Following course description are:

• This program is focused on developing a high-level student understanding of the physical environment, and how society interacts with it. 
• In this program, the emphasis is placed on techniques for examining recent environmental change, methods of contemporary monitoring, and providing the context for possible future climate change impacts in a range of environments.
• The program has a strong practical component within which there is specialist training in a wide variety of fields and laboratory techniques.
• In this program, a variety of assessment approaches are used including, oral and poster presentations, reports, essays, and field notebooks.