Why choose an Environmental Studies certificate?
The Environmental Studies Certificate Program allows undergraduate students at UW–Madison to explore the environmental intersections that complement their major but with fewer curricular requirements than the major. Students completing the certificate also benefit from participation in the Nelson academic community and gain invaluable access to a network of multidisciplinary problem-solving colleagues. The certificate program is available only to UW–Madison students pursuing a bachelor's degree through the university's regular academic departments.
Completion of the certificate program is noted on a student’s academic transcript.
How to Get in
How to Declare
Students interested in declaring the environmental studies certificate can email undergrad@nelson.wisc.edu or request a declaration appointment. Information about declaring the certificate can be found at undergraduate advising.
Students who earn an environmental studies certificate may not earn the environmental studies major or the sustainability certificate or the organic agriculture certificate.
Requirements
Students are required to take five courses/15 credits to include two courses in the Foundation section and three courses in the thematic areas. A minimum of 6 credits overall must be at the intermediate or advanced level (I/A/D). A minimum of 8 credits must be taken in residence. A minimum GPA of 2.0 is required in certificate courses.
Environmental Humanities/Social Science (take one course)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST 112 | Environmental Studies: Social Science Perspectives | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 113 | Environmental Studies: Environmental Humanities | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HIST SCI/HISTORY 125 | Green Screen: Environmental Perspectives through Film | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 139 | Global Environmental Issues | 3 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 140 | Introduction to Community and Environmental Sociology | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/ART HIST/GEOG/HISTORY/LAND ARC 239 | Making the American Landscape | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/A A E 244 | The Environment and the Global Economy | 4 |
| SOC/C&E SOC/F&W ECOL 248 | Environment, Natural Resources, and Society | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/RELIG ST 270 | The Environment: Religion & Ethics | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 339 | Environmental Conservation | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/HISTORY 460 | American Environmental History | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY 465 | Global Environmental History | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/CLASSICS 488 | Greeks, Romans and the Natural Environment | 3 |
Environmental Physical Science/Ecology (take one course)
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ATM OCN 100 | Weather and Climate | 3 |
| ATM OCN 101 | Weather and Climate | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOSCI 106 | Environmental Geology | 3 |
| GEOSCI 110 | Evolution and Extinction | 4 |
| PHYSICS 115 | Energy and Climate | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 120 | Introduction to the Earth System | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ILS 126 | Principles of Environmental Science | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 127 | Physical Systems of the Environment | 4 |
| ATM OCN/SOIL SCI 132 | Earth's Water: Natural Science and Human Use | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/SOIL SCI 230 | Soil: Ecosystem and Resource | 3 |
| BOTANY 240 | Plants and Humans | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 251 | Ecology and the Global Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ILS 255 | Introduction to Sustainability Science | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 260 | Introductory Ecology | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 301 | General Soil Science | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOG/GEOSCI 335 | Climatic Environments of the Past | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOG 332 | Global Warming: Science and Impacts | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 401 | Physiological Animal Ecology | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 413 | Preserving Nature | 3 |
| F&W ECOL/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 460 | General Ecology | 4 |
| F&W ECOL 550 | Forest Ecology | 3 |
Theme
- Students are required to take three courses (min 9 cr.) from the thematic areas listed below.
- Courses may be concentrated in one area or taken in multiple areas.
- Courses taken in the thematic areas cannot also be used in foundation.
