Program Overview
The Trent School of the Environment provides an online diploma program that focuses on the Circumpolar world's landscape, peoples, and contemporary issues. Through an interdisciplinary approach, students explore Arctic and Sub-Arctic regions, examining their geography, history, and Indigenous cultures. Graduates are equipped with specialized knowledge and skills for careers in public service, cultural consultancy, international relations, and environmental sustainability in the Circumpolar region.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Trent School of the Environment offers a unique online diploma for students who wish to undertake a single academic year of study (September to April) focused upon the landscape, peoples, and contemporary issues of concern in the Circumpolar world. Students study the Circumpolar region from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Introductory courses begin with the examination of the geography, history, and biophysical and physical systems of the Sub-Arctic and Arctic regions. The diploma curriculum then turns to the Indigenous and contemporary peoples of the region, traditional economies and knowledge, governance systems, human security issues, and overall questions of economic development, cultural resilience, and environmental sustainability.
Careers:
Career Opportunities:
- Public Service
- Cultural and Heritage Consultant
- Immigration and Human Rights
- Public Health
- Geoscience Consultant
- Diplomat
- Journalist
- United Nations Official
- International Civil Servant
- Educator
- Policy Professional
Other:
- Resume Boosters:
- Study abroad in an Arctic location through experiential learning opportunities with the University of the Arctic.
- Participate in virtual field schools, like observing and journaling the experiences of an Inuit hunter in a remote Arctic community.
- Learn the customs and traditions of northern Indigenous people, developing literacy in Inuktitut and other Arctic languages.
