Master of Environmental Studies

This is an interdisciplinary program offered jointly by the Departments of Anthropology and Geography and the Environment, designed to train graduates to investigate, understand and appreciate issues of environment and culture, including environmental equity. Graduates of this program will have the skills to meet the challenges of environmental and cultural issues faced by communities, industries, and services in northern areas. Lakehead University offers a Master of Environmental Studies degree as an interdisciplinary area of study that has its roots in both the sciences and social sciences such as anthropology, environmental studies and environmental science, human and physical geography, history, leisure studies, psychology and sociology. The program is designed to train graduates to investigate, understand and appreciate issues from a multidisciplinary perspective, providing students with the skills to meet the challenges of human-environment interactions and issues faced by communities, industries, governments and services. The research focus of the program requires designing and conducting research that will result in a final thesis for external defense.