Research Approaches for Environmental Problem Solving

Required core course restricted to first year E-IPER Ph.D. students. How to develop and implement interdisciplinary research in environment and resources. Assignments include development of research questions and data collection and analysis plans, and a summer funding proposal. Course is structured around peer critique and student presentations of in-progress research. Corequisite: ENVRES 398 with a faculty member chosen to explore a possible dissertation topic.