Environmental Studies Sustainability and Resilience Undergraduate Certificate

The Environmental Studies Sustainability and Resilience Certificate is an opportunity for students to earn recognition for taking a cross-section of environmentally-themed courses from a variety of disciplines. Students in the certificate program have the opportunity for cross-disciplinary learning in a required capstone course or leadership internship tackling a key topic in environmental studies. Past course topics have included climate change and global sustainability.

Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours to earn the certificate. Students may petition to have electives not listed here added to the list of accepted courses. This certificate is open to students of all majors.

Note: This program, previously named the Environmental Studies Undergraduate Certificate, was updated in 2020. First-year students who enrolled in 2020 utilize the new program information. Students enrolled prior to 2020 will follow the Environmental Studies Undergraduate Certificate curriculum. For questions about this program’s curriculum prior to 2020, please contact Loraine McCosker by emailing mccosker@ohio.edu.

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Certificate Requirements 

View Full Certificate Requirements in the Official Academic Catalog 

Core Requirement:

• ES 3620: Environmental Science and Public Policy (Online or Hybrid)

Ecology Elective

Complete one of the following courses:

• BIOS 2200: Conservation and Biodiversity (Online)
• BIOS 2750: Ecology in the 21st Century (Online)
• BIOS 3760: Field Ecology
• GEOG 3440: Agricultural Ecosystems
• GEOG 4170: Landscape Ecology
• PBIO 2060: Sustainable Agriculture
• PBIO 2090: Plant Ecology
• PBIO 3330: Restoration Ecology
• PBIO 4350: Plant Population Bio and Comm Ecology

Policy, Politics, and Regulation

Complete one of the following courses:

• ECON 3010C: Economics of Altruism
• ECON 3130: Economics of the Environment (Online)
• ECON 3140: Natural Resource Economics
• ECON 3350: Economics of Energy
• ECON 3710: Cost Benefit Analysis
• EH 2000: Intro to Environmental Health and Safety (Online)
• ES 4720: Energy Systems and Policy
• ES 4730: Environmental Entrepreneurship
• ES 4832: Sustainability Implementation Practicum
• GEOG 3210: Population Geography
• GEOG 3260: Urban Geography
• GEOG 3460: Environmental Law
• GEOG 4480: Migration and Development
• GEOG 4520: Environmental and Sustainability Planning
• POLS 4250: Environmental and Natural Resources Policy and Politics
• POLS 4260: Politics of Contemporary Environmental Movement
• POLS 4840: The Politics of Sustainability
• POLS 4880: Environmental and Public Policy Dispute Resolution
• T3 4010: Climate Change and Public Health

Natural and Physical Sciences

Complete one of the following courses:

• BIOS 4290: Marine Biology
• BIOS 4310: Aquatic Biology
• BIOS 4810: Animal Conservation Biology
• CE 3530: Basics of Environmental Engineering
• CHE 4530: Alternative Fuels and Renewable Energy
• CHE 4610: Atmospheric Chemistry
• CHEM 1205: Survey of Chemistry for Health Sciences
• CHEM 1210: Principles of Chemistry (Online)
• CHEM 1510: Fundamentals of Chemistry (Online)
• EH 3100: Air, Waters and Wastes (Online)
• ES 4300: Field Methods in Environmental Studies
• ES 4250: Watershed Management
• ES 4710: Bioenergy: Science, Policy, and Business
• GEOG 3010: Meteorology
• GEOG 3020: Climatology
• GEOG 3150: Landforms and Landscapes
• GEOG 3160: Biogeography
• GEOL 2310: Water and Pollution (Online)
• GEOL 4270: Water Geochemistry
• GEOL 4290: Contaminant Geochemistry
• GEOL 4800: Principles of Hydrogeology

Social Sciences and Humanities

Complete one of the following courses:

• ANTH 3600: Origins of Food Production
• ANTH 3780: Human Ecology
• COMS 3300: Environmental Communication (Online)
• EH 3040: Environmental Health in Appalachia
• EH 4000: Environmental Health and Safety Risk Communication
• ENG 3100J: Writing About Environmental Sustainability
• ES 4610: Resilience Theory and Practice (Online)
• ES 4630: Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation & Resilience Policy (Online)
• ES 4640: Risk, Climate Security, and Community Engagement (Online)
• ES 4900: Special Topics in Environmental Studies
• GEOG 3330: Appalachia: Land and People
• GEOG 3430: Global Issues in Environment
• GEOG 4450: Gender, Environment, and Development
• GEOG 4470: Natural Resource Conservation
• GEOG 4560: The Just and Sustainable City
• HIST 3060: American Environmental History
• JOUR 4150: Environmental and Science Journalism
• PHIL 3350: Environmental Ethics
• REC 3400: Environmental Interpretation
• REC 3550: Principles of Ecotourism
• REC 4800: Wilderness Literature
• SOC 3670: Corporate and Government Crime
• SOC 4810: Environmental Sociology
• SOC 4950: Sociology Capstone
• T3 4850: Sustainability Citizenship

Environmental Studies Synthesis

Complete one of the following courses:

• ES 4500: Environmental Studies Capstone Seminar (3.0 hr)
• ES 4910: Environmental Studies Leadership Experience (2-5 hr)