Sustainability Issues Certificate

This is content from the Catalog 2022–2023 past issue. Please visit the current catalog for current information.

Contact: Christopher Knudson, Ph.D.
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)

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)
- AG 230 Sustainable Agriculture (3)
- COM 344 Sustainability, Com & Culture (3)
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)
  - ART 235 Introduction to Papermaking (3)
  - ART 335 Papermaking (3)
  - BIOL 101 General Biology (3)
  - GEOG 301 Global Warming/Climate Change (3)
  - GEOG 326 Natural Resources (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)
  - SPAN 369 Lat&Glob Docum&Film:Crit Analy (3)
- Related
  - 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)
  - FIN 220 Personal Finance (3)
  - FIN 370 Prin Real Estate (3)
  - FIN 371 Real Estate Invest & Fin (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 444 Law, Property, and Nature (3)
  - POLS/GEOG 325 Legal Geography (3)
  - TOUR 350 Intro to Sustainable Tourism (3)

Notes:

The minimum GPA for all courses taken for the Sustainability Issues Certificate is 2.0 (C).