Adaptations to Global Climate Change Certificate
College: College of Social Sciences & Professional Studies
The Adaptations to Global Climate Change Certificate gives students a pathway for thinking about their futures under global climate change and to counteract ‘climate anxiety’ through imagining different ways that humans have and could live together in society.
Program Learning Outcomes
- Knowledge: Global Perspective and Individual Accountability: Ability to apply fundamental ANTH/GEOG knowledge in the context of understanding the science of climate change as well as policy issues. Students will get experience in analysis of interrelationships between the environment and human activities.
- Analytical and Technical Skills: Utilizing a variety of methods to gather and analyze data. Here, students will learn to apply their knowledge of climate change and social processes to thinking through strategies for adaptation to transformations of the ecosystems of our planet.
- Synthesize and Communicate: Demonstrate critical thinking skills to solve problems, largely through imagining a future based on what they have learned of the environmental, policy, political and social processes that have brought about climate change.
Requirements for the Adaptations for Global Climate Change Certificate
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Foundation Courses | ||
| GEOG 108 | Culture and Environmental Sustainability | 3 |
| ENVS 109 | Fundamentals of Climate Change | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select 3 courses 1 | 9 | |
| Environmental Anthropology | ||
| Environmental Justice | ||
| Natural Disasters and Society | ||
| Climate Change | ||
| Introduction to Global Warming Policy and Governance | ||
| Climate Change and Sustainability 2 | ||
| Total Credits | 15 | |
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Other relevant experience in internship, independent study, or special topics courses can also be used to satisfy elective credits.
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SMGT courses require an extra fee.
University Requirements for Undergraduate Certificates
Course work in a certificate must be completed with a minimum 2.00 GPA. Departments or programs may require a higher GPA.
A minimum of 9 credits in a certificate program must be taken at UW-Parkside. Individual departments and programs may require more than 9 credits to be taken at UW-Parkside.