong disciplinary and interdisciplinary
programs, to promote the University’s national and international profile and to establish collaborative links with industry
and entrepreneurs engaged in progressive sustainable initiatives.
School Profile
Geospatial Science and Environmental Quality are strong interdisciplinary programs of the School that are supported by the
following disciplines and which represent major research and teaching areas:
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Environmental Policy and Analysis
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Environmental Policy and Analysis promotes awareness of environmental problems such as climate change, sustainable development, and natural disasters. It
brings together a unique mixture of skills and expertise to understand environmental factors through pragmatic policy solutions
through administrative, legislative, and organizational viewpoints.
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Environmental Science facilitates a university-wide focus on the environment by supporting interdisciplinary approaches among faculty and students
engaged in biological, chemical and physical sciences. Environmental Science encompasses important issues such as pollution
and degradation of the environment related to human activities and impacts on biodiversity and sustainability. This multidisciplinary
field has become increasingly important and continues to flourish as public awareness grows about the need for action in addressing
environmental problems.
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Geography overlaps various disciplines and explores relationships among humans, society, places, and the environment. The features
and characteristics of the earth is the domain of the physical geographers, which includes fields such as weather and climate
variations, landform formation, plant and animal distributions. Also, cultural geographers deal with specialties such as spatial
variations among cultural groups, religions, languages, economies, governments, and other cultural convergence or differentiation
issues that exist through space or time. The new frontier in Geography is computerized mapping and data analysis known as
Geographic Information Science (GIScience), which adds significant weight to the interdisciplinary nature of this field.
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Geology provides an understanding of the history and processes that have shaped our planet through its 4.5 billion years. Geologists
study the earth from its surface through its crust and deep into its mantle, focusing on outcroppings of rocks, cataclysmic
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mountain and glacial processes, river flows and deposition of sediments, and many other areas
of life from prehistoric times to today. Current geology trends feature the study of global environmental changes and consider
the earth in a broad context that integrates atmosphere, biosphere, and hydrosphere using geospatial sciences and multidisciplinary
views.
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Degrees Offered
The School offers a wide range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level across the disciplines described above.
Our faculty and students represent diverse backgrounds and perspectives on these areas of study. We welcome applications
for programs of study from both domestic and international students who are interested in discipline-specific or interdisciplinary
studies.
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- Bachelor of Arts – Environmental Policy and Analysis, Geography, Geology
- Bachelor of Science – Environmental Science, Geology
- Master of Science – Geology
- Geospatial Technology Graduate Certificate – School
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