Graduate Program
Please note that this Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management has been discontinued and no new enrollments are allowed.Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management
Description [top]
The graduate certificate allows students to expand their knowledge of the environment and environmental management beyond their undergraduate training. It offers a professional credential to students who might not have the time or background to enroll in a graduate degree program requiring a thesis or dissertation. Students desiring admission to the MS or PhD programs in environmental science and policy (ESP) who do not currently meet admission requirements can demonstrate their ability to do degree work through successful completion of the certificate with excellent academic achievement.
The curriculum provides a substantive appreciation of the biological, physical, and social aspects of environmental problems, and methods for their analysis and resolution.
Admission Requirements [top]
Admission requirements are as follows:
- Undergraduate degree, preferable in biology, chemistry, geology, geography, Earth systems science, or some other environmentally related discipline
- Two semesters each of general chemistry and biology with a laboratory*
- Undergraduate course in general ecology (students who do not meet this requirement must take EVPP 607, Fundamentals of Ecology, as their natural science elective)
- Three letters of reference
- Statement of interest in the program
* Exceptions are considered on a case-by-case basis.
CERTIFICATE Requirements [top]
The certificate is awarded after satisfactory completion of six graduate courses (a minimum of 18 semester credits) as specified below:
Environmental certificate core (three courses):
- EVPP 677 Applied Ecology and Ecosystem Management
- Two of the following:
- EVPP 641 Environmental Science and Public Policy
- EVPP 675 Environmental Planning and Administration
- SOCI 635 Environment and Society
Three electives (one from each of the following areas):
- Natural sciences
- BIOL/EVPP 546 Estuarine and Coastal Ecology
- BIOL/EVPP 577 Biogeochemistry: A Global Perspective
- BIOL/EVPP 643 Microbial Ecology
- BIOL/EVPP 745 Environmental Toxicology
- EVPP 550 Waterscape Ecology and Management
- EVPP 607 Fundamentals of Ecology
- EVPP 644 Wetland Ecology and Management
- EVPP 645 Freshwater Ecology
- GEOG 570 Environmental Hydrology
- Social sciences
- CONF 501 Introduction to Conflict Analysis and Resolution
- EVPP 641 Environmental Science and Public Policy
- EVPP 642 Environmental Policy
- EVPP 670 Environmental Law or PRLS 501 Introduction to Natural Resources Law
- EVPP 675 Environmental Planning and Administration
- PHIL 555 Environmental Ethics
- PRLS 526 Environmental Education and Resource Interpretation
- PUAD 502 Administration in Public and Nonprofit Organizations
- SOCI 635 Environment and Society
- Environmental methods
- EVPP 650 Environmental Analysis and Modeling
- GEOG 550 Introduction to Geographic Information Science
- GEOG 553 Advanced Geographic Information Science
- GEOG 579 Remote Sensing
- GEOG 580 Digital Remote Sensing
- GEOG 585 Quantitative Methods
- SOCI 531 Statistical Reasoning