Sustainability Issues Certificate
Contact:
Email: knudsonc@hawaii.edu
Program Description
The Sustainability Certificate presents students with an understanding of the concepts and practices of sustainability. The core courses provide a cross-disciplinary foundation in the topic, while the electives may be chosen from across five Colleges.
Requirements (18 credits)
1. Core courses (6 credits)
Choose six credits from the following list.
- ENSC 100 Intro to Environmental Science (3)
- GEOL 100 Environmental Earth Science (3)
- BIOL 171 Introductory Biology I (3) or MARE 171 Marine Biology-Diversity (3)
- AG 230 Sustainable Agriculture (3)
- COM 344 Sustainability, Com & Culture (3)
2. Electives (12 credits)
Choose 12 credits from the following list. At least six credits must be from the “Focused” group. And at least three credits must be an upper division course.
“Focused” means that the course has a primary and explicit focus on sustainability or the interdependence of ecological and social/economic systems.
“Related” means that the course is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but it incorporates a unit or module on sustainability or a sustainability challenge, includes one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrates sustainability issues throughout the course.
- Focused
- AG 263 Composting and Vermicomposting (3)
- AGEC 360 Tropical Bioeconomy (3)
- AQUA 466 Fisheries Science (3)
- ART 235 Introduction to Papermaking (3)
- ART 335 Papermaking (3)
- BIOL 101 General Biology (3)
- BIOL 172 Introductory Biology II (3)
- GEOG 301 Global Warming/Climate Change (3)
- GEOG 326 Natural Resources (3)
- GEOG/ENG 387 Climate Change Literature (3)
- GEOL 300 Adv Environmental Earth Sci (3)
- HWST 125 Hawaiʻi Sustainable Dev Goals I (3)
- HWST 126 HI Sustainable Dev Goals II (3)
- KHWS 381A Ka Nohona Kaulana Mahina (4)
- KHWS 381E Ka Nohona Kaulana Mahina (4)
- MARE 100 Marine Option Program Seminar (1)
- MARE 282 Global Change (3)
- MARE 423 Marine Policy (3)
- MGT 423 Business Ethics (3)
- PHIL 350 Hawaiian Phil: Aloha ʻĀina (3)
- PHIL 412 Philosophy of Nature (3)
- SPAN 369 Lat&Glob Docum&Film:Crit Analy (3)
- TOUR 350 Intro to Sustainable Tourism (3)
- Related
- AGRN 310 Agronom Crop Prod Tropics (3)
- ANTH 315 Ecological Anthropology (3)
- ANTH 357 Change in The Pacific (3)
- ASTR 110 General Astronomy (3)
- ASTR 110L Gen Astronomy Lab (1)
- ASTR 150 Life in The Universe (3)
- ASTR 180 Princ Of Astron I (3)
- AQUA 254 Nutrition of Aquatic Organisms (3)
- CHEM 100 Chemistry and Society (3)
- CHEM 100L Chemistry and Society Lab (1)
- DRAM 243 Drama of Hawaiʻi & the Pacific (3)
- FIN 220 Personal Finance (3)
- FIN 370 Prin Real Estate (3)
- FIN 371 Real Estate Invest & Fin (3)
- GEOG 340 Intro to Land Use Planning (3)
- GEOG/BIOL 409 Princples of Landscape Ecology (3)
- GEOG 440 Community Planning (3)
- JPNS/JPST/ANTH 373 Performance Across Cultures (3)
- HIST 427 Environmental History--Pacific (3)
- HWST 211 Hawaiian Ethnobotany (3)
- HWST 213 Hawaiian Ethnozoology (3)
- KHAW 103 First Lvl Trans Hawn Immersion (4)
- KHAW 104 First Lvl Partial Hawn Immers (4)
- KHAW 203 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers I (4)
- KHAW 204 Second Lvl Univ Hawn Immers II (4)
- KHAW 133 First Lvl Hawn for Speakers (4)
- KHAW 233 Second Level Hawn for Speakers (4)
- MARE 380 Nat. Hist. of Sharks and Rays (3)
- MARE 390 Biology of Marine Mammals (3)
- MARE 444 Biological Oceanography (3)
- MARE 490 Sea Turtle Conserv & Ecology (3)
- MUS 107 Music in World Cultures (3)
- PHYS/GEOG 120 Weather & Climate Hawaiʻi (3)
- POLS/GEOG 325 Environments of Law (3)
- POLS 335 Environmental Politics (3)
- POLS 444 Law, Property, and Nature (3)
- SOC 410 Sociology of Food (3)
- SOIL 304 Tropical Soils (3)
Notes:
- The minimum GPA for all courses taken for the Sustainability Issues Certificate is 2.0 (C).