Environmental Management

The major in environmental management educates environmental managers who not only understand all aspects of the environmental industry but also have “new work skills,” including skills in critical thinking, problem solving, project management, interpersonal relations, and team building. The major in environmental management prepares students to plan, implement, and control all facets of environmental management.

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Objectives
The student who graduates with a major in environmental management will be able to:

• Apply and interpret the scientific principles, guiding regulations, and recommended practices for environmental management.
• Demonstrate knowledge of effective techniques for communicating scientific, technical, and legal information to diverse populations, including industry managers and employees, community groups, and the media.
• Develop comprehensive environmental management strategies and possess “new work skills,” i.e., skills in critical thinking, problem solving, project management, interpersonal relations, and team building.
• Incorporate information technology, international perspectives, and an understanding of the new environmental paradigm of management and prevention in addition to control and remediation.
• Demonstrate breadth of understanding of multimedia environmental contexts, the development of cutting-edge technologies, and the application of existing and emerging environmental technologies in cost-effective and work-efficient ways.
• Demonstrate breadth of understanding of multimedia environmental management, regulatory compliance, recent technological changes, emergency management, health and safety management, global resource conservation, and sustainable development.
• Discuss the history and development of theory and concepts in environmental management and how these theories and concepts can be applied in various environmental situations.
• Evaluate ethical, social, civic, cultural, and political issues as they relate to environmental management, business operations, human factors, information systems, governmental regulation, and domestic and international ventures.
• Apply knowledge, concepts, and principles to changes in environmental management practices and information technology areas (including the use of databases, spreadsheets, accounting software applications, e-commerce, virtual and knowledge management approaches, and strategic and decision-making tools to analyze problems and issues, develop business research, report key data, and recommend management strategy and action plans).