A Representative PhD Program

Year 1

Fall semester

  • Global-to-Local Sustainability (3 credits)
  • Resilience Seminar I (1 credit)
  • RAP short "module" courses (1 credit) on economics, anthropology, and/or ecology, depending on the background of the student
  • Other graduate courses at the discretion of the student’s graduate committee

Spring semester

  • Integrated Assessment & Adaptive Management (3 credits)
  • Resilience Seminar II (1 credit)
  • Develop graduate research prospectus and design internship
  • Other graduate courses at the discretion of the student’s graduate committee

Summer

  • Resilience Internship (2 credits)

Year 2

  • Serve as teaching assistant
  • Classes at the discretion of the student’s graduate committee
  • ALL RAP Seminars (every other Wednesday - 3:30 to 5.) Guest lectures and presentations by RAP students on their research
  • Refine research plan and initiate thesis research

Year 3

  • Integrative Modeling of Social and Natural Systems (elective)
  • ALL RAP Seminars (every other Wednesday - 3:30 to 5.) Guest lectures and presentations by RAP students on their research
  • Conduct dissertation research

Year 4 (and 5, if appropriate)

  • ALL RAP Seminars (every other Wednesday - 3:30 to 5.) Guest lectures and presentations by RAP students on their research
  • Conduct research and complete dissertation


Email: uaf-rap@alaska.edu      Phone:  907-474-7987          PO Box 757000, Fairbanks, AK  99775-7000