MS/MA Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah

The primary distinction between the two Master's degrees offered by the Program, MS or MA, is that the Master of Arts degree requires standard proficiency in an approved language, while the Master of Science degree requires students to complete three research methods courses approved by the EH Director of Graduate Studies.
- MA - You may enter the Program with standard language proficiency roughly equivalent to one year's college study of a foreign language, or learn a new language while you're enrolled in the Program. You may demonstrate language proficiency a variety of ways to meet the requirement.
- MS - Any course that uses a defined research method to create an original product counts toward our requirement. Methods courses span the Catalog. Since our students' interests are varied, we do not publish a set list of courses that count toward the requirement. For example artists, historians, geoscientists, social scientists, environmental educators, field ecologists, and park professionals choose very different courses of study. In addition, the same course number/title may be taught with different objectives and outcomes from year to year.