Biodiversity
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL 100 | Forests of the World | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 110 | Living with Wildlife - Animals, Habitats, and Human Interactions | 3 |
| GEOSCI 110 | Evolution and Extinction | 4 |
| BIOCORE 181 | Becoming a Scientist: Doing Biology Research | 2 |
| ENVIR ST/ENTOM 201 | Insects and Human Culture-a Survey Course in Entomology | 3 |
| BOTANY 240 | Plants and Humans | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 251 | Ecology and the Global Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 260 | Introductory Ecology | 3 |
| ENTOM/ZOOLOGY 302 | Introduction to Entomology | 4 |
| GEOG/BOTANY 338 | Environmental Biogeography | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 360 | Extinction of Species | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/LAND ARC 361 | Wetlands Ecology | 3 |
| SOIL SCI/AGRONOMY/BOTANY 370 | Grassland Ecology | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 375 | Field Ecology Workshop | 3 |
| BOTANY 401 | Vascular Flora of Wisconsin | 4 |
| F&W ECOL 401 | Physiological Animal Ecology | 3 |
| BOTANY/F&W ECOL 402 | Dendrology: Woody Plant Identification and Ecology | 3 |
| BOTANY/ANTHRO/ZOOLOGY 410 | Evolutionary Biology | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 413 | Preserving Nature | 3 |
| BOTANY 422 | Plant Geography | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/C&E SOC/GEOG 434 | People, Wildlife and Landscapes | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 448 | Disturbance Ecology | 3 |
| BOTANY/ZOOLOGY 450 | Midwestern Ecological Issues: A Case Study Approach | 2 |
| BOTANY/F&W ECOL 455 | The Vegetation of Wisconsin | 4 |
| BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 460 | General Ecology | 4 |
| ENTOM 490 | Biodiversity and Global Change | 3 |
| AN SCI/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 520 | Ornithology | 3 |
| AN SCI/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 521 | Birds of Southern Wisconsin | 3 |
| ATM OCN/AGRONOMY/SOIL SCI 532 | Environmental Biophysics | 3 |
| GEOG 538 | The Humid Tropics: Ecology, Subsistence, and Development | 4 |
| F&W ECOL/SURG SCI 548 | Diseases of Wildlife | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 550 | Forest Ecology | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 551 | Forest Ecology Lab | 1 |
| ENVIR ST 613 | Reproducibility Crises and Open Science in Environmental Studies | 3 |
| AGRONOMY 634 | 1 | |
| ENVIR ST/BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 651 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 672 | Historical Ecology | 2 |
Climate
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ATM OCN 100 | Weather and Climate | 3 |
| ATM OCN 101 | Weather and Climate | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOSCI 102 | Climate and Climate Change | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN 171 | Global Change: Atmospheric Issues and Problems | 2-3 |
| SOIL SCI 211 | Soils and Climate Change | 2 |
| A A E 246 | Climate Change Economics and Policy | 3 |
| ED POL 320 | Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOG 322 | Polar Regions and Their Importance in the Global Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOG/GEOSCI 335 | Climatic Environments of the Past | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN/GEOG 332 | Global Warming: Science and Impacts | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 349 | Climate Change Governance | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN 355 | Introduction to Air Quality | 3 |
| GEOG/GEOSCI 420 | Glacial and Pleistocene Geology | 3 |
| ATM OCN 425 | Global Climate Processes | 3 |
| M E 466 | 3 | |
| ENVIR ST 472 | 3 | |
| ENVIR ST/ATM OCN 520 | Bioclimatology | 3 |
| ATM OCN 522 | Tropical Meteorology | 3 |
| GEOG 523 | Advanced Paleoecology: Species Responses to Past Environmental Change | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 525 | Case Studies Exploring Infrastructure Sustainability and Climate Change | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 535 | 3 |
Energy
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| PHYSICS 115 | Energy and Climate | 3 |
| E C E 356 | Electric Power Processing for Alternative Energy Systems | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/BSE 367 | Renewable Energy Systems | 3 |
| A A E/ECON 371 | Energy, Resources and Economics | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOSCI 411 | Energy Resources | 3 |
