Join the MA in Sustainability at ASU! Focus on transdisciplinary research to tackle sustainability challenges. Apply now for a transformative education!
Program Description The MA in sustainability is a research-oriented degree program that culminates with research writing: either a thesis or publishable scientific paper. The program focuses on knowledge generation and investigating potential solutions to sustainability challenges and prepares students to design and conduct transdisciplinary research. Although the graduate degree programs emphasize the integration of a broad range of expertise, this program is best-suited to students inclined toward social sciences, humanities, planning or related fields and who are interested in a career in research or academia. Students learn how different disciplines view and approach the challenges of sustainability in theory, research and practice. They develop academic and technical skills as well as ethical insights that can help them understand, research and provide solutions to complex sustainability challenges at the local, regional, national and global levels. All program graduates understand the need for a transdisciplinary approach to solving sustainability challenges, are able to communicate their work to professionals in other disciplines and to policymakers and the general public, and have the breadth of vision to recognize the interconnectedness of social, economic, environmental and technical systems. They have the critical thinking skills necessary for approaching sustainability challenges from a systems perspective, the ability to work effectively in interdisciplinary teams, and the technical skills required to formulate and solve problems at the appropriate scale.
