Interdisciplinary Thinking for Environmental and Resource Challenges

Enrollment restricted to E-IPER Joint and Dual Master of Science students. In this course, students identify and refine an environmental or resource challenge they will pursue throughout their degree program. Supported by the Stanford sustainability community, they use an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the selected challenge as a complex social-environmental system, map key actors and interest-holders, and evaluate multiple perspectives on creating impact within the challenge. The course emphasizes visioning and strategic problem framing; the design of specific interventions is developed in subsequent degree coursework and advanced through completion of the final joint/dual capstone prior to graduation.