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 *
ANTH 419 - Anthropology of Human Rights 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 421 - Refugees and Displaced People 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 422 - Anthropology of Global Inequality 3 Credit Hours
ANTH 425 - Humanitarianism 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 349 - Geography of Human Rights: Europe and Asia 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 350 - Geography of Human Rights: Africa and the Americas 3 Credit Hours *
HTM 484 - Critical Sustainable Tourism 3 Credit Hours *
PHIL 346 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours *
PHIL 348 - Honors: Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours *
PHIL 441 - Global Justice and Human Rights 3 Credit Hours *
POLS 413 - Race, Ethnicity, and Politics 3 Credit Hours
PSYC 471 - Psychology of Prejudice 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 419 - Global Change Ecology 3 Credit Hours *
EEB 423 - Conservation Decision Making 3 Credit Hours
EEB 484 - Conservation Biology 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 443 - Sustainable Cities and Landscapes 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 454 - Environmental Restoration 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 464 - Water Sustainability and Climate 3 Credit Hours
EEPS 466 - Water and Air Pollution 3 Credit Hours
ESS 462 - Environmental Climatology 3 Credit Hours *
FWF 320 - Human Dimensions of Natural Resources 3 Credit Hours *
FWF 324 - Applied Ecosystem Restoration 3 Credit Hours
FWF 420 - International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours *
FWF 427 - Honors International Natural Resource Issues 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 333 - Climate Change and Human Response 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 345 - People and Environment 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 372 - Geography of Africa 3 Credit Hours *
GEOG 436 - Water Resources 3 Credit Hours
MICR 305 - Global Emerging Infectious Diseases and One Health 3 Credit Hours
PLSC 311 - Management of Landscape Systems 3 Credit Hours
PLSC 455 - Advanced Sustainable Landscape Construction 3 Credit Hours
C) Economics/Policy
AGNR 480 - How to Feed the World 3 Credit Hours
AREC 345 - Climate Change and Renewable Energy Economics 3 Credit Hours
AREC 470 - Policy Analysis for Environmental and Natural Resource Management 3 Credit Hours
ECON 362 - Environmental and Natural Resource Policy 3 Credit Hours
ECON 463 - Environmental Economics 3 Credit Hours
GEOG 346 - Energy, Governance, and Sustainability 3 Credit Hours
GERM 383 - Aiming at Sustainability: Approaches to 21st Century Global Challenges in German-Speaking Countries 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
SCM 440 - Social and Environmental Sustainability in Supply Chain Management 3 Credit Hours
SOCI 360 - Environment and Resources 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 363 - Food, Agriculture, and Society 3 Credit Hours *
SOCI 442 - Comparative Poverty and Development 3 Credit Hours
* Meets Volunteer Core Requirement.

Undergraduates