Environmental Policy and Planning Degree Requirements

Degree Requirements

	Requirement*	Notes
EPP Core	Policy students must take both A and B	A – NRE 562 B – International Environmental Policy (TBD)
EPP Core	Planning students must take C and either A or B [Plan-specific requirement]	C – Environmental Planning (NRE 592/UP 502 or NRE 687)
NRE Core	NRE 509 (Natural Science Core) NRE 510 (Social Science Core) NRE 580 (Environmental Integrated Assessment) [School-wide requirement]	Total of 10 credits hours
Electives	Electives	Plan specific; must be agraduate level course at 400-level or above
Analytics	Analytics [Plan-Specific requirement]	Policy – NRE 570 Planning – NRE 531 Also, must take one statistics course
Opus	Opus [School-wide requirement]	Option 1: At most, 6 credit hours of NRE 700/ NRE 701
Opus	Opus [School-wide requirement]	Option 2: See advisor for non-opus guidance
Cognates	Minimum 4 credit hours outside of SNRE [Rackham requirement]	Can be double counted with other degree requirements.
TOTALS	TOTAL CREDIT HOURS**	Minimum 42 credit hours
	TOTAL SNRE CREDIT HOURS	Minimum 25 of 42 credit hours
*Any waiver or substitution of degree requirement must be approved by the appropriate faculty and submitted to OAP.