Here is a course list document for the Master of Sustainability and Environmental Management (MS SEM) program, using the exact course bulletin descriptions from the approved program file. Each entry includes:
Course Code & Title
Course Bulletin Description (as stated in the official program documents)
Type (Required/Elective)
Prerequisite(s)
List of Courses
MSE 509 – Circular Materials Economy
Description: Introduction to circular materials economy; Resource consumption and its drivers; The materials life-cycle, End of first life; Renewable materials; Natural materials; Criticality and supply-chain risk; Circular materials economics; Materials and sustainability; Circular economy business models; Circular economy standards; Waste management; Digital circular economy; and Implementation of circular materials economy: case studies.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 545 – Environmental Sustainability Principles
Description: Environmental Ecosystems; Marine Ecosystem; Deforestation and land erosion; Mangrove; Coral reefs and fisheries; The environmental issues facing our planet: climate change, water scarcity, toxicity, urbanization, health and seawater pollution (plastics and airborne particles), Natural hazards; Remote sensing for environmental sustainability, the methodologies to measure the scope and magnitude of human impact on environmental systems in both time and space; and basic skills in evaluating the viability of future sustainable strategies; Sustainable design; Relevant Case Studies from environment and marine life.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
CE 528 – Climate Change Effects and Sustainable Adaptation
Description: Climate change effects on water resources, marine life, agriculture, air quality, and the built environment; vulnerability, risk, resilience, and adaptive capacity; national and global policy context of climate change adaptation; adaptation and equitable development; multi-disciplinary approach for sustainable adaptation; community-based adaptation; adaptation opportunities, constraints, and limits; case studies on building resilience and adapting to the effects of climate change.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 578 – Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management
Description: Fundamental concepts related to weather, climate, climate variability, climate change, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, identification of sources and sinks of GHG emissions for different sectors (i.e., energy, industrial processes and product use, waste, land-use change, and agriculture), Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG), emission estimation, measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV), different approaches assessment and standards (i.e., IPCC, ISO, WRI, WBCSD) for GHG emission estimation for countries and organizations, and various climate change mitigation approaches and initiatives, Carbon capture and footprint calculations, Preparation of appropriate climate change mitigation plan.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
ENVS 546 – Environmental Impact Assessment
Description: The components and structure of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA); environmental impact assessment process and the information; including environmental studies needed to prepare an environmental impact assessment document or an environmental impact statement.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 502 – Data Analytics for Decision Support Systems
Description: A wide range of data analytics techniques that serve as the foundation for a broad range of applications, including inferential, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, the elements of statistical modeling; Model interpretation and assessment; Structured and unstructured data analysis, the critical phases of analytics including data preparation, model development, evaluation, validation, selection, deployment, Knowledge-Based Systems, knowledge acquisition, representation, and reasoning, data warehousing, and visualization; Geographical information system and remote sensing data analysis.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
CRP 584 – Sustainable Infrastructure and Renewable Energy
Description: Fundamentals of sustainable urban and infrastructure development with insight into renewable energy infrastructure. Aspects related to urban and infrastructure development, urban and alternative energy sources (production, distribution, and consumption), including urban and transportation (land, rail, air, and water), urban and water, and urban and social infrastructure. Concepts and approaches towards sustainable urban and infrastructure development and the perspective of renewable energy – integration. Emphasis on operations of technical urban infrastructure.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 619 – Project
Description: A graduate student will arrange with a faculty member to conduct an industrial research project related to the sustainability and Environmental Management field. Subsequently the students shall acquire skills and gain experiences in developing and running actual industry-based project. This project culminates in the writing of a technical report, and an oral technical presentation in front of a board of professors and industry experts.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 551 – Project Leadership and Communications Management
Description: Effective leadership, stakeholders’ identification, effective problem communication, meet stakeholders needs, identify and apply conflict resolution techniques, Emotional Intelligence, communicate project objective, and forming, managing various types of teams.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing
EM 619 – Project (continuation)
Description: Continuation of the industrial project, focusing on implementation, report writing, and oral defense.
Type: Required
Prerequisite(s): Graduate Standing