At the end of the 2-year Program, a graduate of the MSES:

1. Exhibit a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, principles and theories on how the environmental science discipline influences society;
2. Use critical and creative thinking to understand, formulate, and apply responses to environmental issues and challenges in the context of a dynamic and complex world;
3. Promote transdisciplinary thinking by engaging in broader cross-sociocultural activities and practices;
4. Demonstrate efficient research skills to discover new knowledge and disseminate information to contribute solutions to environmental problems;
5. Exercise rational decision-making processes as individuals or teams from both natural and social sciences, in exploring and addressing complex environmental issues and problems;
6. Effectively communicate information, ideas, and solutions to environmental problems;
7. Identify and apply information systems, concepts, and methodologies to understand interactions between social and environmental processes;
8. Manifest excellent ability to deal with adversity/disaster and to overcome challenges of all kinds such as trauma, tragedy and personal crisis;
9. Demonstrate effective problem-solving skills from diverse disciplinal perspectives in dealing with contemporary environmental and social issues;
10. Promote best practices in environmental advocacy programs to address specific environmental issues in a given locality;
11. Uphold ethical, cross-cultural, and historical values in addressing environmental and social justice issues;
12. Commit to programs and projects in heritage research, conservation advocacy, and promotion of environmental stewardship;
13. Actively pursue professional development by keeping abreast with / contributing to the creation of new knowledge in the discipline.