Coterminal Master's Program
The Sustainability Science and Practice (SUST) coterminal master’s program integrates theoretical and conceptual knowledge with practical skills and tools to develop mindsets, knowledge, and competencies in three critical areas:
1. Understanding Complex Social-Environmental Systems
2. Understanding Decision Making and Strategies for Leading Change
3. Designing Innovations with Impact at Scale
“The program’s core [curriculum] was pivotal. It introduced me to the interconnected nature of sustainability issues and taught me to identify leverage points for change—skills I now rely on daily. This bedrock, robust and practical, prepared me to think critically and act decisively.”
- Christian Bader, SUST MS Graduate
Practicum
To integrate and internalize core lessons from the SUST curriculum, each student completes a 120-hour practicum project of their own design, collaborating on a complex sustainability challenge with an outside organization and working through the types of constraints often faced by decision-makers and leaders. Students apply the leadership mindsets, knowledge, and skills from the curriculum to this practical experience and present their final analysis and reflections to faculty and peers.
