Program Details
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GC Minor Eligibility
Global Change (GC) Minor students are interested in acquiring a broad environmental and earth system science perspective by exploring the rapidly evolving and cross-cutting themes of global change. To enter the program students must be pursuing a PhD at the University of Arizona in any major field. Current students in the program come from a wide range of fields, including the natural sciences, engineering, and the social sciences.
GC Minor Requirements
Five courses, for a total of 13 units (B grade or better), are required for the GC PhD Minor. Seven (7) units come from a required list of core courses, with the remaining six (6) units (two courses) to be selected from the list of electives with approval of the GC PhD Minor faculty on the student's committee.
To encourage the broad environmental perspective that is
intrinsic to the GC Minor, at least one elective class must come from a department
and/or discipline that is
distinctly different
from the student’s major area of
interest. Students in the natural sciences should take
at least one environment-related elective in the social sciences or law school,
and students in the social sciences should take at least one
environment-related elective in the natural
sciences.
Students who have previously taken one or more of the core classes (e.g. as part of a major) must consult a member of their PhD Minor Committee Faculty to identify appropriate substitute courses from the list of electives, and to receive formal approval from the GC minor faculty advisor. This arrangement is then formalized by a letter from the GC minor faculty advisor to the Chair of the Global Change GIDP.
Graduate Committee Members
Students must select
two (2)
GC
faculty members from the
Committee on Global Change
to represent the GC Minor on their Ph.D. comprehensive examination and final
dissertation defense committees.1
The GC
faculty committee members should be identified early in the student's program, so they can
serve as resources during the student's studies.
At least one Global Change faculty member
representing the GC minor
must reside in a home department that is
different from the student’s major department.
1 Note that the faculty composition of the Ph.D. comprehensive examination committee and the dissertation committee may differ, but in each case, two GC faculty are required on the committee.
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The GC Minor's Committee on Global Change consists of more than
50 faculty
from a number of academic disciplines. A
smaller group of faculty serve on the
Executive Committee,
which directs the program. The GC Minor curriculum is supplemented by many research and educational activities of the University of Arizona's Institute of the Environment (IE). Faculty and students associated with IE are involved in interdisciplinary research that spans much of the breadth of the U.S. Global Change Research Program. IE offers travel grants to GC Minors and other graduate students in the environmental sciences. The Institute also sponsors global change visitors and interdisciplinary seminars. |
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