Environmental Studies Certificate

Contact: Kathryn Besio, Ph.D.
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 (24 credits):

  • GEOG 101 Geog & Nat Environ (3) or ENSC 100 Intro to Environmental Science (3)
  • CHEM 151 Elementary Survey of Chemistry (3) or CHEM 161 General Chemistry I (3)
  • GEOL 111 Understanding the Earth (3)
  • MARE 201 Oceanography (3) or MARE/BIOL 360 Marine Resources (3)
  • ECON 482 Natural Resource Env Eco (3) or POLS 335 Environmental Politics (3)
  • GEOG 441 Environmentl Impact Assessment (3)
  • Choose one of the following courses: (3)
    • BIOL 101 General Biology (3)
    • BIOL 171 Introductory Biology I (3)
    • BIOL 172 Introductory Biology II (3)
  • Choose one of the following courses: (3)
    • SOIL 304 Tropical Soils (3)
    • GEOG 301 Global Warming/Climate Change (3)
    • GEOG 312 Food and Societies (3)
    • GEOG 326 Natural Resources (3)