Graduate Specializations & Certificate Programs
NEW!!! Environmental Systems Modeling Certificate
http://espp.msu.edu/modeling/index.php
ESPP is pleased to announce it will now begin offering an Environmental Systems Modeling Certificate.
African Studies
http://africa.msu.edu/gradprog.htm
The Graduate Certificate in African Studies is awarded to students
enrolled in or completing graduate programs at Michigan State University
to certify their advanced training in African area studies. It is
usually sought by the PhD candidate.
Animal Studies: Social Science and Humanities Perspectives
http://animalstudies.msu.edu/specialization.php
The Graduate Specialization in Animal Studies: Social Science and Humanities Perspectives, which is administered by the Department of Sociology, provides graduate students with basic knowledge of relationships between humans and other animals and how they are linked together in a fragile biosphere. The graduate specialization is available as an elective for students who are enrolled in master's or doctoral degree programs at Michigan State University. With the approval of the department and college that administers the student's degree program, the courses that are used to satisfy the specialization may also be used to satisfy the requirements for a master's or doctoral degree.
Center for the Study of Standards in Society
http://cs3.msu.edu/education/
CS3 maintains a suite of educational opportunities including a graduate pro-seminar in food and agricultural standards, a certificate program in food regulatory and quality standards, and a graduate specialization spanning these and related topics in agrifood standards. These programs are presently dormant, pending the appointment of a new CS3 Director who would be expected to further develop and implement them as s/he sees fit.
Ecological Food and Farming Systems (EFFS)
http://www.effs.msu.edu
The purpose of the Ecological Food & Farming Systems graduate specialization is to foster active learning about agriculture and food systems among graduate students from different disciplinary backgrounds. Students will gain knowledge in theory and practice related to contemporary agricultural ecology and food system issues across spatial, temporal and organizational scales. Through this multidisciplinary program, masters and doctorial students explore the biogeochemical, socioeconomic and policy dimensions of sustainability that will inform their research and professional careers.
Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior
http://eebb.msu.edu/graduateprogram.html
The graduate program for the student in Ecology, Evolutionary Biology and Behavior varies with the department in which he or she is enrolled. Because EEBB is a dual-degree program students must also be accepted by one of the following participating departments: Anthropology, Computer Science and Engineering, Crop and Soil Science, Entomology, Fisheries and Wildlife, Forestry, Geography, Geological Sciences, Horticulture, Microbiology, Philosophy, Plant Biology, Plant Pathology, Psychology, Statistics & Probability and Zoology. Specific curriculum details can be obtained from the graduate office of each of these departments.
Environmental and Resource Economics
http://socialscience.msu.edu/graduate/Environmental_Resource_Econ.html
MSU offers a degree certification in Environmental
and Resource Economics through the interdepartmental Graduate Specialization.
The certification requirements are fulfilled while enrolled in the
M.Sc. or PhD program of one of the six participating departments.
A graduate student who completes the requirements may request a
formal degree certification in Environmental and Resource Economics.
Environmental Science and Policy
http://www.environment.msu.edu/specialization/index.html
Environmental professionals need both disciplinary depth and interdisciplinary breadth, in order to understand the context of their research and be able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams. Doctoral students in the Environmental Science and Policy (ESP) Specialization pursue a PhD in one of MSU's many existing doctoral programs that have an environmental focus. In addition, they complete four ESP courses, each designed to provide an understanding of how various disciplines conceptualize environmental issues and how scientific information can be brought to bear on environmental decision-making and environmental policy.
Gender, Justice and Environmental Change
http://www.gjec.msu.edu/home.htm
Gender, Justice and Environmental Change is a graduate specialization available as an elective
for students who are enrolled in master's and doctoral degree programs
at Michigan State University. The specialization is sponsored jointly
by the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the College
of Social Science. This program, first offered in Fall 2000, is
the first of its kind in the nation explicitly focusing on the intersection
of gender, environmental change, and social and environmental justice.
The program is designed in particular to examine these issues and
processes from both local and global perspectives, challenging traditional
dichotomies between the First and Third World, the North and the
South.
Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
http://www.isp.msu.edu/clacs/graduate.htm
The Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies awards a Graduate Certificate in Latin American
and Caribbean Studies. The Center Graduate Certificate demonstrates
a knowledge of, competency in, and understanding of Latin America
and the Caribbean. Masters candidates may earn certificates but
generally, the majority of students who pursue a Graduate Certificate
in Latin American and Caribbean Studies will be doctoral candidates.
Students interested in gaining a certificate should fill out the
requisite form, available at the Center and arrange for an interview
with the CLACS Director.
International Food Laws and Regulations Certificate Program
http://www.iflr.msu.edu/iflr/certificate_program
This is an Internet distance
education program that consists of a series of region-specific food
law courses taught completely over the Internet by an international
network of food science academic and legal professionals who understand
the legal complexities of the food laws and how they impact the
flow of food and agricultural products across national boundaries.
