What kind of research is appropriate for a RAP thesis?
The thesis should integrate social and natural science to address a question about sustainability. There are many acceptable approaches meeting this objective and students are encouraged to define their research problem around a real-world issue of sustainability that is particularly meaningful to the student. Students work with their major advisor, committee, and RAP faculty to explore various methods for undertaking their research. Dissertation research may include a range of methods from ethnography, oral histories, and vidoegraphy to quantitative spatial anlaysis and simulation modeling.
