Certificate in Social Strategies for Environmental Protection

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Certificate in Social Strategies for Environmental Protection

  • Course description Certificate in Social Strategies for Environmental Protection
    Solving environmental problems often requires social intervention skills and not just an understanding of the biophysical environment. This certificate program is designed to give students, regardless of their major, an understanding of individual behavior, social organization and values, politics, law, and communication as these fields relate to environmental intervention. The aim is to provide action-oriented training in skills that strengthen environmental protection efforts. The program culminates in a practicum experience in which these skills are applied to an environmental issue of current concern.

    Required courses (18)

    11:374:279  Politics of Environmental Issues (3)
    11:374:322  Environmental Behavior (3) or 11:374:335 Social Responses to Environmental Problems
    11:374:325 Environmental Communication (3) 
    11:375:333  Environmental Law I (3)

    An independent study project approved by the certificate adviser (3)

    One of the following courses in communication skills, in addition to the 6 credits required by the school (3):

    01:355:302  Scientific and Technical Writing (3)
    01:355:303  Writing for Business and the Professions (3)
    01:355:402  Advanced Writing Workshop (3)
    04:192:220  Fundamentals of Speaking and Listening (3)
    04:192:359  Persuasive Communication (3)
    04:192:365  Principles of Public Relations (3)
    04:192:380  Public Speaking (3)
    04:567:324  News Reporting and Writing (3)
    04:567:327  Public Information and Public Affairs (3)
    11:374:435 Communication in the Life Sciences (3)
    11:374:493 Environmental Communication Clinic (3)

    Electives (9)
    01:790:301  Political Campaigning (3)
    01:790:305  Public Policy Formation (3)
    01:790:330  Interest Groups (3)
    01:790:341  Public Administration: American Bureaucracy (3) or 01:790:342 Public Administration: Policymaking (3)
    11:373:363  Environmental Economics (3) or 01:220:332 Environmental Economics (3)
    11:374:201  Research Methods in Human Ecology (3)
    11:374:313  Environmental Policy and Institutions (3)
    11:374:335  Social Responses to Environmental Problems (3)
    11:374:337  Systems Approaches and Interventions in Human Ecology (3)
    11:374:430  Risk, Health, and Safety (3)
    11:374:433  Public Participation and Environmental Policy (3)
    11:375:334  Environmental Law II (3) 19:910:666  Social Action Techniques and Methods (3)
    Additional communication skills course from the list above (3)

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