- Identify the scientific, social scientific and humanistic aspects of environmental issues
- Identify, locate, evaluate, synthesize and present current research and information on environmental issues
- Define environmental problems from the perspectives of both environmental problems from the perspectives of both environmental science and resource management
- Evaluate proposed solutions to environmental problems from the perspectives of both environmental science and resource management
- Use the methodologies of the natural and social sciences to formulate testable hypotheses concerning environmental problems and issues.
- Collect, organize, analyze, interpret and present quantitative and qualitative data.
- Make use of current, technological tools in the collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of data.