Apr 03, 2025  
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Bulletin

Sustainability Certificate


 

Dr. Jack Deibert
Chair, Department of Geosciences
Professor
Location:  McCord Building, Room 203A
Phone: 931-221-1009
Email: deibertj@apsu.edu
 

The Graduate Certificate in Sustainability focuses on developing a student’s ability to identify and analyze real-world environmental problems and to propose practical sustainable solutions to those problems through interdisciplinary learning acquired in completing courses in Geography, Agriculture, Biology, and Sustainability. Through this interdisciplinary approach to learning, student will also gain an understanding of the impact human activity has on ecosystems and the planet regarding sustainable and unsustainable resources.

Admissions Requirements

  • Application for admission
  • Application Fee:  $45 domestic or $55 international
  • Official transcripts from all colleges attended
  • Verification of lawful presence in the United States (i.e. submit a license or other approved document)
  • Bachelor’s degree, conferred in a science field, from accredited institutions indicating a cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 2.5
  • Military documents (if applicable)
  • Admission decision by department

For more information about the application process, please visit apsu.edu/grad-studies.

Program CIP Code


21.30.3300.11

Program Modality


  • On-Ground

Program Student Learning Outcomes


  • Students will gain an understanding of the impact human activity has on ecosystems and the planet regarding sustainable and unsustainable resources.
  • Students will be able to identify and analyze real-world environmental problems and potential future environmental problems.
  • Students will be able to propose, and defend, practical sustainable solutions to environmental problems.

Curriculum


Sustainability