Sustainable Development Certificate

The Sustainable Development Certificate is intended for working professionals, graduate, and undergraduate students interested in incorporating the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) into their current practice and skills. This certificate is intended to increase sustainable development competency both internationally and domestically, and to prepare students for a career in private industry, the government, or a non-governmental organization. This certificate is intended to be an accelerated program and students can complete the certificate within an academic year. The certificate is available to individuals who are 1) pursuing any academic programs at the University of Tennessee or 2) a current student at an outside accredited 4-year post-secondary institution or 3) post-baccalaureate and enrolled solely in the certificate program.

Campus: Knoxville, Distance Education

Undergraduate Certificate Type: Add-On, Stand-Alone

Required Courses (6 Credit Hours)

ALEC 485* - Global Sustainable Development Goals 3 Credit Hours
SUST 101* - Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Sustainability 3 Credit Hours

Select one course from A or B (3 Credit Hours)

A) Study abroad program (3 SCH)
BUAD 400* - Special Topics 1-9 Credit Hours (3 hours)
GEOG 440* - Global Perspectives on Urban Sustainability 3-6 Credit Hours (3 hours)
PLSC 491* - International Study: Design Thinking Through The Lens of Gardens and Culture 3 Credit Hours
WFS 425 - Tropical Ecology, Conservation, and Field Methods 3 Credit Hours
B) Internship Program (3SCH)
ALEC 492 - Internship In Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communications 1-15 Credit Hours (3 hours)
ANSC 492 - Animal Science Experiential Learning 1-6 Credit Hours (3 hours)
AREC 492 - Off-Campus Internship 1-3 Credit Hours (3 hours)
ESS 492* - Internship 1-6 Credit Hours * (3 hours)
GEOG 490 - Internship 3 Credit Hours
FORS 496* - Internship in Forestry 1-6 Credit Hours (3 hours)
PLSC 492* - Internship in Horticultural and Plant Sciences 1-3 Credit Hours (3 hours)

Choose one course from A or B or C (3 Credit Hours)

A) Equity
ANTH 370* - Gender and Globalization 3 Credit Hours
HTM 484* - Critical Sustainable Tourism 3 Credit Hours
POLS 413 - Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 341* - Social Inequalities 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 342 - Globalization and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 361* - Environmental Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 463 - Community, Sustainability and Justice 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 464 - Political Economy of Natural Resources and the Environment 3 Credit Hours
B) Environment
CBE 481 - Green Engineering 3 Credit Hours
EEB 423 - Conservation Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 443 - Urban Ecology 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 454 - Environmental Restoration 3 Credit Hours
ESS 462* - Environmental Climatology 3 Credit Hours
SNR 324 - Applied Ecosystem Restoration 3 Credit Hours
SNR 420* - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours
SNR 427* - Honors International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 345 - People and Environment 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 372* - Geography of Africa 3 Credit Hours
PLSC 311 - Management of Landscape Systems 3 Credit Hours
C) Economics/Policy
GEOG 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
HBS 443 - Energy Transitions 3 Credit Hours
POLS 352 - Political Challenges of Globalization 3 Credit Hours
PUBH 420 - Environmental Public Health 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 360* - Environment and Resources 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 363* - Food, Agriculture, and Society 3 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirement.

Undergraduates