攻读环境科学和自然资源新闻专业的硕士学位需要36个学时，其中新闻学18个学分，自然资源问题和/或环境科学12个学分。学校为剩余的六个学分提供了两种选择。学生可以使用它们从事纪录片风格的专业项目，也可以选择以多种媒介创建作品集。专业项目选项使学生可以进行雄心勃勃的调查或创建全面的公共信息项目。学生通常在完成其余课程工作后，在大学的最后一个学期中制作该项目。这使他们能够在蒙大纳州外和国外旅行进行研究。他们返回蒙大拿州，在所选择的教员委员会面前捍卫自己的项目。
This hands-on, skill-based graduate program will put you in the field reporting on issues affecting society and the natural world. Our curriculum is geared for those with undergraduate degrees in journalism, environmental and earth sciences, environmental studies or natural resources. We also seek applicants with professional experience in journalism, the natural resource industries and environmental nonprofit organizations. Youll get personal attention and gain valuable connections with faculty members who have decades of professional journalism experience and deep ties in the natural resource and media worlds.