{"id":114,"date":"2018-08-10T04:34:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T04:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/?page_id=114"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T19:59:51","slug":"program-components","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/program-components\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Components"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Master&#8217;s in Environmental Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Environmental Science Master&#8217;s students must complete a total of 38 credits.&nbsp; Of this total, 18 credits correspond to core courses, 6 credits, 2 credits to a graduate seminar, 6 credits to elective courses, and 6 credits to graduate research leading toward a Master&#8217;s thesis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students must also present and defend their thesis proposal and present and defend a Master&#8217;s thesis.&nbsp; In order to follow up on student academic and research progress, until the student selects a thesis supervisor, the Program Coordinator will serve as a mentor and will meet with the students at least twice per semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doctorate in Environmental Science<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Environmental Science Doctoral students must complete a total of 60 credits.&nbsp; Of this total, 18 credits correspond to core courses, 9 credits to emphasis areas, 2 credits to a graduate seminar, 4 credits in an emphasis seminar, 9 credits to elective courses, and 18 credits to graduate research leading towards a Doctoral thesis.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Students must also present a graduate seminar, approve the Environmental Sciences Graduate Program qualifying exams, present and defend their thesis research proposal, present and defend an original research proposal, and present and defend a Doctoral dissertation.\u00a0 In order to follow up on student academic and research progress, until the student selects a thesis supervisor, the Program Coordinator will serve as a mentor and will meet with the students at least twice per semester.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master&#8217;s in Environmental Science Doctorate in Environmental Science<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-114","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/114\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natsci.uprrp.edu\/envsci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}