Sustainability and Development MasterTrack™ Certificate
Description
Learn how to design innovative solutions to core sustainability and development challenges. Sustainability and development pose unprecedented challenges as human societies grow and seek to ensure future wellbeing and prosperity. In this online certificate program, we’ll focus on addressing the challenges of sustainability and development with actionable knowledge for innovating solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.
You'll be introduced to the main theoretical currents in Sustainability and Development as a field of study with an in-depth understanding of the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the methods and skills necessary for designing innovative solutions to sustainability and development problems.
In addition to committing 6-8 hours of weekly study over a period of four months, you’ll complete the certificate with a course consisting of two projects. In the first project, you will analyze three Michigan Sustainability Cases and synthesize their lessons for sustainability and development. In the second project, you will create your own Michigan Sustainability Case on the Gala case creation interface and develop an instructional component for the case of your choosing with a faculty member. You can use your Sustainability and Development MasterTrack Certificate as a pathway to the associated Master of Science in Environment and Sustainability in the School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) at the University of Michigan."
This program is still being developed. Projects and courses are subject to change.
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Subject
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Courses
9
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Language
English
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Duration
38 weeks
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Status
Available
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U-M Credit Eligible
Yes
Instructors
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Arun Agrawal
Samuel Trask Dana Professor
U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
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Bilal Butt
Associate Professor
U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
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Maria Carmen Lemos
Professor
U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
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Rebecca D. Hardin
Associate Professor
School For Environment and Sustainability
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Pamela Jagger
Associate Professor
U-M School for Environment and Sustainability
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Meha Jain
Assistant Professor
School for Environment and Sustainabiity
Courses (9)
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Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and Development - MTC
5 weeks
We’re excited you’re here! This course, “Beyond the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Addressing Sustainability and …
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Methods/Skills in Sustainability and Development
5 weeks
The broad objective of this course is to learn about some of the most common … -
Poverty to Wellbeing
5 weeks
Historically, poverty has been a feature of all societies, but never before in human history …
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Pathways to Zero Hunger
5 weeks
Food production is being increasingly challenged by environmental change including climate change and natural resource …
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Good Health and Well-Being: Behaviors, Structures, and Spillovers
5 weeks
To understand and attain change toward meeting SDG 3 on Good Health and Well Being, …
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Gender and Quality Education for Sustainability
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5 weeks
In this course, you will experience an overview of the remarkably expansive and comprehensive targets … -
Climate Change and Adaptation: Adaptive Development in a Changing World
3 weeks
The aim of this course is to provide students with a solid grounding in the …
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Conservation and Sustainable Development
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52 weeks
Across the world, scholars, practitioners and advocates for biodiversity conservation are wrestling with how to … -
Capstone Projects
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5 weeks
Case studies are used ubiquitously in many fields of professional education, including business, medicine, public …
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