Sustainability Certificate: Degree Requirements
The certificate requires satisfactory completion of at least four graduate-level courses for a minimum total of 12 credits. Note that some courses are less than three credits, and students will be required to take more than four courses to reach 12 credits.
Sustainability Foundation:
UNIV 678 – Topics in Sustainability (3 credits)
One of the following:
- CHEG 613 – Topics in Energy and the Environment (3 credits)
- CHEG 625 – Green Engineering (3 credits)
- CIEG 645 – Industrial Ecology (3 credits)
- CIEG 662 – Transportation Sustainability (3 credits)
- ENWC 656 – Conservation Biology (3 credits)
- GEOG 622 – Resources, Development and the Environment (3 credits)
- GEOG 632 – Environmental Hydrology (3 credits)
- GEOG 657 – Climate Dynamics (3 credits)
- GEOL 621 – Environmental and Applied Geology (3 credits)
- PLSC 630 – Urban Ecology (3 credits)
- MAST 609 – The Ocean and Climate Change (3 credits)
One of the following:
- ANTH 605 – Environment and Human Health (3 credits)
- ANTH 640 – Disaster Anthropology (3 credits)
- BINF 815 – Ethics, Business and Communication (3 credits)
- COMM 658 – Science Communication (3 credits)
- COMM 811 – Communication and Ethics (3 credits)
- GEOG 630 – Food Geographies and Food Justice (3 credits)
- GEOG 649 – Environment and Society (3 credits)
- PHIL 648 – Environmental Ethics (3 credits)
- SOCI 671 – Disasters, Vulnerability and Development (3 credits)
One of the following:
- ENEP 625 – Energy Policy and Administration (3 credits)
- ENEP 626 – Climate Change: Science, Policies and Political Economy (3 credits)
- ENEP 661 – Sustainable Energy Financing (3 credits)
- ENEP 802 – Electricity Policy and Planning (3 credits)
- ENEP 810 – Political Economy of the Environment (3 credits)
- ENEP 824 – Sustainable Energy Policy and Planning (3 credits)
- ENTR 661 – Corporate Innovation and Intrapreneurship (3 credits)
- ENWC 613 – Wildlife Policy and Society (3 credits)
- FASH 691 – Socially Responsible Apparel: Global Policy (1 credit)
- FASH 692 – Sustaining Global Apparel Supply Chains (1 credit)
- FASH 699 – Producing Environmentally Responsible Apparel (1 credit)
- FINC 658 – Corporate Governance (3 credits)
- MAST 639 – Renew Energy and Climate: Law, Regulation and Environment (1–3 credits)
- MAST 662 – Climate Change: Policy, Equity and Mitigation (3 credits)
- POSC 818 – Environmental Politics and Policy (3 credits)
- UAPP 706 – Plan Sustainable Communities and Regions (3 credits)