Educational Objectives

Energy and passion alone do not create comprehensive solutions to complex problems. It takes: leadership informed by science, theory tempered by practical experience, and the integration of diverse perspectives through systems thinking.

In the course of the RMC program, students become:

Leaders: RMC students enter with a range of professional and leadership backgrounds. We aim to enhance and improve our students' ability to facilitate and manage multi-issue, multi-stakeholder environmental problems. It is this leadership that is needed to solve the complex environmental problems of today and tomorrow.

Resource Managers: A resource manager will be able to assess scientific and economic research; understand the interrelationships among and between public policy, science, economics and law. They will be able to apply these skills to effectively manage complex projects. Our students will be able to apply quantitative, spatial and qualitative research approaches to address science based problems.

Conservationists: For our students, conservation is not simply scientific understanding of the natural systems, nor just conducting research within the natural world. Both of these are necessary activities but not sufficient. Ultimately, conservation is decision-making and subsequently managing the implementation of those decisions.

Visionaries: Our students learn to demonstrate and apply theory into practice. We focus on facilitative and adaptive leadership as well as applying skills in external stakeholder capacity building. Our students will understand the definition and requirements of organizational sustainability.

Our faculty works with our students to achieve their goals and develop as leaders.