Course Overview
To that end, the requirements for the ERG Master's degree are both broad and deep, stressing analytic, methodological, theoretical, and practical approaches to problems in energy, resources, and the environment. The course requirements provide for a substantive introduction to the disciplinary approaches that are employed in studying energy and resource issues. The requirements also ensure experience in interdisciplinary analysis applied to a key resource concern. The curriculum provides an opportunity ' through a topical cluster and an independent project ' to extend and deepen the areas of investigation and understanding to satisfy the intellectual interests of each student. The curriculum is intended to serve those students for whom the Master's degree will be the final formal education in support of a professional career and also those students who intend to continue their education, for example by pursuing a PhD in Energy and Resources.