Human Behavior and Sustainability Sciences, PhD (Boston)
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Quantitative Methods
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
- ENVR 5450 — Applied Social-Ecological Systems Modeling
- INSH 5301 — Introduction to Computational Statistics
- INSH 5302 — Information Design and Visual Analytics
- INSH 6300 — Research Methods in the Social Sciences
- INSH 6406 — Analyzing Complex Digitized Data
- PSYC 5180 — Quantitative Methods 1
- PSYC 5181 — Quantitative Methods 2
Integrative Coursework
- ENVR 5410 — Human Behavior and Sustainability
- One of:
Psychological Sciences
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 6 semester hours from:
Sustainability Sciences
From the catalog
Complete two of the following:
- Choose 4 semester hours from:
- EEMB 5510 — New England Marine Biomes
- EEMB 5522 — Experimental Design Marine Ecology
- EEMB 5546 — Sustainability of the Land-Sea Interface
- EEMB 7101 — Seminar in Marine Sciences
- EEMB 7102 — Seminar in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- EEMB 7103 — Seminar in Sustainability Sciences
- EEMB 7104 — Seminar in Geosciences
- ENVR 5000 — Community Stakeholder Engagement in Environmental Management and Research
- ENVR 5115 — Advanced Topics in Environmental Geology
- ENVR 5150 — Climate and Atmospheric Change
- ENVR 5220 — Ecosystem-Based Management
- ENVR 5260 — Geographical Information Systems
- ENVR 5350 — Sustainable Energy and Climate Solutions
- ENVR 5500 — Advanced Biostatistics
- ENVR 5550 — Climate Modeling, Adaptation, and Policy
- ENVR 5600 — Coastal Processes, Adaptation, and Resilience
- ENVR 5610 — Technology and the Blue Economy
- ENVR 5700 — Streams and Watershed Ecology
- ENVR 5750 — Urban Ecology
- ENVR 5800 — Climate Adaptation and Nature-Based Solutions
- ENVR 6102 — Environmental Science and Policy Seminar 2
- ENVR 6150 — Food Security and Sustainability
- INTL 5100 — Climate and Development
- LPSC 7312 — Cities, Sustainability, and Climate Change
- POLS 7334 — Social Networks
- PPUA 5238 — Climate Change and Global Urbanization
- PPUA 5246 — Participatory Modeling for Collaborative Decision Making
- PPUA 5249 — Sustainable Urban Coastal Policy
- PPUA 5260 — Ecological Economics
- PPUA 5261 — Dynamic Modeling for Environmental Decision Making
- PPUA 5267 — Climate Policy and Justice
- PPUA 5268 — International Environmental Policy
- PPUA 6101 — Environmental Science and Policy Seminar 1
- PPUA 7346 — Resilient Cities
Electives
4 semester hours.
From the catalog
Complete two courses from the preceding lists that are not being used to meet any of the above core requirements or select other university courses at level 5000+ in consultation with dissertation committee.
Qualifying Paper
- EEMB 8103 — Readings in Sustainability Sciences
Research
From the catalog
Complete two semesters from the following:
Dissertation
From the catalog
Please enroll in either EEMB 9990 or PSYC 9990 for one semester after achieving candidacy. In the following semester, please enroll in either EEMB 9991 or PSYC 9991.
- One of:
GPA requirements
- Minimum 3.000 GPA required
Substitutions
Possible equivalents for this program — dashed means a suggestion, not a rule, and every substitution needs your advisor's approval:
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