Environmental Justice Degree Requirements

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Requirement*

Notes

EJ Core

2 Environmental Justice specialty courses
[Plan-specific requirement]

NRE 566

NRE 593

NRE 596

NRE 501.055

NRE 501.089

NRE 677.055

NRE Core

NRE 509 (Natural Systems Core)
NRE 510 (Social Systems Core)
NRE 580 (Environmental  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 "NRE" 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.