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IGS 505: Qualitative Methods for Community-Engaged Research

This course advances student knowledge of research design and methods, emphasizing frameworks, strategies, and qualitative methods for community-engaged studies. In this course, students engage with alternative frameworks, including community based...

IGS 510: Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change

This course provides the groundwork for understanding the historical, sociocultural, and political-economic impacts of climate change in the Anthropocene. Building upon a basic understanding of climate science, this course addresses how global...

IGS 545: Climate Change: Vulnerability and Mitigation

Taking climate change as a starting point, this course introduces students to a wide range of climate change conditions, human responses to those conditions, and points toward the need for deeper understanding of human-environment relationships. The...

IGS 590: Capstone Seminar: Comparative Climate Action

This seminar analyzes core themes of the Community Climate Adaptation Program during the students’ third and final semester. Bridging the disciplines of geography, anthropology, and civil & environmental engineering, we draw together the insights and...

IGS 595: Graduate Qualifying Project: Research

(3 to 8 Credits) The eight-credit graduate qualifying project (GQP), typically done in teams, is to be carried out in cooperation with an external partner, and it is overseen by two faculty members representing both the Department of Integrated and...

IGS 599: Graduate Qualifying Project: Conference

(1 to 3 Credits) The graduate qualifying project (GQP), typically done in teams, is to be carried out in cooperation with a sponsor or external partner, and it is overseen by two faculty members representing both the Department of Integrated and...

B.S./M.S. in Community Climate Adaptation

Students enrolled in the Bachelor’s/Master’s program must satisfy all the program requirements of their respective Bachelor’s degree and all of the program requirements of the Master’s degree in Community Climate Adaptation. A maximum of four courses...

M.S. in Community Climate Adaptation

Degree Requirements

For the M.S. in Community Climate Adaptation, the student is required to complete a minimum of 30 graduate credit hours. This includes a required non-credit orientation during the first semester. The Graduate Qualifying Project...

M.S. in Cyber Security

Program Goals and Objectives

With the growing demand for expertise in Cyber Security, the Master of Science in Cyber Security (MS-SEC) provides a foundation in computing and security. The program balances technical expertise with its application in...

B.S./M.S. in Cyber Security

For the Joint Bachelor's/Master's Program

The requirements for the MS-SEC are structured so that undergraduate students would be able to pursue a Bachelor's/Master's program, in which the Bachelor's degree is awarded in any major offered at WPI and...