The Master of Science in Integrated Science and Technology (M.S. ISAT) with a concentration in Environmental Management and Sustainability includes core classes covering fundamental aspects of analytical methods using both GIS and data science, systems thinking and modeling, human environment dynamics, sustainability, and tools to understand, analyze and describe critical models and concepts in an increasingly cross-cultural world. The program is designed to build holistic thinking and problem-solving using systems perspectives on environmental and sustainability challenges. 

Courses are designed, developed, and, for the most part, taught collaboratively by faculty from James Madison University and the University of Malta. Learning at both campuses affords students the opportunity to experience, compare, and contrast environmental and sustainability issues in different geographic, political, and social contexts from US, EU, and global perspectives. 

Organization of the program includes a core of applied material valuable to the practitioner that carries across the Fall and Spring semesters at both James Madison University and the University of Malta.  Concentration courses provide opportunities to go deeper into areas of global sustainability and its impacts on society, sustainability policy and law, with electives designed to extend this knowledge into areas of sustainable technological systems, or food systems and biodiversity.

A complete listing of all core, concentration and elective courses is available in the JMU Graduate Course Catalog.