| BSE 460 | Biorefining: Energy and Products from Renewable Resources | 3 |
| M E 461 | Thermal Systems Modeling | 3 |
| M E 466 | 3 | |
| CIV ENGR/G L E 535 | Wind Energy Balance-of-Plant Design | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 535 | 3 | |
| ENVIR ST/A A E/CIV ENGR/URB R PL 561 | Energy Markets | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/A A E/ECON/URB R PL 671 | Energy Economics | 3 |
Food and Agriculture
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST/AGROECOL/AGRONOMY/C&E SOC/ENTOM 103 | Agroecology: An Introduction to the Ecology of Food and Agriculture | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 117 | 1 | |
| FOOD SCI 120 | Science of Food | 3 |
| NUTR SCI 132 | Nutrition Today | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 211 | Soils and Climate Change | 2 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 222 | Food, Culture, and Society | 3 |
| AGRONOMY 300 | Cropping Systems | 3 |
| AGROECOL 303 | Agroecological Systems: Working Towards Sustainability | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 309 | People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems | 3 |
| C&E SOC/A A E/SOC 340 | Issues in Food Systems | 3-4 |
| MED HIST/PHILOS 344 | Food Ethics | 3 |
| A A E/AGRONOMY/NUTR SCI 350 | World Hunger and Malnutrition | 3 |
| CNSR SCI 360 | Sustainable and Socially Just Consumption | 3 |
| A A E/AGRONOMY/HORT/PL PATH 367 | Introduction to Organic Agriculture: Production, Markets, and Policy | 3 |
| HORT 370 | World Vegetable Crops | 3 |
| HORT/AGRONOMY 376 | Tropical Horticultural Systems | 2 |
| AGRONOMY 377 | Global Food Production and Health | 3 |
| FOLKLORE 439 | Foodways | 3 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 650 | Sociology of Agriculture | 3 |
Health
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST/ENTOM 205 | Our Planet, Our Health | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HIST SCI 213 | Global Environmental Health: An Interdisciplinary Introduction | 3 |
| A A E/AGRONOMY/NUTR SCI 350 | World Hunger and Malnutrition | 3 |
| POP HLTH/C&E SOC 370 | Introduction to Public Health | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 422 | Elements of Public Health Engineering | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 423 | Air Pollution Effects, Measurement and Control | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 430 | Soil Pollution and Human Health | 3 |
| M E 466 | 3 | |
| ENVIR ST/POP HLTH 471 | Introduction to Environmental Health | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/POP HLTH 502 | Air Pollution and Human Health | 3 |
| GEN&WS/INTL ST 535 | Women's Global Health and Human Rights | 3 |
| POP HLTH/HIST SCI/MED HIST 553 | International Health and Global Society | 3 |
| CIV ENGR/M&ENVTOX/SOIL SCI 631 | Toxicants in the Environment: Sources, Distribution, Fate, & Effects | 3 |
| AGRONOMY 632 | 1 | |
| AGRONOMY 633 | 1 | |
| AGRONOMY 634 | 1 |
History, Culture, Society
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CLASSICS 103 | Nature, Race, and Human Difference | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 112 | Environmental Studies: Social Science Perspectives | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 113 | Environmental Studies: Environmental Humanities | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HIST SCI/HISTORY 125 | Green Screen: Environmental Perspectives through Film | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ILS 126 | Principles of Environmental Science | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 139 | Global Environmental Issues | 3 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 140 | Introduction to Community and Environmental Sociology | 4 |
| HISTORY/CHICLA 151 | The North American West to 1850 | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/ENGL 153 | Literature and the Environment | 3 |
| HISTORY/AMER IND 190 | Introduction to American Indian History | 3-4 |
| GNS/ENVIR ST 210 | Cultures of Sustainability: Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ART HIST/GEOG/HISTORY/LAND ARC 239 | Making the American Landscape | 3-4 |
| SOC/C&E SOC/F&W ECOL 248 | Environment, Natural Resources, and Society | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/RELIG ST 270 | The Environment: Religion & Ethics | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/ENGL 305 | Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/AMER IND 306 | Indigenous Peoples and the Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 307 | Literature of the Environment: Speaking for Nature | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 308 | Outdoors For All: Inequities in Environmentalism | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 317 | Community Environmental Scholars Program Seminar | 1 |
