Environmental Management Certificate Program—Overview
Program Information
Environmental managers face unprecedented challenges in decision making: advances in science and technology, businesses considering sustainability a core driver of strategy, and growing public awareness of the role of the environment in healthy communities and sustainable economies.
The University of Washington’s Environmental Management Program is based on the idea that managing the most important environmental problems and opportunities requires a systems approach which integrates knowledge that crosses disciplines. This requires a team of professionals from diverse fields with multidisciplinary problem solving skills. In the Environmental Management Program, graduate students from across the University collaborate to tackle real-world problems with profound policy, scientific, and business ramifications. The program consists of
- Three core courses in the areas of Environmental Policy, Business and the Environment, and Science Application.
- Two-quarter-long Keystone Projects with comunity partners that address contemporary problems in environmental management;
- One elective course to further students' knowledge
relevant to their academic and career goals.
Program Benefits
The EM program offers students many benefits:
- a focus on environmental stewardship and sustainability;
- development of interdisciplinary problem solving skills;
- opportunities to develop relationships within an interdisciplinary network of graduate students, UW faculty, and external partner organizations;
- a problem- and solution-based approach to environmental issues;
- work in integrated, multidisciplinary teams;
- skills development in networking, team-building, project management, and communications; and a curriculum suitable for students from many backgrounds, such as engineering, physical and natural sciences, public policy, economics, geography, public health, business, law, and political science, to name a few.
Fellowships
Fellowships will be announced as they become available.
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee for
Environmental Management includes course instructors plus other faculty
representatives from departments whose students participate in the program.
Eligibility
The EM program accepts applications from students already enrolled in Graduate Degree programs at the University of Washington.
The program is not available as a stand-alone program, and is not a mechanism for admission to graduate standing at the University of Washington.
Prospective graduate students interested in applying for graduate study in Environmental Management at UW should see our page of Graduate Study Information.