The Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Climate Justice is an interdisciplinary program that considers forms of power, privilege, and oppression alongside the technical understanding of global heating and the climate crisis. The aims of the certificate are to empower students with knowledge about this social-ecological nexus and to equip them with the skills to analyze dominant value systems for work in an array of emerging climate careers. Students take classes from the Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability and from the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies. The Climate Justice certificate is run through the Environment and Sustainability Program and developed in conjunction with the M.S. in Sustainability and Environment, https://ges.uncg.edu/msse/.

For information regarding deadlines and requirements for admission, please see https://grs.uncg.edu/programs/.

Undergraduate degree in any field, with a demonstrable interest in social and/or environmental activism and with prerequisites necessary for advanced course work in appropriate disciplines.

Certificate Program Requirements

Required: 15 credit hours

Course List

Code	Title	Credit Hours
Required Core Courses (6 credits)
GES 619	Advanced Weather and Climate-Synoptic Climatology	3
GES 662	Sustainability	3
Geography, Environment, and Sustainability Courses (3 credits)
Select one course (3 credits) from the following:		3
GES 605	Sustainable Regional Planning
GES 684	Topics in Development and Economics
GES 686	Topics in Equity and Society
GES 688	Topics in Environmental Sciences
Peace and Conflict Studies Courses (6 credits)
Select two courses (6 credits) from the following:		6
PCS 601	Indigenous Peace Practices
PCS 605	Skills and Techniques of Conflict Management
or PCS 622	Skills in Transformative Conflict
PCS 621	Critical Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies
PCS 624	Peace and Justice in a Changing Climate
PCS 630	The Power of Nonviolence for Social Change
PCS 632	Conflict Transformation at the Food-Water Nexus
PCS 633	Restrtve Justice:Thry/Practice
PCS 657	Ecocultures and Sustainable Communities
PCS 667	Borders, Partitions, and Generative Othering Narratives
PCS 676	Peace Development and Community Building
PCS 677	International Human Rights Advocacy
Total Credit Hours		15