Courses

The MS in Environmental Science and Policy requires a minimum of 30 total credits with six credits for thesis project, 24 course credits, including up to six credits of summer field courses at the Humboldt Field Research Institute in Steuben, ME. Course offerings at Humboldt change each year. Check their web site for the most recent course list.

To meet the needs of working professionals, courses are typically offered one day per week in the late afternoon or early evening. The current course schedule, online registration, and course registration forms are available through the College of Graduate Studies Web site.

Courses Offered at PSU:

(Course descriptions are available in PDF format as well.)

• Advanced Environmental Analytical Instrumentation
• Advanced Environmental Planning
• Advanced Topics in Water Resources
• Alpine Environments
• Applied Environmental Geology and Public Policy
• Applied Hydrogeology
• Chemical Limnology
• Conservation in the Internet Age
• Conservation Lands in New Hampshire
• Data Presentation and Communication
• Ecological Resource Risk Assessment
• Ecology and History of the White Mountains
• Environment and Society
• Environmental Consulting
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Environmental Science
• Field Methods in Water Resources
• Forest Ecology
• Forest Science
• Glacial and Periglacial Geology
• Graduate Seminar in Ecology and Environment
• Humboldt Field Courses
• Independent Environmental Research
• Independent Study in Environmental Science and Policy
• Land Use Planning Seminar
• Limnology
• Long Term Environmental Reconstruction (Paleoclimatology)
• Master’s Thesis Research
• Methods of Social Research
• Natural Resource
• Policy and Communications 
• Principles of Interpretation
• Science Colloquium Series
• Science Ethics
• Snow Hydrology
• Social Marketing in Environmental Education
• Social Movements and Environmental Justice
• Special Topics in Environmental Science and Policy
• Travel Study in Environmental Science and Policy
• Watershed Hydrology
• Watershed Management and Planning
• Wetland Science and Policy Winter Ecology