MS Sustainable Environments
Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway
Description
This multidisciplinary course provides students with insight into environment, health, and sustainability issues within urban and rural environments. It integrates ecological, health and sustainability issues and considers their interaction within the natural and built environments. It combines modules from Environmental Science, Engineering and Economics to provide students with experience of research-led learning opportunities that will develop skills in identifying and evaluating sustainable solutions for real world environmental problems. Fieldtrips to learn from the practical experience of professionals are an essential element of this course. This course is open to students from a variety of backgrounds.
Learning Outcomes
To systematically encourage students to adopt an informed, creative, and responsive approach to environmental and land-use problem solving. To integrate an international perspective to reflect both new research findings and current national and international best practice in sustainable environmental practice that can be applied within Ireland and elsewhere. To provide research-led learning opportunities that will develop skills in identifying and evaluating sustainable solutions for real world environmental problems.