The Certificate in Environmental Leadership, Engagement, and Ethics provides students with theoretical and working leadership experience, on-site with community members developing conservation programmatics in the Hill Country area. The core curriculum is focused on engaged ecology, environmental justice, and biocultural conservation as avenues for environmental leadership. The curriculum offers qualitative and quantitative research opportunities and long-term socio-ecological research projects and projects capable of being taken into the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Students are encouraged to identify projects in their specialization area that can benefit from using this certificate's principles. Course offerings include advanced scholarship, environmental justice, nature interpretation, field environmental philosophy, biocultural ethics, land ethics.
Coursework
The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Leadership, Engagement, and Ethics requires 12 semester credit hours. Students will complete core courses in environmental ethics. The program requires elective courses from internships in applied philosophy, environmental justice, biocultural ethics, and field environmental philosophy. A rich philosophical environment supports each graduate student’s interdisciplinary research interests in a variety of weekly dialogues and community facing events through the philosophy department’s dialogue series including engaged ecology symposiums that include founders and leaders in the field of environmental philosophy. Previous philosophical training is not required.
For more information, please consult the graduate catalog here.
How To Apply
For information on applying to the certificate program, please visit the Graduate College's website.
Contact Us
Please contact the certificate's graduate advisors with any questions:
Dr. Jeff Gessas
Dr. Justin Williams