Environmental Informatics Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

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Requirement*

Note

EI Core

2 Environmental Informatics specialty courses
[Plan-specific requirement]

NRE 541.001 - Remote Sensing

NRE 531.001 - Principles of GIS

NRE Core

NRE 509 (Natural Systems Core)
NRE 510 (Social Systems Core)
NRE 580 (Environmental Assessment)
[School-wide requirement]

Total of 10 credits hours

Electives

Electives

Plan specific; must be a graduate level course at 400-level and above. At least 6 credits taken from the following courses:
NRE 541 or 531 (if not counted towards EI core),  NRE 639**,  NRE 534, NRE 540, NRE 543

Analytics

Analytics
[Plan-Wide Requirement]

NRE 538 - Natural Resource Statistics or equivalent 4 credits

Opus

Opus
[School-wide Option]

Option 1: Up to 6 credit hours of NRE 700/701. Plus, additional approved courses to total 42 credits

Option 2: Non-Opus. Take advantage of the wide array of relevant courses available at SNRE to total 42 credits

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 "NRE" CREDIT HOURS

Minimum 25 of 42 credit hours

*Any waiver or substitution of degree requirement must be approved both by the Graduate Advisor and EI Field of Study Coordinator and submitted to OAP. If a student has prior course work at the equivalent level of more than one of the selections in the IE core, s/he may petition the faculty advisor and EI Field of Study Coordinator to substitute EI approved electives for some EI core credits.

**To count toward the EI Plan-specific elective requirement, NRE639 topic must be approved by the EI Field of Study Coordinator.

***Additional courses will be approved by the graduate advisor and EI Field of Study Coordinator. Acceptable courses are numerous, including many from other Fields of Study in NRE and outside NRE.