可持续发展研究硕士.S.

项目要求

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Dr. 基思·麦克达德，项目主管

The Master of Science in Sustainability Studies (MSSS) program is designed for professionals who seek to develop or advance their career in a broad variety of 业务, 管理和倡导专业. 通过完成这个项目, 研究生将发展科学的关键核心知识, 业务, 可持续发展领域的沟通和公共政策. 该计划侧重于结合商业的跨学科核心的交叉点, 科学, 沟通s and policy while allowing students to specialize in their primary interests to develop leading practitioners in the emerging field of sustainability. It also includes experiential/service 学习 components in which the graduate student participates in a project with a community partner.

mss项目旨在建立在勒努瓦-雷恩大学对可持续发展的承诺基础上, 如以下声明所述:

"Lenoir-Rhyne University recognizes that it is but one component of larger interconnected communities, 每一个都受到个人和机构选择的影响. 以促进对这些人类和自然社区的理解和责任, the university encourages education and community outreach that provide students with knowledge and skills to conserve natural resources and to be environmentally responsible citizens. Lenoir-Rhyne endeavors to be a model of environmental stewardship by promoting care and concern for the environment in the daily lives of individuals and by striving for sustainability in our institutional operations."

因此, 勒努瓦-雷恩的mss课程侧重于为商业做准备, 科学 and policy professionals to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the needs of future generations and to work toward a world where everyone might flourish. 教师和学生将从事研究, 对话和社区项目，帮助恢复和维持全球生态系统, 提倡健康生活, 解决社会不公，减少社会对环境的影响.

基于这一愿景, the MSSS program has been developed and is delivered in a way that honors and supports the following principles of education, 学习, 社区发展和环境管理:

• The Asheville area and the Western North Carolina region are partners in Lenoir-Rhyne's graduate education programs. 结果是 全球网赌十大网站通过合作网络和社区承诺将课堂扩展到社区.
• mss项目是跨学科的, supporting our recognition of the interconnectedness of community and a systems understanding of knowledge.
• 课程和材料以问题为基础，而不是以传统学科为中心. 全球网赌十大网站的学生和教师深入关注一个特定的问题或几个问题的交集.
• 作为一个以学习者为中心的学习计划, 的知识, 学生的道德和实践问题作为该计划结构的框架.
• 在这个项目中学习是基于有意的，理论和实践之间的综合联系. In recognition that "sustainability" is a developing topic and requires a dynamic and evolving approach in both content and practice, mss计划将以课程和方法的灵活性为特色.

项目目标

The Master of Science in Sustainability Studies is designed to prepare leaders of educational and community development initiatives to enhance environmental understanding, reform traditional economic development into sustainable development and increase awareness of the importance of sustainability in all human systems. 学生 will learn to search for the causes and impacts of environmental-related economic and social problems, 同时建立设计能力, implement and advance initiatives that produce sustainable outcomes for current and future generations.

学生 who successfully complete the Master of Science in Sustainability Studies program will demonstrate:

• 系统思考的高级能力, 识别和分析可持续性问题背后的结构性原因.
• 合作寻求可持续发展问题解决方案的能力, 同时努力满足多个利益相关者的期望和需求.
• Capacity to examine and assess sustainability decisions and issues in terms of both their short and long-term consequences to stakeholders and the natural world.
• 致力于透明度和民主进程，以获得最佳的可持续性解决方案.
• 运用系统理论概念和工具的技能.
• An informed self-knowledge of their leadership potential and the capacity to author a personalized plan to further develop their leadership abilities.
• 构思、发起和领导变革项目的能力，以增强可持续的人类系统.

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