Environmental Management Graduate Program
The Program
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Additional courses may be offered. Course offerings may vary each semester and each year.
The Environmental Management program is offered by the Department of Environmental Science and starts every fall (August). This graduate program does not accept applications for the spring semester.
The program provides the necessary background to analyze, assess and manage a wide range of environmental issues, including practical applications to particular problems. Courses cover the scientific, technical, regulatory and public policy knowledge related to environmental decisions, including:
- Air quality
- Water quality
- Solid and hazardous wastes
- Resource use
- Human health issues
- Ecological health issues
- Environmental economics
The program is designed for students to continue in full-time employment while pursuing the graduate degree. Traditional graduate students also enroll and typically identify and secure an internship during their first semester of studies. Almost all classes in this full-time program are offered on Saturdays (classes are held from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm with one-hour lunch). Some additional courses are offered on weekday evenings and during the summer. The program can be completed entirely on Saturdays.
The length of the program is 22 months, but there is flexibility if a student needs additional time to complete their program of study.
In addition to lectures, and class discussions and projects, the program provides relevant internet support and generous opportunities for interaction and consultation with faculty, as well as small study groups with other students.
Program of Study
The program consists of 13 courses (2 units each) and a Master's Project (4 units) for a total of 30 units. Although all course selection is elective and no course is required, some courses are recommended and completed by most Environmental Management students - including Ecoscience, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Risk Assessment and Environmental Risk Management.
The number of course offerings expands each year, as the interests of students and faculty evolve. Students select courses and design their Master's Project in consultation with a faculty advisor. Each student develops a program of study that best builds the skills, knowledge and expertise that the student desires for personal, intellectual and professional development.
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Graduate Courses
Additional courses may be offered. Course offerings may vary each semester and each year.
- Air Quality Assessment and Management
- Applied Ecology
- Climate Change: Global Processes and Ecological Perspectives
- Climate Change Mitigation
- Ecoscience
- Energy Resources and the Environment
- Engineering Aspects of Hazardous Waste Management
- Environmental Accounting
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Engineering I - Pollutant Fate and Transport in Surface Water and Air
- Environmental Engineering II - Contaminant Transport in Groundwater
- Environmental Health and Epidemiology
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Environmental Policy Design and Implementation
- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Environmental Toxicology
- GIS for Environmental Science
- Industrial Ecology and Sustainability
- Market-Based Environmental Policy
- Modeling and Environmental Planning
- Restoration Ecology
- Riparian Ecology
- Special Topics
- Water Quality Assessment and Management
- Wetland Ecology
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The Master's Project
Students research and complete a Master's Project, which serves as a capstone to the graduate program. A thesis option is available. Please click here for titles of last year's projects.
(see the Courses for more details)
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Click here to view the Fall 2009 Schedule of Classes. For previous schedules, click here.
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Sample Program - Two-Year Master's Program
This is a sample program only. Course offerings vary each semester and each year.
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Fall |
Spring |
| Year 1 |
- Environmental Engineering I
- Environmental Engineering II
- Ecoscience
- Applied Ecology
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- Environmental Risk Assessment
- Environmental Risk Managementt
- Restoration Ecology
- Water Quality Assessment and Management
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| Year 2 |
- Industrial Ecology and Sustainability
- Environmental Chemistry
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Policy and Politics
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- Environmental Toxicology
- Master's Project (4 units)
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Environmental Management/MBA Program
USF offers a dual degree in Environmental Management and the Master of Business Administration. Graduates of this program receive two degrees. This program can offer a savings of tuition and time. Candidates must apply to and be admitted to each program separately. A student can indicate in her or his "Statement of Purpose" that they are applying to both of these programs for the dual degree.
The MSEM/MBA program consists of the following components:
- Environmental Management courses - 24 units
- MBA courses - 50 units
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Further Questions?
For questions about the Environmental Management program - and your educational and professional objectives - please contact Dr. John Callaway at 415.422.6553 or by email at callaway@usfca.edu.
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