School for Environment and Sustainability

Last updated
School for Environment and Sustainability
Dana diag.jpg
Established1927
Parent institution
University of Michigan
Dean Jonathan Overpeck
Academic staff
50
Students280 (FA 2015)
Location,
MI
,
USA
Nickname SEAS
Website seas.umich.edu
UM SEAS Logo.png

The School for Environment and Sustainability is the school of environmental science and sustainability studies at the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Contents

History

The School for Environment and Sustainability was founded as the School of Forestry in 1927 in the Kraus Building, it is now housed in the S.T. Dana Building. SEAS provides graduate-level degrees at the doctorate and master's levels. Prior to 2004, the School of Natural Resources and Environment offered undergraduate degrees in Environmental Science and Environmental Policy, before restructuring as a graduate-level degree program.

The school houses several research centers, works with experts in other fields at the University of Michigan, and works towards the goals of protecting the earth's resources and pursuing the achievement of a sustainable society.[ citation needed ]

Opposite face of the Dana Building Dana front.jpg
Opposite face of the Dana Building

Degree programs

The school offers two master's degrees: an M.S. (Master of Science) in Natural Resources and Environment and an M.L.A. (Master of Landscape Architecture) in Landscape Architecture.

Students in the M.S. program specialize in one of seven fields of study:

Students pursuing an M.L.A. degree choose from two tracks:

Two doctorate-level degrees are offered by the school.

SEAS oversees a collaborative undergraduate environmental program with the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts called the Program in the Environment. [1]

Dual-degree programs

SEAS has three dual-degree programs:

In addition to above administration-approved dual-degree programs, SEAS students have initiated several additional dual-degree programs, including:

  • Anthropology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Public Health
  • Sociology

Graduate certificates

In addition to these programs and dual-degree programs, SEAS offers the following graduate certificate programs for any graduate student concurrently enrolled at the University of Michigan:

Related Research Articles

Texas A&M University School of Architecture is the architecture school of Texas A&M University.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harvard Graduate School of Design</span> Architecture school of Harvard University

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate, design engineering, and design studies.

Environmental psychology is a branch of psychology that explores the relationship between humans and the external world. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals. Environmental psychology emphasizes how humans change the environment and how the environment changes humans' experiences and behaviors. The field defines the term environment broadly, encompassing natural environments, social settings, built environments, learning environments, and informational environments. According to an article on APA Psychnet, environmental psychology is when a person thinks of a plan, travels to a certain place, and follows through with the plan throughout their behavior.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to environmental studies:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicholas School of the Environment</span>

The Nicholas School of the Environment is one of ten graduate and professional schools at Duke University and is headquartered on Duke’s main campus in Durham, N.C. A secondary coastal facility, Duke University Marine Laboratory, is maintained in Beaufort, North Carolina. The Nicholas School is composed of three research divisions: Earth and Climate Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Policy, and Marine Science and Conservation. The current dean of the Nicholas School is Toddi Steelman.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy</span> Public policy school of the University of Michigan

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, also known as the Ford School, is the public policy school of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1914 to train municipal administration experts, the school was named after University of Michigan alumus and former U.S. President Gerald Ford in 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rausser College of Natural Resources</span>

The Rausser College of Natural Resources (RCNR), or Rausser College, is the oldest college at the University of California, Berkeley and in the University of California system. Established in 1868 as the College of Agriculture under the federal Morrill Land-Grant Acts, CNR is the first state-run agricultural experiment station. The college is home to four internationally top-ranked academic departments: Agriculture and Resource Economics; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; Nutritional Sciences and Toxicology; and Plant and Microbial Biology, and one interdisciplinary program, Energy and Resources Group. Since February 2020, it is named after former dean and distinguished professor emeritus Gordon Rausser after his landmark $50 million naming gift to the college.

The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. is a technical school which specializes in engineering, technology, communications, and transportation. The school is located on the main campus of the George Washington University and offers both undergraduate and graduate programs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies</span> Israeli graduate school

The Albert Katz International School for Desert Studies (AKIS) is an international graduate school situated within the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, which is part of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. It is located in Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the heart of the Negev Desert in Israel and was established in 1999.

The Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, commonly known as the La Follette School, is a public graduate public policy school at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. It offers master's degrees in public affairs and international public affairs, joint graduate degrees with other departments, and undergraduate certificates in public policy and health policy. The La Follette School is housed in the Observatory Hill Office Building and Sterling Hall.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Michigan State University College of Natural Science</span> MSU College for the natural sciences

The College of Natural Science (NatSci) at Michigan State University is home to 27 departments and programs in the biological, physical and mathematical sciences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">University of Colorado Denver Business School</span> Business school of the University of Colorado-Denver

The University of Colorado Denver Business School is a college located in Denver, Colorado, which offers undergraduate and graduate business degrees. The Business School is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). As of fall 2022, there were 1,932 undergraduate students and 1,719 students enrolled in the Graduate programs. The school has over 27,000 alumni. CU Denver Business School offers the 2nd best public business school program in Colorado. It is the 9th largest AACSB-accredited business school in the United States to offer a full-time specialized master's degree program.[2]

An urban planner is a professional who practices in the field of town planning, urban planning or city planning.

The University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources is the agricultural and environmental sciences college of the University of Maryland and operates the Maryland Sea Grant College in cooperation with the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies</span>

The College of Architecture, Arts, and Design formerly the College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech consists of four schools, including the School of Architecture, which consistently ranks among the best in the country. Headquartered in Blacksburg, Virginia, the college also has sites in Alexandria, Virginia, and Riva San Vitale, Switzerland. Spread out among these three locations, the college consists of nearly 2,200 students, making it one of the largest schools of architecture in the nation.

The College of Natural Resources and Environment at Virginia Tech contains academic programs in forestry, fisheries, wildlife sciences, geography, and wood science. The college contains four departments as well as a graduate program in the National Capital Region and a leadership institute for undergraduates.

North American collegiate sustainability programs are institutions of higher education in the United States, Mexico, and Canada that have majors and/or minors dedicated to the subject of sustainability. Sustainability as a major and minor is spreading to more and more colleges as the need for humanity to adopt a more sustainable lifestyle becomes increasingly apparent with the onset of global warming. The majors and minors listed here cover a wide array of sustainability aspects from business to construction to agriculture to simply the study of sustainability itself.

References

  1. "Program in the Environment | U-M LSA Program in the Environment". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-19.