Graduate Certificate in
Environmental Resiliency Leadership
This graduate certificate is one of many credentials that you can earn while building your skills and understanding of environmental resiliency leadership. Industry and organizational professionals can use knowledge and tools from this program to shape conversations, policies, and initiatives to transform practices to make sustainable and resilient communities.
The certificate is designed for working professionals to increase their leadership skills and understanding of resiliency. You will learn about earth systems while focusing on how to work with people to balance people, planet, and profit effectively. The courses will help students lead and manage in mitigation, adaptation, and transformation to resilience and sustainability. Students will learn how to identify and work inclusively with stakeholders through framing and leading collaborations to solve pressing issues.
100%
Online
15
Credit Hours
1 YR
Estimated Time
to Complete
Bachelor's
Degree Required
Students Will Learn:
- How resiliency relates to your role, their work and their communities.
- How to present complex technical information such as scientific data clearly to multi-stakeholder groups.
- How to be globally and culturally sensitive.
- How to apply functional knowledge to solve real-world or simulated techniques and skills for becoming mindful leaders as well as how to identify solutions necessitating leadership skills and their application.
Students must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university and at least a 3.0 GPA to enroll. Non-native English speakers must have language scores acceptable for admission by the University of Arkansas graduate school standards.
Required Courses
| Tuition / credit hour | $437.54 |
| Fee / credit hour | |
|---|---|
| Library | $4.41 |
| Network & Data Systems | $12.10 |
| Off-campus | $30 |
| Online Facilities | $2 |
Tuition and fees per credit hour reflect fall 2023 rates for students studying completely online. If an online student takes a course on campus, tuition and fees will differ.
Certificate programs are not eligible for financial aid.
Stackable Credentials
Students in this program can apply for and earn other academic credentials – graduate microcertificates and graduate certificates – while taking courses to complete this master’s degree. Learn more about stackable credentials in general and credentials specifically connected with this master’s degree program.
Stackable credentials are part of a sequence of credentials that can be accumulated over time. For example, a student who completes microcertificate (usually 3 courses or 9 credit hours) can use those credit hours toward other credentials, like a graduate certificate (usually 5 courses or 15 credit hours) or a master’s degree (usually 10 courses or 30 credit hours). Students need to apply for the credential and work with an adviser to chart out their pathway before they start taking courses to help ensure that all of the courses they take lead towards their educational goals.
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