Environmental Studies Certificate
Contact:
Email: besio@hawaii.edu
The Environmental Studies Certificate is a multi-disciplinary program that emphasizes a theoretical and applied approach to environmental and natural resource assessment, classification, problem or phenomenal mitigation, policy, and related issues. This certificate program includes courses in the social and natural sciences.
Requirements (21 credits):
Required Courses (9)
- GEOG 101 Geog & Nat Environ (3) or ENSC 100 Intro to Environmental Science (3)
- BIOL 101 General Biology (3) or BIOL 281 General Ecology (3) or MARE 201 Oceanography (3) or GEOL 111 Understanding the Earth (3)
- GEOG 201 Interp Geog Data (3)
Choose two of the following courses (6)
- BIOL 101 General Biology (3)
- BIOL 171 Introductory Biology I (3)
- BIOL 172 Introductory Biology II (3)
- ENSC 385 Field Methods in Geog/Env Sci (3)
- ENSC 441 Environmentl Impact Assessment (3)
- ENSC 457 Vegetation of the Hawaiian Isl (3)
- GEOG 309 Biogeography (3)
- GEOG 319 Nat Hazards/Disasters (3)
- GEOG 409 Princples of Landscape Ecology (3)
- GEOG 441 Environmentl Impact Assessment (3)
- GEOG 470 Remote Sensing of Environment (3)
- GEOG 480 Geog Info Sys & Visualization (3)
- GEOG 481 Advance Geo-Spatial Techniques (3)
- GEOL 342 Earth Surface Processes (3)
- GEOL 360 Surface Water (3)
- GEOL 460 Groundwater (3)
- MARE 360 Marine Resources (3)
- SOIL 304 Tropical Soils (3)
Choose two of the following courses (6)
- ECON 482 Natural Resource Env Eco (3)
- GEOG 301 Global Warming/Climate Change (3)
- GEOG 312 Food and Societies (3)
- GEOG 326 Natural Resources (3)
- GEOG 328 Culture and Environment (3)
- GEOG 336 Political Ecology (3)
- GEOG 340 Intro to Land Use Planning (3)
- GEOG 387 Climate Change Literature (3)
- GEOG 401 Confronting the Climate Crisis (3)
- GEOG 430 Gender, Place and Environment (3)
- GEOG 440 Community Planning (3)
- GEOG 382 Qualitative Research (3)
- PHIL 412 Philosophy of Nature (3)
- PHIL 484 ConservEthics & EnvironJustice (3)
- POLS 335 Environmental Politics (3)