With a Research in Environmental Studies at Sakhalin State University you will typically have received the skills necessary for defining current national and global environmental issues and the complex human-environment relationships that have created them; critically assessing the relationship between human cultures and societies, the institutions, economic and political trends that characterise them, and the impact on the natural environment; taking a critical look at the developments in current global and national environmental thinking and evolving perspectives on society-environment relationships and engaging in research, writing and presentation skills, including the preparation of written work which successfully integrates knowledge from the social sciences with that of the natural sciences