| ED POL 320 | Climate Change, Sustainability, and Education | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY 328 | Environmental History of Europe | 3 |
| F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 335 | Human/Animal Relationships: Biological and Philosophical Issues | 3 |
| GEOG/ENVIR ST 337 | Nature, Power and Society | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 339 | Environmental Conservation | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/AMER IND 341 | Indigenous Environmental Communicators | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 353 | 3 | |
| ENVIR ST/HIST SCI/RELIG ST 356 | Islam, Science & Technology, and the Environment | 3-4 |
| LAND ARC 360 | Earth Partnership Restoration Education: Indigenous Arts & Sciences | 1 |
| LAND ARC 363 | Earth Partnership: Restoration Education for Equity and Resilience | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY 369 | Thinking through History with Animals | 3-4 |
| AMER IND/GEOG 410 | Critical Indigenous Ecological Knowledges | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY/LEGAL ST 430 | Law and Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/PHILOS 441 | Environmental Ethics | 3-4 |
| LSC 444 | ||
| ENVIR ST/SPANISH 445 | Culture and the Environment in the Luso-Hispanic World | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/HISTORY 460 | American Environmental History | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY 465 | Global Environmental History | 3-4 |
| ANTHRO 477 | Anthropology, Environment, and Development | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/CLASSICS 488 | Greeks, Romans and the Natural Environment | 3 |
| ENGL/ENVIR ST 533 | Topic in Literature and the Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 537 | Culture and Environment | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 557 | Development and Environment in Southeast Asia | 3 |
| BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 672 | Historical Ecology | 2 |
Land Use
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST/GEOSCI 106 | Environmental Geology | 3 |
| LAND ARC/AMER IND 106 | Earth Partnership Indigenous Arts and Sciences | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 120 | Introduction to the Earth System | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 127 | Physical Systems of the Environment | 4 |
| LAND ARC 211 | Shaping the Built Environment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/SOIL SCI 230 | Soil: Ecosystem and Resource | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 301 | General Soil Science | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 302 | Meet Your Soil: Soil Analysis and Interpretation Laboratory | 1 |
| GEOG/URB R PL 305 | Introduction to the City | 3-4 |
| A A E/ECON/REAL EST/URB R PL 306 | The Real Estate Process | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 309 | People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems | 3 |
| LAND ARC 311 | Introduction to Design Frameworks and Spatial Technologies | 2 |
| ENVIR ST/SOIL SCI 324 | Soils and Environmental Quality | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 333 | Green Urbanism | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 337 | Nature, Power and Society | 3 |
| BOTANY/GEOG 338 | Environmental Biogeography | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 339 | Environmental Conservation | 4 |
| GEOG 344 | Changing Landscapes of the American West | 3 |
| CNSR SCI 360 | Sustainable and Socially Just Consumption | 3 |
| LAND ARC 373 | Mindfulness in Restorative Environments | 3 |
| LAND ARC 380 | Plants for Ecological Design I | 2 |
| LAND ARC 381 | Plants for Ecological Design II | 1 |
| F&W ECOL 410 | Principles of Silviculture | 3 |
| ECON/REAL EST/URB R PL 420 | Urban and Regional Economics | 3 |
| SOIL SCI 430 | Soil Pollution and Human Health | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/C&E SOC/GEOG 434 | People, Wildlife and Landscapes | 3 |
| LSC 444 | ||
| ENVIR ST/ECON/POLI SCI/URB R PL 449 | Government and Natural Resources | 3-4 |
| F&W ECOL/SOIL SCI 451 | Environmental Biogeochemistry | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/HISTORY 460 | American Environmental History | 4 |
