Sustainability Studies

Undergraduate Certificate Program

Objectives

The Undergraduate Certificate in Sustainability Studies helps students to:

• Investigate sustainability by conducting an integrated critical analysis across disciplines

• Understand the challenges of sustainability in relationship to the earth's finite resources

• Determine how social, economic, and physical systems interconnect and reciprocate on micro and macro levels as they relate to sustainability

• Assess various ideological and cultural representations of human society and its relationship to the natural world as they relate to sustainability

• Think critically and creatively about sustainable solutions to global problems