This certificate program is an interdisciplinary program focused on various environmental issues that is analogous to the undergraduate Certificate in Environmental Studies. It is aimed primarily at graduate students in International Relations, Economics, and Sociology/Anthropology as well as those doing an environmental concentration or track in graduate programs in Tourism, Liberal Studies, Journalism, Education (particularly Parks and Recreation Management), and Latin American Studies. The Certificate Program provides an analytic basis for understanding local, regional and global environmental problems and their solutions.

The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies requires 15 graduate credit hours as follows:

Two Core Courses (6):

• EVR 5XXX Environmental Science and Sustainability
• REL 5183 Ethics and Environment

Three Environmental Electives from the Following (9):

• ANG 5XXX Sustainable Communities
• ANG 5403 Ecological Anthropology
• SYD 5045 Population and Society
• INR 5352 Environment and Security
• EVR 5061 South Florida Ecology
• EVR 5320 Environmental Resource Management
• EVR 5355 Environmental Resource Policy
• EVR 5360 Protected Area Management
• EVR 5300 Urban Ecology
• EVR 5406 U.S. Endangered Species Management
• EVR 5067 Tropical Forest Conservation/Utilization
• EVR 5330 Tropical Ecosystem Management
• EVR 5XXX Environmental GIS Analysis
• EVR 5935 Special Topics in Environmental Studies
• EVR 5907 Research and Independent Study
• LEI 5605 Philosophical and Social Basis of Parks and Recreation
• HFT 6706 Environmental Management for Tourism
• EDF 6993 Education, Environment and Sustainable Future
• SYD 6901 Migration and Environment
• INR 6056 Environment and Development
• LAA 6551 Sustainable Landscapes
• EVR 6322 Methods of Sustainable Resource Management
• ECP 6305 Advanced Environmental Economics