Sustainable Design Graduate Certificate

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The College of Architecture and Design offers a Sustainable Design Graduate Certificate incorporating knowledge from a wide range of disciplines, ranging from technical to philosophical. This certificate explores the interrelation between decisions made when designing the built environment and their short-term and long-term impacts on the ecological environment. Students are asked to take responsibility for the role architecture plays in the consumption of natural resources, underscoring the need for interdisciplinary dialogue and leadership at building, site, city, and regional scales.

The Sustainable Design Graduate Certificate offers opportunities for topical study such as, but not limited to:

Building Design Building Technology
Materials and Methods of Design Implementation Urban Design
Landscape Architecture Design Land Use Planning and Policy Ecology
Economics Environmental Sciences
Forestry and Natural Resources Plant Sciences
Agriculture Potential resources:
Design | Build | Evaluate Initiative Institute for Smart Structures (ISS) UTK Smart Communities Initiative
Institute for Secure and Sustainable Environments (ISSE) Nashville Civic Design Center (NCDC)
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)

Requirements

All courses must meet the approval of Chair of Graduate Architecture Program in order to be counted towards the Sustainable Design Graduate Certificate. In addition, faculty will be required to approve the use of their course towards the concentration based on fitness of content.

Documentation will be kept by the School of Architecture, but it is the student’s responsibility to solicit approval through the advising process.

Six credit hours from one of the following:

ARCH 586   (6)
ARCH 590  (6)
ARCH 598  (6)
ARCH 599  (6)

Plus six elective credit hours from one of these courses or similar courses per advising process:

ARCH 525  (1-3)
ARCH 550  (1-3)
ARCH 552  (1-3)
ARCH 554  (1-3)
ARCH 555  (1-3)

Of the six elective credit hours, up to three credit hours may be from:

ARCH 526  (3)
ARCH 591  (1-9)
ARCH 593  (1-9)
LAR 526  (3)

Of the six elective credit hours, up to three credit hours may be from approved courses in other departments, such as:

AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS

AREC 472 (3)
AREC 570 (3)

BIOSYSTEMS ENGINEERING

BSE 562 (3)