Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies
Graduate Certificate
(Minimum of 12 credits required)
Program coordinator:
Stacey Balkan, Associate Professor, English & Environmental Humanities
The Graduate Certificate in Environmental Studies introduces students to the intersecting fields of Environmental and Climate Science, Environmental Humanities (inclusive of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics) and Environmental Social Science (inclusive of Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, History, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies). Careers in Environmental Journalism, Environmental Consulting, Climate Change Mitigation, and Postsecondary Education in Environmental Humanities and Environmental Studies require interdisciplinary study across the Humanities, Geosciences, and Social Sciences; and the expanding academic disciplines of Environmental and Energy Humanities, which recognize that our environmental dilemmas are fundamentally problems of ethics and political power, demand fluency in these expanding fields of study.
The graduate certificate in Environmental Studies provides an academic forum for understanding environmental issues in their historical and material contexts. Students may earn this certificate by completing 12 credits (four courses) in relevant disciplines.
Admission to this certificate program is open to students currently enrolled in graduate programs at Florida Atlantic University as well as to non-degree seeking students. For degree-seeking students, credits earned for graduate degree programs may also count for the certificate if approved by advisors in both programs. Applications for the Graduate Certificate should be submitted to the Coordinator of the Environmental Studies Certificate Program upon successful completion of the required courses with a minimum grade of "B" in each course.
*Students may need permission to enroll in courses outside of their stipulated curriculum. Please check with your departmental graduate advisor as well as the departmental coordinator or instructor for the desired course.
The following list of courses represents current and past course offerings in relevant departments. Please contact the program coordinator for current course offerings, or refer to FAU's Registration Portal.
ANG 6587: Seminar in Biological Anthropology
AMH 5905: Reading in American History: American Environmental History
AMH 6939: Seminar in U.S. History: American environmental History
ENV 6932: Sustainability and Pollution Prevention (Fall 2024, Mondays 7:10-10pm, Dr. Dan Meeroff)
FRW 6775: French Caribbean Idea(l)s (Fall 2024, Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:50pm, Dr. Mary Ann Gosser)
ITW 6938: Poetic Geography of Italy
ITW 6938: Italo Calvino’s World
JOU 6931: Environmental Crises Discourse (Fall 2024, Tuesdays 10am - 12:50pm, Dr. Robert Gutsche)
POS 6934: African Politics (Spring 2025, Wednesdays 6:30 - 9:20pm, Dr. Annette LaRocco)
SPW6775: Spanish Caribbean Idea(l)s (Fall 2024, Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:50pm, Dr. Mary Ann Gosser)
SYD 6517: Seminar in Global Environmental Perspectives (Fall 2024, Tuesdays 4-6:50pm, Dr. Patricia Widener)
SYD 6934: Seminar in Globalization and Development (Fall 2024, Wednesdays 4:20-7pm, Dr. Carter Koppelman)
WST 6348: Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice (Fall 2024, Tuesdays 4-6:50pm, Dr. Jane Caputi)
Special Topics courses are also offered most terms in relevant departments.
Themes vary per term; please check with department coordinators. Past and current courses include:
CRW 6024: Writing the Environment (“Genre and Form”)
CST 7309: New Materialisms: Nature, Culture, Environment (“Theory and Criticism”)
CST 7931: Biological Borderlines - Bioethics and Biotechnogy (“Interdisciplinary Perspectives”)
CST 7931: Atmosphere, Aura, Mood (Fall 2024, Mondays 4-6:50pm, Dr. Richard Shusterman)
CST 7936: Theorizing Infrastructures (Spring 2025, Mondays 1-3:50pm, Dr. Stacey Balkan)
LIT 6105: Petrocultures (“World Literature in English”)
LIT 6934: The Literature of Extraction/Reading Energy Culture (“Special Topics”/Literature)
LIT 6934: Postcolonial Environments (“Special Topics”/Literature)
LIT6934: Global Climate Fictions (Fall 2024, Wednesdays 4:00 - 6:50pm, Dr. Carissa Ma)
DIS: Directed independent study in any supporting department.
*Limited to one course.
*Current course syllabi may be accessed through the university's Simple Syllabus database.
New courses will be added to the program in the future.
For more information, or to register for the program, please contact us.