Master in Environmental Science and Management with focus Management of the environment

Addressing the environmental challenges facing our societies is one of the largest projects of the 21st century. The Master aims to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a critical, interdisciplinary and multidimensional approach to these problems. Students develop, throughout the program, their ability to inform, lead and accompany socio-environmental transformations. The Master is built around two distinct purposes, with complementary objectives: Environmental Management and Environmental Sciences.

The aim of the Major in Environmental Management (finalité “gestion de l’environnement”) is to train actors who will be able to think, promote, implement and evaluate actions for the sustainability of our societies, within companies, public organizations, research and civil society.

This major is open to holders of a bachelor's degree (university and non-university) of diverse disciplines, and under possible conditions (cfr. Access conditions). This training will enable students to act as generalist environmental experts by using analytical tools and concepts that develop a multi-dimensional and multi-stakeholder reading of environmental problems. Graduates will be able to interact with all types of specialists to co-manage the necessary expertise and develop solutions to environmental problems. The Master considers the great diversity of contexts and environmental issues and takes a look at all scales of issues from the most local to the global.
 

The teaching and learning is based on a set of theoretical courses as well as research and project seminars, group work and, if the student wishes, an internship. A number of courses include field trips or excursions, or involve professionals: each year a number of people with environmental responsibilities come to share their knowledge and respond to students. Can also be part of the curriculum courses of lectures.

The Master also involves the development and presentation of a final masters dissertation. It is to be considered as an important vector of specialization of the student. In the best case, it will constitute the business card of the student in the professional world. The dissertation can be oriented towards research and analysis, just as it can have a more operational and practical purpose.

The major in Environmental Management allows candidates to approach environmental issues systematically according to different disciplinary approaches, by preparing students for the professional context through group projects and contacts with field workers during field trips and conferences.

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