Degree Programs
Structured Programs for Focused Study
We're dedicated to climate change education and offer significant undergraduate and graduate study options. From environmental systems majors to specialized one-year Master's degrees to advanced Ph.D. programs, students benefit from applied learning within the context of climate change.
Environmental Systems Program
Four majors and a minor are available to prepare undergraduates to enter a broad spectrum of environmental careers and graduate programs in natural sciences, social sciences, public policy, law and business.
Climate Change Studies Minor
This minor degree program provides an understanding of climate change's scientific, social, political and economic dimensions. It involves students in developing solutions such as greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, climate adaptation projects and educational approaches.
Climate Change and Human Solutions Major
This innovative major focuses on the social and cultural processes associated with climate change. It gives students the knowledge, real-world skills and hands-on learning opportunities to collaborate with communities in designing solutions that work.
Climate Action Scholars Program
This School of Social Sciences initiative provides a two-course sequence examining the historical, structural and cultural roots of the climate crisis, its effects across diverse communities and ecologies and the creative ways local people respond and build collective resilience.
Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER)
This minor degree program provides an understanding of climate change's scientific, social, political and economic dimensions. It involves students in developing solutions such as greenhouse gas mitigation strategies, climate adaptation projects and educational approaches.
Undergraduate Programs
Majors
- Anthropology with a Concentration in Climate Change and Human Solutions (B.A.)
- Earth Sciences (B.S.)
- Ecology, Behavior and Evolution (B.S.)
- Environmental Chemistry (B.S.)
- Environmental Systems (Earth Sciences) (B.S.)
- Environmental Systems (Ecology, Behavior and Evolution) (B.S.)
- Environmental Systems (Environmental Chemistry) (B.S.)
- Environmental Systems (Environmental Policy) (B.A.)
- Geosciences (B.S.)
- Marine Biology (B.S.)
- Mechanical Engineering with a Specialization in Renewable Energy and Environmental Flows (B.S.)
- Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (B.S.)
- Physics with Specialization in Earth Sciences (B.S.)
- Public Health with Concentration in Climate and Environmental Sciences (B.S.)
Minors
- Climate Change Studies Minor
- Earth Science Minor
- Environmental Systems Minor
- Geosciences Minor
- Marine Science Minor
- Philosophy Bioethics Minor
Graduate Programs
MAS Degrees
- Climate Science & Policy Master of Advanced Studies (MAS)
- Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Master of Advanced Studies (MAS)
- Master of Advanced Studies in International Affairs (MAS-IA) with a career track in Environmental Policy and Sustainability
Masters and Ph.D. Programs
- Applied Ocean Science (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Biological Oceanography Master of Science (M.S.)
- Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere Program (COAP) (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Climate Sciences Master of Science (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Earth Sciences, Marine Biology,or Oceanography with a Specialization in Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (Ph.D.)
- Geosciences of the Earth, Oceans and Planets (GEOP) (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Graduate Program Analytical and Atmospheric Chemistry Research Track
- Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Master of Science (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Master of Chinese Economic and Political Affairs (MCEPA) with an area of specialization in Chinese Environment
- Master of International Affairs (MIA) with a career track in International Environmental Governance
- Master of Public Policy (MPP) with an area of specialization in Environmental Policy and Health Policy
- Ocean Biosciences Program (OBP) (M.S. or Ph.D.)
- Physical Oceanography (M.S. or Ph.D)
- Political Science and International Affairs with a Specialization in Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (Ph.D.)
- Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research (PIER) Specialization for Ph.D. students