– submitted by Sarah Slover
The first class of our new Master of Environmental Assessment began this fall with 16 students (8 in Forestry and Environmental Resources and 8 in Toxicology). This online degree is now officially affiliated with the Professional Science Masters Program.
The Master of Environmental Assessment (EA) degree is intended for working professionals who seek advanced study beyond the undergraduate level but are not interested in pursuing a career in research. The EA degree is a joint non-thesis graduate degree program administered by the College of Natural Resources (CNR) and the College of Agriculture Life Sciences (CALS). The program requires 30 credit hours. Twenty-two credit hours will be in required courses with the remaining nine hours selected from the list of elective courses or equivalent. No thesis is required.
The courses are selected to offer a cohesive continuing education opportunity for people in agricultural, chemical, environmental, energy, natural resource, pharmaceutical, biomedical, and biotechnology fields. Companies and government research facilities in these fields, as well as regulatory agencies, all have a need for employees who understand the basic principles of environmental assessment, how to perform and review human and ecological risk assessments, and how these assessments relate to environmental regulation and management.
For more information, please see the Masters of Environmental Assessment website.
Sarah Slover is the Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. Learn more at http://cnr.ncsu.edu/fer/grads/, or contact Sarah at sarah_slover@ncsu.edu, or 919-515-7563.