Add a Certificate in Sustainability

The School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability offers an undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability. Certificates enhance and enrich undergraduate academic programs and broaden students' opportunities for post-graduation employment or graduate studies. Certificates are interdisciplinary and draw on courses offered by multiple departments to craft a broad foundation on each subject.

Students completing the Certificate in Sustainability will be able to:

• Describe and explain how the basic perspectives and concepts of environmental science, contemporary social issues, literature, and communication inform understandings of sustainability.
• Analyze and interpret data and information to investigate the connection between natural systems, human systems, and communication systems.
• Identify and address the emerging economic, environmental, and social challenges and opportunities critical to sustainability.

Addressing environmental challenges and creating sustainable solutions requires an interdisciplinary approach. All sectors should recognize that the well-being of people, places and the planet are interdependent and sustainability requires moving beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions and their impact.

A Certificate in Sustainability provides students with the tools to understand the dynamics of human and environmental systems and their relationship to promote sustainable knowledge, action, and understanding across sectors.