Sustainability is an established imperative in businesses, government agencies, and other organizations. Now, more than ever, society needs individuals who have the capacity to navigate the contemporary circumstances of rapid change, uncertainty and conflicts. This Professional Certificate on Environmental Sustainability is designed to equip individuals with knowledge about environmental sustainability and advanced skills required to become future change agents. Each micro-credential that learners take towards earning this professional certificate explores the linkages of major sustainability-based concepts and their relation to the environment. To support the needs of both current and aspiring environmental leaders, customization towards earning your credential can be tailored through your choice of elective micro-credential components.
Program Information
What you’ll learn studying Leadership in Environmental Sustainability:
- Understand and explain fundamental sustainability concepts using appropriate vocabulary.
- Comprehend emerging issues and approaches in environmental sustainability.
- Make connections between environmental issues and other broader issues related to society, economics, and politics.
- Develop a comprehensive set of practical skills and tools to affect change towards sustainability within your organization.
- Critically analyze situations relating to environmental sustainability (problems and opportunities) and design strategies on how to address them.
- Effectively mobilize knowledge to enhance awareness, communicate information, and motivate action.
- Appreciate the need for collaboration and devise innovative ways of engaging with others.
- Identify different perspectives relating to environmental sustainability and demonstrate the capacity to bridge conventional barriers.
Leadership in Environmental Sustainability for:
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Professionals, leaders, and aspiring change agents across sectors interested in environmental sustainability and equipped to navigate contemporary challenges effectively.
Required components
Current State of the Environment
An overview of sustainability by exploring contemporary issues and the current state of the environment.
Enacting Sustainable Environmental Change
Be prepared to become a new kind of leader who understands the complexities of social-environmental challenges and knows how to navigate uncertain contexts, collaborate across disciplines, and generate innovative solutions to current issues.
Choose any two
Climate change is intensely impacting the earth, with profound implications now and in the future. In this course, learners will participate in interactive discussions and content about climate change, from the local to global levels.
Intersectional Environmentalism
Get introduced to the concept of intersectional environmentalism, which is a crucial form of environmentalism that includes protecting people and the planet they live on. It will explore the overlapping social and environmental injustices in various communities and identify how they are interconnected.
Initiating Sustainability Transformations
Coming soon
Effective Science Communication and Knowledge Mobilization
Coming soon
See individual component required materials.
PREREQUISITES
- General computer and technology use abilities
TECHNOLOGY
For In-person and online studies.
Laptop: Windows 10 or higher or equivalent operating system with recommended 8 GB of RAM and at least 16 GB of free hard disk space and Wi-Fi capabilities.
Online studies only.
Access to reliable high-speed broadband internet access (Cable, DSL, LTE) with a minimum bandwidth of 15 Mbps is recommended.
Laptop must include integrated webcam and microphone.
To successfully complete your program, you will complete all components of the program. Your progress will be continuously evaluated using a variety of formative and/or summative assessments to receive a final mark. Information about these assessment methods will be provided in the Learning Management System on the first day of the program.
Intake Details
This Professional Certificate is offered online with synchronous and asynchronous learning noted in the linked components. Learners will be able to complete this professional certificate within a year of starting any component and they can be taken in any order.
| Course Detail | Course Info |
|---|---|
| Course Code | PC_4_ESRC_0001 |
| Date of Next Start | Continuous Intake |
| Price | see components |
| OSAP Eligible | No |
| Delivery Mode(s) | SYN - Synchronous Online |
| Duration | 1 year |
| Frequency | Not applicable |
| Intake Details | Next and more intake info |
| Scheduled Class Time(s) | Not applicable |