In addition to a rigorous core of environmental science courses, each MSES student pursues an area of specialization. It is in one of these four concentrations that your particular passion will grow into your professional expertise.
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Become an advocate for the environment, develop problem-solving techniques for today's ecological challenges.
Sample courses:
- Fisheries and Wildlife Management
- Forest Ecology and Management
- Wetlands Ecology and Management
- Vascular Plants
- Biology of Birds
- Environmental Toxicology
- Lake and Watershed Management
- BMP Design for Healthy Urban Watersheds
- Urban Ecology
- Climate-Change Impacts on Natural Resources
Take on the energy and climate challenges of an increasingly energy-dependent world and contribute to this critical area of global concern.
Sample courses:
- Energy Systems
- Energy Economics and Policy
- Natural Gas: Technical and Policy Challenges
- Fundamentals of Air Pollution
- Climate Change Impacts
- Instrumentation for Atmospheric Science
- Principles of Petroleum Geology
- Organic Geochemistry
Explore cutting-edge methods for regulating chemical toxins in the environment.
Sample courses:
- Fundamentals of Air Pollution
- PCB’s, Dioxins and Flame Retardants
- Aquatic Chemistry
- Organic Pollutants: Environmental Chemistry and Fate
- Environmental Soil Science
- Environmental Toxicology
- Changing Landscape of Toxic Chemical Regulation
- Environmental Risk Analysis
- Water Quality Modeling
- Hazardous Materials
- Subsurface Microbiology and Bioremediation
- Groundwater Flow Modeling
- Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
- Instrumentation for Atmospheric Science
- Organic Geochemistry
Develop skills in a wide range of environmental areas as you study the science behind water quality and quantity.
Sample courses:
- Water Quality Modeling
- Aquatic Chemistry
- Groundwater Flow Modeling
- Watershed Hydrology
- Physical Hydrology
- Methods in Analytical Geochemistry
- Surface water Hydrology
- Wetlands Ecology and Management
- Subsurface Microbiology and Bioremediation
- Stream Ecology
- Limnology
- Fisheries and Wildlife Management
- Fisheries and Wildlife Management Laboratory
- Restoration Ecology
- Lake and Watershed Management
- BMP Design for Healthy Urban Watersheds
- Conservation Biology
- Climate-Change Impacts on Natural Resources
Another way to fulfill the concentration requirement is through the thesis option which you can pursue for between 18-24 credit hours. This option involves research done under the supervision of a principal advisor and thesis committee. You must identify a faculty advisor early in your degree planning for this option—it can also count for your Capstone.
The above are examples of your course options. For a complete listing, see the official Indiana University Graduate Bulletin and work with your advisor as you make your schedule.
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