Sustainable Food Systems and Permaculture Design

Curriculum

Convenient Class Schedule

Classes are conveniently scheduled on weekends so you can continue to work while earning your graduate certificate. You take six courses for a total of 18 credits and complete the program in 12 months. If you choose to participate in international independent study, you add one additional quarter of study.

Entry Options

Sustainable Food Systems and Permaculture Design Certificate program classes begin in January, April, July or October. International track Independent Study Abroad (3 credits to Asia or Africa) takes place during winter quarter.

Curriculum

Students take these required courses:
            • Food Systems and Their Alternatives
            • Theories and Practices of Socio-environmental Change
            • Permaculture and Sustainable Systems Design
            • Political Ecology of Eating and Consumption
            • Two courses of electives

Sample Elective Courses

            • Using Media for Social Change
            • Ethics and Environmental Justice
            • Philosophical Perspectives on Environment and Community
            • Globalization and Its Discontents: The Political Economy of the 21st Century
            • Economics and the Environment
            • Environmental Policy and Decision-making Processes
            • Integrative Environmental Science
            • Appropriate Technologies and Social Adaptations
            • International Applications in Sustainable Change
            • Innovation and Creativity
            • Specialization and elective courses from other Center degree programs
            • Independent Studies (variable credits)