| LAND ARC/URB R PL 463 | Evolution of American Planning | 3 |
| GEOG/URB R PL 505 | Urban Spatial Patterns and Theories | 3 |
| LAND ARC 511 | Geodesign Methods and Applications | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL 515 | Natural Resources Policy | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 537 | Culture and Environment | 4 |
| GEOG 538 | The Humid Tropics: Ecology, Subsistence, and Development | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 557 | Development and Environment in Southeast Asia | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/SOIL SCI 575 | Assessment of Environmental Impact | 3 |
| LAND ARC/ENVIR ST 581 | Prescribed Fire: Ecology and Implementation | 3 |
| URB R PL 601 | Site Planning | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/BOTANY/F&W ECOL/ZOOLOGY 651 | Conservation Biology | 3 |
| LAND ARC 668 | Restoration Ecology | 3 |
| LAND ARC 677 | Cultural Resource Preservation and Landscape History | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/LAND ARC/SOIL SCI 695 | Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resources | 3 |
Policy
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| URB R PL 215 | Welcome to Your Urban Future | 3 |
| A A E/ENVIR ST 244 | The Environment and the Global Economy | 4 |
| POLI SCI 272 | Introduction to Public Policy | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/ENGL 305 | Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 309 | People, Land and Food: Comparative Study of Agriculture Systems | 3 |
| M H R 310 | Challenges & Solutions in Business Sustainability | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 339 | Environmental Conservation | 4 |
| ENVIR ST/A A E/ECON 343 | Environmental Economics | 3-4 |
| ENVIR ST/AMER IND/GEOG 345 | Caring for Nature in Native North America | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 349 | Climate Change Governance | 3 |
| PUB AFFR 366 | U.S. Environmental Politics and Public Policy | 3 |
| ECON 370 | Economics of Poverty and Inequality | 3 |
| OTM 370 | Sustainable Approaches to System Improvement | 3 |
| A A E/INTL ST 373 | Globalization, Poverty and Development | 3 |
| CURRIC/C&E SOC/ENVIR ST 405 | Education for Sustainable Communities | 3 |
| F&W ECOL 410 | Principles of Silviculture | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 417 | Sustainability Science, Technology and Policy | 1 |
| ENVIR ST/HISTORY/LEGAL ST 430 | Law and Environment: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 439 | US Environmental Policy and Regulation | 3-4 |
| LSC 444 | ||
| ENVIR ST/ECON/POLI SCI/URB R PL 449 | Government and Natural Resources | 3-4 |
| M E 466 | 3 | |
| A A E/ECON 474 | Economic Problems of Developing Areas | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 494 | Civil and Environmental Engineering Decision Making | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL 515 | Natural Resources Policy | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 522 | Hazardous Waste Management | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/PHILOS 523 | Philosophical Problems of the Biological Sciences | 3 |
| ECON/A A E/F&W ECOL 531 | Natural Resource Economics | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 534 | Environmental Governance: Markets, States and Nature | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/C&E SOC/SOC 540 | Sociology of International Development, Environment, and Sustainability | 3 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 541 | Environmental Stewardship and Social Justice | 3 |
| URB R PL 551 | Climate Action Planning: Sustainable Transportation | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG 557 | Development and Environment in Southeast Asia | 3 |
| SOC/C&E SOC 573 | Community Organization and Change | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 613 | Reproducibility Crises and Open Science in Environmental Studies | 3 |
| SOIL SCI/CIV ENGR/M&ENVTOX 631 | Toxicants in the Environment: Sources, Distribution, Fate, & Effects | 3 |
| R M I 650 | Sustainability, Environmental and Social Risk Management | 3 |
| REAL EST 651 | Green - Sustainable Development | 3 |
| SOC/ECON 663 | Population and Society | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/URB R PL 668 | Green Politics: Global Experience, American Prospects | 3 |
Geospatial Analysis
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| LAND ARC 311 | Introduction to Design Frameworks and Spatial Technologies | 2 |
