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
