Honors Seminar in Environmental Studies

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This course builds on that skill and aims to push you a bit further and encourage you to produce your own research in the realm of environmental studies with the aim of preparing you for graduate school. You will be expected to formulate your own research question, and will be required to put together a large literature review, methods/research design, and hopefully a pilot study and even some results. Areas covered include preparing research proposals, using the literature in devising and evaluating research, statistical analysis, library facilities, research ethics, and communicating science. By the time we have finished, you should understand the differences between qualitative and quantitative research, various methods of both types of research, as well as many of the inner-workings of research. You are expected to find the edge of a problem and push it further, however incrementally, by producing some excellent research of your own.