| ENVIR ST/F&W ECOL/G L E/GEOG/GEOSCI/LAND ARC 371 | Introduction to Environmental Remote Sensing | 3 |
| GEOG/CIV ENGR/ENVIR ST 377 | An Introduction to Geographic Information Systems | 4 |
| GEOG 379 | Geospatial Technologies: Drones, Sensors, and Applications | 3 |
| GEOSCI/CIV ENGR/ENVIR ST/G L E 444 | Practical Applications of GPS Surveying | 2 |
| GEOG/URB R PL 505 | Urban Spatial Patterns and Theories | 3 |
| LAND ARC 511 | Geodesign Methods and Applications | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/GEOG/LAND ARC/URB R PL 532 | Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Planning | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/LAND ARC/SOIL SCI 695 | Applications of Geographic Information Systems in Natural Resources | 3 |
Water
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ATM OCN/GEOSCI 105 | Survey of Oceanography | 3-4 |
| ATM OCN/SOIL SCI 132 | Earth's Water: Natural Science and Human Use | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 311 | Hydroscience | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ZOOLOGY 315 | Limnology-Conservation of Aquatic Resources | 2 |
| ZOOLOGY 316 | Laboratory for Limnology-Conservation of Aquatic Resources | 2-3 |
| CIV ENGR 320 | Environmental Engineering | 3 |
| CIV ENGR 322 | Environmental Engineering Processes | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/LAND ARC 361 | Wetlands Ecology | 3 |
| BSE 473 | Water Management Systems | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ZOOLOGY 510 | Ecology of Fishes | 3 |
| ENVIR ST/ZOOLOGY 511 | Ecology of Fishes Lab | 2 |
| G L E/GEOSCI 627 | Hydrogeology | 3-4 |
| G L E/GEOSCI 629 | Contaminant Hydrogeology | 3 |
Multi-thematic
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| ENVIR ST/SOIL SCI 101 | Forum on the Environment | 1-2 |
| ENVIR ST 202 | Careers in the Environment | 2 |
| ENVIR ST 203 | Special Topics in Environmental Studies | 1-3 |
| ENVIR ST/ILS 255 | Introduction to Sustainability Science | 4 |
| ENVIR ST 326 | Sustainability Tools: Systems Thinking & Life Cycle Assessment | 3 |
| ENVIR ST 400 | Special Topics in the Environment: Biological Aspects of Envir St | 1-4 |
| ENVIR ST 401 | Special Topics: Environmental Perspectives in the Physical Sciences | 1-4 |
| ENVIR ST 402 | Special Topics: Social Perspectives in Environmental Studies | 1-4 |
| ENVIR ST 403 | Special Topics in Environmental Studies | 1-3 |
| ENVIR ST 404 | Special Topics in Environmental Humanities | 1-3 |
| CIV ENGR/G L E 421 | Environmental Sustainability Engineering | 3 |
Certificate students may enroll in a capstone course after the majors have enrolled, and the capstone course will be allowed to count in the thematic requirement. Junior standing is required for enrollment.
Pass/Fail Courses
Courses taken on a pass/fail basis will not count toward the certificate.
Courses listed under more than one category in the curriculum may be used to satisfy only one category.
Certificate Completion Requirement
This undergraduate certificate must be completed concurrently with the student’s undergraduate degree. Students cannot delay degree completion to complete the certificate.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the social and historical processes that impact our current environments. Interpret the meanings, values, and aesthetics that are created, shaped, and revealed as humans interact with and modify the environments they inhabit.
- Explain ecological processes and fundamental principles of environmental sciences relating to humanity’s key environmental challenges of the past, present, and future.
- Analyze and respond to environmental questions by applying interdisciplinary approaches that integrate multiple perspectives, including those from a coordinate major.
- Recognize through critical thinking a diversity of viewpoints, ethical commitments, and disciplinary approaches to environmental concerns across various scales from the local to the global.
- Demonstrate excellent reading, writing, communication, and research skills, both individually and in interdisciplinary teams.
Advising and Careers
Environmental studies students are represented in majors across campus and in most undergraduate schools and colleges. Environmental studies certificate students should utilize the career office for their home school as appropriate. All students, not just Letters & Science students, can also benefit from SuccessWorks at the College of Letters & Science.