Degree Requirements

Foundations

Key elements of environmental education, policy, laws, literacy, history, philosophy, and underlying environmental debate, issues and problems are discussed.

Required: NSEE 8000 Environment and Society (3 cr.)
Offered Summer semester

Required: NSEE 8010 Natural History of the Environment Online (3 cr.)
Offered Fall semester

Pedagogy

Teaching as a critical, self-reflective and inquiry-based activity, collaboratively undertaken in diverse communities.

Required: NSEE 8100 Teaching and Learning in the Environment (2 cr.)
Summer semester

The physical and biological processes and relationships that constitute ecosystems. Our world considered through dual lenses of natural and social systems.

Required: NSEE 8200 Ecological Systems: Biomes (A 6 day Camping Adventure with the Audubon Center of the North Woods in August) (3 cr.)
Summer semester

Required: NSEE 8300 Social Systems: Environmental Footprints Online (2 cr.)
Fall semester

Research

Authentic forms of inquiry and investigative models in research. 

Required: NSEE 8485 Introduction to Research Online (2 cr.)
Spring semester

Required: NSEE 8490 Field-Based Research (2 cr.)
Summer semester

Required: NSEE 8495 Capstone (4 cr.)
Every semester

MAED: NSEE Elective Courses (14 credits)

Choose 14 credits of electives from the following course lists. 

• Click on Required Courses, Schedules, Registration (includes link to registration form).
• Visit the Piperline class schedule.  Click on "Class Schedule" found at the top of the page. (use the printable, mail-in registration form).