Environmental Justice Degree Requirements

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Degree Requirements

	Requirement*	Notes
EJ Core	2 of 3 Environmental Justice specialty courses [Plan-specific requirement]	NRE 582 Conceptions, Practical Issues and Dilemmas in Environmental Justice NRE 593 Environmental Justice: Research and Policy Developments NRE 596 (or NRE 482) History of Environmental Thought and Activism
NRE Core	NRE 509 (Natural Science Core) NRE 510 (Social Science Core) NRE 580 (Environmental Integrated Assessment) [School-wide requirement]	Total of 10 credits hours
Distribution	International	One course focused on international context of Environmental Justice

Electives	Electives	Plan specific; must be a graduate level course at 400-level and above.
Analytics	Analytics [School-Wide Requirement]	6 credits in Analytics. One Course must be statistics; the other must be from SNRE analytics list
Opus	Opus [School-wide requirement]	Option 1: At most 6 credit hours of NRE 700 / NRE 701 Option 2: See advisor for non-opus guidance
Cognates	Minimum 4 credit hours outside of SNRE [Rackham requirement]	Can be double counted with other degree requirements.
TOTALS	TOTAL CREDIT HOURS**	Minimum 42 credit hours
	TOTAL SNRE CREDIT HOURS	Minimum 25 of 42 credit hours
*Any waiver or substitution of degree requirement must be approved by the appropriate faculty and submitted to OAP.

The Environmental Justice field of study can also be combined with other disciplines both within SNRE and other U-M units. Please read more about the Environmental Justice Dual Degree options.